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- Anna is the daughter of Alice Willson & Samuel Osborne.
Anna Osborne married Judge Orson Hough, at Potsdam, New York.
Notes: In 1831there was a mortgage an their home in Madison & the death of her husband in 1832 left this outstanding issue. Not until 1847 was a final legal decision given in favor of Mrs. Anna Hough. With this debt & poverty resolved, Anna Osborne Hough mad a journey to Toronto to reacquaint with her remaining family ties in Canada. No doubt she carried news of the welfare of her brother John Willson Osborn back in Indiana - P J Ahlberg, 2016.
Children of ORSON HOUGH & ANN OSBORN are:
i. ALMON VAN ZANDT HOUGH, b. 1816, New York; d. 1874.
ii. REBECCA ANDRAS HOUGH, b. 1819.
iii. WILLIAM OSBORN HOUGH, b. 1821, New York.
- Anne, widowed in1832, when Julia was about 4 years old, grieved by the death of 2 of her children, stricken at the same time by diphtheria, & worn out by the struggle to support her remaining children - with her needle, was becoming more & more exhausted. Julia often told how she had to quit school to help her mother with the sewing, how she never had proper clothes to wear, & of how her mother, remembering better days when she was the wife of the judge, was gradually becoming a recluse.
Alfred, her oldest son, who should have been her mainstay, was of no help. He drank & squandered the money his father had left them.
Mack, the younger son, was of course too young to be of much help to his mother. Before the death of her husband & 2 children, Anne was a normal person, gay & fun-loving.
She liked to go to parties & dances; she enjoyed her home & the people around her. But the blow of the sudden bereavement caused an emotional disturbance from which she never fully recovered. Turning to religion, she withdrew from the bright world she had known, & as time went on the gloomy religion of her day weighed her down. She became a "shoutin" Methodist, & in her later years seemed to prefer a life of solitude.
> In the spring of 1847, Anne Hough, widow of Judge Orson Hough, left her home in Madison, Indiana, for an extended journey. She was accompanied by her 2 daughters, Julia & Mary. Julia was 20 & Mary somewhat older. They went to Mt. Meridian, Indiana, where Anne left her 2 daughters in the care of her brother, John Osborn, keeper of the Half Way House.
Anne then journeyed on to Toronto, Canada alone to visit her native homeland.
This memorable summer visit must have been one of rare adventure for the girls, Julia & Mary. Their trip was undertaken with eager anticipation. What romance the mysterious West held for them. The Half Way House in Mt. Meridian was one of the earliest taverns on the National Road. It was called the Half Way House because of its location half way between, Indianapolis & Terre Haute. There was, of course, the excitement of living at the Half Way House, with its constant stream of guests coming & going. With their cousins, Uncle John's three attractive daughters, they established life-long friendships. But little did Julia & Mary suspect that they were on a one-way journey, never to return to their beloved Madison, home of their childhood.
There was, of course, the excitement of living at the Half Way House, with its constant stream of guests coming & going. With their cousins, Uncle John's three attractive daughters, they established life-long friendships.
But little did Julia & Mary suspect that they were on a one-way journey, never to return to their beloved Madison, home of their childhood. These attractive girls, brought up in a thriving river town on the Ohio, daughters of a prominent lawyer, were willing to leave Madison for the primeval forests around Mt. Meridian. It was not that they deliberately came seeking husbands, for they did not lack attention in Madison. Mary, an exceedingly pretty, dark-eyed girl, loved to tell of her romance with a young man of a fine, well-to-do family in Madison, which was broken off by her mother because of their poverty. For this Mary never quite forgave her mother, although her husband, Mr. Allen, was a very good husband.
Imagine her surprise & dismay when she returned to Mt. Meridian to find both of her daughters married. Mary became Mary Allen, known to us as Aunt Mary Allen or just "Auntie" Julia married Peter Alexander Jones, son of Benjamin Jones, Methodist minister.' She is our grandmother.'
Ref: Jones Family Tree, by Ruby Alice Jones, 1957. [1]
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1796 - 1867 (71 years)