Hepzibah Townsend

Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend

• BIRTH 10 May 1780 - Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
• DEATH 4 Mar 1847 (aged 66) - Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
• BURIAL New First Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 34966344 · View Source

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Hephzibah was engaged at 12 and married at 16

Daughter of Daniel Jenkins and Hepzibah Frampton. Married (April 9, 1796) Capt. Daniel Jenkins Townsend (1759 - 1842)
They were parents to:

1. 1. Thomas Winborn Townsend (1796-1799)
2. 2. Daniel J. Townsend (1797-1802)
3. 3. John Ferrars Townsend (1799-1881)
4. 4. Jonathan Frampton Townsend (1801-1802)
5. 5. Richard Moncrief Townsend (1802-1803)
6. 6. Susan Martha Townsend (1805-1871)
7. 7. Daniel Jenkins Townsend (b. 1807) died young
8. 8. Mary Frampton Townsend (1809-1861) married John Jeremiah Theus Pope
9. 9. Amarinthia Jenkins Townsend (1810-1852) married I. Jenkins Mikell
10. 10. Dr. Daniel Jenkins Townsend (1811-1885)
11. 11. William Adams Townsend (1813-1816)
12. 12. Benjamin Joseph Townsend (1815-1834)
13. 13. Sarah Calder Townsend (1816-1820)
14. 14. Theodora Elizabeth Townsend (1820-1899) married Thomas Peter Smith
15. 15. Richard Furman Townsend (1822-1823)

A plaque inside the church reads: "Hephzibah J. Townsend
1780-1847
Founded the Wadmalaw and Edisto Female Mite Society, the first home and foreign mission society of Baptist women in the South. By 1811 the society gave $122.50 for the work with the Catawba Indians. In 1818 this building was erected with her funds. She gave it and the cemetery where she was buried to Black Baptists of Edisto Island."

Inscription
West side: "Erected by her children to the memory of Mrs. Hepsibah J. Townsend, daughter of Capt. Daniel Jenkins, widow of Capt. Daniel Townsend, who died on the 4th of March, 1847, in the 67th year of her age."
Northside: "Her character was so strongly cast, and her impulses were so generous, that she was an object of indifference to no one. The poor and the afflicted were special objects of her consideration. By them, her loss is truly felt, and by us who knew her best, she is most lamented."
East side: "From early life, she professed the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and her faith continued firm and constant to the end."
Gravesite Details
Tall marble shaft

Daughter of Captain Daniel Jenkins and his wife Hephzibah Frampton;
widow of Captain Daniel Townsend;
mother of 14/15 children -

1. Daniel Jenkins Townsend (died very young),
2. Thomas Winborn Townsend,
3. John Ferrars Townsend,
4. Jonathan Frampton Townsend,
5. Richard Moncrieff Townsend,
6. Mary Frampton Townsend,
7. Susan Martha Townsend,
8. Amarintha Jenkins Townsend,
9. Daniel Jenkins Townsend,
10. William Adams Townsend,
11. Benjamin Joseph Townsend,
12. Sarah Calder Townsend,
13. Theodora Elizabeth Townsend,
14. Richard Furman Townsend