Great Judith, we can do that for sure. Thank you so much for this
info. Anybody else out there know these folks?
>From: Judith Weeks Ancell <[email protected]>
>To: "'jbass'" <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: Harvey H
>Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 22:23:44 -0700
>
>Hi Jo,
>It looks as if your message was generated from a Genealogy program. It
would be great if we could trade a gedcom. I have FTW Deluxe. I can read
files created for it or for PAF. I have quite a bit of MO information, some
Johnson Co., and some Lafayette Co., I just never had the families in my
data to put in the information. This would make it a lot easier.
>For now:
>>From History of Johnson Co., MO - no further documentation:
>Page 704:
>"JUDGE HARVEY HARRISON,
>was born March 7, 1806, in Blount county, east Tennessee. His parents,
Joseph and Nancy Harrison, removed to Huntsville, Alabama, when Harvey was
six months old, where they remained until he was about nineteen years of
age. He married Zilpha, daughter of Hugh and Margaret Bell, of Tennessee.
They have had twelve children, ten sons and two daughters. His son, Alfred
B., was killed by the falling of a brick store on Holden street, June 19,
1877. His father lived to see his fifth generation, and was eighty-nine
years old at the time of his death. Mr. Harrison is one of the old and
prominent settlers of this county. He has been county judge, justice of the
peace, and in other ways stood before the people. Both himself and wife are
members of the C. P. [probably Cumberland Presbyterian] church, having
united with the organization fifty-five years ago.
>Page 704-705:
>"JNO. W. HARRISON,
>son of Judge Harrison, is a native of this county, and was born February
28, 1838. He spent his youth on his father's farm, receiving a liberal
education. When about twenty years of age he spent four or five years
traveling over Colorado, Montana and many other western states and
territories in search of the shining metal. In 1860 he returned to his old
home and engaged in farming, which he followed for four years, after which
he conducted a livery stable until May 1880, when he sold out. Mr. H.
married in 1860 Miss Eliza C. Ovens, of this county, and native of
Tennessee. They have had four children, two of whom are dead. Mr. Harrison
is a plain, unassuming gentleman.
>
>Page 658:
>"The Huntsman Favorite apple originated here on the old Huntsman farm about
one mile west of Fayetteville in 1835. The following incident is related in
regard to getting the scions: "At that time the old settlers often went to
Lexington to the mill, and would stop at nurseries and orchards in Lafayette
county and dig up seedling sprouts to plant. The following old settlers
went to the Sni country, on Sni creek, to get young apple trees: Richard
Huntsman, Joseph Hobson, Wm. Trapp, Robt. Graham, James Borthick, George
McMahan, and Wm. McMahan. The distance was about forty-five miles away.
They returned with a large lot of scions and from the bunch of sprouts put
out by Richard Huntsman came the huntsman Favorite apple, so highly prized
in our orchards of today. Uncle Joe Harrison, as he was called, said he was
too old to plant trees, when invited to go to John Ingram's nursery, in the
Sni Hills, for trees. Many of these men lived to enjoy the "fruit" of their
labors, and Uncle Joe Harrison outlived the grater part of them and to eat
apples from Judge Wm. McMahan's orchard, which grew from the scions of the
"old famous Hunstman tree" in Richard Huntsman's orchard."
>
>Page 214:
>"HAZEL HILL settlement was made about 1830. Judge Harvey Harrison came
here March 21, 1831, and settled on the head of Walnut creek. The place is
now owned by Mr. Powers; the old brick building is still standing and was
the second in the county. N. Houx, of Columbus settlement put up first.
Judge Harrison was one of the leading men of his neighborhood. He was born
March 7, 2806 in Tennessee, of Dutch-Irish ancestry. He emigrated to
Alabama, near Huntsville, before the town was laid out. There he married
Zilpha Bell, of Irish-Scotch extraction, November 28, 1824, and came to
Missouri. He was justice of the peace in his settlement twelve years, and
served four years as county judge. Among the old settlers worthy of notice
are, Wm. McMahan, George McMahan, Richard Huntsman, Joshua Adams, James M.
Smith, Joel Walker, Greenell Brown, James Borthick, George Hoffman, Thomas
Bradford, Wm. Trapp, Joseph Harrison, Robert Graham and William Stockton.
>
>Page 657-58:
>"The cemeteries of the township will be briefly noticed here. The pioneers
often buried their relatives on their own farms and this accounts for the
scattering of graveyards.
>Liberty cemetery is in section 24, on the Warrensburg and Fayetteville road
and has been a burying place for many years. The Liberty school house
stands close by on the south.
>Harrison cemetery is in section 21. Thos. B. Harrison was the first one
buried here. It was about 1844. The land is owned by J. W. Stayer of
Kansas City.
>Hobson cemetery is the southeast corner of section 15. Mrs. Elizabeth
Brooks was the first person interred. Now there are upwards of one hundred
graves......"
>
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