Hannah "Hanna" A. Townsend (b. Denton) (1837-1915) was born in New York and died in Denver, Colorado. She married Wallace J. Townsend, a farmer, in La Salle, Illinois, in 1865. Townsend studied Christian Science with Janet T. Colman, Jennie B. Fenn, and Ezra M. Buswell. All three were students of Mary Baker Eddy. Townsend was a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Beatrice, Nebraska, and joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 3, 1896. Along with her daughters, Bertha and Myrtle, Townsend was a member of the National Christian Scientist Association. She was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in Beatrice, Nebraska, from 1897-1903 and in Denver from 1904 until her death.

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