DECEMBER 1991 VOL 8 NO 1

GRISELDA ELIZABETH (KIRBY) HERVEY (1844 - 1914)
By Joyce P. Hervey

Who was Griselda Elizabeth Kirby before she became, at about age 28, the wife of a middle aged widower and former Confederate veteran, Capt. Albert Gallatin Hervey of Navarro County, Texas? Griselda is an ancestor of many of the readers of this Bulletin, yet little or nothing is known about her background by her descendants except that she was from Alabama and that she was somehow related to a John Shepherd Kirby, Civil War Confederate veteran, who lived in Navarro County in the late 1800's. Descendants of Griselda and John S. Kirby were not certain exactly how they were related. Some believed they were brother and sister. Other than these few things, Griselda's past has remained hidden from her descendants for upwards of seventy years, since her death in 1914.

A few facts about her life have been documented. Her marriage license, recorded in McLennan County, Texas, indicates that Miss Griselda E. Kirby was married to Albert G. Hervey on December 29, 1875, by W. R. Stockton, Minister of the Gospel.

Griselda's husband Albert died in 1904, and she went to Colorado with three of her seven sons who were seeking homesteads. Between about 1905 and about 1913, she apparently made several trips back and forth between Colorado and Texas, alternately staying with different sons.

Not long before her death in 1914, Griselda applied for a pension on her husband's Civil War service. In the application, filed March 12, 1914, she swore that she was born in Alabama, was 70 years old, had lived in Texas for 49 years and in Navarro County, Texas for 38 years.

From the above documents it can be surmised that Griselda moved to Texas (presumably McLennan County) about 1865, married Albert G. Hervey in 1875, and moved to Navarro County with her husband. The lives of the Albert G. Hervey family from that time forward have been well documented in Mayflower to the Moon - Herveys & Gables and in prior issues of the Bulletin.

What was Griselda's history before she moved to Texas? The year the pension application states that she moved to Texas, 1865, was a pivotal year in the South. The Confederacy was dissolved with the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. Did Griselda move before or after the war ended? Was she accompanied to Texas by friends and family? A search of McLennan County records revealed little. Other than a marriage license, the only evidence of Griselda's presence was the census record of 1870. Only one Kirby name was on the census: Roselle Kirby. The name sounds similar to Griselda, and the age and place of birth agree, so the odds are that the census taker wrote down the name as he thought he heard it and that Roselle is actually Griselda. (The table at the end of this article gives a comparison of census records 1850-1900).

Since Griselda's pension application indicates she was born in the 1840's in Alabama, the easiest place to search for her roots was the 1850 census of Alabama. There were a number of counties in Alabama in which Kirby families resided.

[NOTE:  Subsequent information has been located via emails in 2000 that cast doubt that Griselda Kirby is the daughter of Andrew Kirby as supposed in the following discussion.  There is a Serelda (Kirby) who is buried in Jackson Co., Georgia.  Further research may link Griselda Kirby to Shepherd Kirby, who was shown in the 1850 Census as Sheard Kirby, with a daughter Elizabeth, who would be about Griselda's age, and a son, John and a daughter Mary, who were the same ages as the John Kirby and Mary Kirby who moved to Navarro County, Texas and lived out their lives there.]

All Kirbys listed on the 1850 census index of Alabama were examined for the name Griselda, but the name was not found. However, in the county of Jackson, in the household of Andrew J. Kirby, a physician, was a young daughter named Cerrilda or Cerrelda Kirby, born about 1847. Ten years later (in 1860) the census showed her as Serelda Kirby, born about 1846. Near the household of Andrew J. Kirby, on both the 1850 and 1860 censuses, was the household of Lewis Kirby, who had a young son, John S. Kirby, born about 1844-46, who was apparently the John Shepherd Kirby believed by Griselda's descendants to be her "brother". [It will be shown later in this article that "Serelda" Kirby and John S. Kirby were in fact first cousins, not brother and sister.]

Assuming that Griselda Kirby Hervey of Texas (or those filling out the pension application for her) could have been a bit off in calculating her age (which was given as 70 in 1914, making her birth date about 1847), Serelda Kirby of Jackson County, Alabama, and Griselda could well be the same person.

More weight is given to the probability of Serelda and Griselda being identical by the manuscript, Hervey Family Tree or History, by Rev. James Walter Hervey, written in 1962. He stated in the manuscript that Griselda Kirby was from Jackson County, Alabama.

Since the chances seemed to be good that Griselda and Serelda were the same person, a further search of Jackson County records was made to learn more about the family of Andrew J. Kirby. Vol. 162 of Pauline Jones Gandrud's Alabama Records, shows that Andrew was born about 1815 near Knoxville, Tennessee. At the time of his enlistment as a private in Captain Witt's Company of the Regiment of Alabama volunteers in Claysville, Alabama ca. Sept. 1836, he was 6 feet 1/4 inch tall, with blue eyes, black hair, a fair complexion, and was a farmer. He mustered out at Bellefonte, Alabama on Sept. 11, 1837. During his military service he suffered a disability, a fracture of the right leg that resulted in total disability, equivalent to the loss of a foot. He married Jane Gassett, who was born ca. 1829 in Alabama. The census records showed the names of their children (in the table on page 329). Andrew died near Scottsboro on December 3, 1895. His wife Jane received a widow's pension beginning December 4, 1895, which was dropped on July 18, 1905 because of her death.

Some interesting facts were found in a claim filed by Andrew J. Kirby in 1872, in order to obtain reimbursement from the U.S. Government for horses and food supplies confiscated from him by Federal troops while they camped near his home during the Civil War. Documents relating to his claim were found in the National Archives "Records of the General Accounting Office, Southern Claims Commission, Settled Claims, Alabama, RG 217".

According to the Claims records, Andrew J. Kirby was born in Tennessee about 1816. Andrew was a Veteran of the Florida War, otherwise known as the second Seminole War of 1835 to 1842, one of the fiercest wars the U.S. government waged against the Indians. For his service, Andrew drew a pension. He owned a plantation located about four miles south of Scottsboro, in Jackson County, Alabama, containing about 320 acres, of which about 40 acres were under cultivation. He did not labor much on the plantation due to poor health, but he had at least one son and servants to do the work. He was a physician and practiced some medicine when his neighbors needed his services.

When the South moved to secede from the Union and Civil War seemed inevitable, residents of the northern Alabama county of Jackson were largely on the side of the Confederacy. Andrew J. Kirby was not one of the advocates of secession. He was an outspoken and loyal Union sympathizer. The Kirby family was divided on the issue of secession. At least three of Andrew's nephews joined the Confederate Army. Andrew served as surgeon for a time for the 111th U.S. Colored Infantry. Towards the end of the war, about July 1865, Andrew Kirby fled with his family to Seymour, Jackson County, Indiana, because of threats against his life and property for his unionist views. He remained in Indiana until 1871, at which time he returned to his plantation in Alabama.

It is interesting to read some of the words sworn to by Andrew as he made deposition on Aug. 8, 1872, to prove his claim against the U.S. The text may seem disjointed because his words are answers to a series of questions posed to him by the examiner. The questions, however, are not part of the claims record:

My name is Andrew J. Kirby, my age 56 years, my residence near Scottsboro, State of Alabama, and my occupation a Physician. I resided on my place four miles from Scottsboro, Jackson County, until the spring of 1865, when I went into the lines of the Federal Army. I resided on my own farm, it contained three hundred and twenty acres, about forty acres was under cultivation during that time. It is situated four miles of Scottsboro. I practiced medicine a little, when I had medicine, and had some farming done. Did not change my business during that time. ... I would some times visit my patients that were inside of neighborhoods held by the rebels. ... I have taken the Oath of Allegiance. I was drawing a pension from the Federal Government before the late war, for services in the Florida War, and I took this oath to get, or in getting my pension revived, at Seymour Indiana in the summer of 1865. I took the amnesty oath at Scottsboro in the winter of 1864-5. I took it voluntarily. ... I done no service for the confederacy whatever at no time. ... The rebels would not visit me, they did not have any confidence in me. ... I did not give them any aid or information. ... I was not employed by them in any way. In the year 1863 Alexander Finney, who was foreman or superintendent of burning ashes at Salty Cave, in Jackson County, five miles from my place, came to my house and took one of my servants and my team of oxen, and put them to work at burning ashes, to make saltpeter. He took them against my orders, and without my consent. I went to the man who was making the saltpeter, and complained about the taking of my team and driver, and I also complained frequently to Finney, but they always refused to give them up. They wanted to burn ashes on my premises and with my wood, but I refused to let them do so, and prevented them from doing so. My man was there two or three months when he run off and came home. ... In the spring of 1865 I left my home and went into the Federal lines at Scottsboro, Alabama, and from there I went with my family to Seymour, Indiana & remained there until the 6th day of December 1871, when I came back to my plantation. I left home because I was not safe either in life or property. I practiced medicine when I was able and my boys were farming while I was in Indiana. ... They took ten or fifteen head of beef cattle, four or five horses, and sheep and hogs were taken by some one but I can't say who. They took the cattle and horses about harvest time in 1862 or 1863. Don't know the use they took them for. They said that if they did not take them the Yankees would. They gave me confederate money. I refused to take their money in payment for them. ... the rebels made it a point to insult me and my family on every occasion they had, and their repeated threats to burn me out caused me to take my family north. I did not consider my life safe. It was a very common thing for me to leave my house and remain out over night because I was afraid that the rebels would come in and kill me. ... I always fed union soldiers. Did not have much for any one. ... While I was in the union lines before I went north I gave my services as a professional man without any pay. I did it voluntarily. There was no surgeon with the troops at Scottsboro at the time. I always attended the sick soldiers while I was with the army. ... I had four or five nephews, Lewis Kirby, John Kirby, James Black that is all the names that I can remember. They are now living and reside in Jackson & Marshall Counties. I did not furnish them with anything. Did not do any thing to support them while in the rebel service. ... I sympathized with the union cause, my language was in favor of the United States, my feelings were in favor of the Union and opposed to Secession. I exerted my influence and cast my vote for the Union. I did all I could to induce men to vote for the Union, and voted for the Union candidates to the secession convention, ordinance of secession was not submitted to a vote of the people. I adhered to the Union cause all the time. ... I do solemnly declare that from the beginning of hostilities against the United States to the end thereof my sympathies were constantly with the cause of the United States. That I never of my own free will and accord did any thing, or offered or sought or attempted to do anything, by word or deed to injure said cause or altered its success, and that I was at all times ready and willing if called upon or when called upon, to aid and assist the cause of the Union, or its supporters so far as my means and the circumstances and of the case permitted. ... In the latter part of 1865 or 1866 I made application and was restored to the pension rolls. (Invalid) of the United States and am now a pensioner of the Florida War, all of which is now of record in the Pension Department Washington, all of which is referred to and I ask that it be taken as a part of my evidence in this cause.

Andrew and two of his daughters, Cynthia Kirby and Mary (Mollie) Kirby gave extensive testimony regarding the details of when and how much of his corn, meat and horses was taken by the Federal troops. Much of the text regarding this in the claim is repetitive and will not be printed. The following testimony by Andrew is a sampling:

Item 1. The 15th Army Corps was wintering at Scottsboro, in winter of 1863 & 4. I was riding by the camps, an officer came out to me and said that he wanted my horse. They were then mounting a regiment of infantry. He took my horse and led him away into their camps and hitched him among their other horses. He said to me, take this old horse and use him, meaning an old broken down government horse that was loose, running around their camp and branded U.S. I took the U.S. horse home, and soon after a federal officer came and got him and took it to their camps.

Item 2.  A squad of soldiers rode up to my gate, and the one who appeared to be an officer said that he wanted my horse for the service. My horse was in the stable and they went to the stable and led my horse out to the gate and took the saddle from a horse that one of the soldiers was riding and put it on my horse and rode him away. They left the horse from which the saddle was removed, in my yard, but it was broke down, and it went off the same day.

Item 3. The corn was in crib in my Lot, and a train of forage wagons came to my house, went to the crib and tore the door off the hinges and loaded their wagons from the crib. They said that they had to have the corn that they were gathering up all the corn in the country.

Item 4. The bacon was in smoke house. They -- the soldiers came and broke down the smoke house door, took out the meat or as much as they could carry and took it to their camps, and came back and got more. They took one of my horses and saddle and packed the meat or a portion of it on the horse and took the horse with meat packed on him to their camp. After they got to their camps they turned the horse loose and he returned. They said that their captain (giving his name) had sent them for it. This was a large fine hog, and the soldiers killed it and threw it on the wagon and hauled it off.

An important year for both Andrew J. Kirby and for Griselda E. Kirby was 1865: Andrew moved his family from Alabama to Indiana, and Griselda moved from Alabama to Texas. Griselda (or Serelda?) would have been about 18-19 years old in 1865, just about the right age to separate from her family if she didn't want to go with them to Indiana. Perhaps her sympathies did not lie with the Union. She was perhaps taken to Texas by her cousin, John Shepherd Kirby, whose sympathies were with the Confederacy.

Or, was Griselda (Serelda?) leaving for a different reason than simply not wanting to go with her family to the North? There is a bit of evidence that she may have been married in 1863 in Alabama to a John Pool Bynum, who called himself the son-in-law of Andrew Kirby. John Bynum gave the following testimony in support of the claim of Andrew J. Kirby against the U.S. government, in August, 1872: "My name is John P. Bynum, age 35 years, occupation a farmer, reside one mile East of Scottsboro. I am a son in law of the claimant, no beneficial interest in this claim. [Note: John does not mention the name of his wife anywhere in his deposition. In fact, Serelda Kirby's name does not appear anywhere in any of the testimony in the claim, so apparently she was gone from Jackson County. Being the eldest daughter she would certainly have testified on her father's behalf.]

I have known the claimant for the past twenty years. I lived within three miles of him during the war, I was intimate with him during the war. I went in the rebel army in May 1861 and remained in service until February 1862, during that time I did not see the claimant. I saw him once a month before that time, the first year after I left the rebel service I saw him about once a month. From that time on I saw him almost every week. I conversed with him about the war frequently. He said that it was a bad thing breaking up the government. I have heard him say that he could not live among the rebels. In his conversations he expressed much sympathy for the Union Government. I was not all adherent to the Union cause. I was in the rebel army. The rebel soldiers from his neighborhood looked upon him as a union man. I have heard rebel soldiers say that he ought to be made hush talking his union sentiments. I have and did hear at the time that some of his rebel neighbors said that he ought not to be allowed to live in this country, and that he would be dealt with if he did not leave the country.

The most likely of Andrew Kirby's daughters to have married in 1863 was Serelda, who was about 17 years old in that year. Serelda had three younger sisters, Cynthia, Mary, and Elizabeth, whose ages were respectively 15, 14, and 9 in 1863. Both Cynthia Kirby and Mary Kirby were still using their maiden name when they made depositions in favor of the claim by their father in 1872, so presumably they had not married John Bynum in 1863. That would leave Serelda as the most likely daughter to have married John Bynum.

A search for marriage information on John Bynum drew a blank; no marriage record could be located; however, a burial record for John Bynum, Confederate War veteran, Co. K, Ala. Inf., CSA, shows that he was buried (in Jackson Co., AL). There was no headstone nearby for anyone who could have been his wife.

If Griselda (Serelda?) were truly a Confederate, she might not have found it easy to remain married to John Bynum once his loyalty was transferred to the Union, as he indicated in his deposition that it did. Could that have been reason enough for her to leave him and move to Texas? The answer will likely remain buried along with Griselda in the Chatfield Cemetery of Navarro County, Texas.

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BOOK REVIEW:
The Descendants of Alexander Harvey, Compiled by Clarence Cannon (1879- )
Reviewed By Joyce P. Hervey

[A typescript of this book was filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1971 and can be found in the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, or is available on loan from any of the local branch libraries of the LDS Church. (Film No. 0854133, Item 5)]

The Descendants of Alexander Harvey traces eight generations of descendants of Alexander Harvey,¹ most of them through Frances Harvey,² son of Alexander Harvey.¹ Alexander Harvey¹ is the earliest known Harvey ancestor of the family. Various family researchers made exhaustive searches into Virginia records, but were not able to make a connection with an earlier generation. Alexander is said to have had a brother Thomas Harvey,¹ (who served in the Revolutionary War in a company of Virginia Militia and was killed in battle); a sister¹ who married a Mr. Snow; and perhaps another brother¹ and sister,¹ all of Virginia.

Although descendants of this particular branch of the Hervey/Harvey family are not among the subscribers to this bulletin, there is some evidence that the Missouri Harveys were associated with the Northumberland County, Virginia Harveys, from which many of the bulletin's readers do descend. The evidence, which is slight but significant, is through a Dameron-Harvey connection (presented at the end of this article).

Nothing is known of Alexander Harvey except that he lived in Virginia. An Alexander Harvey, which may or may not be the same one, was shown on the 1790 Census residing in Norfolk County, Virginia, which is located along Chesapeake Bay.

Alexander Harvey and his wife (name unknown) had a son Francis Harvey,² born May 2, 1790, in Orange Co., VA; died May 25, 1860; and a son Augustin Harvey,² born Jan. 29, 1797, died Oct. 2, 1862.

Francis Harvey²

Francis Harvey² was married about the year 1820 to Melinda Dameron, and was either living in Nelson County, Virginia at the time or moved there soon afterwards, a fact which is established by the birth of his son Nicholas in Nelson County in 1823. Melinda Dameron was born June 13, 1804, and died July 17, 1878. She was the daughter of Littlepage Dameron (1779-1848) and Susannah Turner (1784-1850), of Albemarle County, Virginia. [The Dameron family is extensively traced in Helen Foster Snow's book, published ca. 1953, The Dameron-Damron Genealogy: Descendants of Lawrence Dameron of Virginia, available from the LDS Family History Library, Microfilm No. 908841, Item 4.]

Francis and Melinda Dameron Harvey lived in New Hope, Lincoln County, Missouri. There is an informative write-up on the life of Francis Harvey in the typescript. He achieved a fair amount of wealth and position during his lifetime, educated his children well, belonged to the Baptist Church, was a slaveholder, stood tall at 6 feet, was a lifelong Democrat.

Francis and Melinda had fifteen children:

Augustine Harvey²

Augustine Harvey² married twice. By his first wife, Mildred Palmer, he had children:

Augustine and his second wife, Matilda Halley (born 27 July 1831; died 16 Aug. 1919) had children:

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The preceding article is not the first time that Harvey-Dameron unions were noted. This may provide a clue to the origins of the Alexander Harvey in the preceding article. From early records of Lancaster and Northumberland Counties, Virginia, and later of Halifax County, North Carolina, Harvey and Dameron families have been closely associated. The earliest association of record in America found by the editors was of a Dorothy Dameron who married Josias Gaskins and had a daughter Dorothy Gaskins who became the wife of Onesiphorus Harvey prior to 1713. A 1732 will of Onesiphorus Harvey, recorded in Lancaster Co., Virginia, gave one cow and calf to Onesiphorus Dameron Jun., who was presumably a relative.

Both Damerons and Harveys (Herveys) moved from Northumberland Co., Virginia to Halifax County, North Carolina in the mid 1700's (see HFA Bulletin Vol. 7 No. 2, March 1991 ( GO TO ). In North Carolina, a young boy named Allen Dameron (Dammeral) was apprenticed to William & Francis Harvey in 1799.

Both Dameron and Hervey (Harvey) families of America claim ties to the County of Suffolk in England. Alfred Speer Dameron compiled a history of the Dameron family in 1940, (Film No. 0978079, Item 11, LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City) in which he showed that the Damerons of Northumberland County, Virginia descended from Damerons of Suffolk County who immigrated to Virginia before 1652. Donald G. Hervey made a good case for a connection between the Harvey/Hervey family of Northumberland County, Virginia and the noble Hervey family of Ickworth, Suffolk County, England in an article published in HFA, Vol. 3 No. 2 and No. 3 ( GO TO ), February and May 1987. (GO TO )

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"McAllen - Walter Bryant Hervey, 75, of McAllen, died, Wednesday, July 31, 1991, at Trinity Medical Center in Carrollton.

He was born July 2, 1916, in Chicago, Ill. Service will be 4 p.m. Saturday in Dalton & Son Funeral Chapel in Lewisville with the Rev. Bill Wilks officiating. Cremation will follow at Martin Oaks Crematory.

Survivors include his wife, Barbara Hervey of McAllen; three daughters, Lucinda Dockins of Denver, Colo., Valerie Maniscalco of Illinois and Tamara Volner of The Colony; five sons, Douglas Hervey of Denver, Colo., Michael and Timothy Hervey of McKenna, Wash., Kyle Wheeler of Tucson, Ariz., and Sean Wheeler of Virginia Beach, Va.
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 CARROLL TOWNSHIP

Caleb Hervy lived in Monangahela City, Carroll Township, in the Eastern part of Washington Co. According to census records he was born about 1800 in Pennsylvania and had lived in Pennsylvania continuously, from 1830 to 1860; however, his name is not listed as head of household on any census prior to 1850, so it is difficult to pin down his origin. His occupation was "Timekeeper". His wife, Rebecca, was born about 1806 in Maryland and was still alive in 1875 when he wrote his will (published elsewhere in this issue of The Bulletin).

This family is enumerated below. Information is compiled from the 1850 and 1860 census records and Caleb's Will.

Name Birth Other Data

Caleb Hervy/Harvey 1800 PA Timekeeper

Rebeca Hervy/Harvey 1806 MD

John McN. " 1830 PA a Painter

Sarah C. " 1832 PA

Mary Ellen " 1834 PA md. Ungell

Isabella Norvilla " 1836 PA

Anna Augusta " 1840 PA md. Inskeep

Eliza Rebecca " 1844 PA

Lucius W. S. " 1849 PA

male (film bad) " 185_ PA

Also in the household in 1850

William Cline 1827 NY? Shop Blower

Jabers Fares 1828 PA Moulder

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MT. PLEASANT TOWNSHIP

Mt. Pleasant is sandwiched in between several other townships in which Hervey families resided. Herveys present in Mt. Pleasant Township in 1860 were: Charles Hervey (b. ca. 1829); John Hervey (b. ca. 1805), living in household with Charles Hervey family; and William Harvey (b. ca. 1832-1837), living with a Simonton family. A "Faris" family was living next door to the Charles Hervy family, and is included below. Since the Hervey and Faris family have been linked by marriage in one branch of the Irish Hervey clan (William Hervey², son of Henry Hervey¹, who emigrated from Co. Down, Ireland on the ship East of Donegal in 1770), a search was made of that branch to determine where the Hervey family of Mt. Pleasant Township might fit in. A best guess is that the John M.? Hervy (b. ca. 1805) shown below, is identical with John Hervey³, whose lineage was William Hervey,² (b. 1780), Henry Hervey,¹ (b. 1740), emigrant from Co. Down, Ireland. Charles and William would most likely have been sons of John.

240 Samuel Farris 62? PA

Jane " 29 PA

Samuel T. " 25 PA

Julian " 23 PA

Simonton " 20 PA

241 Charles Hervy 31 PA

(Occ: Farm Hand)

Sarah " 30 Ohio

Sarah V. " 4 Ohio

Mary E. " 9/12 Ohio

Sarah McNay 56? VA

John M.? Hervy 55? PA

242 John Simonton 55 PA

(Occ.: Farmer, $1000, $4000 Property)

Eliza " 45 PA

Ellen (Allen?) H. " 17 PA

William Harvey 23/28? PA

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MORRIS TOWNSHIP

A relative latecomer to Washington County, arriving about 1865, was John Culbertson Harvey, of Morris Township. An article from J. H. Beers, Commemorative and Biographical Record of Washington Co., PA, Chicago, 1893, p. 1441, is reproduced below in its entirety.

"JOHN CULBERTSON HARVEY, one of the prosperous farmers of Morris township, was born June 9, 1828, in Franklin county, Penn. His father, John Harvey, was a native of eastern Pennsylvania, born near Carlisle. He removed to Franklin county in early life, where he married Sarah Culbertson, a daughter of Robert Culbertson, of Franklin county. They reared a family of fourteen children, viz.: Nehemiah K., Agnes, Hannah, John C., Sarah, Ruth T., Mary, Robert C., William T., Joseph, Benjamin, Harriet, Catherine and Wilson C., of whom eight are living, three in Harrisburg, Penn., one in Dauphin county, one in Newville, one in Cumberland, and two in Roxbury, Franklin county.

"John Culbertson Harvey was reared on his father's farm in Franklin county, and received a practical education in the neighboring schools. He was married April 12, 1853, to Jane, daughter of James Kilgore, of Greene county, Penn. Mrs. Harvey died October 30, 1874, having become the mother of three children: Simpson L., James K. and a son who died in infancy. In 1878 Mr. Harvey was again married, this time to Ruth T. Kilgore, who died March 7, 1891. He removed to Morris township, Washington county, about twenty-five years ago, and has since resided here, giving his entire attention to his farm. Mr. Harvey enlisted March 7, 1861, in Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth P.V.I., being drafted for nine months but served ten. In politics Mr. Harvey is a Republican, and in religion is a member of Mount Zion M.E. Church. Simpson L. Harvey, eldest son of John C. Harvey, is married to Frances Day, daughter of Bethuel Day, and they have one son, Charley Wycliffe; James, the second son, married Emma Mounts, daughter of William Mounts, of Franklin township, and they are the parents of two children: Jennie and William."

[The will of John Culbertson Harvey's second wife, Ruth K. Harvey is published elsewhere in this issue of The Bulletin.]
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CROSS CREEK TOWNSHIP

A Job Harvey married Hannah Jourdan on 27 Oct. 1790 in Westland, Washington County (I.G.I. Index, 1984, LDS Library, Salt Lake City). Job Harvey was listed on the 1800 Census in Cross Creek Township. In 1810 Job Hervey was in the same township. He was Job Harvy on the 1830 Census Index.
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WASHINGTON CO. WILLS
Will Book 11, Page 107

WILL OF CALEB HARVEY

Know all men by these presents that I Caleb Harvey of Monongahela City, County of Washington, State of Pennsylvania, being aged inform, and being impressed with the uncertainty of human life, but being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make publish and declare this as my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.

First. I direct that all my debts be paid by my executor, as soon after my death as he may find convenient.

Second. I give and bequeath to my daughters Isabella Norvilla and Eliza Rebecca each two hundred dollars out of the first money available, after the payment of my debts. I also give my said daughters each a good bed, bedding and bedstead: I also give my daughters aforesaid the book case and books contained therein known as or called Hocklen.

Third. I give and bequeath to my daughter Isabella Norvilla the Eight day clock and sewing machine

Fourth. It is my will that the balance of my personal property be appraised and that any of my daughters be permitted to purchase any articles at the appraised value by accounting to my executor for the same. The balance not chosen by my daughters to be sold at the discretion of my executor.

Fifth. It is my will that my beloved wife Rebecca shall have the use of the house and lot on which we now reside, on Ferry Street, Monongahela City, during her life. Also that she shall receive all the income or profits arising in any way from my estate (not specifically bequeath) during her life. After the death of my wife I give and devise the said house and lot to my daughters Isabella N. and Eliza Rebecca to have and hold the same to their own use and behoof heirs and assigns forever.

Sixth. I give, devise and bequeath to my daughter, Anne Augusta Inskeep that certain house and lot of ground situated in McKeesport, Allegheny Co. aforesaid, described as follows viz. Being number Six (No 6) in George Hoffmans plan of McKeesport, fronting thirty (30) feet in Fifth Street extension, and running back one hundred (100) feet to Cherry Alley. To have and to hold the same to her own sole use and behoof, heirs and assigns forever.

Seventh. The remainder of my real estate, I direct my executor hereinafter named to sell at his discretion either at public or private sale, and I hereby authorize and empower him to make, sign, seal, acknowledge and deliver any deeds of conveyance to any purchaser or purchasers or execute any other papers necessary, and do all things to make title with as full assurance as I myself could do were I living.

Eighth. After the death of my wife, the balance of my estate I direct my executor  hereinafter named his executors & administrators to convert into cash and divide equally between my daughters, Sarah Harvey, Mary Ellen Ungell, Isabella Norvilla Harvey, Anne Augusta Inskeep and Eliza Rebecca Harvey or their legal heirs.

Ninth. I hereby constitute and appoint my friend William J. Alexander of Monongahela City, his executors & Administrators, the Executor or Executors of this my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal this First day of March A.D. 1875.

Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Caleb Harvey as and for this last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence, and in the presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.

S. P. Keller Jos. A. Herron

On the 7th day of July 1880, before M. H. Underwood, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration came J. P. Keller & Jos. A. Herron witnesses to depose that they saw the testator sign the will.

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Will Book 13, page 366
Washington County, PA
WILL OF RUTH K. HARVEY

In the name of God, Amen

I Ruth Kibitha Harvey of Morris Township Washington County State Pennsylvania, Being of sound mind & knowing the uncertainty of life, Do make this my last will & testament on this the 22 day of June A.D. 1890.

First I hereby appoint Simpson Harvey (my stepson) my sole executor to settle up all business

Second I hereby give & bequeath to Charles Wicliff Harvey (son of Simpson Harvey) one bed beadstead beading & set of chairs

Third I give & bequeath to my beloved husband John Harvey the same one bedstead beding & set of chairs

Fourth I give & bequeath to my nephew David C Stowy one bed & beding

Fifth I hereby give & bequeath to my neice Mrs. Catherine Jane Lindley all the remaining beding bed clothes, shawls, cloaks, dresses & clothing of all kinds

Sixth at my death I will that David C. Stowy & Catherine Jane Lindley shall have their share as above willed & all other bequests & gifts as above willed to remain in my beloved husbands John Harvey possession & for his use while he lives

Seventh at my husbands death I will that Charles Wicliff Harvey shall have his share

Eight I will give & bequeath to my beloved husband during his life all my money invested in this farm which we now live & at his death this money shall be equally divided between Simpson & James Harvey (my two step sons) & in case Simpson dies before my husband he shall will it the same as though he had possession. But if James should die before my husband then his share shall be paid over to Simpson & in case Simpson should be dead James' share shall be paid to the heirs of David Stowy.

I hereby sign & subscribe this my last will & testament without being influenced by any one, this the 25th day of June A.D. 1890.

Ruth K. Harvey
O. L. Blackley Witness
J. M. Post Witness
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Washington County, ss:

On the 25th day of March 1891 before J. B. Kennedy Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration came O. L. Blackley and J. M. Post the subscribing witnesses who say they saw the testatrix sign the will.
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Harvey, Paul & Hannah Hervey, widow; of Ticonderoga, Essex Co., New York, Paul was a Pvt. in Col. Tyler's Regt., under Capt. Woodbridge, in the Mass. state line 9 mos., pensioned 4 Mar. 1831. Hannah Hervey, widow, pensioned 4 May 1869.

Declaration of Paul Harvey given 30 Sept. 1835 in open court before Court of Common Pleas of Essex Co., NY: He was born in town of Montagu, Hampshire County, Massachusetts on 20 Aug. 1752. In June 1779 he was residing in town of Whatly, Hampshire Co., Mass., when he enlisted as a volunteer and private in Capt. Joshua Woodbridges Company, Col. Tylers Regt. of Mass. militia for six months. He joined his regiment at Providence in state of Rhode Island. In July 1780 he enlisted as private and volunteer in Capt. Isaac Newton's Company, Col. Seth Murray's Regt. for 3 months. He enlisted at Fish Kill and proceeded to West Point where their chief employment was in making repairs, then proceeded up river to Hackborough to cut wood for use of the fort. In Sept. his detachment returned to Fishkill where they met General Washington and marched to West Point. He was discharged after his 3 months, receiving no pay. He had to beg his way home. From 1780 to 1799 he resided in Massachusetts at different places. In 1785-1786 he resided in Province of New Brunswick. Thirty six years ago he removed to Queensburg, then Washington, now Warren Co., New York, where he resided 13 years when he moved to Ticonderoga, Essex Co., where he has ever since resided.

Jonathan Burnet and George R. Andrews, residing in Ticonderoga, swore they knew Paul Harvey to be the age he said and that he was believed and known to be a veteran of the Revolutionary War.

On 28 Mar. 1855 Paul Harvey, age 94 years, resident of Ticonderoga, Essex Co., NY, appeared in court to make declaration to obtain bounty land to which he may be entitled by Act approved Mar. 3, 1855. He has not received bounty land before.

On 17 Jan. 1860, Hannah Hervey, resident of Ticonderoga, Essex Co., NY, age 90 years made declaration to obtain benefit of Act of Congress of 3 Feb. 1853, granting pension to widows. She declared she was married to him in Harwick, Mass. on 19 March 1798 by Rev. Simpkins, M.G., [Original copy of marriage record, recorded in Family Bible, enclosed with widows application for pension showed: Paul & Hannah Hervey married March 19, 1798.] Her name before marriage was Hannah Nickerson. Her husband died at Ticonderoga on 4 May 1859.

Harvey, Robert & Asenath Harvey, widow; Robert Harvey, of Litchfield, NY, served as Pvt. in Capt. Willey's Company, Col. Nylles Regt. in Conn., 14 mos., pensioned 4 Mar. 1831.

On 1 Sept. 1832, Robert Harvey appeared in 5th Court of Chancery at Herkimer Co., NY to declare his military service and obtain benefit of Act of 1832.

He declared he enlisted as a common soldier in the State troops of Connecticut for 7 months under Capt. John Willey, Col. Wylle's Regt. His service, performed chiefly at Norton, expired Dec. 10, 1775. In Jan. 1776 he enlisted in same and served 2 months, also at Norton. In 1776 he served in State Militia of Conn. under Nathan Jewitt in Troop's Regt.. for 3 months, chiefly in New York state. In 1781 he was drafted in the Conn. militia under Capt. Jehiel Fuller for about 2 months.

He was born in 1759 in East Haddam, Conn. and lived there when he went into service. He continued to live there until within 18 years, during which time he has resided in the town of Litchfield, Herkimer Co.

Matthew Harvey, of Herkimer Co., NY, declared he was brother to Robert Harvey and swore to his service. Jehiel Hungerford, of Herkimer Co., NY swore he was well acquainted with Robert Harvey and knew his service to be accurately stated.

On 17 Oct. 184_?, before 5th Court of State of NY, in city of Utica, appeared Asenath Harvey, widow of Robert Harvey, age 81 year 11 months., to apply for widow's benefits under Act of July 7, 1838. She swore she was married to Robert Harvey on 29 March 1780 and that Robert Harvey died on 1 April 1840.

Papers in the file showed Asenath died March 8, 1845, at Litchfield, NY. Children of Robert and Asenath Harvey: Hanah, married John Morgan; Asenath, md. Hobart Esterbrook; Nancy, md. Tilly? Littlejohn; Stelley, md. Cheney Howard; Elisa, md. John Anthony; Ambrose; Robert; Seldon; and Barret.

Samuel Harvey. A typewritten letter in this file, dated June 7, 1930, addressed to Miss Sarah M. Dinsmore, 508 Centennial St., New Castle, PA, from the Acting Commissioner, stated that Samuel Harvey's name appeared on a list of invalid pensioners receiving pension at Philadelphia, PA and whose residence could not be ascertained due to destruction of papers in the War Office in 1800 and 1814. He served as Pvt. in the Revolutionary War and received pension from March 4, 1789, due to his disability.

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 LETTERS

Oct. 8, 1991
I am trying to locate info on my Hervey family listed below.

Their daughter Mary Hervey b. ca. 1805, Franklin Co., PA, md. 21 Nov. 1820, Beaver Co., PA to Benjamin Futhey.

If anyone affiliated with your group can help me with this family, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Following is editor's reply]
2 Nov. 1991
I remembered having seen the name Futh(e)y in some of our records, so I went searching. Since I have some of our records computerized it makes searching easier. I did locate the name Mary Futhy in a Will in Ohio County, West Virginia. Ohio Co. is just across the state line from Washington Co., Pennsylvania. Please note in the data that I have enclosed on this Mary Futhy, that her father was William Hervey, born 1780; however, her mother was Margaret Glen. This William Hervey was son of Henry Hervey, a Presbyterian from Co., Down, Ire., who settled in Washington Co., PA about 1772.

Also enclosed is a March 1989 issue of our Bulletin, containing a general article on Hervey/ Harvey families of PA. If you look at the article you will note there were many William Hervey/Harvey's all across Pennsylvania about 1800. I have personally done no research in the counties you mentioned in your letter (Cumberland, Franklin, and Beaver), except to look at census indexes. ...
Joyce P. Hervey