Thena M. Townsley

1884 - 1969  (85 years)

• Name	Thena M. Townsley
  Birth	31 Jul 1884	DeKalb, St Lawrence County, New York, United States
  Gender	Female
  Census-Household Member	1910	Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, United States   [1]
  	United States
  	Role: Household Member
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	27799985
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27799985
  _UID	2BC532285434403C976C87C3CC1230C46DF6
  Death	2 Dec 1969	Massena, St Lawrence County, New York, United States
  	Her obituary appeared on 10 Dec 1969 in the Tribune Press in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, as follows: "Miss Thena Townsley. Funeral services for Miss Thena Townsley, 85, formerly of 39 Gleason street, were held Friday at Burr-Green funeral home with the Rev. Donald S. French, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial was in Old DeKalb cemetery. "Miss Townsley, a retired bookkeeper and stenographer, died Dec. 2 at Highland Nursing Home, Massena, where she had been transferred in October from the Gouverneur hospital. "Surviving are two cousins, Mrs. Walter (Ina) Doyle, Verona, N.J., and Mrs. James (Faye) Ross, Howish Port, Mass. "She was born July 31, 1884, at DeKalb, a daughter of Samuel A. and Emma Miller Townsley. She attended school at DeKalb and Richville and Ogdensburg Business School. "She was employed by Fred Spooner at Richville and for the Spooner-Campbell Garage, Gouverneur. She was later employed by Dodds Motor Corporation. She retired in 1956. "Miss Townsley was a member of First Presbyterian Church, United Presbyterian Women, Julia Ward Howe Tent, 51, Daughters of Union Veterans, Outlook Club, St. Lawrence County and Gouverneur Historical Societies, Women's Republican Club and was a charter member of the Gouverneur Business Women's Club. "Her great-grandfather, Gideon Townsley, was one of the first settlers of DeKalb. He came there in 1810 from Cooperstown and operated a tannery in DeKalb. Miss Townsley's grandfather, a veteran of the Civil War, was a prisoner of War at the Libby camp." [http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn93063670/1969-12-10/ed-1/seq-6/] She was buried in Old DeKalb cemetery, DeKalb, St. Lawrence, New York.
  Burial	Old DeKalb Cemetery, DeKalb, St Lawrence County, New York, United States
  Notes	1910 Census: Bookkeeper
  Person ID	I6830	Lanark County Origins
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Samuel "Arthur" Townsley,   b. Abt 1858, DeKalb, St Lawrence County, New York, United States d. 5 Feb 1890, DeKalb, St Lawrence County, New York, United States (Age ~ 32 years)
  Mother	Emma Josephine Miller,   b. 30 Apr 1861, Rensselaer Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York, United States d. 30 Apr 1940, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, United States (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	11 Oct 1882	DeKalb, St Lawrence County, New York, United States
  Family ID	F2155	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 31 Jul 1884 - DeKalb, St Lawrence County, New York, United States Census-Household Member - United States - 1910 - Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, United States Death - 2 Dec 1969 - Massena, St Lawrence County, New York, United States Burial - - Old DeKalb Cemetery, DeKalb, St Lawrence County, New York, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S181] New York. Niagara., USA, New York, County Marriage Records, 1847-1849, 1907-1936, (Digital images., Ancestry . ancestry.ca : 2016.), 28 Apr 2017, T624, Gouverneur, St Lawrence, New York, USA (Reliability: 3). widowed