Collection: Townsley Family Album | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one hardbound album. The pages within the album have slots for photographs and all photographs are in black and white. A note in the front of the album states that “penciled notations are those of Aunt Lena-sister of Florence Evelyn formerly Leland.” A notation in the back of the book states that in 1950, Mary McCoy, nee Mary Laura Townsley, went through the album and tried to identify the various people and their relationship to her. Some notations in the album are underneath the photographs and others are written on the backs of the photographs. The creator of the original album is unknown. The first photograph is of Mary (Townsley) McCoy’s grandmother, Mary (Bowen) Moses. The photographs in the album mainly represent the Moses and Townsley families.

Dates

Creation: Late 1800s to Early 1900s

Creator

Townsley Family (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Mary Ann Bowen was born on February 2, 1811 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died January 28, 1890 in Great Bend, Kansas. She was married to Anson George Moses in New York City on April 17, 1828. Anson Moses was born on October 17, 1805 in New York and died in Rockford, Illinois on January 25, 1868. Their daughter, Laura, married Captain Channel Pickering Townsley. They were married in Illinois. Around the Civil War, the family lived in Sedalia, Missouri before settling in Great Bend, Kansas.