Andrews Family History, Part II

Orrin P. Andrews² (1825-1902)

11. Orrin P. Andrews² was born on December 8, 1825, in Richland, Oswego County, New York. He married Harriet S. Cottrell about 1850 in Erie County, Pennsylvania, and had one daughter, Candace. Soon after their daughter's birth, Harriet died, and Orrin left his daughter in his parents' care. Orrin and Harriet had only been married 11 months.

Two years later, Orrin remarried to Sarah S. Shepard, a native of Amity Township, Erie County, on December 16, 1852, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. They were married by Justice Finley and went on to have three more children:

Orrin and Harriet have not been found in the 1850 census of Erie County. That year Orrin's family was in Amity Township and Harriet's in Fairview Township, 30 miles to the east.^{[Cen 1850]}

Orrin and Sarah stayed in Erie County for two years until they moved to Johnson County, Iowa in 1854. He and his bride set out in the Spring for Erie City by wagon and then took a steamer to Cleveland. From Cleveland, the couple rode by rail to Chicago and then by stage coach to Tipton, Iowa. From Tipton they crossed the Cedar River at Gower's Ferry (now Cedar Bluffs) and settled in Newport Township on 31 May, 1854, reuniting with Orrin's parents who had settled the area two years earlier. Orrin first moved in with his parents where his first children were born.

Orrin later purchased 80 acres in Section 10 of Graham Township, a township formed from part of Newport. They built a cabin on the largely unbroken prairie and lived a pioneer life, with wolves, deer, elk, and wild fowl populating their new home. Orrin ultimately expanded his plot of 80 acres to 300 acres and became a prominent member of Graham/Morse. He served on the building committee that erected the Christian church at Morse, served four years as a justice of the peace, and was active in school affairs and local politics.

Orrin's parents, most of his siblings, and daughter Candace moved west to California beginning in 1868.

Orrin Andrews died on January 11, 1902, in Graham Township, after suffering from a stroke earlier in the week. He died the same day as his son, Charles, who had developed pneumonia after a losing his hand in a corn shredder accident. Both were buried at the Morse Cemetery.

Orrin's widow Sarah (Shepard) Andrews died on August 4, 1912, in Morse at the age of 85.

Laura P. (Andrews) Hare^Δ (1827-1856)

12. Laura P. Andrews^Δ was born in Mexico, Oswego County, New York, on July 4, 1827, the 51st birthday of the United States. She married George Washington Hare around 1851 and had two children before here early death around 1856:

Laura's family moved to Ohio about 1834 and then resettled a year or two later in Amity Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

Laura married George Washington Hare, who, at least once was recorded as “Washington”^{[Cen 1870]}, and settled in Waterford Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, near George's elder brother James.^{[Cen 1860-1880]}

Laura P. (Andrews) Hare died about 1856, presumably in Waterford Township. She was about 29 years old.

After Laura's death, George went on to remarry to Ann Arinda Smiley, reportedly in July 1857, and had five more children:

Ann Arinda's name was variously observed as “Anarinda”^{[Cen 1860]}, “Arenda”^{[Cen 1870]}, and “Lorinda”^{[Cen 1880]}.

Ann Arinda (Smiley) Hare died on July 3, 1904, in Pennsylvania. She was 69 years old.

George Washington Hare died on March 3, 1913, in Waterford. He was 85 years old.

Nathan David Andrews (1828-1915)

13. Nathan David Andrews was born on December 1, 1828, in Mexico, Oswego County, New York. He married Amanda Covert about 1859 in Ohio and raised a family of five, four of whom survived to adulthood:

By 1865 they lived in Nebraska, possibly after a stay in Missouri, and eventually followed Nathan's father to Morro, San Luis Obispo, California where he worked as a farmer.

Nathan and Amanda divorced sometime during the 1870s.

By 1878, Nathan worked as a laborer in Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California^{[Vote 1878]}, but soon after in that same year bought a homestead in Stone Canyon, Monterey County, where he farmed and raised stock. Voter registrations described Nathan as 5' 10" tall (and in 1896 as 5' 8" tall), with a fair complexion, blue eyes, gray hair, and with a scar over his right eye.^{[Vote 1879-1896]} During the 1880 census he employed five shepherds from the Midwest, France, Ireland, and Austria, between the ages of 30 and 42.^{[Cen 1880]}

Nathan ultimately retired to Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, around the turn of the century. By 1910, he was a boarder with the newlywed couple Fred A. and Virginia Gingerich near the 1100 block on 13th Street in Paso Robles.^{[Cen 1910]}

Nathan David Andrews died on September 14, 1915, in Paso Robles at the age of 86. He is buried in Paso Robles along with several family members.

Amanda (Covert) Andrews died a few years later in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California.

Sophia (Andrews) Ames^Δ (1830-1905)

14. Sophia Andrews^Δ was born on September 20, 1830, in Mexico, Oswego County, New York. She married William Almiron Ames about 1850 in Iowa and started a family of five in Newport Township, Johnson County:

Around 1867 the Ames family moved away and lost contact with the Andrews family. By the 1870 census the Ames family had resettled in Hiawatha, Lochnane Township in Brown County, in northeastern Kansas. It was in Kansas that family lore states that William, a particularly mean man, left his family behind in the winter without food. The family survived but only with help from neighbors.

At the time of Sophia's mother's death in 1879, Sophia's mother and siblings had not heard from her for about 12 years.

Come the 1880 census, the Ames family had moved west to Summerville, Union County, in northeastern Oregon. There their youngest daughter Alice married John William Huffman in 1880. Later they moved east into neighboring Wallowa County and settled in Joseph. Here Sophia moved in with her youngest daughter and her husband for a time when her situation with William got particularly bad. Later William came down with a terrible illness and William had to move in with his daughter as well. But his ill temper resigned him to having to stay in the tack barn while his wife and daughter slipped him food under the door. He eventually died sometime before 1900 and was burried in an unmarked grave out on the “Y” in what is called the “Big Sheep” outside of Joseph.

Sophia (Andrews) Ames died on February 24, 1905, in Joseph, Wallowa County, Oregon and is buried at the nearby Prairie Creek Cemetery. She was 74 years old.

Harriet D. (Andrews) Kester^Δ (1832-1913)

15. Harriet D. Andrews^Δ was born on 31 December 1832 in either Mexico, Oswego County, New York or Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania. She married William Kester^Δ in Johnson County, Iowa on 5 March 1854 and had five children:

By the time of Harriet's mother's death in 1879, the Kesters had moved to Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. By the 1900 census they moved further north to the Pitt River district in Lassen County.

William Kester died on December 27, 1894, at the age of 63.

Harriet (Andrews) Kester died nine years later on October 6, 1913, in Pittville, (Shasta/Lassen County), California. She was 80 years old.

John C. Andrews (1835-<1879)

16. John C. Andrews was born on November 27, 1835, in either Mexico, Oswego County, New York or Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He settled with his parents in Graham Township, Johnson County, Iowa, and later married Mary E. in Louisa County, Iowa in 1860.

John died in Iowa some time before his mother's death in 1879.

Cordelia E. (Andrews) Smith (1838-1919)

18. Cordelia E. Andrews was born on December 6, 1838, in Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania. She married Isaac Heller in Iowa about 1855 and later married Wilson J. Smith in Johnson County, Iowa, around 1860. They had as many as eight children, five surviving to adulthood. The first three were probably born in Iowa before they moved to Salinas, Monterey County, California, around 1874.

The Smiths settled in Alisal Township in Salinas around 1874 where they were noted living on Harvest Street^{[Cen 1900, 1910]}.

Wilson J. Smith died in Salinas around 1910, about the age of 78.

Cordelia (Andrews) Smith died on July 1, 1919, in Salinas at the age of 80.

Frances Caroline (Andrews) Morse^Δ (1842-1927)

19. Frances Caroline Andrews^Δ was born on December 3, 1842 in Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania. She married Stephen Eddy Morse (Sr.) on October 15, 1861, in Black Hawk County, Iowa, and started a family of nine children, of whom only eight were recorded and only six survived to 1910.^{[Cen 1910]}

The Morses started their family in Graham Township and in 1870 were enumerated on a $4,808 farm next to Stephen's elder brother A. W. G. Morse, his family and $6,000 farm; and not far from Stephen's eldest brother E. K. Morse, his family and $35,000 farm, and cousin Charles Morse. At the time, a George B. Ayers of Illinois worked on Stephen's farm.^{[Cen 1870]}

The Morse family later moved 260 miles west to Nebraska where they resided in Washington County at the time of Frances's mother's death in 1879. However, by 1880, the Morse family had moved 160 miles further west to Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska, where Stephen worked as a stable keeper. At the time, O. P. Kerby lived with the family and worked at the livery stable; and laborers John Bamson/Barnson, Jay Cherry, and C. A. Prindle lived with and worked for the family.^{[Cen 1880]}

Next the Morses moved 1,600 miles northwest to Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington Territory, where Stephen and elder son Nathanial worked as teamsters.^{[Cen 1885]}

Not long after, they moved 1,100 miles south to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, where they rented 1334 Lawrence Street by 1900. Stephen and younger son Stephen, Jr., worked as teamsters, daughter Daisy worked as a school teacher, and daughter Susie worked as a dressmaker.^{[Cen 1900]}

Stephen Eddy Morse (Sr.) died at his home at 771 East 17th Street in Los Angeles on December 4, 1905, of a “malignant disease of the liver, of about 2 months” with pneumonia and dyspepsia as contributing factors. He was 67 years old.^{[Dth 1905]} Stephen was buried at Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.^[Grave]

After Stephen's death, Frances moved 520 miles north to Red Bluff, Tehama County, California, where she mortgaged a home at 1623 Hill Street, just around the corner from daughter “Vada” (Morse) Roberts and three of her children at 1510 Walbridge Street, who had moved to Red Bluff by 1900.^{[Cen 1910]} Frances eventually moved in with Vada at 1510 Walbridge Street by 1920.^{[Cen 1920]}

Frances Caroline (Andrews) Morse died 22 years after Stephen in Red Bluff on August 5, 1927. She had suffered a fall at the age of 84 years. Frances was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Red Bluff on Monday, August 8. Twenty-one years later, daughter Dora was buried with her and shares a headstone.^[Grave]