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)

Morehouse Farm, USDA Form, 1936-1937

Alpha Morehouse & Elsie Marshall Marriage, October 31, 1918

Alpha & Elsie Morehouse 1930 Census, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

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

Amos Morehouse Estate 1847, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

 

Levi Morehouse Estate Sale December 1891, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

1899 Football Team

This photo appears to be taken in 1899, when Alpha Morehouse was only 6. The two boys in the photo with the white shoulder pads were probably his older brothers, my great-uncles.

Silas & Mary Morehouse's 50th Anniversary, October 7, 1919

Peggy has said that Mary's wedding dress was donated to a museum in Monticello, Indiana or somewhere in that area. This is the same dress that Jeanne wore in two photos that her brother Alan took in 1938.

Amos Morehouse Daybook Entry 1832

form of a plea for a nonsuit    

State of Indiana, Fairfield Township, Tippecanoe County

A  Shep vs. A Morehouse

before alb Slat a justice of the peace in and for said County and township

Assumpsit

personally appeared before me Alb Sla an acting justice of the peace as aforesaid the above named defendant A Morehouse who being by me duly sworn say that the said plantiff ought not to have or maintain his aforesaid action against him because he says that at the time the said suit was commenced and from henceforth up to the present time he the said A M were not and have not been a resident of said township of Fairfield nor was he a resident of said township but was and have since been and now are a resident of another township to wit the township of Wabash in said County and at the time of commencing suit (he was and now is) there was an acting justice of the peace in said township of Wabash who is neighther father, son or brother to him and in no manner interested in the event of said suit  wherefore the said defendant pray that the said plantiff may be nonsuited and judgment rendered against him for the costs and charges of said suit laid out and expended

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of June 1832