Belle Letts was born in Magnolia township.

The evidence

• “On June 30, 1877 j\Ir. Townsend married Miss Belle Letts, who was born in Magnolia township, February 22, 1860 and educated in the public schools there. She is the daughter of JNIr.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 561 / book p. 1045

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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