Person ID: I1167579583
William Houston
23 DEC 1779 – 13 DEC 1854
Male
Events
- Born
- 23 DEC 1779 — Sussex, Delaware, United States
- Died
- 13 DEC 1854 — Olivesburg, Richland, Ohio, United States
Family
Family group sheet →Married: 1805 — Sussex, Delaware, United States
- FatherWilliam Houston23 DEC 1779 – 13 DEC 1854
- MotherNancy Mary Hickman15 NOV 1780 – 15 AUG 1853
- ChildRobert Houston16 JUN 1820 – 25 OCT 1898
Notes
- Born in Worcester Co., Md. (now Sussex Co., Del.); emigrated to Steubenville, Ohio in 1812, then to Richland Co., Ohio in 1815. Chiefly instrumental in building the first schoolhouse and church (Presbyterian) at Olivesburg, Ohio (1827). Records of Dr. Wm Houston, in 'The Houston Family of the Eastern Shore' show William born in Sussex Co., Delaware. In October 1804, William bought a plantation that had belonged to his great-grandfather, Abel Nottingham, and in 1805, married an d brought to live on the plantation, Nancy Mary Hickman. Many of her children were born there, and were baptised at the Coolspring Presbyterian Church in Sussex Co., Delaware.