Person:Gloucester Vorhis (2)

1877 Dec. 10, Troy, Iowa. Martha Melvina Vorhis wrote her cousin Jane Love: "glocester was well when we hard from him last / he lives sixteen miles from here / he has 4 childern / three girles one boy"

1880 Davis Co., IA, census index, p.89C, Bloomfield, , , : GLOUCESTER VORHIS, 39, head, farmer, IN OH OH; Minerva, 35, wife, keeping house, IN VA VA; Minnie, 9, dau, IA IN IN; Liornia, 7, dau, IA; Effie M., 5, dau, IA; Clarence, 2, son, IA.

1890 Dec. 25, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I will tell you where Gradma's children live. . . . Glocester lives about 14 miles S. W of us."

1891 Jan. 29, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "We had a pleasant time at Grandmas dinner / they was'nt anybody here only relations. . . . all of the children and Soninlaws was here. except Uncle Glocester Vorhis. and Aunt Hannah E. Ernst / she lives in Missouri."

1893 May 17, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "We are looking for Uncle Glocester Vorhis people down Sunday / they were coming last Sunday but did not. they live about 14 or 15 miles from here." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

1895 Iowa State Census, Cleveland, Davis Co.: GLOSESTR VARHIS, age 53, white, b. IN. EFFIE A. VARHIS, age 20, white, b. Davis Co., IA. CLARENCE VARHIS, age 17, white, b. Davis Co., IA. SOLA J. VARHIS, age 13, white, b. Davis Co., IA. MATTIE L. VARHIS, age 12, white, b. Davis Co., IA. --Ancestry.com

1900 Davis Co., IA, census, p.25B, Cleveland Twp., June 8, 1900, James E. De Vantt: 55/55, GLOCESTER VORHIS, head, W M, July 1841, 58, md. 29 yrs., IN OH OH, farmer; Minerva, wife, W F, May 1845, 55, mother of 6 children, 6 living, IN VA VA; Effie A., dau, W F, Jan. 1875, 25, single, IA IN IN, school teacher; Clarnce G., son, W M, Nov. 1877, 22, single, IA IN IN, school teacher; Lola S., dau, W F, June 1881, 18, IA IN IN; Mattie L., dau, W F, Dec. 1882, 17, IA IA IN.

1910 Davis Co., IA, census, p.30B, Cleveland Twp., April 30, 1910, Moses F. Latta: 109/109, GLOUCESTER VORHIS, head, M W 68, md. 39 yrs., IN OH OH, farmer, general farm; Minerva, wife, F W 65, mother of 6 children, 6 living, IN VA VA; Clarence G., son, M W 32, single, IA IN IN.

1. ↑ Grave Stone Records of Davis County, Iowa. (Graves Registration W.P.A. Project)
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   GLOCESTER VORHIS, b. 1841, d. 1935, I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Bloomfield, lot 63