This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Townsley Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2333 Message Board Post: Sedalia Daily Democrat, Thursday, October 8, 1874, p. 4 Obituary Died in this city on yesterday evening, at 5 o'clock, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. P. Townsley, aged about four months. This is the third branch that has been severed from the family tree of this sorrowing household within a few years, and in the death of the baby, the little angel of the home circle, the wounded hearts of the bereaved parents have to bleed again, ere the other wounds were fully cicatrized. Just as the little flower began to bloom, the frost came and withered it, and parents and friends will weep because the baby is dead, but such is life, such is a full measure of its sorrows, and yet, all may expect their full share of similar griefs. We have felt as these stricken parents feel now, we, too, have laid away a little treasure in the cold, cold ground, but we buried her ere sin had left its stain on her angel brow. The sincere condolences of the neighbors and friends will be freely tendered to the sorrowing parents whose little baby has been transplanted in a better land.