ANDREWS Family History
Our branch of the ANDREWS family begins in Oneida County in central New York in 1797 with the birth of Nathan ANDREWS. Although the Erie Canal, which cut through Oneida County, opened in 1825, Nathan moved to Oswego County along New York's Lake Ontario shoreline to start his family. There they stayed for about eight years before briefly moving to Trumbull County in northeastern Ohio and then backtracking slightly to Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania by 1835. In 1852, Nathan resettled in Graham Township, Johnson County, Iowa where his eldest son, Orrin, followed him and settled as well.
Around 1868, Nathan moved once more, this time to Morro, San Luis Obispo, California. His granddaughter, Candace Mandana (ANDREWS) MILLER settled in San Luis Obispo County as well, two years later.
Special thanks to Nancy (PAGE) RICHINGSwho provided the lion's share of work on the ANDREWS lineage.
Andrews1
X. The father of our ancestor Nathan ANDREWS may also have been named Nathan ANDREWS. A Nathan ANDREWS is found in the 1800 through 1820 censuses of Bridgewater, Oneida County, New York, the birthplace of our Nathan. In 1800 Nathan was noted as being 26 to 44 years of age, indicating he was born between 1756 and 1773[Cen 1800]. At the time he had five children: two boys and two girls under the age of 10 and one boy between the ages of 10 and 15. 20 years later he had six children at home: one boy under the age of 10, two girls between 10 and 15, and a son and daughter between the ages of 16 and 26. His wife apparently had passsed on prior to 1820.[Cen 1800,1810,1820] His family may have looked something like this:
| 1x. | (Eber) ANDREWS | (1790-1791) | -- | -- |
| 1x. | ANDREWS Daughter | (1790-1800) | -- | -- |
| 1x. | ANDREWS Daughter | (1794-1800) | -- | -- |
| 1x. | Nathan ANDREWS1 | 29 May 1797 | 28 Feb 1883 | (85) |
| 1x. | (William S.) ANDREWS | (1799-1800) | -- | -- |
| 1x. | ANDREWS Daughter | (1804-1810) | -- | -- |
| 1x. | ANDREWS Son | (1810-1820) | -- | -- |
| 1x. | (Nancy) ANDREWS | (1810) | -- | -- |
- Cen 1800: 1800 Census, Bridgewater Township, Oneida County, New York
- Cen 1810: 1810 Census, Oneida County, New York
- Cen 1820: 1820 Census, Bridgewater Township, Oneida County, New York
Nathan ANDREWS1 (1797-1883)
1. Nathan ANDREWS was born May 29, 1797 in Bridgewater, Oneida County, in central New York. He married Philena AMES, of Hounsfield, New York (then in Oneida County, now in Jefferson County) and began their family of nine children in Oswego County.
| 11. | Orrin P. ANDREWS2 | 8 Dec 1825 | 11 Jan 1902 | (76) |
| 12. | Laura P. ANDREWS | 4 Jul 1827 | Bef. 1879 | (<52) |
| 13. | Nathan David ANDREWS | 1 Dec 1828 | 14 Sep 1915 | (86) |
| 14. | Sophia ANDREWS | 20 Sep 1830 | 24 Feb 1905 | (74) |
| 15. | Harriet D. ANDREWS | 31 Dec 1832 | 6 Oct 1913 | (80) |
| 16. | John C. ANDREWS | 27 Nov 1835 | Bef. 1879 | (<44) |
| 17. | Nancy ANDREWS | 1836 | 1836 | (0) |
| 18. | Cordelia E. ANDREWS | 6 Dec 1838 | 1 Jul 1919 | (80) |
| 19. | Frances Caroline ANDREWS | 3 Dec 1842 | 5 Aug 1927 | (84) |
Soon after the new ANDREWS family began, they lived in Richland, Oswego County. There, Orrin was born. About a year later, they moved a little southwest to Mexico, Oswego County where they settled for about eight years and the next four children were born (through about 1834). Then, the family moved briefly to Trumbull County, Ohio, outside of Cleveland, before backtracking slightly and resettling in Amity Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania where their last three children were born. The family stayed in Erie County until 1852 when they moved to Johnson County, Iowa and set up home in Graham Township, just south of Morse.
With the family grown, Nathan and Philena decided to strike out one last time, in 1868 -- this time to California. They settled in Morro, San Luis Obispo County, California and were joined a little later by granddaughter, Candace, her husband, and children. Their younger children, Nathan, Harriet, Cordelia, and Frances, all made their way to California as well.
Philena (AMES) ANDREWS died on January 7, 1879 in Morro, San Luis Obispo County at the age of 74. She was survived by her husband and all of her children, except Laura, John, and Nancy. Philena is buried at the Cayucos Cemetery in Morro, San Luis Obispo County, California.
The year after Philena's death, Nathan remarried to an English immigrant named Nancy from the Isle of Jersey in Morro but were only married three years before Nathan died.
Nathan ANDREWS died on February 28, 1883 in Morro at the age of 85. He is buried at the Cayucos Cemetery in Morro along with his wife Philena.
Nancy ANDREWS died 12 years later in Morro.
- Cen 1830: 1830 Census, Mexico Township, Oswego County, New York
- Cen 1840: 1840 Census, Amity Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania
- Cen 1850: 1850 Census, Amity Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania
- Cen 1856: 1856 Census, Newport Township, Johnson County, Iowa
- Cen 1860: 12 Jun 1860 Census, Graham Township, Johnson County, Iowa
- Cen 1880: 5 Jun 1880 Census, Morro Village, Morro Township, San Luis Obispo County, California
Orrin P. ANDREWS2 (1825-1902)
11. Orrin P. ANDREWS 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, Erie County, on 16 December, 1852 in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. They were married by Justice FINLEY and went on to have three more children:
| 111. | Candace Mandana ANDREWS3 | 9 Nov 1851 | 1 Jun 1912 | (60) |
| 112. | Jennie Irene ANDREWS | 7 Mar 1855 | 15 Mar 1939 | (84) |
| 113. | Jessie Isabel ANDREWS | 23 Feb 1857 | 15 Jul 1936 | (79) |
| 114. | Charles M. ANDREWS | 31 May 1860 | 11 Jan 1902 | (41) |
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 ANDREWS died on 11 January, 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 4 August 1912 in Morse at the age of 85.
Sarah SHEPARD was born in Erie County, PA, daughter of Mason and Jane (SMITH) SHEPARD, her father was a native of Vermont and a farmer by occupation.
[Mason] was married in Erie County and died in Crawford county, in 1866 at the age of seventy seven years. Mrs. SHEPARD was born in Erie county and died in Crawford county, at the age of eighty-six years. Mrs. ANDREWS, the eldest of their eight children, is now in her eighty-fifth year, and in full possession of her faculties. She was reared on her father's farm and well educated in the public schools and in an academy. The locality where she and her husband settled, soon after coming to Johnson County in the spring of 1854, was mostly unbroken prairie, but contained some timber. The trip to the new home was fraught with interest to the young couple. They came by wagon to Erie City, thence down the Ohio by steamer and on to Cleveland, thence by rail to Chicago, and on from that city by stage to Tipton, Iowa. Arriving at Tipton, they crossed the Cedar River at Gower's Ferry, now Cedar Bluffs, and landed in Newport township, their final destination. Part of Newport was later included in Graham township, the present home of Mrs. ANDREWS.
The ANDREWS lived for a time on his father's farm, where their first children were born, and the first eighty acres of their own was unimproved. Their hewed log cabin was of fair size, plastered and mortared with clay, and it is still plainly remembered by Mrs. ANDREWS. The location was formerly known as Picayune Grove, and they lived there nine years. In the rugged pioneer cabin Charles M. ANDREWS first saw the light. Their three children were: Jennie I., wife of Arthur E. PAGE, a farmer of Polk county, Wisconsin; Jessie I, married James COZINE, M.D., a Chicago physician, they also had one child now deceased; Charles M., who died in 1902.
Mr and Mrs. PAGE have the following children: Miss Edna, the sole companion and comfort of her grandmother; Ada, married Charles JOHNSON, lives in Frederick, Wisconsin; one child, Gladys Leora, the only great grandchild of Mrs. ANDREWS; Arthur O., Tracy S., Bertha S., and two deceased. These are Jennie ANDREWS' children.
Mrs. ANDREWS lives in the old homestead in Graham township. Miss Edna is a bright and charming young woman and brightens the days of her aged grandmother. Mrs. ANDREWS had rented all her land and is relieved from its care, so that she is able to enjoy a well earned rest with few cares to interrupt her ease and quiet. She has a vivid recollection of early days and her account of here earlier life is most interesting. She well remembers the early years when wolves were frequently seen in front of their cabin, and deer, elk and wild fowl were plentiful. At first the candles used for lighting the home were made by the primitive method of "dipping", and later, when molds came into the market, the new method was a great saving of time and work. She was a typical pioneer wife and mother, and was always most solicitous of the comfort and welfare of her family.
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Mrs. ANDREWS possessed great force of character, and uncommon amount of common sense, a kind heart, full of sympathy and a good will to all about her. She made her home a typical American home, where God was feared, industry, morality, honor, virtue and right living were taught and exemplified. No one in need or distress ever appealed to her in vain. She was a ministering angel at the bedside of the sick, a comforter to those in distress.
She was highly respected and greatly beloved by the entire community and all who knew her. She will long be remembered for her pure life, sterling character and the good deeds she has done. No one who has lived to the grand old age of more than eighty five years, whose life has been an open book in the community for nearly half a century, exemplifying the religious truth which moulded her life, who has enjoyed the love and confidence of all, as has Mrs. ANDREWS, can be said to have lived in vain.
Laura P. (ANDREWS) HARE (1827-<1879)
12. Laura P. ANDREWS was born in Mexico, Oswego County, New York on 4 July 1827. She married Watson (or perhaps Washington) HARE and moved to Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania. She died some time before her mother's death in 1879.
Nathan David ANDREWS (1828-1915)
13. Nathan David ANDREWS was born on 1 December 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:| 131. | George Leslie ANDREWS | 20 Feb 1865 | -- | -- |
| 132. | Sherman ANDREWS | (1867) | -- | -- |
| 133. | John N. ANDREWS | 1869 | -- | -- |
| 134. | Eva ANDREWS | 1871 | -- | -- |
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 bought a homestead in Stone Canyon, Monterey County in 1878 and raised stock until he retired to Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County around the turn of the century.
Nathan and Amanda divorced sometime during the 1870s.
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.
- Cen 1850: 25 Jul 1850 Census, Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania
- Cen 1860: 12 Jun 1860 Census, New Port Post Office, Graham, Johnson County, Iowa
- Cen 1880: 19 Jun 1860 Census, San Antonio, Monterey County, California
- Cen 1910: 21 Apr 1910 Census, 1100 Block 13th Street, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, California
Sophia (ANDREWS) AMES (1830-1905)
14. 14. Sophia ANDREWS was born on September 20, 1830 in Mexico, Oswego County, New York. She married Williams Almiron AMES about 1850 in Iowa and started a family of five in Newport Township, Johnson County:| 141. | Estella "Stella" P. AMES | (1850) | (1875-1879) | (>24) |
| 142. | Laurel A. AMES | (1852) | -- | -- |
| 143. | Frank O. AMES | (1855) | Bef. 1860 | (<5) |
| 144. | Helen A. AMES | (1860) | (1875) | (15) |
| 145. | Mary Alice AMES | 2 Feb 1863 | 18 Jun 1934 | (71) |
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 (1832-1913)
15. Harriet D. ANDREWS was born on 31 December 1832 in either Mexico, Oswego County, New York or Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania. She married William KESTER in Johnson County, Iowa on 5 March 1854 and had five children:
| 151. | Dulcena Estell KESTER | 4 Apr 1855 | -- | -- |
| 152. | Homer K. KESTER | 31 Dec 1857 | Bef. 1945 | (<88) |
| 153. | Emma KESTER | Apr (1860) | -- | -- |
| 154. | Eunice Lillian KESTER | 2 Jul 1860 | 25 Nov 1946 | (86) |
| 155. | Herbert Harlow KESTER | 15 Jun 1863 | -- | -- |
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 27 December 1894 at the age of 63.
Harriet (ANDREWS) KESTER died nine years later on 6 October 1913 in Pittville, (Shasta/Lassen County), California. She was 80 years old.
John C. ANDREWS (1835-<1879)
16. John C. ANDREWS was born on 27 November 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.
| 181. | Wilson J. SMITH | (1865) | -- | -- |
| 182. | Cordelia E. SMITH | 1867 | -- | -- |
| 183. | Ada SMITH | 1869 | -- | -- |
| 184. | Ida B. SMITH | 1874 | -- | -- |
| 185. | Oliver T. SMITH | 1882 | -- | -- |
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.
"Mrs. Cordelia E. SMITH, widow of the late Wilson J. SMITH, died in this city at 2 o'clock this morning, having succumbed to the infirmities of age. She was a native of Pennsylvania. She has been a resident of Salinas for 45 years and had many friends who will regret to hear of her death. Mrs. SMITH is survived by three daughters and two sons, Miss Ada SMITH of Spokane, Washington, Mrs. Della PALMER of San Francisco, Mrs. Ida B. JONES of Trinity county, Cal., Oliver T. SMITH of San Francisco and W. J. SMITH of this city.
The last sad rites for the late Mrs. Cordelia SMITH were performed this afternoon at Muller's mortuary chapel, the Rev. S.J. HOCKING of the Gabilan Street M.E. church officiating. Many friends and relatives of the much esteemed pioneer woman were present and the floral tokens in respect to her memory were profuse and beautiful. Interment was made in I.O.O.F. cemetery. Acting as pallbearers were Robert PORTER, Henry BARDIN, Lair PATTERSON, Nis NISSEN, A.M. CARPENTER and A. J. MCCOLLUM.
- Cen 1860: 12 Jun 1860 Census, Graham, Johnson County, Iowa
- Cen 1880: 5 Jun 1880 Census, Alisal, Salinas, Monterey County, California
- Cen 1900: 6 Jun 1900 Census, 206 Harvest Street, Alisal Township, Salinas, Monterey County, California
- Cen 1910: Apr 1910 Census, 202 Harvest Street, Alisal Township, Salinas, Monterey County, California
Frances Caroline (ANDREWS) MORSE (1842-1927)
19. Frances Caroline ANDREWS was born on 3 December 1842 in Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania. She married Stephen E. MORSE on 15 October 1861 in Black Hawk County, Iowa and started a family of eight children.| 191. | Dora MORSE | -- | -- | -- |
| 192. | Nathaniel MORSE | (1863) | -- | -- |
| 193. | Nevada G. MORSE | (1865) | -- | -- |
| 194. | Alletha MORSE | (1867) | -- | -- |
| 195. | Nellie MORSE | (1869) | -- | -- |
| 196. | Daisy MORSE | May 1876 | -- | -- |
| 197. | Susie MORSE | Apr 1879 | -- | -- |
| 198. | Stephen E. MORSE, Jr. | Oct 1883 | -- | -- |
The MORSE family moved to Nebraska where they resided in Washington County at the time of Frances' mother's death in 1879. In the 1880 census the MORSE family is found in Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska where Stephen is listed as a stable keeper. They later moved to Red Bluff, Tehama County, California around 1899 where Frances lived for 28 years before her death.
Stephen E. MORSE died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California on 4 December 1905 at the age of 69. Frances (ANDREWS) MORSE died 22 years later in Red Bluff on 5 August 1927. She was 84 years old.
Candace Mandana (ANDREWS) MILLER3 (1851-1912)
111. Candace Mandana ANDREWS3 was born 9 November, 1850 or 1851, probably in Erie County, Pennsylvania. She was raised by her grandparents after her mother died and later resettled in Johnson County, Iowa. There, she met Isaac Dennis MILLER, a disabled veteran of the Union Army and native of nearby Solon, Johnson County, Iowa. Isaac was also the nephew of her paternal aunt's husband (William KESTER and Harriet ANDREWS). They were wed in a ceremony conducted by Justice of the Peace, G. B. NICHOLSON, in Plattford Precinct, Sarpy County, Nebraska on 19 June, 1868. From there they moved to San Luis Obispo County, California, likely on the road with her grandparents and raised a family of seven children:
| 1111. | Hattie Mae MILLER | 2 May 1869 | 17 Jun 1954 | (85) |
| 1112. | Orrin Elbert MILLER | 6 Jul 1870 | 1 Aug 1941 | (70) |
| 1113. | Walter John MILLER | 11 Nov 1871 | 19 Sep 1947 | (75) |
| 1114. | Cora Ethel MILLER4 | 29 Jan 1880 | 18 Jul 1967 | (87) |
| 1115. | Elma "Babe" Finetti MILLER | 12 May 1884 | 10 Mar 1962 | (77) |
| 1116. | Minnie Isabelle MILLER | 24 Jul 1888 | 27 Dec 1965 | (77) |
| 1117. | Iva Edith MILLER | 8 Jul 1892 | (1920) | (28) |
Isaac Dennis MILLER died 25 May, 1896 in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo County, California. His estate went to his son, Orrin, and his widow and unmarried children moved in with Hattie Mae. Soon after Isaac's death, Hattie and Candace moved north to Healdsburg, in Sonoma County, spent some time in Gridley, Butte County, and, by 1905, Candace was living with Hattie Mae, at 392 5th Street in San Francisco, California. Later they moved to Fresno.
On 13 January 1910, Candace Mandana (ANDREWS) MILLER was institutionalized at the Stockton State Hospital in Stockton, San Joaquin County, by her eldest daughter, Hattie Mae. Hattie cited that Candace had been suffering from illness since as early as 1898. Two years later, on 1 June, 1912, Candace died there, allegedly, of a broken heart. She was either 60 or 61 years old.
Jennie Irene (ANDREWS) PAGE (1855-1939)
112. Jennie Irene ANDREWS was born on 7 March 1855 in Morse, Johnson County, Iowa. She was a school teacher in Morse when she met Arthur E. PAGE whom she married on 3 August 1881 in Morse. They had six children, five of whom survived to adulthood:
| 1121. | Edith Mae PAGE | 9 Dec 1882 | 17 Sep 1884 | (1) |
| 1122. | Edna PAGE | 3 Feb 1885 | 2 Oct 1941 | (56) |
| 1123. | Ada PAGE | 7 Jul 1887 | 6 Jan 1955 | (67) |
| 1124. | Arthur Orrin PAGE | 21 Nov 1889 | -- | -- |
| 1125. | Tracy Shepard PAGE | 14 Nov 1892 | 27 Mar 1958 | (65) |
| 1126. | Bertha Leora PAGE | 23 May 1895 | 5 Feb 1975 | (79) |
The PAGE family moved to Stratton, Hitchcock County in southwestern Nebraska by 1887 where their third and fouth children were born. By 1892 they returned to Morse, apparently having hit hard times.
In 1905 Arthur and son Arthur disappeared, never to be heard from again by the rest of the family. In 1913 Jennie inherited the ANDREWS estate in Morse from her mother.
Jessie E. (ANDREWS) COZINE (1857-1936)
113. Jessie E. ANDREWS was born in Graham Township, Johnson County, Iowa. She married James R. COZINE, a doctor who had studied medicine at Iowa State University. He practice medicine for a year at Morse Station (near Graham), and then moved to Chicago, Cook County, Illinois where he started his own pharmacy. Jennie and James had one child:
| 1131. | Charles M. COZINE | -- | 1902 | -- |
Dr. James R. COZINE died on November 27, 1911 in Chicago. He was buried at the Oakwoods Cemetery in Chicago.
Jessie E. (ANDREWS) COZINE lived on another 25 years and died on July 15, 1936.
Charles M. ANDREWS (1860-1902)
114. Charles M. ANDREWS was born on May 31, 1860, probably in Graham Township, Johnson County, Iowa. He died on January 11, 1902 in Graham Township, after developing pneumonia following an accident in which he lost his hand in a corn shredder on 16 November, 1901. Charles died at 1:30 AM on the morning of the 11th, and his father died the following evening from complications following a stroke earlier in the week. Both were buried at the Morse Cemetery.