Lafayette Jasper Rouse (1839 - 1918)

Born 6 Jul 1839 in Pendleton, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Elizabeth Humphreys — married 29 Nov 1864 in Campbell, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 19 Dec 1918 at age 79 in Falmouth, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Lafayette was born in June or July of 1839, the son of Michael James Rouse and Amanda Frances Eugenia Daniel.

1840 census: Pendleton, Kentucky. Michael Rouse. 3 white males under 5 [Lafayette, Henry N.]; 2 white males 5-9; 1 white male 10-14 [Alfred C.]; 1 white male 30-39 [Michael]; 1 white female under 5 [Amanda]; 1 white female 20-29 [Amanda]. No slaves.

1850 census: First District, Pendleton County, Kentucky. Michael Rouse, age 43, Farmer, b. North Carolina; Amanda Rouse, age 36, b. Kentucky; Alfred C. Rouse, age 21, Laborer, b. Kentucky; Nicholas S. Rouse, age 19, b. Kentucky; Henry L. Rouse, age 14, b. Kentucky; Amanda J. Rouse, age 12, b. Kentucky; Lafayette J. Rouse, age 11, b. Kentucky; William [B] Rouse, age 9, b. Kentucky; Arumanten F. Rouse, age 7, b. Kentucky; Michael G. Rouse, age 4, b. Kentucky; Mortimer Rouse, age 2, b. Kentucky. Also showing on page is Daniel Rouse and family.

1860 census: Aspen Grove, Pendleton County, Kentucky. Michael Rouse, age 55, Farmer, b. North Carolina; Amanda Rouse, age 45, b. Kentucky; Jasper L. Rouse, age 21, Farm Work, b. Kentucky; Wm B. Rouse, age 19, Farm Work,b. Kentucky; Araminta Rouse, age 17, b. Kentucky; Michael G. Rouse, age 15, b. Kentucky; Alison Rouse, age 12, b. Kentucky; Walter R. Rouse, age 10, b. Kentucky; Genora N. Rouse, age 5, b. Kentucky; Joe B. Rouse age 1, b. Kentucky. Also showing on page is the Alfred Rouse and family.

Summer 1863: Civil War Draft Registration. Jasper Rouse, Pendleton County, Kentucky. Class 1, Congressional District 6th, age on 1 July 1863 is 23, white, unmarried, Miller, born in Kentucky, no former military service. Several other Rouses appear on the page, one is his brother W. B. Rouse [William B.], age 20 Farmer, single, no prior service.

1870 census: Precinct 4, Pendleton, Kentucky. Lafayette Rouse, Runs Sawmill, age 31, b. Kentucky; Sarah Rouse, age 26, b. New York; Sarah E. Rouse, age 5, Kentucky; Cornelia Rouse, age 1, b. Kentucky.

1880 census: Magisterial District 4, Sandsuck, Pendleton, Kentucky. Jasper L. Rouse, Head, farmer & miller, age 40, b. Kentucky; Sarah E. Rouse, Wife, age 36, b. New York; Nellie, Daughter, age 14, b. New York [?], Charlie Rouse, Son, age 9, no birth location given; Grace Rouse, Daughter, age 6, b. New York [?]; Clarence Rouse, Son, age 4, b. New York [?], Amy F. Rouse, Daughter, age 1, b. New York [?]. [Lives next door to his parents Michael J. and Amanda F. Rouse; other Rouses appear on the same page.]

1880 agricultural census: L. Jasper Rouse. Owner, improved 5 acres tilled; 10 acres permanent meadows; 3000 value of farm; 300 value of implements; 225 value of livestock; 20 cost of building and repairing in 1879; 15 wages for labor; 4 weeks hired labor in 1879; 200 estimated value of all farm productions; 2 acres mown land; 5 acres not mown; 2 tons hay; 2 horses of all ages. [Listed next to Peter Daniel, William B. and Leonard N. Rouse]

1885. Jasper Rouse and Michael G. Rouse were witnesses to the will of Dr. Lancelot Carr. Will Book 2, p. 178.

1900 census: Sandsuck, Pendleton, Kentucky. Jasper Rause, age 60, Head, Farmer, b. Kentucky, both parents b. Kentucky; Harvey R. Rause, Son, Farm Laborer, age 19, b. Kentucky, both parents b. Kentucky; Maud M. Rause, Daughter, age 15, b. Kentucky, both parents b. Kentucky; Isabell L. Bishop, Lodger, age 63, b. Ohio, both parents b. England.

1910 census: Sandsuck, Pendleton, Kentucky. Charles E. Rouse, Head, Farmer, age 38, b. Kentucky; Nora L. Rouse, Wife, age 36, b. Kentucky; Corlas R. Rouse, Son, age 12, b. Kentucky; Layfaetter J. Rouse, Father, widowed, age 70, b. Kentucky.

He passed away in 1918 of "chronic organic disease of heart" and influenza. He's buried in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery, California, Campbell County, Kentucky. C. W. Carnes, his son-in-law married to his daughter Grace, of Falmouth, Kentucky is the informant on the death certificate.

Sources

• Lafayette Jasper Rouse, Personal Page, FamilySearch. Jhttps://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZY9-TK8. Accessed online 3 July 2022.

• Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Accessed online 05 June 2014.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65V-H25 : 22 December 2020), Lafayette J Rouse in household of Michael Rouse, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.) Accessed online 03 July 2022.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZBN-LFY : 18 February 2021), Jasper L Rouse in entry for Michael Rouse, 1860. Accessed online 03 July 2022.

• Ancestry.com. U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865. Ancesty.com. Accessed online 2010.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXW1-DTN : 29 May 2021), Lafayette Rouse, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCZG-4TH : 14 January 2022), Jasper L. Rouse, Magisterial District 4 Sandsuck, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm. Accessed online 11 August 2022.

• "United States, Kentucky, Agricultural Schedules, 1850-1880", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68SC-LF9K : 28 December 2021), L Jasper Rouse, 1880. Accessed online 10 August 2022.

• Pendleton County, Ketucky GenWeb page. Pendleton County Will Index. http://www.kykinfolk.com/pendleton/Barton_Papers/wills/BartonWills-R.htm. The E. E. Barton Collection of Northern Kentucky Families, is a collection of genealogical and family history files and various other types of records compiled in the early to mid 1900s by Edward Everett Barton (1870-1951), a Pendleton County, Kentucky lawyer. All of his papers have been preserved and microfilmed. Accessed online 13 March 2023.

• Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. Jasper Rause. Accessed online 26 January 2008.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M26T-BXG : accessed 3 July 2022), Layfaetter J Rouse in household of Charles E Rouse, Sandsuck, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 141, sheet 1A, family 5, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 499; FHL microfilm 1,374,512. Accessed online 03 July 2022.

• "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N98D-C86 : 2 March 2021), Lafyette Jasper Rouse, 19 Dec 1918; citing Death, Falmouth, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,942,873.

• Findagrave.com. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19069176/lafayette-jasper-rouse. Accessed 31 December 2022.