Individual Details
Hannah Davis
(1778 - 11 Apr 1802)
Events
Birth | 1778 | ||||
Marriage | 6 Sep 1801 | Maine, United States - Daniel Townsend | |||
Death | 11 Apr 1802 | Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United States | |||
Burial | Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec, Maine, United States |
Families
Spouse | Daniel Townsend (1777 - 1829) |
Notes
Death
listed as "w. of Daniel Townsend" in Henry Sewall Webster, ed., Vital Records of Gardiner, Maine to the Year 1892, Vol. II Marriages and Deaths. Maine Historical Society, 1914, p. 451. In the "Vital Records of Sidney, Maine," her death date given was April 11, 1802, age 21Martha Ballard, a midwife, wrote in her diary that she learned of "the death of Daniel Townsin's (so spelled) wife in Child birth on April 15, 1802 (Robert R. McCausland and Cynthia MacAlman McCausland, eds., The Diary of Martha Ballard 1784-1812. [Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992], p. 574.)
Burial
Her tombstone reads: "Hannah Townsend, wife of Daniel, died April 11, 1802, age 21" ("Vital Records of Sidney, Maine," Book III Cemeteries, p. 2 (7). This day of death differs from the Gardiner records.Endnotes
1. , "Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec Co. ME," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 February 2012), .
2. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas).
3. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas).
4. , "Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec Co. ME," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 February 2012), .
5. Beatrice K. Reynolds, "Daniel Townsend, Sr. Early Settler of Pownalborough, Vassalborough, and Sidney, Maine and his Decendants in Calais, Maine," (, 2010, The Daniel Braman Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists; copy at , Victoria, Texas), 7.
6. , "Longley Cemetery, Sidney, Kennebec Co. ME," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 February 2012), .