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#52Ancestors – No. 20 – Selah House

This post is number 20 in the series of the #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge where a group of us blog about a different ancestor for each week of the year.  To learn more about the 52 Ancestor Challenge visit Amy Johnson’s site at Amy’s website.

A Slow Migration West to the Ohio Valley

My 9th great-grandfather Samuel House arrives in the Plymouth Colony circa 1634. The first four generations of his descendents remain in the area around Scituate, Massachusetts, for the next 100 years. His great-great grandson, Combes House (1730-1790) leaves the Atlantic coast moving inland 160 miles to Springfield, Vermont. Springfield’s soil is good for farming and the Black River Falls offers a good water source. Two generations later, the family is on the move again.

Combes grandson, SELAH HOUSE (1791-before 1849) leaves Vermont for the Ohio Vally region about 1819.  Why did he choose to take his family over 1000 miles to start over in untamed land?  After the War of 1812, the Ohio Valley opened up and New Englander’s fled to buy the cheap land. If Selah served in the War of 1812 against the British and Indians, he may have received land grants of 160 or 320 acres for his military service.  This is why I so want a time machine.

Selah married Vina Corlew in 1814. Their oldest child, William was born in Vermont. The six other children are alluded to being born in Indiana after 1819. Selah settled near Boon Township (now called Boonville), Warrick County, Indiana.  Their last child, Lewis Charles House, my 2nd great-grandfather, was born in 1832.

I have yet to find Selah or Vina in the 1840 Census. Vina is living with her son Roswell as of the 1850 Census.  Selah could have died between 1840 and 1850.  His sons are listed as farmers. Lewis Charles House son, Lewis (Louis) Lafayette House move south of the Ohio River into Sebree, Kentucky. Louis Lafayette House adopts the Howes spelling of House.

In 1925/1926 my grandfather, Hugh A. Howes, moves up to Michigan because he didn’t want to work in the railroad or farm.  He just happens to meet a young 16 year-old girl, Olive Roll, at the picture show who’s family had recently moved up from Central City, Kentucky.  It’s a small world after all.

Sources

Land grands for US Military Veterans: http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/benefits.htm

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