Townsend Ezra01

Waupaca Post

March 24, 1927

EZRA TOWNSEND AGED PIONEER IS CALLED HOME

DIED WEDNESDAY, MAR. 23, OF PNEUMONIA

RESULT OF BEING OVERCOME BY ESCAPING GAS

Ezra Townsend passed away Wednesday, March 23, at his home four miles north of Waupaca.

Deceased spent the winter in California and returned to Wisconsin March 9. The following Saturday he was found unconscious from the effects of gas that escaped from the coal stove while he slept. For two days he remained in a comatose state and while he apparently rallied from this accident it is quite likely that this shock induced the attack of pneumonia which terminated fatally.

Deceased was born at Fowler, St. Lawrence county, New York, Feb. 24, 1843, and came with his parents to Fremont in 1856 at the age of 13 years. Five years later his parents, John and Hulda Smith Townsend, came to reside on the Townsend homestead on the Waupaca-Scandinavia road. October 15, 1867, he was married to Katherine Roberts, who passed away March 26, 1915.

To this union eight children were born of whom four are living. They are: Minnie (Mrs. E.M. Taylor) of Iola, john R. of South Bend, Ind., Evan C. of Yorba Linda, Calif., and Harry Townsend on the old homestead in Farmington. Two sons, Thomas and Cassius, and two daughters, Grace and Kittie, preceded their parents to the Great Beyond.

The funeral will be held at the residence Saturday, March 26, with interment in Lakeside cemetery.