Carroll-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Parse, William W. 1841 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM W. PARSE.

   Among the well-known and well-to-do citizens of a past generation in Democrat
township, Carroll county, Indiana, was the late William W. Parse, a veteran of
the Civil War, who enlisted in an Ohio regiment at the breaking out of the war
and served until the close, making for himself a splendid record as a soldier in
the preservation of his country. At the time of his death, on January 30, 1913,
he was one of the most widely-known and best-beloved citizens of the community
where he lived.

   William W. Parse was born on March 1, 1841, in Butler county, Ohio, the son
of Felix Parse, and was reared to manhood in Ohio.

   On August 30, 1864, William W. Parse was married to Ruhama Young, the
daughter of A. P. and Mary (Dowden) Young, both of whom were born in Butler
county, Ohio, who grew up and were married in that county. Some time after their
marriage they immigrated to Indiana and settled in Clinton county on what is now
called the Milliner place. Mr. Young entered eighty acres of land and a little
later eighty acres in Democrat township, having sold the first farm and moved to
the second farm in Carroll county. At one time A. P. Young owned altogether
three hundred and sixty acres of land in Democrat township. He and his wife were
the parents of four children, two of whom, Robert, the eldest, and William
Edgar, are deceased. The living children are Margaret Jane, the wife of J. B.
McCune, of Sedalia; and Ruhama, the widow of William W. Parse, the subject of
this sketch. Mrs. Parse was born on August 29, 1849, on the farm now owned by a
Mr. Burgen, of Frankfort, but which was at one time owned by Mr. Parse.

   After Mr. and Mrs. Parse were married they settled near the Adams mill on the
Betsy Ellen farm, which they rented on shares. After living there for one year
they moved to the Robert Young farm, in Clinton county, which they occupied for
three years. They then moved to the farm upon which Mrs. Parse was born and
lived there until they erected buildings on the eighty acres of land one and
one-fourth miles south of Lexington, where Mrs. Parse now lives. This farm
originally comprised eighty acres, but has been increased by the addition of two
eighty-acre tracts, until it now includes two hundred and forty acres.

   Mr. and Mrs. William Parse were the parents of four children, three daughters
and one son, namely: Ann Miranda, who married Harve Brookie and has four
children; Oliver Howard, who married Martha Abs-ton, the daughter of Dr. J. M.
and Amanda (Walker) Abston; Pearl Josephine, deceased, who was the wife of
George Philips, of Brookston, Indiana; and Bertha Z., the wife of James D.
Miller, of Democrat township. The children of Anna Miranda Brookie are Arthur
W., who lives in Cass county; Maude, who married Joe Burley, of Cass county, and
his two children, Hazel Ruhama and Clarence; Blanche and Guy R., who are
unmarried. The children of Oliver Howard are Vera L., a graduate of the common
schools; Jesse H., Iva Ruth, Mary M. and Howard P. Pearl was the mother of three
sons, Virgil Clayton, Verne Devon and Claude Emmett. The children of Bertha
Miller are Mabel Ruhama, Edwin L., Edith L., who died on January 26, 1913, and
Helen E.

   Mrs. William W. Parse is a member of the Presbyterian church. Her husband was
a deacon in the church at one time. He voted the Republican ticket and was
prominent in the councils of his party in Democrat township.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION
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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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