ROUSE, Elizabeth (Power)
Date of death: 8 Jan 1894 – Needham Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 12, 1894,
Volume XXXIV Number 27, page 1 column 6
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Mrs. Elizabeth Rouse, former resident of Needham Station, met a horrible death last Monday noon while walking on the F. F. & M. railroad. She was on her way to Needham to visit a daughter living near there and as the noon train which does the switching in the yards at this place was coming in she stepped off the track and not seeing the second part of the train, it being divided, she stepped back on the track and was caught by the engine, cutting her almost into two parts. She had been living in Edinburg being supported by the county, and rather than live so any longer asked Trustee Stine for a ticket to Franklin that she might get to Needham. She had two sons, Jacob and Jerry Rouse, who formerly lived at Edinburg. Her identity was unknown until Tuesday night when by telegrams sent by Marshal Luyster it was discovered to be the person named. Her son Jeremiah, came for the body Wednesday morning and took it to Edinburg where she was buried the same day. The Coroner’s report exonerated the train men from all blame. The deceased was in her seventy-sixth year.
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 174, referencing Book H-17, page 5, records that Elizabeth Rouse, a seventy-six-year-old white female, died 8 Jan 1894 in Needham Township.
The Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that William Rouse married Elizabeth Power on 19 Feb 1845 in Shelby County.
The 1870 US Federal Census for Clark Township, Johnson County records the household of fifty-seven-year-old, Kentucky-born farmer William Rouse and his wife, fifty-three-year-old, Kentucky-born Elisabeth [sic] [Power] Rouse and their Indiana-born children, 20-year-old Malinda, 17-year-old William, 14-year-old Jerry, and 14-year-old Jacob.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson