Horace Converse and Laura Ladd Place, Goss Hill

2021-126

Horace Converse and Laura Ladd Place, Goss Hill

Houses and Barns

Black and white photograph of the house of Horace Converse (b. July 23rd, 1820) and Laura Ladd (b. November 15th, 1823, Chester). Horace was born 'in a house that stood in his peach orchard' (as was his brother, Elisha Converse). The couple married on November 11, 1847. They settled on 'Goffe [Goss] Hill' in a house built in 1830 and where Horace lived with his father, Elisha Converse (1774-1852). Horace's grandfather was Samuel Davis Converse. As of 1905, the 70-acre farm kept four cows, a pair of oxen, one horse, and thirty hens. 'They cut twenty tons of hay.' Horace and Laura Converse's only child, Laforest, was born December 4, 1848. He married Eva Hancock (b. March 25, 1855) on November 8, 1875. The couple began housekeeping at C.W. Smith's house and later moved to the Goffe Hill house with Horace and Laura. Featured in The South Worthington Parish by Rev. George Reed Moody (1905), page 58, plate III, #10.

Still Image

5 x 7 in

Howes Brothers

1900/1933

Marion Sweeney, South Worthington

2021-04-05

Box 17

Glass

Worthington - South Worthington

Featured with other historical homes in The South Worthington Parish by Rev. George Reed Moody (1905). See also item 2021-106 (Horace and Laura Ladd Converse).

NS (2021-04-05)

Bates/'The Heritage'

Still Image - Black and White Glass Plate (negative)

12.7 x 17.8 cm