Member, Townsend Society of America, 1999-2000
Author, The Townsend Brothers of Shullsburg, Wisconsin, 1999
Invited Speaker, South Central chapter, Wisconsin Genealogical Society, 2003
Both sides of my family came from Shullsburg, Wisconsin, the Harty side having arrived there just before the middle of the 19th century and the Townsend side in 1827. I have been able to trace my mother's family back to an arrival in this country from England around 1650. They settled around Oyster Bay, New York and, in 1827, my third great grandfather (great-great-great), Samuel, and a couple of his sons headed westward, ending up in southwestern Wisconsin. I've only recently discovered my great-great grandfather & grandmother Harty's names, Augustine & Johanna. They came to Shullsburg slightly before 1850 directly from County Waterford, Ireland. For a lengthy genealogy report on the Townsend side (from Samuel's grandfather Charles on down), see my Townsend Genealogy Report page. I have information going a couple generations even further back, but with everything I've been collecting on them, I haven't had time to get that entered yet. For a smaller report on the other side of the family, I also have a Harty Report that can be viewed. If you like old photos, I have also been able to find a number of pictures that can be viewed in Callen's Genealogical Photo Album. It may take a while to load, but if you like looking at old pictures or are interested in either of these family names, especially the Townsends, it will be worth the wait. For a few of the ancestors, I've found so much information there was not enough room for it on my Family Tree Maker notes section, so I entered separate, longer notes elsewhere. Those have been uploaded to this site as well. One is an 1882 newspaper article about Addison Townsend catching a horse thief. For a copy of the Colonel E. C. Townsend genealogy, an article on this branch of the Townsends from The Townsend Society newsletter, the obituary of E. C. (Elijah) Townsend, and an address that he delivered to a joint session of the Wisconsin legislature when he was 95 years old, see E. C. Notes. For a few extra items on Halstead (H. S.) Townsend, especially the newspaper report of a speech he gave in 1898 on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the Battle of Bad Axe (a particularly bloody battle of the Black Hawk War), see H. S. Notes. Finally, if you still haven't had enough go visit Callen's Family Tree Maker page on the Family Tree Maker website. Enjoy, and please let me know what you think or feel free to share additional information.
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