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As of this date, Harvey Adolphus [1] Andruss is as far back as we have been able to
trace of our Andruss line. Records show that he was born in 1793 in Connecticut, but
we cannot identify parents. Maybe in the future...
Harvey Adolphus Andruss was a tinner by trade. It appears that as a young man he travelled down the Shenandoah Valley plying his trade and perhaps selling tinware; maybe with relatives, maybe with friends, maybe by himself. Around 1817 he married Mary Hoback in Wythe Co., VA. She was the daughter of tobacco farmer Jacob Hoback and his wife Dianna, one of six children. Mary was 17 years old. Harvey remained in Wytheville, Wythe Co. VA for three or four years. Firstborn, William, was born in 1818. There has been some conjecture that Harvey might have been of the Quaker faith since he did not seem to participate in the War of 1812 when he would have been of an age to do so, but his son, William, was baptised in the Lutheran Church. Around 1821 Harvey and Mary moved their family to Tennessee where Harvey became a landowner in Mt. Sterling, Hawkins Co. At one time he hocked land, "Yankee wagon" and horse, watches, feathers, linen, a clock, and household furniture to buy other land. Apparently, the rest of his life he wheeled and dealed in land, and he became modestly wealthy for those times. Harvey and Mary stayed in Tennessee until after the Civil War, raising their fifteen children in the area of Russellville in Jefferson Co. Harvey may have been a hard man to get along with, for he effectively disinherited older son William in favor of Erastus (then age 16) in 1840 by drawing up a "deed of gift" of personal property. Mary Addalade expressed discontent and wanted to run away from home to marry and live with a brother. None of the children stuck around Tennessee except Erastus and George, and Orville's family did not note when and where Harvey and Mary died. The Civil War was traumatic for the family. On the Union side were Dianna, Orville, George, and perhaps Harriet; all in Missouri. On the Confederate side were Dop, Charles, perhaps Erastus and Margaret; all in Texas. For some 20 years after the War Orville, in Missouri, was afraid to go visit his brothers in Texas! After the War in 1867, Erastus brought his parents with him to Missouri. Erastus settled in Cass Co. MO, but his parents went on over to Kansas and settled for their last years in Baldwin City, KS, close to where son George was living. They died in 1869, but we have been unsuccessful in finding the graves for Harvey and Mary. -Merriam Morrison Kokojan, 1985 Andruss Family History |