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 1885 - 1962 (76 years)
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| Name |
Grace Townsend |
| Born |
23 Nov 1885 |
Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Also Known As |
Jonah |
| FindaGrave ID |
62058752 |
| Died |
6 Apr 1962 |
East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| Buried |
Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
Address:
Windsorville Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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| Person ID |
I349 |
Lasbury Family |
| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2024 |
| Father |
Ezra Gilman Townsend
b. 17 Jun 1838, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
d. 23 Feb 1914, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA (Age 75 years) |
| Mother |
Deborah Annie Ramsdell
b. 1841, Lincolnville, Waldo, Maine, USA
d. 5 Jun 1893, Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA (Age 52 years) |
| Married |
25 Oct 1862 |
Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA |
| Family ID |
F407 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Husband |
James Newton Lasbury, Snr.
b. 24 Mar 1877, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
d. 19 Feb 1961, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 83 years) |
| Married |
19 Apr 1904 |
Connecticut, USA |
| Children |
| | 1. Hazel Grace Lasbury
b. 5 Oct 1905, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
d. 8 Jan 1966, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 60 years) |
| | 2. Helen Elizabeth Lasbury
b. 28 Oct 1906, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
d. 11 Dec 1984, Warehouse Point, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 78 years) |
| | 3. James Newton Lasbury, Jnr.
b. 22 Apr 1911, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
d. 8 Jun 1992, Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, USA (Age 81 years) |
| | 4. Gertrude Arlene Lasbury
b. 13 Apr 1915, Connecticut, USA
d. 5 Jan 2009, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA (Age 93 years) |
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| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2024 |
| Family ID |
F104 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 23 Nov 1885 - Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, USA |
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 | Married - 19 Apr 1904 - Connecticut, USA |
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 | Died - 6 Apr 1962 - East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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 | Buried - Address:
Windsorville Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut, USA - - Windsorville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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| Notes |
- The following was derived from recollections of Gertrude Lasbury Marcy, daughter of Grace Townsend Lasbury and from Gladys H. Warren (from Marilyn Macdonald)
James married Grace Townsend of Old Town., Maine on April 19, 1904. Grace's father was Ezra Gilman Townsend, born 7 Jun 1838, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA and worked for years as a wool sorter for Chapin Humphrey. He died on 23 Feb 1914, Broad Brook, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Her mother was Deborah Annie Ramsdell, born in 1841 in Lincolnville, Maine and worked at the old "National House" as a table girl. She died on 5 Jun 1893, Hudson, Penobscot, Maine, USA.
Deborah's mother died very young on the family farm in Hudson, Maine. Deborah's father was a sea captain and sailed around Cape Horn (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy and the Lasbury genealogy). He was killed on the wharf at Winterport, Maine by a man who was indignant at not being hired. He struck him with "brass knuckles" in front of the people assembled to see the ship sail. Grace had four sisters, Nellie, Hattie, Maud, and Annie (age 9 when Grace was born) and two brothers, Charlie and Frank. Charles was killed by lightning and worked for Brown Thomson Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Maud and Grace thought the world of each other (14 months difference in age). The family called them "Sol" and Jonah".
Grace was born on November 23, 1885 (likely in or near Bangor, Maine) and died at age 77 on April 6, 1962 in Broad Brook, Connecticut. She came to Connecticut with her family at about age 6 (based on Annie coming to Connecticut at age 15). Grace and Maud lived with their Sister Harriet Chase on Evergreen Avenue upon coming the Hartford. She was an apprentice dressmaker in Bangor, Maine (according to Gertrude Lasbury Marcy). Her sister Annie was a dressmaker and was put on the first floor of the dress shop as a hemmer because of her good looks. On the Connecticut tobacco farm, Grace cooked and baked on an old wood and coal stove in the early years, often a complete 3-5 course dinner twice every day for 4-6 tobacco farm hands and never complained. Grace loved to garden, sported large flowery hats and made the best molasses cookies and fresh bread with molasses almost every day. She was an accomplished horsewoman and often drove her horse to South Windsor, Connecticut to see her sister Maud Graham on Graham Road.
James and Grace had three girls, Helen, Hazel and Gertrude (youngest child) and James Jr. Helen and James Malcolm Macdonald had two children, Marilyn Steele and James Malcolm Jr. Hazel and Burt Simmons had one child, Elizabeth Jane, and Margaret and James Lasbury had daughter Suzanne Peck Simmons (no relation to the above family) and son James III. (See page 202 for more details of Lasbury Family Genealogy).
Reference
"The Life of Annie M. Warren, written by Gladys H. Warren (her daughter-in-law) May, 1961, research from Marilyn Macdonald. (Annie was Grace Lasbury's sister).
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