NOTES:
1860 OR CENSUS – Amanda Townsend (3y, b Oregon) enumerated with David (40y, b South Carolina, occupation farmer), Judy (36y, b Georgia), Josephine (16y, b Georgia), Margaret (13y, b Oregon), Francis (12y, b Oregon), Martha (8y, b Oregon) and Missouri (1y, b Oregon)
1870 OR CENSUS – Amanda Townsend (12y, b Oregon) enumerated with David (51y, b Georgia, occupation farmer), Judah (46y, b Georgia), Marion (20y, b Oregon), Melinda (16y, b Oregon), Missouri (10y, b Oregon), Lafayette (8y, b Oregon) and Minerva (2y, b Oregon)
1880 OR CENSUS – Amanda Townsend (23y, b Oregon) enumerated with parents David (67y, b Georgia, occupation farmer) and Julia A. (51y, b Georgia), 4 siblings, Missouri A. (20y, b Oregon), Lafayette (18y, b Oregon), Minnie (12y, b Oregon) and Malinda Wicham (28y, b Oregon) and Malinda’s three Wicham children, Benjamin (5y, b Oregon), Edward (3y, b Oregon) and Ida (b July 1879, Oregon)
MARRIAGE – Gus Lake & Amanda Townsend md 17 Sept 1896, Polk co, Oregon
1900 OR CENSUS - Amanda Lake, age 35, mother of no children, b. Feb 1865 in Oregon, is enumerated with her husband of 5 years, Gus S., age 33, occupation farmer, b. Sep 1866 [1864] in Wisconsin.
1910 OR CENSUS – Amanda Lake (48y, b Oregon, married 12y) enumerated with husband Gus (44y, b Wisconsin, occupation farmer)
DISCREPANCY – There is considerable uncertainty over her birth date. The 1860-80 census indicate she was born about 1857, while the 1900 and 1910 census indicate 1865 and 1862. Her tombstone and death certificate indicate 1860. Since the information in earlier census was probably provided by her parents, they would seem to be more reliable
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