Henry Newton Townsend (1833 - 1901)

Born 7 May 1833 in Randolph, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Died 19 Jul 1901 at age 68 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Henry Newton was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, in 1833, the son of Thomas Townsend and Eliza Dyer.

He married 15 year old Susan Worcester Alden, daughter of Charles and Catherine, in 1853.^[1] In 1860, he was a boot-maker living in Randolph with his wife Susan and 2 young sons.^[2]

Newton was a 29 year old shoe cutter from East Randolph, Mass., when he enlisted to serve in the Civil War. He mustered in as a Private in Company C of the 38th Mass. Infantry on August 20, 1862. He was wounded at Snaggy Point at Red River, Louisiana, on April 13, 1864. He was taken prisoner during the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864, and remained a prisoner of war for nearly 5 months before being paroled on February 15, 1865. He mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, on June 30, 1865.^[3]

After the war, he returned to Randolph. In 1870, he and his wife had a family of 6 children. Newton, as well as his 2 eldest sons, Henry, age 15, and Charles, 13, worked at a boot-making factory.^[4] After his first wife passed away, he remarried to Emma --------, and they were living in Elmira, New York, in 1880, with a 2 year old daughter Eva Frances.

He died at the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1901^[5] and is buried at the Forest Dale Cemetery in Malden, Mass.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW56-3VH : 24 May 2018), Newton Townsend and Susan W. Alden, 8 Apr 1853
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZHJ-1TM : 14 December 2017), Henry N Townsend, 1860.
3. ↑ Civil War Soldiers Database, Historical Data Systems, Inc, Newton Townsend, accessed 12 Jul 2018
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQ7-7Y1 : 12 April 2016), Newton Townsend, Massachusetts, United States
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWN1-CBX : 11 March 2018), Newton Townsend, 19 Jul 1901
6. ↑ FindAGrave.com, Newton Townsend, Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden, MA, accessed 28 Jul 2018

• "United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NHCG-9M5 : 24 March 2016), Newton Townsend, 1893.