Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Andrew Grubbs and Mary Neff




Husband Andrew Grubbs 1

           Born: Abt 1792 - Allegheny Co, PA
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           Died: 1877 - Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: Conrad Grubbs (      -      ) 1 3
         Mother: Margaret Weibel (1771-      ) 3


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Wife Mary Neff 2

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Children
1 M William S. Grubbs 2

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2 M A. Harrison Grubbs 2

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3 M Frank Grubbs 3

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4 M Samuel Harvey Grubbs 2 4

           Born: 1852 - Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Mary Helen Owens (      -      ) 4


5 F Harriet Grubbs 2

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6 F Sarah Grubbs 2

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Grubbs


He obtained such school training as was possible with the limited educational facilities of the day, and as a youth often drove pack horses laden with hickory ashes to Pittsburgh, there to sell his load to a soap factory in that place. What is known as Allegheny was then a vast thicket of wild grape vines and sapling woods and dense forests. Frequently in his journeys Mr. Grubbs would have the right-of-way momentarily disputed by a large bear, but bruin was less pugnacious than he appeared and readily relinquished whatever claim he may have had to the road, showing a marked preference for a shady, moss-carpeted glade. After his marriage Mr. Grubbs made his home on what became the site of Dorseyville, in 1837 moving to what later became the home of his son, Samuel Harvey. Aided by his son he cleared the farm, using some of the timber that had covered the land in the construction of log buildings, and there spent his remaining years.

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Sources


1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 429.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 430.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 248.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 184.


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