Eliza Jane House
Mrs. Eliza Jane House, widow of John House, deceased, is the daughter of Samuel Goodnight, who at the age of twelve years removed with his parents from the State of Virginia to the state of Ohio, and settled near Buena Vista, this county. In the year 1827, at the age of nineteen, he was married to Miss Eveline Rittenhouse of the same neighborhood. His father having died when he was quite young. The son, Samuel, so managed as to become the owner of the farm, on which he lived and farmed until the year 1866, when he removed to the State of Indiana where he still lives. He had twelve children ; four dead and eight living.
Our subject, Eliza Jane, was born October 11, 1835, and was married to John House, January 10, 1856. She with her husband commenced housekeeping, on a farm, a few miles north of Washington, in the year 1859, from which they soon removed, however, to a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, purchased by Mr. House, known as the Higgins farm, in Concord Township, on the east bank of Rattlesnake Creek, about one-half mile south of Wilmington pike. Mr. House died here January 2, 1866. The widow assumed the management of the farm attairs, and continued the same with marked ability. She and her children still own the same farm.
Mr. House had been breeding short horned cattle, and in October, 1875, Mrs. House sold at public sale, the most of these for $4,300.00. She still has quite a number remaining, however. There are but few men who could manage a farm with so much skill and success as she. Mrs. House has four children living and one dead: Linley F., who is a young man now engaged in the tailoring business in Washington; Clara E., who is married to Mr. Edward Seaborn, who owns and lives on a farm in the neighborhood; Aria A., married Mr. Frank Langdon, who is a farmer and lives on his own farm in the neighborhood; Ulysses S. is a promising lad living at home with his mother; Carrie died in infancy.
Mrs. House has, been reading a course of medicine for some twelve years, and has recently completed a full course .of instruction and lectures at the American Health College of Medicine at Cincinnati, of the Vita Pathic System, from which institution she is now a graduate, holding a diploma as such. She expects as soon as she can manage her farm affairs to devote the greater part, if not her entire time to the practice of medicine on the Vita Pathic System. Mrs. House is a woman of much force of character, and is calculated to make a success of whatever she undertakes.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County