Obituary Notes

New York, 1895

Helene de Kay Townsend, widow of Solomon Townsend, died at her home at Oyster Bay on Sunday. She had been ill for some time. She was a daughter of Dr. Charles de Kay Townsend, of Albany. She married Solomon Townsend in 1849, at that time engaged in the mercantile business in New York, where they resided, spending their summers at Oyster Bay, until 1877, when they took up their permanent abode there. Six children were born to them — the Hon. Solomon S. Townsend, Hon. Charles de Kay Townsend, Robert Townsend, Maurice E. Townsend, Edward N. Townsend, and Maria F. Townsend. She has one surviving sister, Mrs. Edwin S. Coles, of Oyster Bay.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 8, 1895, p. 4.