BIO: Henry ROUSEY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 969.
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  HENRY ROUSEY,* who has been a resident of Girard township for thirty years, 
has spent twenty of them on his valuable farm of 106 acres, which is situated 
eighteen miles west of the borough of Clearfield.  He was born in Clearfield 
county and is a son of Stephen and Amelia Rousey.  The parents of Mr. Rousey 
were born in France and when they came to Clearfield county and settled near 
Frenchville, where many of their fellow countrymen had located.  They engaged in 
farming and passed the remaining years of their lives near or in Frenchville.
  Henry Rousey attended the schools of Covington township and afterward assisted 
his father on his farm, later going into farming and stockraising for himself.  
When he reached manhood he married Miss Amelia Deminer, who was born in France, 
a daughter of Peter Deminer, well known in this section.  Two children were born 
to them, namely:  Bertha, who is the wife of Augustus Hughney, of Covington 
township, and has two children - Dorothy and Gertrude; and Lillie, who married 
D. Bellotte, of Girard township, also of French extraction, and has two 
children, Boyd and Florence A.  Mr. Rousey and family are members of St. 
Francis' Catholic church, of Frenchville.  Mr. Rousey has always been an active 
citizen and has been particularly interested in the public schools, serving for 
some nine years as a school director.  He has been elected to other offices and 
has performed the duties in a satisfactory manner.  He is one of Girard 
township's most respected citizens.