Esli N. Houk and Sarah Elizabeth Hill

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Husband Esli N. Houk ¹

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            AKA: Eli Houk 2
           Born: 5 Feb 1842 - Shenango Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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         Father: Jacob Houk (1801-1888) 3
         Mother: Nancy Cunningham (1806-1895) 4

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Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hill ⁵

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         Father: Nathaniel Hill (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Huldah Baldwin (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 M Eugene L. Houk ⁶

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         Spouse: Laura Conner (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - Esli N. Houk

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He grew to manhood on the homestead farm and obtained his education in boyhood, in the country schools, completing his training in the winter of 1863-64, after he returned from his first term of service as a soldier in the Civil War. He had served nine months as a member of Company A, One Hundred Thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and during this period had been ill and confined to a hospital at Frederick City. In August, 1864, he re-enlisted, entering the Fifth Heavy Artillery, in which he served until the close of the war. He became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Wampum Post, No. 381.
Mr. Houk remained at home assisting his father until 1876, when he visited Kansas and remained there four years, following farming, but he returned to Shenango Township in 1880. He engaged in general farming, but made a specialty of dairying, keeping nine head of cows for this purpose and selling his milk to the creamery at Energy, Lawrence County.
In politics, Mr. Houk was an active citizen and filled numerous offices of responsibility. For six years, from 1899 to 1905, he was county auditor, was also school director and township assessor and later filled the office of registering assessor. He was identified with the Republican party. Mrs. Houk was a member of the Baptist Church.

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 441.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 1014.

3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 880.

4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 442, 880.

5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 442, 1014.

6 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 442.

7 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 442, 518, 1014.