Joanna Beecher ^{1 2 3}

   Other names for Joanna were Jo Ann Beecher and Joannah Beecher.²

   FamilySearch ID: MYNT-ZL4.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1860 in Center Twp., Grant, IN. ² Jessie Beecher, laborer, 35, was living with wife Elizabeth, 31; Mary C., 11; Elvira, 9; Joannah, 6; and Rosette, 2. Jesse and Elizabeth were born in Pennsylvania, the children in Indiana. Jesse had no real estate value; his personal estate was worth $100. The post office was Marion.

2. Census in 1930 in Muncie, Delaware, IN. ⁴ The 1930 census recorded owning a $5500 home at 414 N. Mulberry Street: Joanna Townsend, widowed, 77, living with her son, Fred W. Townsend, grocery store clerk, 47. She and her parents were born in Pennsylvania. Fred was born in Indiana, his father in New York, and mother in Pennsylvania.

3. Census in 1940 in Muncie, Delaware, IN. ⁵ The 1940 census recorded owning a $3800 home at 1015 E. Charles Street: Fred W. Townsend, meat cutter in grocery store, divorced, 59, living with his mother, Joanna Townsend, 87. She was born in Pennsylvania and he in Indiana.

Joanna married Lewis Bailey Townsend, son of John Townsend and Temperance Householder, on 29 Aug 1868 in , Blackford, IN. (Lewis Bailey Townsend was born on 15 Aug 1844 in , Blackford, IN,^{6 7} died on 6 Jan 1927 in Muncie, Delaware, IN ^{6 7} and was buried on 8 Jan 1927 in Eaton: Union Cemetery, Delaware, IN ^{6 7}.)