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Dop was born Feb. 18, 1837 in Jefferson Co. TN. He married Margaret L. [sic] Smith
on Oct. 8, 1858 at New Market TN. Within two years they moved to Texas where their
firstborn, Colin I., was born and died as an infant.
Dop served the Confederacy in the Civil War in the same outfit as his brother, Charles, down in the Galveston area. It is said that his wife, Margaret, hated President Lincoln, put down negroes, was embittered by the War and afterward felt reduced in circumstances. Dop was always spoken of with love; a gentle and kind man, and a devoted husband and father. (Dr. Harvey Andruss (4) idealized his grandfather and attributed to him his inspiration for a good education.) By 1880 Dop lived in Savoy TX where Erastus was killed by the tornado. He was listed as a house carpenter and storekeeper in the censuses. They moved to the Bowie TX area in Montague Co. by 1900 where Dop ran undertaking and casketmaking in his basement. He tried a business venture in Oklahoma with his son-in-law, Charlie McCarty, and went busted. In 1910 he was living with his son, Edward, in Randlett OK, where they ran a general store. About 1900, Dop's son, James H. Andruss, got into some trouble in Kansas or Missouri, shot and killed a negro, and with the family's help escaped to the Sandwich (Hawaii) Islands. He later returned to Oklahoma and spent his life unmarried in southeastern Oklahoma. Dop died in 1916 in Randlett OK and is buried in the family plot at Bowie TX. His wife collected the pension allowed to Confederate veteran's wives. -Merriam Morrison Kokojan, 1985 Andruss Family History |