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

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

Silas and Mary Morehouse Family c1906

This photo of  Silas and Mary Morehouse's family was taken in front of their house about 1906. Seated are Silas and Mary, and standing from left are their youngest children: Daisy, Zelina, Geneive, Mary and Alpha.