Early in my genealogy research, when I discovered my third great-grandmother, Hannah (Townsend) Harmon, I was struck by the number of children she had. With her first child being born in 1836, and her last born 21 years later in 1857, she had about one child every two years for twenty years. Here is the list of her 13 known children:
Mary Jane, born in 1836
James, 1837
William, 1839
Nancy, 1841 (my great great grandmother)
Richard, 1844
Martha, 1845
Charles, 1846
Hiram, 1848
David, 1850
George, 1852
Sarah, 1854
Hannah, 1855
Albert, 1857
Hannah died in 1865, at the age of 48. She is buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Spring Creek, Iowa.
She probably died of exhaustion.
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