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Lucius Theodore House

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Lucius Theodore House

Birth
Macon County, Alabama, USA
Death
18 May 1897 (aged 52)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
Burial
Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
WS-Laurel Hill (Mass interment site, no individual marker)
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1844, June 6 Born to William H. House and Nancy T.Franklin, Macon Co., Alabama
1845 Father William dies Tallapoosa, Alabama
1844-1855 Cotton plantation during childhood
1855 Apprenticed to trade of printer on plantation
1860 Journeyman printer, Friendship, Butler Co., Alabama
1860 Entered Confederate Service, Private in Co., "B", 1st Alabama Infantry Escambia, Pensacola, Florida
1861 Dec. 21 Enlisted at Army of Pensacola in Robertson's Co., Light Artillery, bugler at some engagements in Pensacola
1861 Dec 21-Feb 28 1862 Private in Robertson's Co.
1862 Apr 6-7 At battle at Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing
1862 Feb 28-Apr 30 Served with Robertson's Co.
1862 March 12 Ordered to Tennessee, Captain Dent's Battery, Light Artillery, Captain Robertson's
1862 May-June 30 Served with Robertson's Co.
1862 Dec31-Jan 2 Fought at Murfreesboro/Stones River, Tennessee
1863 Aug-Oct 21,Served as Corporal in Cpt. Dent's Co. Lt. Artillery
1863 Sept 18-20 Fought at Chickamauga, Georgia
1863 Oct 7 Fought at Farmington, Tennesse
1863 Oct 21-Dec 31 Corporal in Dent's Lt Artillery
1863 Nov 25 Missing since battle of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee "Supposed to be captured"
Captured, sent to Nashville Union prison camp
1863 Dec 5 POW Forwarded to Louisville, Kentucky
1863 Dec 10 POW Forwarded to Rock Island prison barracks, Illinois
1864 Oct 14 Joined Union Army for "frontier service as sergeant, Co. "B" 3rd Regt. U.S. Vol. Inf. Received clothes, medical care, food and $100 bounty. Co. "B" ordered to Dept of Missouri These men who joined from Union prisons were called "Galvanized Yankees".
1865 Feb 1 Arrived at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas
1865 Mar Ordered to Ft. Kearney-Nebraska Territory by Gen Dodge 350 mile journey by foot took nearly a month
1865 April 9 Arrived Ft. Kearney Served protecting wagon trains, stages, telegraph
1865 Nov 3 Ordered to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas to muster out
1865 Nov 29 Mustered out as a Sgt.
1866 March 20 Marries 1st wife- Mary Jane Millard Brown, Franklin, Kansas

1867 Feb. 28 Son William M. House born Ottawa, Kansas
1869 Son Frank born
1870 Quachita, Arkansas census, Printer, wife Mary Jane, G M, Willie M, Frank
1872 Sept. 13 Sailed from Victoria, BC to San Francisco
1872 Oct 28 Son Ralph E. House born Lawrence, Kansas
1876 Worked as printer Kansas & The Tribune in Denver, Colorado (Denver Colorado Dir.)
In this time period we think he met a bombastic preacher by the name of Isaac Kallock....later mayor of San Francisco. He and second wife, Josephine, were married by Kallock.
1877 Wife, Mary Jane dies
1877 Moves to Los Angeles
1878 Jan Incorporation of Republican Printing Co. Los Angeles..newspaper and job office...one of directors
1878 Feb Elected secretary Los Angeles Typographical Union
1879 Worked as printer in San Francisco, Placer and Sacramento Co.
1879 Printer at Evangel Printing Co 961 Mission San Francisco (Directory)
Marries Josephine (Josie) Born 1848 Ohio
1880 In San Francisco census, 35 Langton St. w/ Josie, William M. 13, Kallock 7, Ellen 4/12
1881 Feb 4 Daughter Beatrice B. House Born San Francisco
1886 May Knights of Labor league 6053 of Sacramento delegate, anti-Chinese rally
1888 Jan Moved to Sierra Madre, Los Angeles Co.
1888 March 17 Established Sierra Madre Vista weekly newspaper
1888 Sept Call of Sacramento list of voters to register
1889 Jan Editorial Assoc. attends meeting, representing Sierra Madre Vista
1889 April Sons in partnership in newspaper as Lucius T. House & Sons
1890 June 20-26 Son William dies in Sacramento Daily Alta California, Volume 82, Number 178, 27 June 1890
1890 Aug The Redondo Compass Editor
1890 Oct Redondo, Los Angeles Co., Country Delegate to Democratic Convention
1891 Jan Represents Redondo Beach Compass at association of editors gathering
1891 Aug Redondo; district vice Templar, Independent Order of Good Templars (temperance organization) Los Angeles Co. CA
1891 Nov Delegate, San Francisco, California Anti-Chinese Alliance.
1892 Jan Redondo Compass Editor newspaper announcement
1892 Sept Redondo Beach, CA one of vice presidents for Democratic convention
1893 Oct Executive committee member THE ANTI-CHINESE ALLIANCE meeting Metropolitan Hall
1896 April Printers union delegate protesting typesetting machines
1896 Dec Signer of Letter urging government ownership of Central Pacific Railroad
1897 Feb Juror in Boyles murder trial
1897 May Daughter, Beatrice, writes article in San Francisco Call
1897 May 18 Dies San Francisco 318 Fulton St. or 629 1/2 McAllister St
There is an article in the
Los Angeles Co., Calif-History
Lewis Publishing Company about Lucius.
Probably authored by himself.

Lucius was one of the 35,000 individuals whose grave was moved to Cypress Lawn from Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco.
This history researched by Toni House Kingsley and Linda House Houlroyd.Removal From Laurel Hill is Presumed. Gravemarker once existed in the now-defunct Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco (Among the Plots for Members of The Typographical Union No. 21) :

Lucius T, House, a native of Alabama, born June 16, 1881;
died May 18, 1897.
1844, June 6 Born to William H. House and Nancy T.Franklin, Macon Co., Alabama
1845 Father William dies Tallapoosa, Alabama
1844-1855 Cotton plantation during childhood
1855 Apprenticed to trade of printer on plantation
1860 Journeyman printer, Friendship, Butler Co., Alabama
1860 Entered Confederate Service, Private in Co., "B", 1st Alabama Infantry Escambia, Pensacola, Florida
1861 Dec. 21 Enlisted at Army of Pensacola in Robertson's Co., Light Artillery, bugler at some engagements in Pensacola
1861 Dec 21-Feb 28 1862 Private in Robertson's Co.
1862 Apr 6-7 At battle at Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing
1862 Feb 28-Apr 30 Served with Robertson's Co.
1862 March 12 Ordered to Tennessee, Captain Dent's Battery, Light Artillery, Captain Robertson's
1862 May-June 30 Served with Robertson's Co.
1862 Dec31-Jan 2 Fought at Murfreesboro/Stones River, Tennessee
1863 Aug-Oct 21,Served as Corporal in Cpt. Dent's Co. Lt. Artillery
1863 Sept 18-20 Fought at Chickamauga, Georgia
1863 Oct 7 Fought at Farmington, Tennesse
1863 Oct 21-Dec 31 Corporal in Dent's Lt Artillery
1863 Nov 25 Missing since battle of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee "Supposed to be captured"
Captured, sent to Nashville Union prison camp
1863 Dec 5 POW Forwarded to Louisville, Kentucky
1863 Dec 10 POW Forwarded to Rock Island prison barracks, Illinois
1864 Oct 14 Joined Union Army for "frontier service as sergeant, Co. "B" 3rd Regt. U.S. Vol. Inf. Received clothes, medical care, food and $100 bounty. Co. "B" ordered to Dept of Missouri These men who joined from Union prisons were called "Galvanized Yankees".
1865 Feb 1 Arrived at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas
1865 Mar Ordered to Ft. Kearney-Nebraska Territory by Gen Dodge 350 mile journey by foot took nearly a month
1865 April 9 Arrived Ft. Kearney Served protecting wagon trains, stages, telegraph
1865 Nov 3 Ordered to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas to muster out
1865 Nov 29 Mustered out as a Sgt.
1866 March 20 Marries 1st wife- Mary Jane Millard Brown, Franklin, Kansas

1867 Feb. 28 Son William M. House born Ottawa, Kansas
1869 Son Frank born
1870 Quachita, Arkansas census, Printer, wife Mary Jane, G M, Willie M, Frank
1872 Sept. 13 Sailed from Victoria, BC to San Francisco
1872 Oct 28 Son Ralph E. House born Lawrence, Kansas
1876 Worked as printer Kansas & The Tribune in Denver, Colorado (Denver Colorado Dir.)
In this time period we think he met a bombastic preacher by the name of Isaac Kallock....later mayor of San Francisco. He and second wife, Josephine, were married by Kallock.
1877 Wife, Mary Jane dies
1877 Moves to Los Angeles
1878 Jan Incorporation of Republican Printing Co. Los Angeles..newspaper and job office...one of directors
1878 Feb Elected secretary Los Angeles Typographical Union
1879 Worked as printer in San Francisco, Placer and Sacramento Co.
1879 Printer at Evangel Printing Co 961 Mission San Francisco (Directory)
Marries Josephine (Josie) Born 1848 Ohio
1880 In San Francisco census, 35 Langton St. w/ Josie, William M. 13, Kallock 7, Ellen 4/12
1881 Feb 4 Daughter Beatrice B. House Born San Francisco
1886 May Knights of Labor league 6053 of Sacramento delegate, anti-Chinese rally
1888 Jan Moved to Sierra Madre, Los Angeles Co.
1888 March 17 Established Sierra Madre Vista weekly newspaper
1888 Sept Call of Sacramento list of voters to register
1889 Jan Editorial Assoc. attends meeting, representing Sierra Madre Vista
1889 April Sons in partnership in newspaper as Lucius T. House & Sons
1890 June 20-26 Son William dies in Sacramento Daily Alta California, Volume 82, Number 178, 27 June 1890
1890 Aug The Redondo Compass Editor
1890 Oct Redondo, Los Angeles Co., Country Delegate to Democratic Convention
1891 Jan Represents Redondo Beach Compass at association of editors gathering
1891 Aug Redondo; district vice Templar, Independent Order of Good Templars (temperance organization) Los Angeles Co. CA
1891 Nov Delegate, San Francisco, California Anti-Chinese Alliance.
1892 Jan Redondo Compass Editor newspaper announcement
1892 Sept Redondo Beach, CA one of vice presidents for Democratic convention
1893 Oct Executive committee member THE ANTI-CHINESE ALLIANCE meeting Metropolitan Hall
1896 April Printers union delegate protesting typesetting machines
1896 Dec Signer of Letter urging government ownership of Central Pacific Railroad
1897 Feb Juror in Boyles murder trial
1897 May Daughter, Beatrice, writes article in San Francisco Call
1897 May 18 Dies San Francisco 318 Fulton St. or 629 1/2 McAllister St
There is an article in the
Los Angeles Co., Calif-History
Lewis Publishing Company about Lucius.
Probably authored by himself.

Lucius was one of the 35,000 individuals whose grave was moved to Cypress Lawn from Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco.
This history researched by Toni House Kingsley and Linda House Houlroyd.Removal From Laurel Hill is Presumed. Gravemarker once existed in the now-defunct Laurel Hill Cemetery, San Francisco (Among the Plots for Members of The Typographical Union No. 21) :

Lucius T, House, a native of Alabama, born June 16, 1881;
died May 18, 1897.


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  • Created by: linda
  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96968779/lucius_theodore-house: accessed ), memorial page for Lucius Theodore House (6 Jun 1844–18 May 1897), Find a Grave Memorial ID 96968779, citing Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA; Maintained by linda (contributor 47652384).