of Des Moines County, Iowa · from New Hampshire · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Caleb Houston d. 1855
Caleb Houston⚭ Elizabeth Purdy
childrenElizabeth A. Houston
Source: History of Des Moines County, Iowa, vol 2
Their story
What the record says
Native of New Hampshire.
Carpenter and builder at Columbus, Ohio, where he married in 1815.
Removed west to Beardstown, Illinois in 1830, then to a farm near Rushville, Illinois, where he died 1855.
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