BOOK - HISTORY OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY, PUBLISHED IN 1882. RENVILLE COUNTY. Elijah Houck was born in 1840 in Maryland but went with his father’s family, when only seven years old, to live in Indiana. In 1854 he removed to Minnesota; lived near St. Paul eighteen months, five or six years in Rice County, and then in Dakota County until coming in 1866 to Preston Lake. His father, Allison Houck, who died here July 5, 1876, was born in 1817 in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, and was married in that state in 1840 to Charlotte Christ, born in 1822 in Maryland. The Houck family are among the oldest settlers here; there were thirteen children; three are deceased and ten live in this town.
Buried unmarked between Samuel McLean and Jonathan Grave.
Buried unmarked between Samuel McLean and Jonathan Grave.
BOOK - HISTORY OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY, PUBLISHED IN 1882. RENVILLE COUNTY. Elijah Houck was born in 1840 in Maryland but went with his father’s family, when only seven years old, to live in Indiana. In 1854 he removed to Minnesota; lived near St. Paul eighteen months, five or six years in Rice County, and then in Dakota County until coming in 1866 to Preston Lake. His father, Allison Houck, who died here July 5, 1876, was born in 1817 in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, and was married in that state in 1840 to Charlotte Christ, born in 1822 in Maryland. The Houck family are among the oldest settlers here; there were thirteen children; three are deceased and ten live in this town.
Buried unmarked between Samuel McLean and Jonathan Grave.
Buried unmarked between Samuel McLean and Jonathan Grave.
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