My Genealogy Hound

George W. Rouse, a farmer of LeRoy Township, was born in Shelby County, Ind., in 1836, and is a son of William and Anna (Tanner) Rouse, who were born, reared, and married in Kentucky, afterward removing to Indiana, where Mrs. Rouse died in 1841. Mr. Rouse afterward married again, and died in Johnson County, Ind., in 1883, having been a farmer through life. His father, Samuel Rouse, was of German descent, a Virginian, and died in Shelby County, Ind. George W. Rouse received but little schooling in his youth. He was married, in 1861, to Miss Martha, a daughter of Elias and Sarah Yoke, who were born in Kentucky, and died in Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Rouse nine children were born, four of whom are living: Leslie, Bert, Oscar, and Laura B. Their children that are dead are buried in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. In 1878 Mr. Rouse moved, with his family, to Barton County, Mo., and now owns an excellent farm of eighty acres, on which is a fine house and good buildings. In 1862 Mr. Rouse joined Company K, One Hundredth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three years, or until the close of the war, in the Army of the Tennessee, and was with Sherman in the battles of Jackson, Mission Ridge, the Georgia and Atlanta campaigns, and was present at the grand review, in Washington, D. C. He received his discharge at Indianapolis, Ind., and returned to farm life. One of his brothers, Christopher C., served throughout the entire war, in the Twenty-sixth Indiana Infantry, Rifle Corps; and, another, David, was in the Thirty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Rouse was reared a Democrat, but is now a Republican politically.