Lucy E. Townsend
- Born: 1885, MD
- Marriage (1): Louis A. Smith about 1903
- Died: 1947, Wicomico Co., MD
- Buried: 1947, St. John's Methodist Church Cemetery, Fruitland, Wicomico Co., MD
OBITUARY: Mrs. Lucy Emma Smith - Mrs. Lucy Emma Smith, 61, died unexpectedly Wednesday night at her home in Fruitland following a heart attack. Daughter of the late Elijah and Emma Townsend, of Shad Point, she is survived by her husband, Louis A. Smith, Fruitland; two daughters, Mrs. Conrad Livingston, Salisbury, and Mrs. Arthur Widdowson, Fruitland; and two sons, Sewell Smith, Fruitland, and Louis E. Smith, S 2-c, USNR, on duty in the Pacific area. Also surviving are eight grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Lee Harris, Quantico, and four brothers, William, Lit, Routen and Gurney Townsend, all of Siloam. Funeral services will be held at St. John's Methodist Church, Fruitland, Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Walter A. Donoway officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Hill and Johnson funeral home Saturday between 7:30 and 9 p.m. and at the church Sunday afternoon between 1 and 2 o'clock. (The Salisbury Times, Friday, 17 January 1947, p. 2)
Lucy married Louis A. Smith, son of Albert Franklin Smith and Mary Ellen Hilghman, about 1903. (Louis A. Smith was born in 1883 in Wicomico Co., MD, died in 1968 in Wicomico Co., MD and was buried in 1968 in St. John's Methodist Church Cemetery, Fruitland, Wicomico Co., MD.)
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