of New Hampshire · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Caleb Houston d. 1855
Caleb Houston⚭ Elizabeth Purdy (m. 1815
childrenElizabeth A. Houston (m. Thomas R. Rankin)
Their story
What the record says
History of Des Moines County, Iowa, vol 2.
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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