Casper Rowse

  General Notes:

research of M. Livingston via e-mail Feb 2007 <the.livs@verizon.net >

research of Haass, Ben <bhaass@qualcomm.com> - via e-mail Oct 2009

1820 May have been born in Mount Pleasant, Wayne county, PA. Was living there in 1820 census.Would have been about 5 yrs old

1830 - he is in Bucyrus, Crawford County, OH with his parents and would have been about 15 yrs old

1840- Whetstone, Crawford County, Ohio - Casper Rowse as HOH
2 males under 5 [1835-40 Theodore and Zalmon]
2 males 10-15 [1825-30 could be his brothers William 16 and Quincy 14]
1 male 30-40 [Casper]
1 female under 5 [ 1835-40 daughter who died young?]
1 female 20-30 [1810-20 Mary Anne his wife]

1850 Living in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio
Casper ROWSE 1815
Mary A. 1815
Zalmon 1840
Reuben 1841
Russel 1843
Samuel 1845
Mary E. 1847
Mehitable 1849

1860 Buchanan County, Iowa
Caspar ROWSE 1815
Mary A. 1815
Zalmon 1840
Reuben 1842
Russel 1843
Samuel E. 1845
Mary E. 1848
Mehitable 1850
Emily C. 1851
Ransal (Ransom) 1854
Rupert 1856
Houese (Horace) 1859

1870 Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa
Caspar ROUSE 1815
Mary A. 1815
Russell 1843
Samuel 1845
Emily 1851
Ransom 1853
Rupert 1856
Horace 1859

1880 Byron, Buchanan County, Iowa
Casper ROWSE Self M Male W 65 PA Farmer MA MA
Mary A. ROWSE Wife M Female W 65 PA Keeping House PA PA
Russell ROWSE Son S Male W 37 OH Farming PA PA
Mary E. ROWSE Dau S Female W 30 OH Teaching School PA PA
Emma C. ROWSE Dau S Female W 28 OH At Home PA PA
Rupert ROWSE Son S Male W 24 IA Farming PA PA

cemetery records -Rowse, Casper 22 Jan 1815 23 June 1890 75 yrs 5m 1d

Casper married Mary Ann(e) Eley on 13 Dec 1837 in Crawford County, Ohio. (Mary Ann(e) Eley was born on 4 Feb 1815 in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, died on 9 Apr 1894 and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Washington, Buchanan County, Iowa.)