George Washington Van Hoose

GEORGE WASHINGTON VANHOOSE the son of John B and Lydia Lewis VanHoose was born September 15, 1832 in Floyd Co., Kentucky, and died October 13, 1909 in Fayetteville, Washington Co., Ar.. He married (1) D. YOUNG. He married (2) NANCY ANN ROWTON February 18, 1867. She was born April 07, 1851, and died May 25, 1933. He wrote a brief history of the VanHoose Family.

   

George W. VanHoose, carpenter and builder of White River Township, Washington County, Arkansas,was born in Floyd County, Kentucky in September 1832, and is a son of John and Lydia VanHoose.

He was seven years old when brought to Arkansas, and grew to maturity under the home roof, attending the common schools and the Ozark Institute near Fayetteville, which institution he attended until he acquired a common education. He then taught school for one term, but not liking that work he gave up the idea of a teacher's career, and began learning the carpenter's trade in July 1853, serving an apprenticeship of three years with George D. Baker. He then worked at his trade in Fayetteville, Ark., Jackson County, Mo., and other places, until the summer of 1861. The first house he assisted in erecting was that of James H. VanHoose and among the first was the old court-house that was burned during the war. 

At the breaking of the Rebellion he made up a company of of infantry, was made captain of it (Company D, Seventeenth Arkansas Regiment Infantry, Confederate States Army), but was captured in 1863 in Louisiana, and taken to Johnson's Island where he was kept a prisoner until the 11th of June, 1865. During this imprisonment he took the names of many of his prison comrades who were members of the Masonic fraternity (he being also a Mason). After the close of the war he traveled around for some time and then returned home to Fayetteville County, Arkansas and was married to Miss Nancy Rowton, who was born in Washington County, Arkansas, April 7, 1851, the daughter of William Rowton, who was a soldier in the Mexican War. Their union resulted the birth of two sons, Henry B and Peter P., who both reside with their parents, and one daughter, Lydia Abie (deceased). The family are all members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In his political views Mr. VanHoose is a Democrat, although formerly an old-line Whig. He has held the office of coroner two terms and is now filling that position, having been re-elected for the third term. He is a Royal Arch Mason, having been a member of that order for thirty-five years, and is a member of the A.F. & A.M.

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Burial: King Cemetery, Washington Co., Ar.

Children of GEORGE VANHOOSE and NANCY ROWTON are:
i. CORA8 VANHOOSE, b. October 06, 1889.
ii. HENRY VANHOOSE, b. June 30, 1869.
iii. JAMES VANHOOSE, b. July 05, 1871.