Samuel Roush, b. 30 Dec 1834

HAWKINS, SADDLER, OBRIEN, MCGLEWN, ARCHER, OGDEN

Posted By: Donna Moldt Walker (email)
Date: 2/21/2004 at 11:12:11

The subject of this notice is pursuing the even tenor of his way on a well-regulated farm of 115 acres, finely located on section 31 in Farmers' Creek Township. He has lived here since his marriage, and has effected the improvements which we behold to-day only through years of industrious labor and the most judicious management. He is quite prominent in his community, having served as Justice of the Peace and Township Trustee, and is now a member of the School Board. His wife is a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Roush is a native of Harrison County, Ohio, where he first opened his eyes to the light Dec. 30, 1834, at the homestead of his father, George Roush. He came to the West in 1855, and took up his residence in Farmers' Creek Township, where he has since remained. Here he found his bride; being married, March 20, 1859, to Miss Caroline Hawkins. The parents of Mrs. Roush were Armstrong and Mary Hawkins, who removed from Indiana to Iowa at an early day, and spent the remainder of their lives in this county.

Of this marriage of our subject there were born two children - Idelpha, Mrs. J.F. Saddler, of Woodbury County; and George A., a bright and promising young man, who occupies himself as a teacher, and makes his home with his father. Mrs. Caroline Roush departed this life at the homestead, May 31, 1863. Our subject contracted a second marriage, with Miss Nancy, daughter of John and Dorothy (O'Brien) Saddler; the wedding taking place in May, 1864, in this township.

To our subject and his present wife there have been born three children, the eldest of whom, a son, Elsworth S., died, greatly mourned, Aug. 22, 1888, when a young man of twenty-three years. Their second child, Carrie T., is at home with her parents; Albert J., the youngest, died Sept 11, 1882, aged three years. The father of Mrs. Roush was born in the North of Ireland, where he was reared and first married to Miss Nancy McGlewn. To them were born three children, James, William, and Elizabeth who is now Mrs. Jacob Archer. The mother of these died in Ireland. Mr. Saddler subsequently emigrated to the United States, in 1830, and located in Summit County, Ohio, where he was married the year following. He died when a comparatively a young man, Sept. 20, 1849, leaving his widow with seven children. These were named respectively: Robert, Joseph, George, John, Albert, Margaret (who married Jefferson Ogden, and lives in Clinton County), and Nancy, the wife of our subject.

After the death of her husband, the mother of Mrs. Roush came with her children, in 1852, to this county. They located in Farmers' Creek Township, where they lived until after the marriage of Robert Saddler, who then removed to Montgomery County. The mother died there at her home, on the 9th of November, 1887, at the age of seventy-nine years. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Roush were also natives of Ireland, and Protestants in religion. They were brought to the United States by their parents when mere children. Mr. and Mrs. Roush commenced their wedding life together at the farm where they now live, and here have centered their chief interests. They have labored, hand in hand, in the accumulation of their property, and are now in a condition to enjoy the fruits of their toil. They are people held in high esteem in their community as representing its best element.

("Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa", originally published in 1889, by the Chapman Brothers, of Chicago, Illinois)