Email from Cheeseman Family Relative dated 7-19-2011Engelhardt, Karen
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:53 PM
To: Engelhardt, Karen
Subject: Rufus Cheeseman
Dear Karen,
It was great chatting with you. 1 am so glad 1 can help with the information you have been looking for all this
time. Her is a picture of Mary Emma Fitch C'Iteeseman(Townsend ). It is rather dark because it was sent to me
that way on a disc and for some reason 1 cannot lighten it.
Like I said, after Rufus died, she moved to Richfield to be near her brother DuPortal Fitch. She is there in the
1875 census. The next farm was the Towmsend's. Then in 1880, she moves with the children to Minneapolis
and the older boys work as millers <<i Pillsbury. The girls became stenographers. After Mrs Townsend died in
1880 she marries George "Townsend the brother of Robert who was the father of Lorr "Etta" Townsend. He had
"About 1679 '=r. Townsend, who owned the adjoining
farm in "inr=_esota to my Grandfather Cheesman's, sold
out and went to California. About 1:084 he married the
widow Cheesman. They owned about'40 acres ranch on
Vernon .-.ve." (".#,Ryy Y. PlrC t, W/Fe or AWAI1 01i2xt/An0