This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOUSE, INGRAM, CROWELL, CULBERTSON, MELCHER. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SFk.2ACIB/1321 Message Board Post: MY HOUSE FAMILY: In the 1850 and 1860 Cabarrus County census lists Joel House, age about 30+, a mulatto, laborer, and listed in the home of John Faggart of Mt. Pleasant. Assumed to be a part of that Jacob House who also lived in Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus County, the one married to Sarah Barringer. Anyway, this Joel House, was my great grandfather. He was married to Keziah House. In the 1870 census of Rowan County, she is listed as Black, age about 40+ and with her four sons: Sire,age 17; Monroe age 15; Martin age 12, and Jackson age 10. Jackson sometimes called John House was my grandfather. In 1873 both Keziah and Joel House are listed as the parents of Sire House in a marriage to Elizabeth Shad, daughter of Michau and Roseanne Shad; in 1888, Joel and Keziah are listed in a marriage to Martin House and Mary Heilig; also in 1886, the same parents are listed with the marriage of John House to Martha Crowell, daughter of Andrew and Rachel Crowell. Manyof these people lived i! n Rowan's Gold Hill township. Martha and John had six children: Fred House born 1888; Maggie House Heilig born in 1890; Eugene House born in 1890; Felicia House Belser born in 1899; Theola House Morgan born in 1902; and Frankie House Barnhardt born in 1904. Felicia House Belser who later was united with John Evans was my mother. I need more information on this side of the House Family please.