Nelson/Mary Ann Children Part 2

Elmer Marion Houseworth(1872-1943)

Elmer in some records as Marion E. Houseworth, he was the youngest of the children born in the Waldo area. The family picked up and moved to Blue Creek Township shortly after Elmer was born....the children of my grandfather Sam, called Elmer "Uncle Doc" , and that is what the back of the post card(pictured) shows. He also was listed as "Main" Houseworth in census records...referring to Head of Household.

Elmer was married one time, in 1905 he married Rosa McMillian in Paulding, Ohio. By the time he is listed in the Fort Wayne City Directory in 1910, he was listed as single. Elmer Marion Houseworth worked as a bartender in the Summit City, then spent the last 20 years of his life working for the Parks Department of Ft. Wayne. Elmer was born February 15, 1872, in Waldo, Ohio, and died at the home of his sister Cora Stookey on February 23, 1943, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he had just turned 71....he had no known children.

Mary Josephine Houseworth(1873-1933)

Mary J. Houseworth was the first child of Nelson and Mary Ann to be born in Paulding County. She married Elmer Siniff of Rockford, Ohio(Mercer County), on November 11, 1891, in Paulding. They had one son, Clifford Siniff, who was born in Paulding on April 5, 1897.

Clifford was the Allen County, Indiana, Road Superintendent for many years, he had a daughter named Beverly Ann.

Mary J. Houseworth was born on November 18, 1873, in Waldo....she died on February 23, 1933(exactly 10 years before her brother Elmer), in Fort Wayne. Her husband Elmer Siniff was born May 20, 1867, and died in Fort Wayne, on June 21, 1931.

William Nelson Houseworth(1875-1879)

William is the only one of the children of Nelson and Mary Ann Houseworth to not live past childhood. He was born in Blue Creek Township on December 12, 1875, he contracted Scarlet Fever and died at the ago of 3 on February 3, 1879. He is buried in an unmarked grave at the Blue Creek Cemetery.

Alva Newton Houseworth(1880-1922)

Alva was the youngest of the children, he was born in Blue Creek Township, Paulding County, He was living with his mother Mary Ann when she tried unsuccessfully to get a widow's Civil War pension from the government...he is mentioned in those documents. Alva was living in Prospect, Ohio, with his brother John when he suffered a stroke in early 1922. He was moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to stay with his sisters Cora and Mary Jo, he apparently suffered another stroke and died on January 20, 1922. Alva was 41 years old when he died, and his buried in the Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He, in records I found later in my research, was listed as divorced from Minnie Brown Houseworth at Richwood, in Union County, Ohio, in 1909....in his obit from the Fort Wayne Newspapers a daughter, Rosella, was listed as living in Columbus, Ohio.

Samuel Lawernce Houseworth(1877-1928)

My Grandfather Sam Houseworth was the 10th of 11 children born to Nelson and Mary Ann Houseworth, he also was born in Blue Creek Township, on December 4, 1877. He married Wilda Waldron in Van Wert, Ohio, on September 26, 1906. Wilda was the daughter of William and Amanda Nungester Waldron and one of 6 children, 4 daughters and 2 sons.

Samuel L. Houseworth passed away as a single man on September 19, 1928, he died of Liver Cancer and was 50 years old.

The Story of Sam and Wilda continues in the next chapter.

{photos...Elmer Houseworth on chair...death certificate of Sam Houseworth...Sam with some fish taken about 1920}