AUGUSTUS AND MARY GRACE were Parents of Margaret Pearl House (m. Cyrus S. Eaton) Grandparents of Cyrus S. Eaton, Jr. (m. Mary Margaret Stephens) Great-Grandparents of Cyrus, John, Cathy, & Elizabeth Eaton Great-Great-Grandparents of Nathaniel Eaton, Charlie & Christopher & Matt Eaton, Colin & Devon Eaton Murphy, Shantin & Isaiah Thigpen, & Sarah Eaton
Augustus Farlin House (1847-1932,) a private in a Calvary regiment during the Civil War, became a surgeon, a professor of surgery, and an author about medical procedures in Cleveland, Ohio. He was known for his keen mind, his compassionate nature, and his lively sense of humor. Perhaps because his father deserted him early in his life lured to California by the gold rush mania and because his only son died as a toddler, Augustus maintained affectionate ties to his mother, step-father, two daughters and their spouses. His eight grandchildren adored him, enjoying pony cart rides with him to fetch ice cream. His first marriage to Mary Grace Cleve lasted thirty-eight years from 1872 to 1910. A year later, he married his nurse Helen Wolpert. After living the first sixty-four years of his life in his home town, Cleveland, Ohio, he and his second wife Helen moved to the warmer, less harsh climate of Los Angeles, California.
The family of his father (House), a farmer in Ohio, may have emigrated from England while the family of his mother definitely traveled from Germany to settle in Ohio.
Mary Grace Cleve (1849-1931), first wife of Augustus House, was born in England before settling with her family in Ohio. They emigrated before the American Civil War. Her Cleave ancestors, via her father, came from Devon, England. Her father and grandfather (Cleve) worked with wood as carpenters, wheelwrights, and wagon makers. After her divorce, Mary Grace moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where she died.
Via her mother Mary Grace Cleve’s ‘Ireland’ ancestors also came from Devon in the south west of England. Augustus House’s Schneider or Synder ancestors via his mother came from Niederwurzbac, Saarland, in the south east of Germany.
BIRTH & PARENTS Augustus Farlin House was born on June 7, 1847, in Cleveland Ohio, to Hudson Merwin House (born 1820 in Ohio to July 3, 1889) and Mary Ann Snyder (b. January 6, 1829 in Baden, Bavaria, Germany to August 27, 1882 in Sandusky, Ohio). Baden Germany is in the southern central part of Germany. Mary Snyder (AKA Mary Ann Schneider) was baptized January 21, 1830 in Niederkirchen, Bayern, Deutschland. It is unclear if Hudson and Mary Ann ever married, but it is known that by the time Augustus was two, his father Hudson Merwin House was not living with him and his mother, Mary Ann Snyder.
AUGUSTUS’ FATHER, possible GRANDPARENTS & GREAT-GRANDPARENTS Parents:MERLIN HUDSON HOUSE & MARY ANN SNYDNER (2nd m. William Zacharias) Grandparents: Joseph House & Anna House Possible great-grandparents: John Joseph House (Haus) & Sarah Nicely Sarah Niceley’s father: Christian Nicely: American Revolution War Soldier Mary Ann Snydner’s parents: Johann Adam Schneider & Maria Margaretha “Margaret” Duersch JAMES CLEVE & MARY IRELAND Joseph Ireland & Mary
According to Cuyahoga Country Tax Lists, Hudson Merwin House, who paid taxes regularly in Cuyahoga Country, Ohio from 1844 to 1849, seems to have moved to Auburn, Sutter, California, according to the 1850 Census. That year his occupation was Trading and he is listed as being 30, which is consistent with a birth year of 1820. If this is the same man, a wife and child, did not compel him to stay with them in Ohio. Two years later, in 1852, an H. M. House is listed as being 29 and being a Hotel Keep in Placer, California; his former residence was listed as Ohio. Some others in the census were listed in the mining profession, which is consistent with the gold rush of 1848-1855. “Placer County, noted chiefly for its placer mines, also produced substantial lode gold particularly from the Ophir district. Gold was discovered in 1848 in Auburn Ravine. In the 1850's, bars in the American River and its tributaries were worked, and quartz mining also began.” (Western Mining History).
There is a record of a Hudson M House as being buried on July 3, 1889 in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. There is no verification that this is the same man. An Almira House was buried March 13, 1871 there.
JOSEPH & ANNA HOUSE: POSSIBLE GRANDPARENTS OF AUGUSTUS HOUSE Hudson Merwin House could be the son of Anna (1823-1899) and Joseph House, (November 27, 1818 to November 22, 1871). An English or German heritage seem a possibility. In 1860 Joseph (57) is listed as a grocer living with his wife Anna, also 57 in the City of Cleveland. His place of birth is listed as B?g?r? on Rhine. His estate is listed as being valued at 150.
In 1860 a different Joseph House was listed as being a farmer in Lafayette, Ohio. This Joseph House was subject to military duty in the 14th Congressional District consisting of Holmes, Wayne, Medina, and Lorain in June, 1863 according to Civil War Draft Registration Records, 1863-1865 when Joseph was 44 years old. At the time, he lived in Lafayette, Medina, Ohio and is listed as being a farmer. On July 23, 1866 a Joseph House was appointed as US Postmaster in New Somerset, Jefferson Country, Ohio. In 1874 an H House is listed as owning land in Lafayette, Medina, Ohio.
There is a record of Joseph House being buried in the Old Town Graveyard in Medina, Ohio. (Appointments of U.S. Postmasters, 1832-1971). [All of the previous information needs to be verified as related to Hudson Merwin House and his father.]
Possibly, Joseph House’s parents were John House (born 1779 in Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvannia or 1782 to December 3, 1833 in Island Creek, Jefferson, Ohio) and Sarah Kneisley or Nicely (born June 12, 1794 in Chanceford, York, Pennsylvania to May 27, 1853 in Medina, Ohio). John House and Sarah were married in 1815 and had seven children. In the 1850 Census, Sarah House, is listed as 60 years old and living with Catherine House, aged 17 in Jefferson, Ohio. Both John and Sarah were buried in Medina, Ohio. Sarah’s grave is the Old Town Graveyard in Medina.
Sarah Nicely’s parents were Christian Kneisley/Knisley (Nicely) (December 21, 1751 in Lancaster, PA to June 2, 1835) and Elizabeth Ohmer or Oment or Ohment (1756-1835). They married on June 11, 1776 or 1773 in Lancaster, PA at the First Reformed Congregation at Lancaster. Christian was a farmer in 1807 in Chanceford, York, PA. That same year John Knicely is also listed as farmer in the same town. They were Lutherans and baptized daughter Saloma at the St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran in Chanceford Twp, York, Pennsylvania in 1794. This suggests Saloma was Sarah’s given name. In 1788, Christian paid taxes in Chanceford, York, Pa. Son Jacob was born on Febuary 21, 1791 and baptized on May 28, 1791. In 1790, 1810 and in 1830 Census, Christian Knisely lived in Upper Chanceford, York, Pa. Elizabeth died before 1835, which was the year her husband Christian died.
SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION: (1781) Christian Nicely In a Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application, Christian Knisely (or Nicely) is listed as a private in Captain Duncan’s Company, 6th Battalion, Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania Militia in June 22, 1781. (Reference Vol. Vii, page 579, Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series.)
Christian Nicely (Knisely) was one of three younger children of John Hans Kniesley born about 1719 in Holland. John Hans married Mary Christina Sechrist in 1740. This information is from Ancestry.com and is not verified that they are Hudson Merwin House’s ancestors.
REMARRIAGE OF MOTHER, MOTHER’S PARENTS On March 7, 1848, Mary Ann Snyder married William Zacharias in Woodville, Sandusky, Ohio. By 1850, according to the United States Federal Census, by the time Augustus is two, Mary Ann Snyder is living with her husband William Theodore Zacharias (1828-1897), twenty years older than she is. William Zacharias, a cooper, was born in Bavaria. At this time, the couple have a new born daughter named Caroline. I wonder if Hudson Merwin House divorced his wife, died, or perhaps he and Mary Ann were never married. I have found no record of their marriage. According to the 1850 census, Zacharias is from Germany. The family moved to Liverpool, Medina, Ohio. Mary and William had three daughters together: Caroline (1850) , Mathilda (1852), and Dora (1856).
CIVIL WARAccording to the Ohio Genealogical Society, William Zacharias enlisted as a private in the Union army on December 3, 1863, and was discharged as a private eighteen months later on August 4, 1865. He was in the Company G, 3rdRegiment in the Ohio Cavalry, C. V. C. His stepson, Augustus Farlin House enlisted that same year in the same regiment. How difficult for Mary Ann to have her husband and first-born fighting for the Union and in constant danger. Camp Tod, located along Kinsman (Woodland) Ave., was used by the 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Dec. 1861. Camp Tod would have been Augustus’s Camp. Four camps (Taylor, Wood, Brown, and Tod) were located along what is now Woodland Ave., between E. 22nd and E. 55th Streets. Two camps were located west of the Cuyahoga River and one was located on E. 55th St. Each was considered a camp of rendezvous and training where local regiments organized before being sent into service in the Civil War. “Camp Cleveland was Cleveland's largest and best-developed Civil War camp. It was organized in July 1862 on a 35.5-acre site bounded by Hershal (W. 5th) St., Univ. (W. 7th) St., Railway St. (Railway Ave.), and South St. (Marquandt Ave). Approximately 15,230 officers and men, almost 5% of the troops raised in Ohio during the war, trained there. The camp also housed federal units in transit from one assignment to another, as well as 2 groups of Confederate prisoners. At the war's end, over 11,000 troops were paid off and discharged at Camp Cleveland, closed in Aug. 1865.” I suspect Camp Cleveland was where Augustus was discharged. (The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History). Information from Sherry Eaton, wife of Peter Eaton. The Company G, 3rd Regiment in the Ohio Cavalry, C. V. C. was “organized in September, 1861, under Colonel Lewis Zahm, for three years’ service; in the following April it moved with Buell's army through Tennessee. It participated in the siege of Corinth and operated in northern Alabama and Mississippi during the summer of 1862, and in September followed in the pursuit of Bragg through Tennessee and Kentucky. In October a portion of the Regiment was surrounded near Ashland Ky. by John Morgan's forces and obliged to surrender. Afterwards, the remaining portion with Cavalry and Infantry, attacked Morgan's camp, capturing his equipage and many prisoners. The Regiment during the winter had many engagements with the enemy, and the following summer advanced with Rosecrans' army, fighting at Chickamauga and elsewhere with marked success. In January, 1864, the Regiment re-enlisted, and in May moved to Decatur Alabama, became the advance guard of Blair's 17th Corps and then joined Sherman's Atlanta campaign, taking part in the battles of Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek and Decatur. It joined Stoneman's raid, and after the fall of Atlanta pursued Hood north, fighting at Franklin and Nashville. Again it followed Hood south and afterwards joined Wilson's raid, losing heavily at Selma. One detachment rode through to the Gulf.” The Regiment was discharged August 14, 1865. (3rd Ohio Calvary compiled by Larry Stevens)
Mary Ann Snyder died in 1882, and William may have married a second time to Anna. William Zacharias died on May 11 or July 8, 1897 and was buried in Woodville Cemetery in Woodville, Ohio.
PARENTS & SIBLINGS OF MARY SNYDER, MOTHER OF AUGUSTUS HOUSE Mary Ann Snyder’s parents were Johann Adam Schneider (born December 21, 1801 or 1802 in Neiderkirche, Germany and died June 29, 1879 In Troy, Ohio) and Maria Margaretha “Margaret” Duersch or Debus (born January 14, 1809 or 1811 in Saal Rheinbairn or Raunheim, Germany and died August 23, 1889 in Troy, Wood, Ohio). They were married on June 3, 1832 in Deutsch Reformierte, Offenbach, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt. Johann was 31 at the time. Maria Margaretha was 32. There is a record of Maria Christine Margaretha Binder being born in 1838 and dying on October 2, 1896 in Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Deutschland. Also a record of daughter Anna Margaretha Schmidt’s death record.
Maria Margaretha Schneider’s father was Johannes Schneider, and her mother was Margaretha Gerg.
On February 27, 1837 Johann Schneider (age 36) arrived on Ellis Island in New York City, New York, having traveled on the Cuxhaven from Hamburg, Germany. However, the manifesto says he was from somewhere like Benniarth and a farmer and perhaps headed to Pennsylvania , so it may be different man.
The family lived in Ohio sometime after 1835. In 1850 and 1860 census, Adam was listed as a farmer and living in Liverpool, Medina, Ohio. Mary Ann was the oldest of eleven children (Mary Ann (1831 to 1889), Adam, (1832-1927) Daniel (1834-1914), Frederick (1837 in Medina Country, Ohio to August 5, 1909 in Michigan), Jacob (1839-1921), Catherine (1842), Caroline(1843 or 1846), George W (1846-1934), Lucian (1847), David (1848) and Henry Conrad (1851-1929) – all about two years apart.) Thirty years later, according to the 1910 Ohio Census, Mary Snyder was 80, head of household, and living alone. This is Augustus House’s mother.
Johann Adam Schneider’s parents may have been Johann Conrad Schneider (July 5, 1777 to December 11, 1820) and Margaretha Heil (1786) both from Germany. Margaretha may have been the daughter of Thomas Heil and Anna Maria. Johann Conrad Schneider and Margaretha Heil were married in Niederwurzbac, Saarland, Deutschland (Germany) on July 2, 1839 according to the Saarland, Germany Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1776 -1875. He was 61. His father is listed as Johann Peter Schneider and his mother is listed as Maria Charlotta Schneider. Margaretha Heil’s father is listed on Ancestry.com as Thomas Heil.
Niederwurzbac, Saarland is south east of Frankfurt and south west of Luxembourg. “It is named after the Saar River, a tributary of the Moselle River (itself a tributary of the Rhine), which runs through the state from the south to the northwest. One third of the land area of the Saarland is covered by forest, one of the highest percentages in Germany. The state is generally hilly; the highest mountain is the Dollberg” (Wikipedia.org).
WILLIAM ZACHARIAS AND MARY ANN SCHNEIDER (SNYDER) In the 1860 Census, the family of William and Mary Ann Zacharias still lived in Woodville, Sandusky, Ohio. William was 51, Mary 31, Augustus House 12, Caroline Zacharias 10, Mathilda Zacharias 8 and Dora Zacharias 4 months. William’s trade was listed as a cooper. He was born in Bavaria, Germany. In the 1880 Census, Maria Zacharias (49) is living with children (C)Karoline (30) and Dora (20). Maria is listed as a housekeeper in Woodville, Sandusky, Ohio. Mary, who died in 1889 in Wood County, Ohio, shares a tombstone with her husband and is buried in Troy Township Cemetery. Son Daniel Frederick Snyder is buried nearby.
AUGUSTUS HOUSE - HIGH SCHOOL, CIVIL WAR -JOINED WITH HIS STEP-DAD Augustus went to Woodville Union High School. While he was a student at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, he enlisted as a private on December 3, 1863 in G Company the 3d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry for the Civil War the same year his step-father enlisted. He had two horses shot from under him, but always maintained his love of riding. One highlight of his military career involved his participation in General William T. Sherman’s 285-mile march to the sea from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia with 60,000 other soldiers. Their mission was to terrify the civilians of Georgia to abandon the Confederate Cause. Although the soldiers did not destroy towns on their path, they stole food and livestock and burned homes of people who resisted. (Sherman’s March, http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/shermans-march). A second highlight of his war years was being a member of the squad that captured Jefferson Davis and his wife near Irwinville, Georgia, on May 10, 1865. The Union soldiers were part of General James H. Wilson’s Calvary. On August 15, 1865, Augustus was discharged. He served one year, 8 months, and 11 days. In an 1890 US Veterans Schedule document of surviving soldiers, Augustus is listed as living on Superior in Cleveland.
MARRIAGE TO MARY GRACE CLEVE AND HER FAMILY Augustus made an application for marriage on March 26, 1872 and married Mary Grace Cleve in 1872 in Cuyahoga Country, Ohio. She was born in Newton Abbot, Devon, England on June 21, 1849, and had seven siblings, four born in England, one in Kentucky, and two in Ohio.
JAMES CLEVE & MARY IRELAND: Parents of Mary Grace Cleve Mary Grace’s parents were James Cleve (born in England on April 25, 1822 and baptized May 29, 1822 in Widecombe in the Moor, Devon) who was a wagon maker and later a laborer born in 1822 and Mary Ireland Cleve born July 25, 1819/1821/1822. 1819 date is on her tombstone. There is a listing of Mary Ireland marrying James Cleave in 1841 in Devon, England in the Newton Abbot District. Also not confirmed.
James Cleve’s father may have been John Cleve (December 12, 1786 in Lidford, England to January 17, 1860) and his mother Charlotte Lear (born in Buckland, England on April 1, 1792.)
Charlotte Lear’s father was John Lear (1761 in Buckland in the moor, Devon, England to July 19, 1851 in Devon, England). Her mother was Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Leaman (1765-1827). According to Bucklandinthemoor Parish Records Collection, they were married in 1777 or 1781 and may have had 12 children.
According to Ancestry. Com John Lear’s parents were John Lear (1728-1815) and Mary Hamlyn (1723-1808).
John Cleve and Charlotte Lear married on April 9, 1812 in Buckland in the Moor, Devon. They had ten children. In 1841 England Census, John Cleave (50) and wife Charlotte (45) lived in Newton Abbot in Devon, England with William listed as Wheelwright (20), James listed as carpenter (15), Robert (15), Moses (11). In an 1851 England Census, John Cleave (age 65) lived with wife Charlotte Cleave (58) with one child in Newton Abbot in Moreton Hampstead in Devon, England in the parish of Widecombe in the Moor. He is listed as being a carpenter. In the same census, a John Cleave (33) is also listed as being a carpenter; since the listings are one after the other, I assume the second John Cleave is son of the first John. John Cleave “late of Widdecombe-in-the Moor in the Country of Devon” died on or about January 17, 1860, and his will was probated on February 2, 1861. His effects were under 200 pounds. [England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995]. Charlotte died in October 1857 in Newton Abbot, Devon.
Possible parents of John Cleave were William Edwin Cleave (November 19, 1751/December 28, 1752-1810) and Martha Smeardon (1754 to 1744/1810). They married on February 15, 1776 or 1777 and had ten children.
Possible parents of William Cleave are Robert Cleave (Clive) (1721-1744 in Devon) from Styche, Shropshire, England and Mary Coaker (1725-). They married on October 18, 1746.
MARY IRELAND’S BIRTH AND FAMILY (mother of Mary Grace Cleve) Joseph Ireland & Mary Elizabeth Symons There is a listing in Devon, England that Mary Ireland was baptized on August 8, 1819, and that her parents were Joseph Ireland and Mary Elizabeth Symons. In the 1821 England Census, Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Ireland and their eight children age 20 to 2 lived in Devon, England. (There is a record of a couple of this name moving to Cincinnati, Ohio.)
Mary Elizabeth Symons’ parents were John Symons (1778 to October 2, 1840) and Jane (Jenny) Oliver (1774-1842), both living in Devon, England.
Joseph’s father, John Ireland (born on September 8, 1761 & baptized on August 16, 1765 in Ashburton, Devon, England and died on September 2, 1842 in Westminster, England) married Joanna Ninnis (b. about 1766 or 1767 in Devon, England) in Ashburton, Devon, England on January 15, 1788. They may have had eight children. In 1841, John Ireland is listed as connected to St. Thomas Parish, in Devon, England. His father might have been Solomon Ireland and his mother may have been Thamazin. OR his father might have been Thomas Ireland (1720-) and his mother might have been Sara Soper or Elizabeth. Thomas and Sara were married in Devon, England on October 31, 1743. (TOO MUCH UNKNOWN)
Devon or Devonshire is a county located in South west England. The north and south coasts of Devon have cliff and sandy shores. The English Channel abuts Devon to the south while the Bristol Channel lies to the north. The inland terrain is rural and hilly. “About 25 percent of the country is heath or moorland, providing rough grazing mainly on Exmoor and Dartmoor. Dairy cattle are most important in eastern, northwestern, and southern Devon, and Devonshire clotted cream is still produced. Beef cattle are raised throughout, especially in the south and west. Sheep are important throughout the county, including Dartmoor and Exmoor, with the exception of eastern Devon” (“Devon,” Encyclopedia Britannica).
James Cleve and Mary Ireland (parents of Mary Grace Cleve) had eight children: John 1842, Ledorah-1844, Mary 1848, and Matilda-1849, Robert (1852), Henry (1855), Sarah A (1857), Moses (1859) and Ida (1860). They immigrated from England around 1850. In the 1850 census, James Cleave (28) and Mary Cleave (28) lived in Millcreek, Ohio. The children ranged from one to eight. His occupation is listed as a carpenter. Robert Cleave is listed as living with them, perhaps a brother. In the 1860 Census, James’s occupation is listed as a wagon maker, and the family lives at 113 East Cleveland Post Office in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. In the 1870 Census Mary (48) is listed as a house keeper. In the 1880 Census, James (57), wife Mary (58) and children Frank (19) and Mina (16) live at 199 Artario Street, in Cleveland, Ohio, and his occupation is listed as carpenter. James Cleave died on February 5, 1888 in Cleveland, Ohio and was buried in East Cleveland Township Cemetery. In 1892, Mary Cleave, widow of James, is listed as living at 1012 Payne Avenue. Mary Ireland Cleave died on December 18, 1895 at age 76 and is buried in the East Cleveland Township Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
CHILDREN Augustus Farlin House and Mary Grace Cleve (1848) lost two children and had three surviving children: Lillian Mae House (born September 18, 1874), August House (born in February 1880) who died as a youngster, and Pearl Margaret House (December 27, 1886). They may have lived on 2020 Euclid Avenue and attended the Superior Street Baptist Church. In the 1880 census, Augustus (33 and a doctor), Grace (30), Lillian (5) and Augustus 8 months had two servants: Lilly 17 and Charles 19. In 1900, they had a coachman Frank Thompson and a servant Hattie Woland who lived with them. Their daughter, Pearl M. House (age 13) was listed as attending school. Their daughter, Lillian (age 25), their son-in-law Thomas Brinsmade (b. April 1870 in Ohio), and granddaughter Isabelle (age 4) also lived with them. Thomas was 30 and his occupation was listed as a Bar Court Procurator. Lillian divorced her first husband after having a daughter Isabelle and married Thomas Allen McNamara of Los Angeles. In 1910 census, the couple has a driver and a servant listed as part of their household. Pearl Margaret House married Cyrus S. Eaton, and they had seven children before divorcing. (See separate chapter on (Pearl) Margaret House.)
MEDICAL CAREER After the war, Augustus studied medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and received his MD in 1876 and began his professional career. From 1878-1879, he pursued post-graduate studies in both Paris and Vienna. He became a professor of surgery in the Cleveland College of Physicians, which later was absorbed by Case Western Reserve University. According to the National Enclopodiea, his lectures were “instructive and interesting.” “He possessed an unusually retentive memory and was by nature sympathetic and kind with a strong fund of humor.”
He was one of the founders of the Lake Shore Banking and Trust Co that was merged into the Cleveland Trust Co. He owned the building at E. 55th and St. Claire where the bank offices originally were. He was a business associate of W. D. B. Alexander and formed the National Screw and Manufacturing Co and the National Co. He often wrote his son-in-law, Cyrus Eaton, to ask for investing strategies and suggestions.
Augustus was a member of the American Mississippi Valley and Ohio State medical associations, the Cleveland Medical Society, the Grand Army of the Republics, and Knights Templars, the Royal Arch Masons and past master of the Cleveland City Loge Free and Accepted Masons. He was eminent commander of the Oriental Commandery, past most excellent high priest of Webb Chapter royal Arch Masons.
The family was wealthy and prominent. Their daughter Pearl Margaret attended a prestigious girl’s school, Hathaway Brown School. Augustus was a member of the Cleveland Public Library Board from 1888-1894.
Augustus published a series of articles in the Cleveland Medical Journal. He wrote about how surgery related to Tuberculosis, Lymph nodes in Children, cure for umbilical and ventral hernias in adults, malignant tumors in the kidneys, tumors in Female Mammary Gland, thyroids, and gallstones. (See The National Encyclopedia for full name of articles.)
According to the 1900 Census, Augustus and Mary lived in Cleveland at that time. Also in the 1910 US Federal Census, Augustus F. House (62) is still married to Mary G House from England. They lived on 8926 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio and owned their house without a mortgage. They had been married thirty-eight years. His occupation was listed as surgeon and as a general practitioner. The couple probably divorced around 1910. Mary Grace Cleve died on April 8, 1931 in St. Petersburg, Florida, at about eighty years of age.
SECOND MARRIAGE On June 20, 1911, Augustus married his nurse, Helen Wolpert (b. October 30, 1879 in Roxand, Eaton, Michigan to July 5, 1959 In Los Angeles) in Essex, Windsor, Ontario after he had retired and divorced Mary Cleve. Her parents are Caleb Wollpert and Azubah Burgess, both born in Germany. She was thirty-two and he was fifty-three. In the 1900 Federal Census, there is a record of Helen Wollpert, age 20, living at 294 Starkweather Ave in Cleveland, and working as a telephone Operator. If this is the same Helen Wollpert, it would have been eleven years before she married Augustus, and there is no indication that they had met. They moved to Los Angeles and had a summer home in Northfield, Ohio. In the 1920 Census, Augustus and Helen lived in Los Angeles Township. He was 72, and she was 40. Helen may have had a twin brother named Erwin.
GRANDCHILDREN Augustus Farlin House’s grandchildren at Acadia Farms in Northfield, Ohio, had wonderful memories of him spending time with them and taking them in a pony-drawn cart for ice cream. His daughter, Margaret often visited him, and his son-in-law Cyrus was very fond of him.
On January 30, 1932, Cyrus wrote his father-in-law at 1732 Courtney Avenue in Los Angeles, California, so it can be assumed he owned a house or rented a house there. The letter expressed Cyrus’ gladness that Augustus was feeling better and that he was looking forward to seeing him in the summer. Note, in 2016 the house still existed, and Farley Tobin was able to locate it and see it. In 1932, Helen is listed as living at 32 N. Courtney AR, Los Angeles, California. In 1940 US Federal Census, Helen is listed as living with Arthur E. Wollpert, perhaps her son, on Courtney Ave in Los Angeles.She died in Hollywood, Los Angeles California in 1959. She is buried in the Abbey of the Palms Mausoleum, Crypt 364.
DEATH Sadly, Augustus died in Los Angeles, California, on February 2, 1932, probably before he received the letter. Funeral services were held in the Eaton home on 8917 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. He was buried at the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Family photographs show that his daughters Lilly and Margaret frequently visited him and that he often visited Acadia Farms where his son-in-law Cyrus Eaton and his grandchildren lived. He always looked dapper in the photographs and had a engaging smile.