Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1900 — The Stackhouse Family. [ARTICLE]

The Stackhouse Family.

An item is current ia the newspapers in relation to a family of seven in Sullivan, Ind., whose average age is seventy-two years, the oldest being eighty- one and the youngest sixty-five. I. M Stackhouse, this city has a representative of a family of five —two brothers and three sisters —that can beat the Sullivan family all along the line. The aggregate age of the five is 404 years, an average age of nearly eighty-one years. The eldest, N. G. Stackhouse, who has lived in Lafayette for sixty-eight years, is eightynine years old, while I. M. Stackhouse of this city, the youngest, is sixty-nine. Between these extremes are three sisters, aged, respectively, seventy-seven, seven-ty-nine and eighty-seven. The last named has lived near Van Buren, Ark., for sixty-two years. She 110 descendants, twelve of whom are of the fifth generation. —lndianapolis Press. I. M. Sthckhouse, of Indianapolis, above mentioned, was a resident of Rensselaer, many years ago, and some representatives of the Stackhouse family have always lived in this vicinity.