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Townsend, Ople E.   204860
Birth: 08/30/1915    Death: 07/25/1918    Marriage:
Cemetery: Forest Chapel (NOT PLOTTED)
Record Source: The Paris News, Texas Death Certificate
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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, July 26, 1918, p.2: “The three-year-old daughter of Hayden Townsend and wife died at Chicota yesterday evening.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Ople E Townsend
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 25 Jul 1918
Event Place: Chicota, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status:
Birth Date: 30 Aug 1915
Birthplace: Chicota, Texas
Father’s Name: Silas Townsend
Mother’s Name: Cloe Campbell
Certificate Number: 29191
GS Film number: 2073267
Digital Folder Number: 005145383
Image Number: 03199
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3WH-SQR : 13 March 2018), Cloe Campbell in entry for Ople E Townsend, 25 Jul 1918; citing certificate number 29191, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,073,267.


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