John Rawles Mt. Zion Sunday School


In 1876 John Rawles was presented with a Bible by the Mt. Zion Church Sunday School. When he died in 1889, the then called Mt. Zion Sabbath School made this resolution and had it published in the Lafayette, Indiana newspaper.

John and Mary Rawles

John and Mary Rawles were Alpha Morehouse’s maternal grandparents.

John RAWLES was born on 17 Jan 1813 in Pickaway Co, Ohio. On 27 Nov 1834 when John was 21, he married Mary Matilda NEWELL, daughter of William NEWELL & Ann STB BALDWIN, probably in Tippecanoe Co, Indiana. She was born on 6 Nov 1817 in Brown Co, Ohio.

Mary Matilda died in Tippecanoe Co, Indiana, on 3 Aug 1885; she was 67. John died in Tippecanoe Co, Indiana, on 27 Apr 1889; he was 76. They are both buried in Hebron Cemetery, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.

They had the following children:
2         i.         Lycurgus (1835-1873)
3         ii.        Zelina (1837-1839)
4         iii.       William Newell (1839-1908)
5         iv.        Marcellus (1841-1914)
6         v.         David (1844->1900)
7         vi.        Sarah Ann (1846-1867)
8         vii.       John R (1849-1864)
9         viii.     Mary Matilda (1851-1939)
10         ix.      Joseph Paul (1853-1943)
11         x.       Edward (Edwin) (1856-1930)
12         xi.      George Headly (1859-1947)

Alpha Morehouse, Hebron School, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 1906







Hebron Public School, District No. 3, Wabash Tp., Tippecanoe Co., Ind. 
Emma Cunningham, Teacher
E.C. Crider, Supt.
Pupils
Grade I: Anna Cooper, Maurice Henderson, Helen Walton, Eleanor McCauley
Grade II: Truman Higley
Grade III:  Mary Rawles, Rae Wright, Marjorie Baker, Veva McCauley, Lee Oata Morehouse, Jeanna Post, Beatrice Higley
Grade IV:  Marie Wright, Charley Thomas, Newell Motsinger, Maurice Graves
Grade V: Ruth Brown, Nellie Cooper, Earl Rost, Carl Henderson, Alpha Morehouse
Grade VI:  Minnie Post, Stellas Grove, James Hoag
Grant Dyer, Trustee