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Rev Sheldon Clark Townsend

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Rev Sheldon Clark Townsend

Birth
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Death
13 Nov 1884 (aged 82)
Dickersonville, Niagara County, New York, USA
Burial
Lewiston, Niagara County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Rev. Sheldon Clark Townsend was the 2nd eldest son of Jacob and Betsey (Clark) Townsend. He was the husband of Rachel (Tompkins) Townsend. Rev. Townsend was a Local Preacher/Local Deacon in the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Rev. F. W. Conable
History of the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, from its organization by Bishops Asbury and M'Kendree in 1810, to the year 1872, c1876, Page 413
Sheldon C. Townsend of Dickersonville, then in the Lewiston Circuit (Local Preacher - elected Local Deacon 1837), "was an able and admirable preacher, and a man of much more than ordinary intellectual strength, and gravity and weight of character."

Historic Lewiston, New York
The Lewiston Townsends
Rev. Townsend and Rachel donated the land to build the Dickersonville Methodist Episcopal Church on Ridge Road in 1853.
Rev. Sheldon Clark Townsend was the 2nd eldest son of Jacob and Betsey (Clark) Townsend. He was the husband of Rachel (Tompkins) Townsend. Rev. Townsend was a Local Preacher/Local Deacon in the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Rev. F. W. Conable
History of the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, from its organization by Bishops Asbury and M'Kendree in 1810, to the year 1872, c1876, Page 413
Sheldon C. Townsend of Dickersonville, then in the Lewiston Circuit (Local Preacher - elected Local Deacon 1837), "was an able and admirable preacher, and a man of much more than ordinary intellectual strength, and gravity and weight of character."

Historic Lewiston, New York
The Lewiston Townsends
Rev. Townsend and Rachel donated the land to build the Dickersonville Methodist Episcopal Church on Ridge Road in 1853.


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