Warren Cash Greathouse ^{1 2}

  Notes:

Source: FTM Vol. ll Tree No 3277 submitted by Robert B. Ground, 688 Golden Sunshine Circle, Orlando, FL 32807. Have not made contact yet.
Source: Stephanie Layman
"I have an article from the Fredonia, (KS) Daily Herald, dated 11 Oct 1940. The headline reads 'Jerome Greathouse is 83 - Pioneer Coyville Merchant a Resident of County Eighty Years'. It details the Greathouse migration from IL to KS and also makes note of other families traveling with them, as well as some very interesting facts about Coyville, KS, and the area around there. It indicates that in the "Fall of 1859 a little band of pioneers driving mixed ox-team and horse-team caravan migrated from Fayette Co., IL to Wilson County, KS...Polly Ann Greathouse herself drove a horse team and covered wagon the entire distance, holding her two-year old son Jerome, on her lap while her husband assisted the other men in looking after the stock." It is upon this article that the birthplaces of the children are assumed to be Wilson County, KS.
Source: Steve Greathouse e-mail 14 Sep 1999. gives date and place of birtth. Does not cite source. March 27, 1817, Warren Co., KY. This date of birth is confirmed by
Elizabeth Faler.

Wilson County Kansas
Township Histories
Verdigris Township

The township history material was taken from the Historical Atlas of Wilson County Kansas published in 1881,
... In 1859, John Shaffer, Windsor Craig, Lawrence Clinesmith, Wm. Michaels, Warren Greathouse, Ned Williams, Jacob and Wm. Shoop, Daniel Bean and many others took claims, all settling below Coyville, Doubtless a few came in in 1857-8 who are not mentioned here. In 1859 the influx to this vicinity was so strong that most of the choice land in the bottoms was settled on or claimed.


From http://www.findagrave.com
his tombstone says
Birth: Mar. 9, 1816
Kentucky, USA Death: Jan. 3, 1880
Kansas, USA
Aged 63 years 9 months 24 days

Burial:
Trimmell Cemetery
Coyville
Wilson County
Kansas, USA

  Burial Notes:

From town of Coyville, head west to McVey's Bridge. Take first road east of bridge, travel 1 mile down dirt road, and .5 miles on overgrown field road. Cemetery sits in the middle of the field. All roads are currently unmarked, but the town is so small, all one has to do is ask where McVey's Bridge is located.

  Details of his life include:

• He appeared on the 1830 Page No: 108, Sheets 214-215 Reel no: T19-42 Division: Seventh census in , Warren County, Kentucky

• He appeared on the 1850 U. S. Federal census in , Warren County, Kentucky
Listed in household of Samuel Greathouse, dewlling and family 837
Warrem. 30, m, b. Kentucky ¹

Warren married Mary Ann "Polly" Craig, daughter of Windsor P. Craig and Rachel Williams, on 23 Jun 1859 in , Montgomery County, Illinois. (Mary Ann "Polly" Craig was born on 11 Feb 1841, died on 21 Nov 1901 in Coyville, Wilson County, Kansas and was buried in Coyville, Wilson County, Kansas.)