Shearer Cemetery
Page County, Iowa

Mary Catherine Townsend, daughter of Ellison Townsend and Catherine Zimmerman, was born Oct. 22, 1844 in Morgan Co., Indiana and died May 28, 1930 in Atchison Twp., Nodaway Co., Missouri. She married John Wesley Maxwell Jan. 4, 1872 in Iowa.
See also the family stone for a list of the children who are all buried with her and her husband in the family plot.
Submitted by volunteer Julia Johnson
Photographed Sept. 2011