"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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WILLIAM ASBURY ROOKER (deceased) was born in Wayne County, Ind., January 6,
1819, and died at Mooresville, Ind., August 16, 1849. He was the second son
of Jesse S. and Candace L. (Conduitt) Rooker, and had one brother and six
sisters younger than himself. At the age of about twelve years, he entered
a dry goods house as clerk, and remained nine or ten years. On December 26,
1839, he was married to Susan Rusie, daughter of Michael and Catharine
(House) Rusie, of Mooresville, and had born to him four children--Thomas B.
D., Candace C., Mary C. and Wallace A. (deceased). Soon after the death of
his father, which occurred in 1843, our subject purchased the old homestead,
consisting of about 200 acres, the title to which descended to his widow,
who yet owns and manages it with the skill of an adept. His early education
was limited to such as the neighborhood schools of the day afforded, but
lived to be a self-taught and self-made man, and at the time of his death
was a superior scholar. In 1847, he was elected Treasurer of Morgan County,
and was the incumbent of that office when he died. He was a consistent
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Master Mason, under and by
the rites and ceremonies of which order he was buried. In politics, he was
a Democrat, but his election to the office of Treasurer of Morgan County was
due not alone to his rank and standing in that party, but to his true worth
and merit as a good citizen as well. His widow was left with four small
children, whom she has reared and cared for as only a Christian mother
could. Wallace A., died at the age of twenty-three years. Thomas resides
at home with his mother, and the two daughters, married, and with families
of their own, live in the immediate neighborhood.
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