Friday, March 3, 2017

Ancestry of Pearl Anna Enos wife of Alfred Morton Newhouse


CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

ENOS FAMILY

Pearl Anna Enos’ ancestry can be traced back to a French Protestant Huguenot Jacques Hennot. Jacques Hennot was baptized on 21 August 1625 at the Threadneedle Street French Huguenot Church at London, England, the son of Jean Hennot and his wife Catelaine (Catherine) Jone.

JACQUES HENNOT aka JAMES ENO

Jacques Hennot emigrated to America in 1648 from England where his family had fled after the capture of his town in France by the Spaniards. He settled in Windsor, Connecticut and changed his name to James Eno. On 18 August 1648 at Windsor, Connecticut Colony, James Eno married Anna, the widow of Richard Bidwell. Anna's maiden name remains unknown including the date and place of her birth. She died by 1657 and James Eno married two more times, Elizabeth, the widow of Thomas Holcom, and Esther Kelsey, the widow of James Eggleston and dau. of William Kelsey of Windsor.

According to the land records of Windsor, James Eno was a barber. In 1664 he signed a petition requesting permission to establish the first Anglican (Episcopal) church society in Conn., but the petition was rejected by the Conn. Court. This did not indicate that James favored the Episcopal Church particularly since he was baptized as a French Protestant. Rather, it was in opposition to the rights and rituals of baptism following the Congregational church's establishment of the "half-way" covenant, which prevented, for reasons too lengthy to summarize here, the children of his own children from being baptized and the children's parents from becoming communion members of the church at Windsor.

There is no individual gravestone for James Eno. He is memorialized in the large table-top memorial at the Palisado Cemetery at Windsor, Conn. for his grandson Capt. Samuel Eno, Esqr. and wife Eunice Marshall. However, the date of James' death thereon is misstated as July 11th when it is recorded in the Windsor town record as June 11th, 1682; his estate inventory was taken of record on June 19, 1682, eight days after his death.

JOHN ENO

When John Eno was born on 2 December 1654, in Windsor, Connecticut, his father, James [Jacque Hennot] Eno was 29 years old his mother the widow Mrs. Anna Bidwell was 30. He married 16 year old Mary Dibble on May 10, 1681, in his hometown. She was the daughter Puritans Ebenezer Dibble and Mary Wakefield. Her father was killed by Indians in the King Phillips War in 1676 when Mary was 11 years old. He died in 1692 at the age of 38 in Jersey, Gloucester, New Jersey Colony. Mary Dibble Eno was pregnant at the time of John’s death and his only son was born posthumously. She died 15 SEP 1697 Jersey, Gloucester, New Jersey, leaving four orphans.

RICHARD ENOS

When Richard Enos was born in 1693, his father, John, was dead and his mother, Mary, was 29. When he was four years old he was orphaned after his mother died. His eldest sister Mary was nearly 15. She returned to Connecticut while Richard was apprenticed out and remained in New Jersey. When his apprenticeship was up he made his way down to the port town of Wilmington in Delaware where he met and married Susannah Clinton in 1713 in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the daughter of Francis Fiennes Clinton and Susannah Penniston natives of Parva, Lincolnshire, England who immigrated to Wilmington, Delaware. Richard Eno was a prosperous farmer who died 1748 in Wilmington, Delaware, at the age of 55. He made out his will 30 April 1748 which was probated 3 December 1748. His wife survived him and he named the following children, Abraham, Mary, Stephen, Joseph, and Samuel. The Executors of the estate were his son in law Robert Mitchell and son Samuel “Enos”.

JOSEPH ENOS

When Joseph Enos was born on January 11, 1714, in Wilmington, Delaware, his father, Richard, was 21 and his mother, Susannah, was 22. Joseph Enos married Jane Storie in New Castle, Delaware, on November 29, 1749, when he was 35 years old. The parents of Jane Storie are unknown. He died in 1782 in New Castle, Delaware, at the age of 68 after the United States won its independence from Great Britain..

STEPHEN ENOS

Stephen Enos was born on January 11, 1763, in New Castle County, Delaware. His father, Joseph, was 49 and his mother, Jane, was 34. He married Hanna Vandergrift on December 18, 1781, in his hometown. Her parents are unknown. He died on April 9, 1808, in Delaware at the age of 45. Stephen served in the Revolutionary War. Stephen and Hannah had six children, the oldest being a son, Stephen Enos.

STEPHEN ENOS

Stephen Enos was born April 1787 and married Sarah Butler May 13, 1815. Stephen fought in the War of 1812 having enlisted on February 6, 1813, when he was 25 years old. He was given 160 acres of land in Hancock County, Illinois for his services. They moved to Butler County, Ohio in 1822. They had 12 children. He died on June 7, 1858, at the age of 71.

WILLIAM VANDERGRIFF ENOS

William Vandergriff Enos was born circa 1818 in New Castle County, Delaware and as a young child was brought to Butler County, Ohio and later to Indiana. His family settled in Decatur County where at the age of 23 on 29 July 1841 he married 18 year old Sarah Young. Her parents have not be proven but the 1840 Census for Decatur County, Indiana lists a John L Young enumerated in the Washington and Marion and Sandcreek and Clay and Adams townships of Decatur, Indiana who had a Females aged 15 thru 19 within his household. He and his wife were ages 60 through 69 which meant they were born between 1780 and 1771.

William V. Enos is listed on the United States Census as living as of 18 September 1850 in the Community of St Omer in Adam Township, Decatur County, Indiana. He’s a wagon maker by trade and owns no real estate. He was 32 years old a native of Delaware and married with four children. His wife Sarah Young says she is 27 and born in Indiana. Their four children were William T Enos age 8, Sarah E age 6, Stephen H C Enos age 3 and Mary A Enos age 7 months.

The United States Census ten years later still showed the family living in the community of St Omer, Decatur, Indiana as of 31 July 1860. William Enos gave his age as 43 this time and his birthplace is still given as Delaware. He’s still a wagon maker however he owned a piece of property worth $100 mostly likely 40 acres. Sarah stated she was 34 and their children now included an additional son. The children were 18 year old William Thomas Enos, 16 year old Sarah Elizabeth, 13 year old Stephen Enos, 10 year old Mary Enos, and 6 year old John W Enos.

During the next decade, the Civil War occurred and William V and his son William Thomas Enos joined the Union Army. William V Enos enlisted 10 Sep 1861 as private in Company I of Indiana 16th Infantry Regiment. He was mustered out on 23 May 1862 at Washington, DC. He then served as a Corporal in Company B in the 76th Indiana Infantry on 17 July 1862. This Unit was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana, for 30 days State service July 20, 1862. They had duty at Evansville, Indiana, and at Henderson, Kentucky, operating against guerrillas and protecting steamboats on the Ohio River till August 20. They mustered out August 20, 1862. William V. Enos enlisted again in the 16th Regiment Indiana Infantry for 1 year as a private on 6 October 1862. He was mustered out on 15 Oct 1863. When his term was up he enlisted again and served in Company I of the 2nd Regiment, Indiana Cavalry as a private. The 2nd Regiment Indiana Cavalry was the first complete cavalry regiment raised in the U.S. state of Indiana to fight in the American Civil War. He also served in the 15th Infantry Regiment U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps that was organized 10 October 1863 through 25 November 1865. The Veteran Reserve Corps (originally the Invalid Corps) was a military reserve organization created within the Union Army during the American Civil War to allow partially disabled or otherwise infirmed soldiers (or former soldiers) to perform light duty, freeing able-bodied soldiers to serve on the front lines.

By 1870 the United States Census showed that William and Sarah had separated or at least were living in separate households. William V Enos was enumerated on 24 August 1870 living within the household of the family of 61 year old Simeon Garrett. William was 52 years old and still listed as a wagon maker born in Delaware. He was listed as the 336 household visited by the Census Taker and living in the community of Adams.

Sarah Enos however is enumerated on 29 August 1870 in the 417 household visited and is living in the community of St. Omer with her married son Stephen and her two younger children. Sarah Enos gave her age in 1870 as 44. Her son Stephen Enos was 23 years and his wife Harriet Holmes was 20. They had been married a little more than a year as they were married 22 August 1869 in Decatur County, Indiana. Mary Enos age 20 and John Enos age 16 were also included in this household.

William V Enos’ daughter Sarah Elizabeth Enos married on 13 Jul 1862 Enoch James Hewitt and by 1870 had moved to Clay County. She divorced him and later married James Elsberry on 5 June 1885. His son William Thomas Enos was listed in the 1870 Census as married and living in Washington Township, Decatur County with his wife and daughter.

There are no further information on William and Sarah Young Enos in the 1880 Census as living in any of their own households or in their children’s households. However a widow pension was filed 12 December 1891 in Indiana for William V Enos who had served in Company I of the 2nd Regiment, Indiana Cavalry as a private. The widow was not Sarah Young but Mrs. Harriet E Enos. This would suggest that William V remarried and lived until at least 1891. Sarah Young Enos may have remarried or died. There’s no further record.

WILLIAM THOMAS ENOS

William Thomas Enos was born April 1842 in St. Omer, Decatur, Indiana where his father William V Enos was a poor working man building wagons. When William Thomas Enis was born his father, William, was 24 and his mother, Sarah, was 19 and he was their first born. He would later change the spelling of his surname to Enis and Ennis which was probably the pronunciation of the name. He is enumerated in both the 1850 and 1860 census as living within the household of his parents and younger siblings.

William Thomas Enis enlisted in the military on April 18, 1861, in Richmond, Indiana, when he was 19 years old. He served in companies C and F in the 8th Regiment, Indiana Infantry for three months as a private. He was mustered June 8, 1861 while in Company F. The following year he went with his father and joined the 76th Indiana Infantry on 17 July 1862. His father was a corporal in Company B and he was a private in Company C. This Unit was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana, for 30 days State service from July 20, to August 20 1862. They had duty at Evansville, Indiana, and at Henderson, Kentucky, operating against guerrillas and protecting steamboats on the Ohio River. He left the 76th and enlisted immediately on 17 August 1862 as a corporal in Company H, Indiana 5th Cavalry Regiment in which he served until he was mustered out 15 June 1865 at Pulaski, Tennessee.

After the war William Thomas “Enis” returned to Decatur County where he married Nancy “Ellen” Ross on August 21, 1866, in Decatur, Indiana. They had only one child Pearl Anna Enos born in 1867 in Decatur County.

Nancy Ellen Ross was the daughter of John Ross and Rachel Ellen Deweese according to her death certificate. In the 1860 United States Census of Indiana she is listed as a 12 year domestic servant to a wealthy Dr. John W Moody of Greensburg, Washington Township, Decatur County. She stated she was born in Indiana and in a later 1880 census she said her father was born in Delaware.

The 1870 Census of Indiana listed William Thomas Enos as “Wm Ennis” age 28 living in Washington Township Post Office Greensburg with his wife “Ellen Ennis” age 22 and “Pealie Ennis” age 3. His occupation was given as “finisher in shop”. William Thomas Enos was living in Greensburg the county seat of Decatur County. His family was enumerated next to Orville Thomson a 47 year old printer who also had enumerated in his home two young women who were “music teachers” and JJ Hazelrigg a 30 year old editor, presumably for a newspaper. It seems likely that William Thomas worked in the printing shop. Also it is interesting that his daughter Pearl as a divorced woman supported her sons as a music teacher perhaps from lessons by these young women. Three families down from William Thomas Enos was 18 year old Mary Ross a domestic servant to a 39 year old Cabinet maker. She was probably a younger sister of Ellen Ross Enos.

By the 1880 Census William Thomas Enos’ occupation was listed as a painter. He was still living in Greensburg and was prosperous enough to afford a domestic servant to help his wife even though they still just had the one child. In an age before effective birth control this was very unusual. Either Ellen had a difficulty carrying a pregnancy to term or they practiced abstinence. The 1880 Census was taken on 18 June and William was listed as 38 years old, Ellen as 32 years old and Pearl as 12 years old. The Census taker enumerated the families in his district by their first initials only so the family is located as W.T., N.E. and P.E. The only genealogical information in the census is that Ellen stated that her father was born in Delaware and mother in Indiana. Living next to William Thomas Enos was the family of H.F. Rozzell who was 32 and also a painter. Perhaps they were in business together.

For the next 20 years it is hard to locate the family of William T Enos as they had left Indiana and were found in Oklahoma Territory in 1900. They were probably still in Indiana when their only daughter Pearl Anna Enos married 21 year old Alfred M Newhouse on 6 May 1885 in neighboring Rush County, Indiana. Almost immediately afterwards the young couple traveled by train to Butler County, Kansas and settled in the community of El Dorado where William T Enos only grandchildren were born. Richard Enos Newhouse was born on 12 September 1886. And Louis Oak Newhouse was born also in El Dorado on 8 January 1890.

The 1890 Census was destroyed but a census for Union Soldiers was saved. In that census there was a William T. Enos located in Union Township in Faulk County South Dakota some 600 miles north of El Dorado, Kansas. Both the 1895 state censuses of South Dakota and Kansas however do not show William Enos or Enis living in either state. He probably was in Oklahoma Territory at that time.

Between 1889 and 1895, Oklahoma Territory had several land runs where at certain dates in 1889, 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1895 settlers could race to claim free land. It would not have been out of the question that William Thomas Enos participated in one of these runs as to why he ended up in Oklahoma Territory. There is absolutely no reason for William Thomas Enos to be in Oklahoma Territory except for the chance of free land.

Canadian County was settled by non-Indian settlers through three land openings, which occurred in 1889, 1892, and 1901. After the Land Run of 1889, El Reno bloomed overnight on the southern bank of the North Canadian River, and Reno City rose on the north shore. The Organic Act of 1890, creating Oklahoma Territory, designated the county as County Four, which consisted of the eastern half of present Canadian County.

In 1892 the surplus Cheyenne-Arapaho lands were opened to non-Indian settlement, and the western half of Canadian County was appended at that time. In local elections the first residents chose El Reno as the county seat, over Reno City, Frisco, and Canadian City, and Canadian, after the Canadian River, was selected for the county's name. A one-story, frame livery stable served as the seat of county government until a new structure was built in 1901 a few years before William T Enis died.

The largest and most famous Land Run was the 1893 The Land Run. It began at noon on September 16, 1893, with an estimated 100,000 participants hoping to stake claim to part of the 6 million acres on what had formerly been Cherokee grazing land. It would be Oklahoma's fourth and largest land run.

The Land Run of 1895 was the smallest and last land run in Oklahoma Territory. It came about with an agreement between the Kickapoo Indians and the federal government that gave Kickapoos 22,640 acres.

William T “Enis” was enumerated in El Reno Township in Canadian County, Oklahoma Territory on 21 June 1900. He gave his age as age as 58 born in April 1842 a native of Indiana. Ellen Enis was 52 years old born in March 1848 also a native of Indiana. They stated they were married 34 years, however Ellen stated she had no children. William gave his occupation as farmer and he owned his farm free of a mortgage. This would also indicate that he participated in one of the land runs as that if he lived on the land for 5 years it would be free and clear. Since the last run was in 1895 it certainly indicates that he participated in one of the Oklahoma land rushes. At the time of his death he owned a quarter section farm located at the East ½ of the Northwest quarter of Section 21 [80 acres] in Township 12 and West ½ of the Northeast quarter of Section 21 [80 acres] also in Township 12

William Thomas Enis died on December 16, 1903, probably on his farm in El Reno Township, Oklahoma, at the age of 61, of “sickness due to an abscess and nervous prostration.” Nervous Prostration is a 19th Century term for the act of lying flat which figuratively, can cause a great depression and an Abscess was the term for “circumscribed collection of pus, in any part of the body, formed by the disintegration and stretching of the tissues, usually due to injury, toxication or infection from bacteria.” William T Enis was buried in the El Reno Cemetery with a military issued tombstone with no dates on it, simply just the words “Corpl William T. Enis Co. H 5 Indiana Cav.”

After his death his wife and daughter placed an advertisement in the El Reno Weekly Globe on 1 January 1904 stating “Cards of Thanks- We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to our many friends and neighbors and especially to the GAR [Grand Army of the Republic] and Women Relief Corps for their kindness during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. W.T. Enis and Mrs. Pearl Newhouse.” At the time of William Thommas Enis’ death, his daughter Pearl Newhouse was living in Winfield, Kansas.

William Thomas Enis died intestate that is without a will and his wife applied in probate court to be the administratrix of his estate. She was granted that and she had to sell the farm for $2000 to pay off debts. On 29 March 1904 Ellen Enis applied for a widow pension for her husband’s service in the Union Army during the Civil War.

William T Enis widow Nancy Ellen Ross Enos remained a widow for the rest of her life. She cannot be located in the 1910 United States Census of Oklahoma but she is found in the directory for El Reno in 1909 and in the 1920 Census. In 1909 she is living in town listed as Ellen Enis widow of William T renting a home at 806 South Bickford. She is still living at this address 11 years later when she is enumerated on 26 January 1920. She is living alone as a 71 year old widow. She must have been living on a pension as she had no occupation or relatives to help her. Bickford was a block away from where Route 66 runs through El Reno and a few blocks from the El Reno Cemetery where her husband is buried.

Ellen Enis in the 1920’s left Oklahoma and returned to Greensburg, Indiana where she still had relatives and a sister Mary Elizabeth Eubanks. Her death certificate stated she died 1 Jan 1929 in Greensburg at the age of 80 years, 9 months and 13 days having been born on 18 March 1848 in Decatur County. She was listed as Nancy Ellen Enis a widow of William T. Enis. Cliff Kirkpatrick was the informant on her death certificate. He was the son of Ellen’s niece Ellen Eubanks who was married to William Kirkpatrick. Cliff stated her parents were John Ross and Rachel E Deweese both natives of Indiana. Ellen Enis had been attended by a physician from 1 December 1928 to 1 January 1929 when she died of arteriosclerosis and hemorrhaging. She was buried in the Union Baptist Cemetery.

Ellen Enis’ sister Mary Elizabeth Ross Eubanks died 30 December 1933 and is also buried in the Union Baptist Cemetery. Her death certificate also listed her parents as John Ross and Rachel Deweese however the informant who was her daughter Mrs. William Kirkpatrick stated that John Ross was born in Delaware and Rachel Deweese in Indiana.




Louis Oak Newhouse and Sadie Sherrill


CHAPTER THIRTY -SIX

LOUIS OAK NEWHOUSE and SARAH "SADIE" SHERRILL

Louis Oak Newhouse 8 January 1890 in the town of El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas to Alfred Morton Newhouse and Pearl Anna Enos both natives of Indiana. His parents separated when he was about 8 years old and his father returned to the mid-west and married twice more having no more to do with his two sons he had with his wife Pearl.

Louis “Oak” Newhouse’s father worked as a real estate agent in El Dorado which the occupation he gave in the 1895 Kansas State Census taken on 1 March.The family is listed as a household that included, “A M Newhouse” age 31, “Pearl Newhouse” age 27, “Richard E Newhouse” age 8, and “Oak Newhouse” age 5.

The marriage of Alfred M Newhouse and Pearl Enos ended probably in 1898. After leaving Pearl Anna Enos Newhouse behind in Kansas with two small children Alfred M Newhouse returned to Indiana where he met and married a divorcee named Perdetta Jane “Jennie” Sutton Callaway. That marriage lasted less than a year and his father married again in 1910 to Margaret Grady. It is doubtful that Louis Oak ever knew he had two step mothers.

After Louis Oaks Newhouse’s parents divorced, he left Kansas with his mother and brother to move to El Reno, Oklahoma where his grandfather William Thomas Enos had a farm. On the 21 June 1900 Louis Oak Newhouse was listed as living in the city of El Reno, Canadian, Oklahoma with his mother and older brother. They lived at 334 Evans Street. His mother supported herself and her two children as a music teacher. His mother listed her age as 29 years old, and born in August 1870. She said she was the mother of only two children, both living. She also stated she was widowed instead of divorced. She listed her two sons as Richard E Newhouse and Louis Oak Newhouse ages 12 and 10 born in September 1887 and January 1890. They were both born in Kansas.

Louis Oak Newhouse mother moved from El Reno before his grandfather William Thoma Enos, died 16 December 1903 back to Kansas. Probate records showed that his mother was living in Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas at the time of his grandfather’s death. Cowley County is located south of Butler County, Kansas where Louis Oak was born and just north of the Oklahoma line.

On 1 March 1905 15 year old Louis Oak was enumerated in the State Census of Kansas as living in the town of Winfield in Cowley County with his 36 year old brother and his 18 year old brother Richard Newhouse. In the 1906 directory of Winfield the family was listed as living at 1438 East 3rd Street. Louis Oak Newhouse who was 16 years was listed as a clerk. He and his brother Richard E Newhouse were living with their mother at the same address.

About 1908 after Louis Oak turned 18 years old he joined the United States Navy an served four years as a gunners mate. The 1910 census showed him as living in Kittery, York County, Maine, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He was stationed on the USS Wisconsin in the Long Yard which was docked for repairs. He was listed as an “ordinary Seaman” in the U.S. Navy and his age was given as 23 when he was actually only 20 years old.

When Louis Oak Newhouse was discharged from the navy he made his way back to the Midwest and settled in Sioux City, Iowa and not Wichita, Kansas where his mother lived. In Sioux City he met and married in 1913 a older divorce woman named Sadie Sherrill Rux.

His bride was born Sarah Laverne Sherrill but went by the nickname “Sadie”. She was also known as “Tiny”. She was the daughter of Jesse Sherrill and Olive Blanche Lander and born 4 October 1882 in Watseka, Iroquois County, Illinois. When 2 days after she turned 15 years on 6 October 1897, she married 31 year old Charles John Rux in Crawford County, Iowa. She was three months pregnant at the time.

Sadie Rux gave birth to her first child Fannie B Rux on 6 April 1898 in Ida County, Iowa. Another daughter was born 9 January 1899 conceived shortly after the birth of her sister. She was named Olive P Rux who died between 1905 and 1910. The 1900 United States census stated that Charles Rux supported his family as a “well digger.”

A series of three more daughters were born before Charley and Sadie separated. Adeline F "Addie" Rux was born 7 October 1902 at Ida Grove, Ida County, Iowa followed by Elsie Marie Rux born 31 March 1905 also in Ida Grove, Iowa. Sadie was 24 years old when she gave birth to her youngest daughter Sylvia M Rux who was born 22 September 1907 in Ida County, Iowa.

The 1910 Census showed that Sadie had left Charles Rux, lived in a boarding house in Sioux City, and was working in a café as a waitress. She stated that she was married. Charles Rux was still living in Ida County but boarding with a family as a farm laborer. The daughters of this family were placed in an orphanage in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri according to the 1910 Census.

Sadie was 8 years older than Louis Oak when they married but he was able to provide a home for her daughters and was able recover them from the Kansas City orphanage. Louis Oak’s first child was named Richard Sherrill Newhouse was born 20 May 1915 in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States. “Oak” Newhouse was a traveling shoe salesman.

On Sadie Newhouse’s 34th birth, 4 Oct 1916, her eldest daughter 18 year old Fannie B Rux married Ross Rockenfeld in Woodbury, Iowa. Sadie gave birth to another daughter named Lois Anna Pearl Newhouse born 10 November 1917. Family records said she was born in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, however on 15 June 1917 Louis Oak Newhouse registered for the draft in Sioux City and other census records state that she was born in Iowa.

In the World War I draft registry Louis Oak Newhouse was described as medium height, medium build with blue eyes and brown hair. He said he was 27 years old working as a shoe clerk in Blotsky Department Store in Sioux City, Iowa. He lived at 912 5th Street with a wife and two children ages 9 and 2. He also stated that he served in the navy for 4 years as gunners mate 3rd class. The children would have been his son Richard Newhouse and the 9 year old would have been his step daughter, Sylvia Rux. Sadie’s other daughters probably were living with their married sister.

By 1919 Louis Oak had moved his family to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where was he was Vice President at the Stanley Shoe Store. His residence is at 424 West Sixth Street. Louis Oak Newhouse was enumerated on 2 January 1920 as still living in Sioux Falls with his family supporting them working as a salesman in a shoe store there. Sioux Falls, South Dakota was nearly 560 due north of Tulsa where his mother and brother lived.

Louis Oak Newhouse was listed as age 29 born in Oklahoma and living at 424 West 6th Street in Sioux Falls’ 2nd Ward, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. His wife Sady Newhouse probably was the informant as that his father and mother's Birthplace was also given as Oklahoma. His occupation “Salesman” at a shoe store most likely at the Starley Shoe Store. His wife’s age was given as 35 born in Illinois. Children in the household were 14 year old “Elsie Newhouse” born in Iowa, 12 year old “Sylvia Newhouse” born in Iowa, 4 year old Richard Newhouse born in Nebraska, and 2 year old Lois Pearl Newhouse born in Iowa.

The two oldest children in the household were actually Louis Oak’s stepdaughters Elsie Marie Rux and Sylvia M Rux. The census also showed that this family was sharing this house with Fred Gassart’s family of 5 people.

Louis Oak Newhouse left Sioux Falls in 1921 but where he went is not known. He was not back in Sioux City, Iowa until 1927 and as that he was a traveling shoe salesman he could have been in Nebraska, South Dakota or even Minnesota.

Sadie’s daughter Addie Rux married on 7 Oct 1921 in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, to Henry D E Miller. Her sister Elsie Marie Rux at the age of 16 married six months later Charles Maynard Shadduck on 21 Mar 1922 in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa. That same year it is said that their mother Sadie had a daughter born in September 1922 named Esther Sarah Newhouse according to some family records but her birth place is unknown. Sadie Newhouse’s youngest daughter by her first marriage Sylvia M Rux at the age of 17 married Arne (Arnold) B Gubrud on 12 May 1925 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha which is where her mother and stepfather may have been living. By 1925 all of Louis Oak’s stepdaughters were married and on their own.

The 1927 Polk Direction for Sioux City showed Louis Oak and Sadie Newhouse as living at 515 Perry Street and its simply said “traveling” for his business so probably it meant he was traveling salesman. By the end of 1927 the family appears to have been in Norfolk, Nebraska 83 miles west of Sioux City, where their youngest daughter , Erma Jean Newhouse was born 15 December. However the five years between 1927 and 1932 is a mystery to where he and his family were living. They can’t even be located in the 1930 United States Census.

The family appeared back in the Sioux City, Iowa 1932 city directory which listed “Oak and Sadie” Newhouse as residents of 217 Kansas Street. His occupation was given as salesman for the Meyers Bro. Saddlery Company. Louis Oak Newhouse and his family lived in Sioux City for the next eight years during the Great Depression and lived at various addresses there but primarily at 217 Kansas Street.

In 1933 “Oak” Newhouse was still working as a Salesman for the Meyers Brothers Saddlery Company, but he and Sadie were listed as living at 4327 Fillmore. Their eldest daughter, 16 year old Lois Anna Pearl Newhouse married on 24 Nov 1933 in Sioux City, Iowa,to 20 year old Arthur Stokes Jr. son of Arthur Stokes and Lillie Belle Fox of Sioux City.

The following year Louis and Sadie had moved to 912 Fifth Street and in 1935, when he was 45 years old, they lived at 421 Bluff Street. All these years his occupation was “salesman” according to the directory but whether he worked for the Meyers Brothers is unknown. His 20 year old son Richard S. Newhouse married on 7 Nov 1935 in Sioux City, Iowa, to Edna Yudka the daughter of Russian immigrants Adam Yudka and Anna Marie Shpakowsky. He followed his father into the shoes sales business.

In 1936 the family moved back to 217 Kansas Street where they would live until leaving Sioux City in 1940. He was a salesman except for in 1939 when he was a clerk for MW & Company. The 1940 census said that Louis Oaks worked 52 weeks in 1939, at 48 hours a week and only made $1200 for the year. That breaks down to about $25 a week to live on. The 1940 directory of Sioux City listed Louis Oak Newhouse a resident at 217 Kansas Street with his Spouse Sarah Newhouse. His occupation was given as a salesman once again.

Louis Oak Newhouse had moved from Sioux City to Nebraska where on 19 April 1940 the family is located back in Norfolk, Madison County where their daughter Erma Jean Newhouse had been born in 1927. The 1940 United States Census had them living at 112 South 8th Street at a house they were renting for $5 a month. His occupation was a Salesman. In this census Louis Oak was said to have finished high school. Louis was 50 years old, Sarah was 52 years old and the old child still in the house hold was 13 year old Erma Jean Newhouse.

In 1940 Sadie Newhouse’s married children by her two husbands were scattered. Her oldest child by Charles Rux , Mrs. Fannie B Rockenfield, was living in Janesville, Wisconsin. Mrs. Adeline Miller was living in Watertown, South Dakota. Mrs. Elsie Shadduck was a resident of Buhl, Idaho and Mrs. Sylvia Gubrud was located in Waukegan, Illinois. Richard S Newhouse was in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Mrs. Lois Stoker lived in Sioux City, Iowa. The one child of Louis Oak and Sadie L Newhouse that is unaccounted for is the daughter Esther Sarah Newhouse. She would have been 17 year old in 1940 but she is not found in any census under that name. She could have been married but there’s no record of a marriage.

Louis and Sadie Newhouse did not linger long in Norfolk, Nebraska as that they moved in 1941 to Austin in Mower County, Minnesota where he got a job as head of the shoe department for Montgomery Ward & Company. By the end of the 1930s Montgomery Ward had become the country's largest retailer in America.

On 27 April 1942 Louis Oaks had to fill out a Draft Registration Card during World War II. He stated his address was 102 South Franklin, Austin, Mower County, Minnesota. He gave his age as 52 having been born 8 January 1890 in El Dorado, Kansas. He gave as the person who would always know where he lives his mother “A P Newhouse” of 1024 Quincy Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was employed by “Montgomery Ward & Co”. His physical description was given as being 5 feet 9 inches and weighing 230 lbs. He had blue eyes, gray hair, and a light complexion.

The 1943 directory of Austin, Minnesota listed him as “Louise O Newhouse” and department head presumably still at Montgomery Ward. His address was given as 102 Franklin Street as it was in the 1945 directory. He had a telephone according to the directory of 1945. However in 1945 his Occupation was given as “Auditor.”

Again in 1947 the Austin directory listed him as “Louise O Newhouse” but next to him and his son Richard were the words “moved to Sioux City.” The 1947 directory of Sioux City listed “L.O. Newhouse” and Sarah as living at 1119 Jennings Street and his occupation was again listed as auditor. His daughter Erma Jean Newhouse is listed twice but both times living at 1119 Jennings Street. She is listed as a telephone operator for Sears and 2ndly as an assembler for Wincharger Company that made small the Wincharger radio unit would become the most produced wind generator over the next 60 years.

On 12 November 1947 both Louis Oak and his wife Sadie were killed in an automobile accident near Iowa City in Wright County, Iowa. They were buried in the Logan Park Cemetery in Sioux City Woodbury County in Section 12, Lot 226. Louis Oak Newhouse was 57 years old and his wife Sadie was 65 years old.

SHERRILL FAMILY

Sadie L Sherrill descended from an English man named Adam Sherrill who was born in 1570 in Devon, England and married Mary McCormick in 1585. Their son was William Sherwill born in 1585 in Plymouth, Devon, England, who married Johane Stinson. After she died he then married Anisia Nicols on November 12, 1610, in Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. He died on November 12, 1638 in Cornwood, Devon, England, at the age of 53.

When Adam Sherrill was born in 1610 in Ermington, Devon, England, his father, William, was 25 and his mother, Johane Stinson, was 20. He married Mary Harvie on July 16, 1632, in his hometown. He died on February 1, 1668, in Ermington, Devon, England, at the age of 58.

William Samuel Sherrill was born on June 7, 1635, in Ermington, Devon, England. He married Margery Upright in Ugborough, Devon, England. She was born 9 August 1635 in England and she died 9 Nov 1698 in Devon, England. He died 1 June 1687, in Ermington Parish, Devon, England.

When William Sherrill was born on November 16, 1666, in Ermington, Devon, England, his father, William, was 31 and his mother, Margery Upright, was 31. William Sherill was the immigrant ancestor to America and he married Margaret Rudisil in 1690. William Sherill, commonly known as the “Conestoga fur trader William”, appears to have been living in the Pequea Creek area of Chester County, Pennsylvania (eventually, Lancaster County when it was formed in 1729 from Chester County) as early as 1710. In 1702 he purchased 150 acres known as Price's Forest in Cecil County, Maryland. William was also called "the Indian Trader" - serving as an Indian guide in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He and his sons, William, Jr. and Adam are credited with helping to open the Susquehanna Valley, Virginia to early settlers in the 1740s. He died on April 25, 1747, at Sherrills Ford, in North Carolina, having lived a long life of 80 years.

When Adam Sherrill was born on December 11, 1696, in Cecil, Maryland, his father, William, was 30 and his German mother, Margaret Rudisil, was 21. He married Elizabeth Corzine in 1722 in his hometown. Adam Sherrill received a bounty for killing a wolf in 1724 while living in Chester County, Pennsylvania. “To Adam Sherrell for one wolf head 1 shilling.” In 1749 through 1750, Adam “The Pioneer” Sherill son of William (“The Conestoga Fur Trader” was involved in a Chancery suit brought by John Keith against him and William Dunlap for nine pounds Pennsylvania money. This suit was apparently occurring simultaneously with Adam Sherill’s relocation to Burke County, North Carolina. He died on March 5, 1772, in Catawba, North Carolina, having lived a long life of 75 years.

When William B. Sherrill was born on May 1, 1723, in Cecil, Maryland, his father, Adam, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Corzine, was 21. He married Sarah Agnes White on April 12, 1743, in Augusta County, Virginia. He died on December 31, 1786, at the age of 63 in North Carolina.

Joshua White Sherrill was born on June 4, 1752, in Anson, North Carolina, the son of his William and Sarah White Sherrill. He married Martha Susannah Osborne in 1774 North Carolina. He died on August 27, 1817, in Terrell County, North Carolina, at the age of 65.

When Joshua Sherrill was born on April 4, 1781, in Lincoln, North Carolina, his father, Joshua, was 28 and his mother, Martha Osborne, was 19. He married Catherine Linebarger in 1805 in Lincoln County North Carolina. They lived east of the Catawba River in Lincoln County where they are located in the 1810, 1820, and 1830 Censuses. He acquired a land patent in Fountain County Indiana on 10 April 1829 but did not move there until after 1830. Joshua acquired another patent across the state line into Illinois on 1 Nov 1839 in Iroquois County, near the community of Watseka. He is located in Iroquois County in the 1840 and 1850 census. He died on June 7, 1855, in Iroquois, Illinois, at the age of 74 and is buried the Old Texas Cemetery.

John Sherrill was born in 1805 in North Carolina, the son of Joshua, and Catherine Linebarger. He moved with his father’s family to Fountain County Indiana where he married at the age of 26 Elizabeth Helm on 13 Oct 1831. She was the daughter of James Helms and Rachel Taylor. He moved to Iroquois County which bordered Indiana by 1840 and in 1848 he acquired a 40 acre farm there. They had seven children in 18 years before he died on June 9, 1854, in Iroquois, Illinois, at the age of 49. He was buried in the Old Texas Cemetery, just about 2 miles east of Watseka and was buried there. There is a Masonic hand clasp symbol on his gravestone indicating that he was a Mason. His son Joshua Sherrill was killed during Battle of Resaca near Kingston, Gordon County, Georgia on 14 May 1864 at the age of 20. Served in Company H, 42nd Regiment, Illinois Infantry. He enlisted on August 27, 1861.

Jesse [ middle name given as initial S and also as Albert] Sherrill was born in February 1848 in Watseka, Illinois. His father, John Sherrill was 39 years old and his mother, Elizabeth Helms, was 33. He married Olive Blanche Lander in 1873 in his hometown. Olive Blanche Lander was born on January 12, 1852, in Terre Haute, Indiana to William Lander, age 47, and Pheobe Courtright, who was 44. She married James C Goodhue on March 31, 1867, in Parke, Indiana. About 1884 the family moved to Ida County, Iowa. In the 1900 Census they were enumerated in Corwin, Ida County, Iowa. By 1910 Jesse Sherrill had moved to Pennington County, South Dakota where he owned a farm. The 1920 census showed that Jesse and his wife Olive were retired and living with his son Frank’s family in Willow, Cherokee County, Iowa. They had 10 children in 18 years. He died on July 22, 1926, in Union, South Dakota, at the age of 78, and was buried in Sioux City, Iowa. She died on January 12, 1929, in Creighton, South Dakota, at the age of 77, and was buried in Sioux City, Iowa.

Their daughter daughter Sadie Sherrill married Louis Oak Newhouse as her second husband and granddaughter Erma Jean Newhouse married Kenneth Delbert Jones. Kenneth Delbert Jones has a grandson named Kevin Louis Oaks Jones.








Alfred Morton Newhouse and Pearl Anna Enos


CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

ALFRED MORTON NEWHOUSE and PEARL ANNA ENIS [ENOS]

Alfred Morton Newhouse was born 23 February 1864 during the American Civil War. He was born in Jackson Township to Lewis Jackson Newhouse and his 2nd wife Nancy Pogue. He was named for his uncle Alfred Morton Newhouse and grew up on his father’s prosperous farm. He was eldest child of those born to Lewis and Nancy. His father had had 1 half sister and 4 half brothers by his father’s 1st wife Mary Ann Hackelman who died in 1862.

Alfred Newhouse was listed in his father’s household in the 1870 United States Census taken 20 August. His father Lewis lived in Jackson Township in Rush County on a farm worth $25,200 with personal property worth $5410. The family was on of the wealthiest in the Township.

Ten years later in the 1880 United States Census, Alfred was listed on 14 June as 16 years old living with his mother and father and attending school. His grandmother Polly Newhouse was included in the household along with six other siblings and a 19 year old female servant named Ida M Rhodes. The wealth of the family was not included in the census.

At the age of 21 Alfred M Newhouse married Pearl Anna Enos on 6 May 1885 in Rush County, Indiana. His father gave him his inheritance in the form of $2000 and almost immediately afterwards the young couple traveled by train to Butler County, Kansas and settled in the community of El Dorado where their first child Richard Enos Newhouse was born on 12 September 1886. Their second child Louis Oak Newhouse was born also in El Dorado on 8 January 1890. He had hoped to make it rich as a land speculator however the Panic of 1893 nearly wiped him out.

Alfred Newhouse worked as a real estate agent for the time he lived in El Dorado which the occupation he gave in the 1895 Kansas State Census taken on 1 March. The family is listed as living in El Dorado in a household that included, “A M Newhouse” age 31, “Pearl Newhouse” age 27, “Richard E Newhouse” age 8, and “Oak Newhouse” age 5.

The marriage of Alfred M Newhouse and Pearl Enos ended probably in 1898. After leaving Pearl Anna Enos Newhouse behind in Kansas with two small children Alfred M Newhouse returned to Indiana where he met and married a divorcee named Perdetta Jane “Jennie” Sutton Callaway. S

Perdetta Jennie Sutton had divorced Frank Callaway by whom she had five children. They were between the ages of 20 and 12 when Alfred and she were married 30 March 1899 in Madison County, Indiana. The marriage lasted probably less than a year as the 1900 United States Census of Indiana showed that on 2 June of that year Alfred M Newhouse is listed as a divorced man living 145 miles southwest of his exwife Jennie Callaway. She is listed in Elwood, Pipe Creek Township, in Madison County as of 2 June 1900 listing with two younger daughters where she is listed as divorced and a dressmaker by occupation. Her obituary showed that she kept the married name of her first husband.

“The Elwood Call-Leader, , Monday, April 21, 1947 Perditta Callaway Dies Perditta Jane Callaway, 88, died at 8:30 o clock this morning at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Maude Theanders of 123 North 10th street. Mrs. Callaway has been in failing health for the past two years, and has been seriously ill for the past two weeks. She was born on Sept. 21, 1850, in Rush County, the daughter of John and Hanna Sutton. She married Frank Callaway in 1876 and to this union were born seven children, four of whom are living. Mr. Callaway died July 7, 1926. The deceased was a member of the East Main Street Christian church and the Priscilla club. The survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Theanders at whose home she died. Mrs. Grace McCormick of Indianapolis and Mrs Fern Taylor or Hill Valley, Calif. There also survives one son, Claude Callaway of Indianapolis. There are eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The body was taken to the Jackley Funeral home where it will remain. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.” The obituary does not mention that she was twice divorced.

Alfred M Newhouse as of 2 June 1900 was living in a hotel owned by George McBride in the town of Elmore, Daviess County, Indiana according to the United States Census. He listed his age as 35 when he was 36 and his birthdate as February 1865 when he was born in 1864. He gave his marital Status as divorced and his occupation as a Real estate Agent.

After Alfred and Pearl Enos Newhouse divorced, Pearl left Kansas to move to El Reno where her father William Thomas Enis had a farm. Pearl A Newhouse was listed in the 1900 United States Census as living 745 miles away from her ex husband and 210 miles south of El Dorado, Kansas. On the 21 June 1900 Pearl is listed as living in the city of El Reno, Canadian, Oklahoma. She is supporting herself and her two children as a music teacher. She rented a house at 334 Evans Street and she listed her age as 29 years old, born in August 1870. She said she was the mother of only two children, both living. She also stated she was widowed instead of divorced. She listed her two sons as Richard E Newhouse and Louis Oak Newhouse ages 12 and 10 born in September 1887 and January 1890. They were both born in Kansas.

Pearl Newhouse’s father, William Thomas Enos, died 16 December 1903 from a sickness due to an “abscess and nervous prostration.” Her mother Nancy Ellen Ross Enos and Pearl Newhouse were the only heirs to the 160 acre farm he left behind near El Reno in Canadian County, Oklahoma. As that her father was heavily in debt for $2000 when he died, the farm was sold at action and little was left as an inheritance.

Pearl Newhouse left Oklahoma and moved back to Kansas by 1 March 1905 where she is located in the State Census of Kansas. She is living in the town of Winfield in Cowley County as “A P Newhouse” age 36 and her sons Richard Newhouse age 18 and Oak Newhouse age 15.

In the 1906 directory of Winfield they were listed as living at 1438 East 3rd Street. She listed herself as the widow of “A Morton Newhouse” which she did for the rest of her life. Louis Oak Newhouse who was 16 years is listed as a clerk. He and his brother Richard E Newhouse are living with their mother at the same address. Pearl and her sons were living in Winfield when they were enumerated in the 1910 Census. Cowley County is located south of Butler County, Kansas where her sons were born and just north of the Oklahoma line.

Pearl Newhouse was listed as still living at 1438 East 3rd Street in Winfield, Cowley county, Kansas as of 19 April 1910. She listed herself as a 42 year old widow who owned her own home free of a mortgage. She said she was the mother of two children and that she had no occupation. Evidently she was being supported by her 23 year old son Richard who was working for the city as an electrician. Her youngest son Louis Oak Newhouse had left home and had joined the navy. The 1910 census showed him as living in Kittery, York, Maine, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, stationed on the USS Wisconsin Long Yard as an “ordinary Seaman” in the U.S. Navy. He listed his age as 23 when he was only 20 years old and probably was sending his paychecks home to his mother.

By 19 April 1910 “A M” Newhouse had moved some 135 miles from Daviess County Indiana to Lovington, Illinois. He is listed as a 46 year old real estate agent who was boarding at a hotel where his 3rd wife worked as a cook. Sometime prior to this date Alfred M Newhouse married Margaret Grady the daughter of Irish immigrants from County Tipperary. She had been previously married to Garrett Cunningham and had one child living but was not enumerated in the household. Margaret was 38 years old.

In 1911 Pearl Newhouse moved with her son Richard Newhouse to Wichita, Kansas. They were living at 409 North Lawrence Avenue. She still stated she was the “widow” of Alfred M Newhouse” even if he had twice married since divorcing her. She must have had sold her house in Winfield as she was only renting in Wichita. Her son Richard was now working as an electrician for the Southwestern Electric Company. The family left Wichita by 1912 as there are no more mention of them in the Polk Directory.

When Louis Oak Newhouse got out of the service he married in 1913 a divorce woman named Sadie Sherrill Rux of Sioux City Iowa. In 1914 Richard Newhouse however had moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma and was living at 118 West 7th Street and working as an electrician for the Electric Supply Company. His mother is not listed in the Tulsa directory and may have just been included in Richard’s household.

Richard Newhouse married a 16 year old girl woman named Ethel Arter on 2 October in the Trinity Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 29 years old and she was 24. What is strange about this marriage is that it appears that the couple did not live together for almost 8 years.

In 1916 both Pearl and Richard are listed as living at 21 South Utica Avenue in Tulsa where he is still an electrician working for the Electric Supply Company. The following year Richard is listed as a foreman at the Electric Supply Company living at 1111 South Cheyenne but Pearl is not listed separately nor is Ethel listed in his household.

On 5 June 1917, Richard Enos Newhouse registered for the World War I draft. He was described as medium height, slender, with blue eyes and black hair. He said he was 30 years old working as an electrician for the Electric Supply Company. He lived at 1109 South Cheyenne and said he was supporting his mother. Although he stated he was married no wife was mentioned.

On 15 June 1917 Louis Oak Newhouse registered for the draft. He was described as medium height, medium build with blue eyes and brown hair. He said he was 27 years old working as a shoe clerk in Blotsky Department Store in Sioux City, Iowa. He lived at 912 5th Street with a wife and two children ages 9 and 2. He also stated that he served in the navy for 4 years as gunners mate 3rd class.

Alfred and Margaret Grady Newhouse by 2 January 1920 had moved to the village of Hammond in Unity Township, in Piatt County, Illinois. There Alfred bought a home free and clear of a mortgage. In the 1920 census he said he was 55 years old and married to “Maim” Newhouse which must have been a nickname as he was married to Margaret for the remainder of his life. He gave his occupation still as a real estate agent.

The 1920 Oklahoma Census was taken on 5th February listing Pearl Newhouse in the household of her son Richard. She is listed as “Anna Pearl Newhouse”, a 52 year old widow with no occupation. Richard E Newhouse who was now 33 years old was listed as head of the household and now Superintendent of the Electric Supply Company. They rented a house at 1324 Carson Street in Tulsa. Richard listed his marital status as married although there was no wife in the home. Ethel Arter is listed as living with her widow mother Mrs. Sarah Arter on the 6th of January in the town of Venita in Craig County, Oklahoma. She said she was 25 years old when she was closer to 28 years. She gave her marital status as “Single” and her she worked for Southwest Bell telephone company and her occupation was “Traveling Automobile”.

Pearl’s son Louis Oak Newhouse was living in Sioux Falls with his family in 1920 and supporting them working as a salesman in a shoe store there. Sioux Falls, South Dakota was nearly 560 due north of Tulsa. As that Louis Oak Newhouse’s father left his mother when Louis was only about 8 years, Louis Oak Newhouse’s children grew up knowing next to nothing about his side of the family.

The 1923 Polk Directory for Tulsa showed his wife Ethel as living in Richard E Newhouse’s household. They are living together at 816 ½ East 3rd Street in Tulsa. Richard Newhouse was listed as Secretary and Treasurer for the Electric Supply Company. Pearl Newhouse is in a separate address at 816 East 3rd Street. The 1926 and 1927 directories showed that Pearl Newhouse “the widow Alfred Morton Newhouse” and her son and daughter in law were living at the same residence and Richard had the same position at the Electric Supply Company. In 1928, however Richard Newhouse bought a house at 1024 Quincy and living with him was his wife Ethel and mother Pearl. This house is still standing and is located near the corner of 11th Street and Quincy and about two blocks from the Oaklawn Cemetery. Historic Route 66 runs through Tulsa via 11th Avenue.

The last census in which Alfred Newhouse was enumerated was the 1930 United States census taken on 2 April. He is listed as “Mortin A Newhouse” still living with his 58 year old wife Margaret in Hammond Village, Unity Township, Piatt County, Illinois. He owned his home which was valued at $1000 and stated he had no radio set which was a census question that year. He said he worked in the “Broker Industry” in Real Estate. Another question asked was “Age at First Marriage” and he stated 46 disregarding his marriage to Pearl Enos when he was 21 years old.

Pearl Anna Enos Newhouse in the 1930 Census was enumerated on April 5th in the household of her son Richard and daughter in law Ethel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They lived at 1024 South Quincy Ave in a house Richard owned valued at $6000 and the census also showed that he owned a radio set. His occupation was given as an “Engineer” in the Electrical Industry. Pearl Newhouse stilled listed herself as a widow aged 63. The 1930 directory showed that Richard was still working for the Electric Supply Company. The census also showed that Richard and Ethel never had children.

Pearl Newhouse rode out the Great Depression during the 1930’s living with her son and daughter in law on Quincy. Richard Newhouse stayed employed the entire time. She is not listed in the 1931 directory but was mentioned in 1932 as “Mrs. Pearl Newhouse” but was back to being a widow in 1933. In 1932 Ethel Newhouse was listed as the secretary for the Social Order of the Beauceant which was a female auxillary to the fraternal Masonic order of the Knights Templar.

Alfred Morton Newhouse died 1 Aug 1934 in Hammond according the Illinois Death Index and was buried the next day on August 2nd in the towns’s cemetery. His widow Margaret lived another ten years dying 19 September 1944 in Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois. Interestingly their tombstone reads Grandfather and Grandmother but which grandchildren put the monuments there is unknown. Alfred only had the two sons and Margaret the one child. In the 1940 Census Margaret was living with her granddaughter Thelma and her husband Marshall Conour and they probably paid for the monument. After 1934, Pearl Newhouse was an actual widow whether she knew it or not.

The 1940 United States Census of Oklahoma listed “Anna Pearl Newhouse” as a 73 year old widow. She was still living with her son Richard Newhouse and her daughter in law Ethel at 1024 Quincy Avenue. In this census she stated that she had attended 4 years of high school. Richard Newhouse had worked himself up to Vice President of the Electric Supply Company but his home had lost its value due to the Depression to only $3500. He was also working 60 hours a week with his new responsibilities.

On 23 April 1942 Richard Newhouse had to sign up a Civilian Draft during WW II when he was 55 years old. He was still working at the Electric Supply Company which he had now for 25 years. The business was located at 815 East 3rd Street. He was still living at 1024 Quincy. He was described as 5 foot 9 ½ inches weighing 147 pounds with blue eyes and gray hair.

Two days later Louis Oak Newhouse was registered for the Civilian Draft. He was 52 years old and living at 102 South Franklin Street in Austin, Minnesota. He was working for Montgomery Ward and Company. He was described as 5 foot 9 inches weighing 230 pounds with blue eyes and gray hair. He gave his mother as the person who would always know where he lived.

Pearl Anna Newhouse died at the age of 76 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her exact death date has not been found but cemetery at Rose Hill Memorial stated that she was buried 16 November 1946. She probably died on the 14th. She was buried in Section Peace (24) L-389 #1

Her son Louis Oak Newhouse and his wife were killed in an automobile accident the following year after moving from Austin, Minnesota to Sioux City, Iowa leaving the only descendants of Alfred Morton Newhouse and Pearl Anna Enos. Richard Enos Newhouse had no posterity.

Richard Enos Newhouse lived out the remainder of his life in Tulsa and died there 23 January 1980 at the age of 93. He was buried in Section Peace (24) L-389 #2 in the Rose Hill Memorial Cemetery. His widow Ethel Arter Newhouse died 24 October 1984 at the age of 93 and is buried also in Rose Hill Memorial Park, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Section Peace (24) L-389 #3












Isaac Newhouse, John Newhouse, Samuel Newhouse, Lewis Jackson Newhouse


CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

ISAAC NEWHOUSE

Isaac Newhouse was born in 1749 near Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, the youngest son of Anthony and Mary Britton Newhouse. Isaac's father Anthony "Neuhaus" immigrated from Germany before 1744, and about that same time built a paper mill at Trout Run Creek in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania (now Montgomery Co), with Benjamin Franklin as one of his famous customers. Isaac Newhouse’s father was a prosperous man having owned a paper mill on which paper the Pennsylvania Colonial bank notes were printed. Anthony Newhouse sold his paper mill to Jacob Hagey, prior to his death in 1763 in Philadelphia County. Hagley was listed as next to Isaac’s brother Jacob Newhouse in a tax list. Jacob was known to have worked with Hagey after his father's death. Isaac’s mother Mary left a Will in Nov 1763 in Plymouth, Philadelphia Co, that listed her sons Jacob, David, Jonathan and Isaac; and daughters Susannah and Sarah.

Isaac Newhouse was an orphaned at the age of 14 and he was apprenticed out to Philip Sharp, a weaver in the village of Whitemarsh. Isaac’s brother Jacob Newhouse was recorded on same tax list as Philip Sharp. At the age of 23 Isaac Newhouse witness the Will of Philip Sharp in 1772

A document recorded in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania dated 20 March 1770, regarding the administering of the estate of Catherine’s parents Derrick Van Pelt and Mary Britton, showed Isaac Newhouse was married by 20 March 1770 when he would have been 20 or 21 years old.

“ Isaac Newhouse, husband of Catherine VanPelt endorses Joseph McClean as the Administrator of both Estates of Derrick VanPelt and Mary VanPelt. Mary VanPelt died before this date, in Whitpain. Derrick Van Pelt and Mary Britton were married 14 February 1742/3 and he was a tavern innkeeper in Whitpain Pennsylvania at his death in 1767. The Van Pelt were of Dutch ancestry and were settlers of New Amsterdam in the mid 17th Century who resettled in Pennsylvania.

When the Revolutionary War began Isaac Newhouse was a resident of New Britain Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1775, Isaac enlisted as a private in Captain Grier's New Britain Company, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and served during the War for Independence alongside his brothers-in-law Joseph and John Van Pelt.

During the war Isaac Newhouse and Catherine Van Pelt moved from eastern Pennsylvania to northern Virginia. On 10 September 1779 he was admitted a member of the Broad Run Baptist Church in Fauquier County although he was raised a Quaker. His wife Catherine Van Pelt Newhouse who was also raised a Quaker, was not admitted a member of the Baptist church until 10 September 1781.

Isaac was found on the tax lists of Fauquier County from 1782 through 1785.He was living near his brother Jonathan Newhouse. In Fauquier County he may have been raising livestock as he had four horses and 4 cattle. In 1787 the Newhouse family left Fauquier County in the fall. Broad Run Baptist records showed that in October 1787 the church “agreed to dismissal of Bro. Isaac Newhouse and his wife.” They had voluntarily withdrawn their membership for their impending move south.

About that same time, Isaac moved his family to Montgomery County, VA, recorded in 1788 Montgomery Co. tax lists, and which his residence became part of Wythe Co, VA in 1789.

Isaac and Catherine Newhouse left northern Virginia following the Great Wagon Road to Southwest Virginia. Isaac Newhouse is found next in Montgomery County, Virginia in 1788. He may have been at the same location in Wythe County as that county was formed from Montgomery in 1790. Tax records from 1788 to 1794 showed Isaac as living there until moving to Washington County from Wythe. The tax list of 1788 Montgomery County showed him owning 4 horses. In 1790 Isaac is listed in Wythe County which had just recently formed from Montgomery. He is listed with 3 horses. The 1794 tax list taken when Isaac was 45 years old showed that he owned 6 horses.

A deed dated 13 May 1794 in Wythe County, recorded a land transaction where Isaac and Catherine Newhouse sold 27 acres at the South Fork Branch of Cripple Creek to Michael Bransteter. The following year on 22 January 1795, Isaac Newhouse made a claim for 200 acres at the head waters of Cripple Creek.

In 1796 Isaac Newhouse is taxed in Wythe County on 6 horses. A deed record dated 12 August 1796 also in Wythe County has Isaac and Catherine Newhouse selling 195 acres for $200 to Peter Darter, “on south branch branch of Cripple Creek where Isaac Newhouse now lives. Isaac Newhouse was able to sign his name but his wife just made her mark.

Isaac lived in Wythe County until 1797, when he moved to adjacent Washington County, VA, and owned 490 acres along the "Poor Valley" near Brumley Creek, north at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He also acquired property near the Holston River where he is listed as owning 3 horses. Two years later at the age of 50 years he paid taxes on 2 horses and 168 acres of land in 1799.

On 2 May 1798 Isaac and Catherine Newhouse sold their remaining property in Wythe County for $200 to Peter “Tarter” [Darter] which was 200 acres at headwaters of Cripple Creek adjoining Peter’s own land.

At the turn of the 19th Century on 1 June 1800, Isaac Newhouse is listed with 1 horse and 490 acres of land. He sold 50 acres of the land by 1801 when he is only taxed of 440 acres but now was back up to owning 4 horses. By 1802 Isaac is down to 140 acres and 1 horse and the same acreage in 1803 but had now 2 horses.

On the 20 August 1805 in Washington County, Esau and Elizabeth Hayter sold to Isaac’s son in law and daughter George Williams and Nancy Newhouse 490 acres for 290 pounds land that had once belong to Isaac Newhouse located on the north fork of the Holston River.

Isaac was listed in Washington County, Virgina tax lists from 1797 until 1809, with his sons Isaac Jr, James, John, Samuel, and son-in-law George Williams. Isaac Newhouse however later, he moved to Indiana by crossing through the Cumberland Gap up through Kentucky to Louisville where they crossed the Ohio River into Franklin County, Indiana Territory. Here Isaac is listed on a tax list for 1811 with his son Samuel when he was 62 years old.

Catherine Van Pelt the daughter of Derrick Van Pelt and Mary Britton was born in Whitpain, Philadelphia County (now Montgomery), Pennsylvania but there is no death information known for Catherine. She was last recorded in Wythe County, Virginia land deeds in 1798. Her husband Isaac remarried in 1820 in Fayette County, Indiana - therefore, Catherine either died in Wythe or Washington County, VA by 1810 or died in Indiana between 1810-1820. What is certain is that Catherine Van Pelt Newhouse died before her husband and he remarried on 11 September 1820 in Fayette County, Indiana a widow Winifred Bailey Sandifer. He was 71 years old at the time of this marriage. She was the widow of Robert Sandifur who had drowned.

Winifred Bailey Sandifur was also the mother of Isaac’s daughter-in-law Patsy Sandifur, who was married to his son Samuel, and mother of his granddaughter Mary Williams' husband, Noah Sandifur.

Isaac Newhouse and his second wife Winifred Bailey are probably the over 45 year olds listed in family of his son Samuel Newhouse in the 1820 United States Census of Fort Prairie, Madison County, Illinois. His 2nd wife Winifred was listed with her son Noah Sandifur in Columbia, Fayette, Indiana in 1830, and it is presumed that Isaac died in Columbia, Fayette Co, Indiana before 1830. However he could have died in Illinois.

Children of Isaac and Catherine Van Pelt Newhouse

1. Nancy Newhouse married George Williams

Birth 10 JAN 1774 • New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 07 OCT 1847 • Near Troy Mills, Union Twp, Fulton County, Illinois, USA

2. Mary Polly Newhouse married Reuben Stanton Pierce

Birth ABT 1775 • Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death BEF 1850 • Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, USA

3. Isaac Newhouse Jr married Martha McCulloch

Birth ABT 1776 • Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA

Death BEF 1830 • Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA

4. John Newhouse married Elizabeth Miller

Birth 14 JUL 1778 • Fauquier County, Virginia, USA

Death 23 APRIL 1852 • Rush County, Indiana, USA

5. Rev James A Newhouse married Betsy Wallace

Birth 5 APR 1781 • New Baltimore, Fauquier, Virginia, USA

Death AFT 27 FEB 1839 Delaware County, Indiana, USA

6. Elizabeth Newhouse married Thomas Sargent

Birth 16 SEP 1785 • Fauquier County, Virginia, USA

Death 1824 • Center, Rush, Indiana, USA

7. Samuel Newhouse married Patsy Sandifur, Martha Nance, and Jane Parvin

Birth 1790 • Wythe County, Virginia, USA

Death ABT 1849 • Clinton County, Missouri, USA



JOHN NEWHOUSE

John Newhouse was born 14 July 1778 during the Revolutionary War in Fauquier County

Virginia, John Newhouse was born on July 14, 1778, in Fauquier, Virginia, his father, Isaac, was 29 and his mother, Catherine, was 26. By 1790 his father moved the family to southwestern Virginia where John Newhouse married Elizabeth Miller on October 5, 1801 in Washington County when he was 23 years old. He is shown on Washington County tax lists until 1816 when he moved his family to Indiana with other relatives. The 1820 Census showed that they were living near the community of Columbia, in Fayette County, Indiana. By 1830 however he resettled his family in Rush County, Indiana where he lived out his life as a farmer. In the 1850 census he and his wife were living with his son in law Cicero Hackleman in the township of Jackson in Rush County. He died on April 23, 1852, in Rush, Indiana, at the age of 73, and was buried there. His wife survived him by 10 years and died in 4 May 1862. He and his wife had 14 children in 23 years.

Elizabeth Miller was born 16 September 1785 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania the daughter of Samuel Miller and Elizabeth Christina Fudge. Samuel Miller was born Feb. 4, 1762 in Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Christiana Fudge on June 3, 1785 in Augusta County, VA. Christiana Elizabeth Fudge, daughter of John Fudge, was born Apr. 30, 1766 and six months pregnant when she married.. Samuel died Aug. 3, 1813 in Washington County, Virginia. After Samuel died, Elizabeth Christiana, and children settled in Indiana. Most are buried in or near Rush County, Indiana except Elizabeth Christiana and son, John Miller and his wife, Sarah as they had settled in Des Moines County, IA. Elizabeth Miller’s mother died Sep. 6, 1847 at Dodgeville, Des Moines County, Iowa and was buried at Old Stone Church Cemetery, Des Moines County,





















SAMUEL NEWHOUSE

Samuel Newhouse was born 6 June 1802 in Washington County, Virginia, USA and married

Mary "Polly" Kitchen on 19 Feb 1821 in Fayette County, Indiana. She was born 6 December 1805 in Virginia the daughter of James Kitchen and Polly Guthrie who were married on 4 Sept 1798 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia

The parents of Samuel Newhouse were John and Elizabeth Miller Newhouse, who emigrated to Franklin County, Indiana about 1816. Samuel Newhouse and his bride removed to Rush County, locating in Union Township, in 1821. Here “he entered eighty acres of wild, timbered land, put up a cabin and began to clear up a home. Samuel Newhouse remained there until January, 1837, when he disposed of his property in Union Township, and purchased 240 acres of uncultivated land in Jackson Township, his object being to secure a larger tract of land. Here he developed one of the best farms in the township, where after a long and useful life he was called away on February 22, 1862. He was a member of the Baptist Church, with which he united early in life. The mother survived him until June 14, 1886, when she, too, was called home, having reached the advanced age of eighty three years. She, also, was a devout member of the Baptist Church. Thus ended the lives of two of Rush County's earliest pioneers, but they are not forgotten; their memories are kept green by sons and daughters who survive them”.

Polly Kitchen Newhouse’s grandfather, James Kitchen, served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Virginia militia. He served under Capt. Mathew Arbuncle at Point Pleasant, Virginia as an Indian spy. His widow, Jane Patterson Kitchen, applied for a pension based on the Pension Act of 1838 but the pension was denied. Jane could not prove that she was the legal wife as the marriage papers were destroyed when their house burned on January 14, 1801 in Russell Co. Virginia. James' son John filed a sworn affidavit in Carter Co., Kentucky in support Jane's widow's pension application, indicating that his father had served 3 years and 6 months at the mouth of the Kanawha as an Indian spy, and that he had fought in several Indian skirmishes. Several other witnesses also gave written testimony on the widow's behalf that they had knowledge of James Kitchen's service as an Indian Spy during the Revolutionary War. Additionally, the pension application file records indicate that the name of James Kitchen did appear on payroll lists of the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line of Virginia of 1776-1777, per the Auditor of Public Accounts. However, since the original payroll records upon which the lists were based were unavailable, the Auditor found that the actual dates of term of service could not be established. That James Kitchen did serve in the Virginia Militia, Revolutionary War does not appear to have been disputed by the pension court. However, despite numerous affidavits of witnesses, it appears that the Widow's Pension of Jane Kitchen was suspended, due to the fact that she was unable to produce a certified copy of a marriage bond or marriage license at the court's request for the court to examine as proof of marriage. Jane died while the application was in suspended status awaiting proof of marriage; however their son John continued the quest for approval of the pension application on behalf of Jane's estate, to no avail. The application for Widow's Pension was eventually denied.

LEWIS JACKSON NEWHOUSE

Lewis Jackson Newhouse was born in Union township, 23 May 1824, the son of Samuel and Polly (Kitchen) Newhouse, natives of Virginia. Samuel Newhouse, who was the son of John and Elizabeth Newhouse, came to Rush county from Franklin county in 1821, entering eighty acres of timbered land in Union township. In 1837 he sold his farm, and bought a larger one of 240 acres in Jackson township where he spent the remainder of his days.

Lewis J. Newhouse grew to manhood amid pioneer surroundings, and at the age of twenty one began farming for himself. He became a “prominent farmer and respected citizen of Jackson Township.” “When he began life on his own responsibility his father gave him a horse, saddle and bridle, and $100 in money; with this grand start he began to face this unfriendly world.’ “He commenced working by the day and month, receiving very meagre wages, earned by ditching for twelve hours a day, but he carefully saved his earnings, and just before his twenty-second birthday, he purchased eighty acres of partly improved land in Section 24. His neighbors made fun of him for making such a choice, and goaded him by saying that he would surely starve out on such a poor tract.

This was in the spring of 1846, and to-day we find Mr. Newhouse still in possession of sixty acres of that tract, for which he has refused $100 per acre. He added to the tract until at one time he owned here in one body 420 acres, but as his children grew up and desired a start in life he would assist them, and gradually his farm has decreased until to-day it consists of 300 acres. His improvements are good and he is now enjoying the comforts of a pleasant home.

Lewis Newhouse followed farming during his active life, mostly in Jackson township, and before his death he had increased his holdings to 400 acres by constant application to business.

On April 17, 1849, he married Mary A. Hackleman, a daughter of Richard and Hannah Hackleman, pioneers of this county.

“Our subject, as stated, was reared amidst the scenes of pioneer life in this county, and his early education was fair for that day of log school houses. At the age of twenty-one he began to do for himself, by engaging at farming. On April 17, 1849, he was united in marriage with Mary A. Hackleman, a native of this county and daughter of . Richard and Hannah Hackleman, old and respected residents of Rush County at the time of the birth of Mrs. Newhouse. The former was present when the Surveyor laid out the city of Rushville, and secured enough timber in what is now the principal street of the city to erect a log house. This union was blessed with five children: Hannah M., Marshal E., Elbert, Samuel R. and Pleasant A., all of whom are married, and enjoying homes of their own. This union lasted until May 4th, 1862, when death visited the family circle and Mrs. Newhouse passed away. She died a member of the Baptist Church and respected by all who knew her.

On June 9, 1863, Mr. Newhouse was again married; this time he chose for his companion Miss Nancy Pogue, daughter of William and Anna (Saylers) Pogue, natives of North Carolina. Mrs. Newhouse was born in Noble Township, this county, March 6, 1837, and her entire life has been spent here. Her parents are deceased, the mother passing away June 25, 1887, in her eightyeighth year. This union is also blessed with five children: Alfred M., Harvey M., Almeda E., Schuyler C. and Erastmus T., all of whom are living.

Mr. Newhouse is a member of the Baptist Church with which he has been united over thirty years. In politics he is a Republican and firmly upholds the principles of that party.

He assisted in building the Rushville and Knightstown gravel road, and was one of its principal builders, and is now one of its directors. Being reared on a farm he adopted farming as a life profession, and to-day can be classed among the successful farmers of Jackson Township; he has adopted a straight-forward course in life, and has taken a deep interest in the welfare of his family, educating his children liberally and providing each at the age of twenty-one, or at the time of marriage, with either forty acres of land or $2,000 in money. Honest and upright in all his dealings, he is now one of the respected citizens of this county.