Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Rufus Andrews
RUFUS ANDREWS
Rufus Andrews, a farmer,
is the youngest son of Charles and Alvira (Hubbard) Andrews, of
Connecticut, who settled in this county in 1814, purchasing at the time
a large tract of land. Afterward be bought a tract of land in
Franklin County, Ohio. He died in 1823, his wife died in
1819. Our subject was bound out at the age of fourteen years, and
four years later went to Madison County, Ohio. May 27, 1840, he
was married to Sophia C., daughter of C. Smith, by whom he had six
children, one of whom is living, viz., Frank E. Our subject owns
100 acres of the homestead farm and in all he is the possessor of 275
acres of valuable land. His son, Charles C., enlisted in 1863, in
the three months' service, and reenlisted in the Eighteenth United
States Regulars, for three years, but on account of sickness was
discharged. After recovering he again enlisted in the Forty-fifth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served till the close of the
war. Our subject married for his second wife Sarah N., daughter
of H. Wheeler, who was born September 3, 1826. Mr. Andrews was
born August 13, 1817.