Person:Elza Housel (1)

ELZA E. HOUSEL BIRTH - Mar. 4, 1868, Butler, Dekalb Co., IN. MARRIAGE -- Sadie A. SNYDER, Apr. 12, 1894, Death - June 29, 1918, Dekalb Co., IN BURIAL - St. Johns, Dekalb Co, IN, Cedar Chapel Cem FATHER - Jered Freeman HOUSEL MOTHER - Drusilla Catherine REEVER

Children, Esther D., Hazel Marie, Vernie Mae, Russell  W., Mary  Catherine, Victor Wayne,

Pioneer County Resident Is Dead July 16, 1952 Elza E. Housel Passes Away at the Garrett Hospital at Age of 84 After a Stroke Of Paralysis Elza E Housel, 84, a pioneer resident of Butler township, Dekalb County, where he had lived all of his life, died Wednesday at 4:45p.m.in Sacred Heart hospital, Garrett, where he had been a patient since suffering a stroke of paralysis a week ago. The body was brought to the Dilgard & Cline funeral home in Auburn where it will remain until final rites Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Cedar Chapel church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Mr Housel was a farmer all of his life. He was born March 4, 1868, in Butler township. His maternal grandfather, Michael Reever, moved to Butler township in 1844 from Taney Town, MD and Elza's father, Jared F. Housel was born in Wells County, Ind, but was living in Butler township when the Civil war started. His father was a Union soldier in the Civil War. One son and four grandsons served in World War II, two grandsons are now in service in the United States and one grandson is now in Korea. Elza Housel and Sadie Snyder were married in 1894 and they were parents of six children, all of whom survive. They are Russel and Victor of Butler Township, Mrs Roy Rudolph of near Auburn, Mrs. Herbert Warner of Ft Wayne, Mrs Verna Cool of 335 West Ninth Street, Auburn, and Mrs Roy Waters of ten miles south of Garrett. There are also 15 grandchildren and Nine great-grandchildren surviving. Mrs. Housel died in 1918. Mr Housel was a member of Cedar Chapel church and was a member of the Auburn Knights of Pythias lodge for 49 years. Fred Knott of Auburn Thursday composed the following poem as a tribute to Mr Housel: Yes, it may appear he left us here In this broad land of smiles and tears, But the good he did will e'er be near To guide us in our future years.

He sought to aid, to guide, to teach, To labor hard that right should gain; In doing so for all and each, He left good will that will remain.

No, He's not gone, he's just away, To that fair, yes, Heavenly shore. Again we'll meet in some glad day To be with him forevermore.

1880 United States Federal Census > Indiana > De Kalb > Butler > District 89 121 / 126 June 9, 1880 Page, 15 Image, 13 Housel, Freman Head W M 43 OH PA NY Farmer

        Drusillia  C.    Wife       W      F       45     MD      MT       ??       Keeping House
              Elza  E.    Son        W     M        12    IN        OH       MD

1910 United States Federal Census > Indiana > De Kalb > Butler > District 70 43 / 43 Apr. 20, 1910 Sheet, 2-B Image, 4 Housel, Elza Head M W 42 M,1-16 IN OH MD Farmer

          Sadie         Wife           F       W      34        M,1-16       IN      OH      OH      5 / C - 5 / L
         Esther        Dau            F       W      14        S               IN       IN        IN
           Hazel        Dau            F       W      13        S               IN        IN        IN
          Vernie       Dau            F       W      10        S                IN       IN        IN
         Russell       Son            M       W       8         S               IN       IN        IN
      Catharine      Dau             F        W       6         S               IN       IN        IN
          Drucilla     Mother         F        W      75      Wd. 1-1       MD     MD     MD

Grogg , Alda Servent F W 33 S IN IN IN Lung, Emanuel Hired Man M W 55 Wd. IN IN IN Hired Man, Farm labor Shrave, Thomas Border M W 43 S IN IN OH Section Hand, Railroad

1930 United States Federal Census > Indiana > De Kalb > Butler > District 1 171 / 174 Apr. 19, 1930 Sheet, 7-B Image, 14 Housel, Elza E. Head M W 62 Wd IN OH MD Farmer

         Victor W.      Son           M      W      14       S         IN       IN        IN

Cool, Hazel M Dau F W 33 Wd. IN IN IN

           Helmer       Gr. Son      M      W      12      S          IN       IN        IN
       George A.     Gr. Son      M      W      11      S          IN       IN        IN
                 Tas      Gr. Son     M       W       8       S          IN       IN        IN

Biography of E.E. Housel, page 402. History of Northeast Indiana; LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and Dekalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. McIntosh. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.

* E.E. Housel, proprietor of a fine farm at St. John in Butler Township of  Dekalb County, is the only son of the late Jared Housel, long a prominent  old soldier and farmer of Dekalb.

Jared F. Housel was born at Farmington in Trumbull County, Ohio, September 6, 1836, a son of Absalom and Rhoda (Allen) Housel. When he was eleven years of age his parents moved to Wells County, Indiana, and from there in 1857 he came to Dekalb County. After several years of farming he was called away to the serious business of war, enlisting on September 25, 1861, in Company K of the 44th Indiana Infantry. He reached the front with his command in the following December, and took part in some of the following operations of the Army of the Tennessee. At the battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, he was wounded in the right thigh and was confined in a hospital at Evansville, Indiana, until November of the same year. He was then discharged and on account of disability returned home. Not long afterward he resumed farming, and was actively identified with the agricultural interests of Butler Township for many years. In 1882 he became postmaster of Dekalb, and several times was honored with places of trust and responsibility. He was a steadfast republican in politics and served the people of the community of Dekalb or St. John as postmaster for twenty-seven years. He was a member of the Grange and active in the United Brethren Church. On April 19, 1864, soon after his recovery from his army service, Jared F. Housel married Drucilla Reever. She was a daughter of Michael and Rebecca Reever and was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1834. Jared F. Housel died March 18, 1909, and his wife February 6, 1917. Elza E. Housel, only son of his parents, was born in Butler Township March 4, 1868, and has always lived on the farm. He owns two hundred acres. He received his education in the common school. On April 12, 1894, Mr. Housel married Sadie A. Snyder. She died June 29, 1918, the mother of six children: Esther, at home; Hazel, wife of Hiram Cool; Vernie and Russell W., both high school students; Mary C. and Victor Wayne. Mr. Housel is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and with the order of Moose. Politically he is a republican.

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