PROUSE BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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PROUSE, Thomas P. - b: 1851 Ross Co, OH
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 664
residence: Clinton Twp

Thomas P. Prouse - In the southeastern part of Clinton township are some 
splendid farms, nearly all of which have been built up and created by their 
owners. It is a picturesque and fertile region, bordering on the Deepwater River, 
the banks of which are heavily timbered. The Prouse farm of eighty-four acres is 
among the best in the country and very fertile. Mr. Prouse is owner of four tracts 
of land, eighty-four acres, forty acres, sixty acres and eighty acres, making a 
total of 264 acres, besides a six acre tract. He has resided upon his home place 
since 1879 and rented the land during his first year's residence. He then paid 
$1,700 for 140 acres, and has placed all of the existing improvements upon his 
farms. It was necessary for him to clear away considerable timber before he 
could place the land in cultivation. He paid $1,500 for his home tract of eighty-
four acres and $900 for forty acres. This land is now worth $75 an acre and Mr. 
Prouse is in very comfortable circumstances. Much of the land is underlaid with 
coal and much coal has been mined from the Prouse land. Thomas P. Prouse was 
born in Ross County, Ohio, November 10, 1851. He is the son of Thomas and 
Barbara (Kellar) Prouse, both of whom were born and reared in Ohio. They went to 
Edgar County, Illinois, in 1855, and after a residence of fourteen years there they 
came to Henry County and settled on the Deepwater, where Thomas died in 1874. 
To Thomas and Barbara Prouse were born seven children, three of whom are 
living: Thomas P., subject of this review; George, a farmer in Clinton township; 
Daniel, Denver, Colorado. Thomas P. Prouse was married October 15, 1879, to 
Serilda Moyer, born December 25, 1861, in Illinois, the daughter of Solomon (born 
1830, died 1893) and Elizabeth Moyer (born November 24, 1831, died April 9, 
1905), natives of Kentucky who came from Illinois to Henry County, Missouri, in 
1870. Solomon Moyer died near Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri. Five children 
were born to Thomas P. and Serilda Prouse, as follow: James A., living on the 
home place, married Maggie Raper and has one child, Percy Thomas Prouse; Mrs. 
Callie Lee Schmidt, Clinton township; Celeste, deceased; Effie, wife of Isaac 
Arnold, living in Oklahoma, has three children, Thomas Jefferson, Gladys and 
Beulah; Nora, married Forrest Caldwell and has three children, Pauline, Edna and 
Kenneth Forrest. Since 1870, when she was nine years of age, Mrs. Thomas P. 
Prouse has lived on this farm and has witnessed the wonderful development of 
this great county. She and Mr. Prouse have seen the country emerge from a 
wilderness state to become one of the thriving and richest portions of the great 
state of Missouri, and best of all they have progressed and prospered with their 
home county. Mr. and Mrs. Prouse are members of the Evangelical Church and are 
kindly, hospitable folk of the true Missouri type, and have a host of friends and 
well wishers in Henry County. 

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