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In the book A WESTERN PIONEER, OR, INCIDENTS OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF REV. ALFRED BRUNSON, available full text online, I came across this vivid description of my ancestor’s faith and devotion as a leading layman in the Perkins Methodist Church in the early years of the nineteenth century in the Firelands.
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(Note: The last name House is misspelled Houre in this passage, but the name of Julius House is correctly spelled in the listing of topics for Chapter 10.)
In a report of Ohio Supreme Court Decisions, I read about a court case in which Julius House disagreed with John Beatty over a land contract. Names of the lawyers, the judge, neighbors of the House family, and details giving key dates and a description of improvements made on my ancestor’s land were all given in this case. A portion of the case summary appears below:
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I encourage you to go to Google Books and search for your ancestors. You may be pleasantly surprised!
I have found good information searching Google books in the past, but have failed to make searching there a habit. Thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this! As you are aware - we share House ancestors! Although the misspelling of Julius' name in the text (prob. a typo) - gives me a new path to see if I can find more info on my g-grandfather!
ReplyDeleteAwesome that you have a fellow researcher in the bloggers. I love the way google search can help in finding information you were not aware of. Interesting information you found.
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