Upon the death of both sisters and their husbands in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the Bolton family sold its holdings, including the old house, while the Morehouses’ only son, M. Dutton Morehouse, inherited and retained ownership of the current family home and the bulk of the Burge acreage. Dutton leased Burge to a dairyman until he and his wife Louise retired to Georgia from Lake Forest, Illinois in 1970, when the farm was converted to a cattle operation and then to hay and other crop production.
