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Harriett Amanda Andrews (1875 - 1966)

Harriett Amanda "Aunt Hat" Andrews
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Wife of — married 14 Jul 1920 in East Liverpool, Columbiana Co., Ohiomap
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Died at age 91 in East Liverpool, OHmap
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Biography

Harriett Amanda [AKA Aunt Hat] ANDREWS. [1]

Born 22 DEC 1875. [2]

Buried Riverview Cemetery, East Liverpool, OH.

Note: #N50.

Served in Military: Y.

Notes

Note N50.

Known as Aunt Hat. As a young woman she was a missionary/teacher to poor hillbilly families in Tennessee.WJC3 has seen a picture from that era of her riding a mule to visit some of her charges. 1

On May 6, 2016, at 9:00 AM, William J. Curry <wjcur3@gmail.com> emailed Jane Curry: 1

Tell me the story of Harriet’s marriage to Dick Manor again. I just found this photo of what I thought was Harriet’s 1897 ELHS graduating class listing her as Harriet Andrews Manor. The glass-framed doorway is definitely the ELHS Central school entrance as verified by the the second photo. But…she would have been 21 (b. 12/1875) in 1897 so this must be a college teaching school photo (can’t locate where I found it now). Students do look more mature than high school though. 1

I thought you said that her dau. Ellen had an illegitimate child (was it Dickie?) but I didn’t know that Harriet was married when she went as a missionary teacher into the TN Appalachians to teach hillbilly kids. 1

On May 6, 2016, at 9:32 AM, William J. Curry <wjcur3@gmail.com>emailed Jane Curry: 1

I found the photo on the ELO Hist. Soc. website. May have to retract idea of teacher class since title implies its the ELHS grad class. But why would Harriet be graduating from HS at age 21 and married?  Also, four other girls in the picture are listed with middle or married names???. 1

On May 6, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Jane Curry <janelcurry@hotmail.com> wrote: 1

Dear B. 1

The students are definitely not H.S. age. There must have been a teachers program available, possibly an extension program affiliated with a college or teachers college, just as there is a full branch of Kent State there now.  The fact that five of the women are married indicates as much. If you were a woman and married during your high school years, you had to drop out (and, I suspect, not just because marriage was a full-time job, but to avoid the problem of the "dissemination of carnal information." Even in my day girls dropped out if they got married. High-school nursery schools? Heaven forfend!). 1

Obviously these were young women who needed an income-- as certainly Aunt Hat must have, since I can't imagine Uncle Dick supporting himself, and certainly not a wife. (There was something that sailed over my head about his "having a little money"-- perhaps inherited?) Aunt Hat herself was a dear, loving woman, unconventional in her diffident way, but probably not the sharpest pencil in the box, so perhaps the missionary teaching was the only post she could get. I, too, had always assumed that she was single when she set out for the hills. . 1

Ellen was adopted (at what stage I have no idea)and much, much loved; her little boy, Frankie, whom Aunt Hat adored and took care of when Ellen was at work, was a charmer, as was his father Frank in his feckless way. Frank visited often at first, loved the boy--and was fond of Ellen, but was the classic hat-on-the-back-of-his-head not-the-marrying-kind. He and Ellen met when she went to work in a factory somewhere across the river. "War Work," it was called, but that was a broad enough term to cover anything from shell casings to boot laces. I never knew. But she did wear the apron and hair tied up in a bandanna turban just like the old WWII photos. Frank went into the army and off to war. Grand Dodie did cluck about all this-- she would have sternly disapproved-- but Aunt Hat (and Ellen) got a free pass. . 1

Much love,. 1

J. 1

On May 7, 2016, at 12:14 AM, William J. Curry <wjcur3@gmail.com> wrote: 1 May 6, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Jane Curry <janelcurry@hotmail.com> wrote:

Aunt Hat herself was a dear, loving woman, unconventional in her diffident way, but probably not the sharpest pencil in the box, so perhaps the missionary teaching was the only post she could get. I, too, had always assumed that she was single when she set out for the hills. 1

Matthew Andrews was a great supporter of missionary work. His 1904 will (copy in my possession) devised a ,000 grant for foreign missionary work in Egypt and India and made a second ,000 grant “for the assistance and help of the deserving poor” to be distributed at the discretion of his executors sons. Perhaps they grubstaked her. But, then again, Matthew didn’t die until Feb. 1911 so that plane won’t fly. More likely he supported her work while living. 1

After Matthew’s 2nd wife, Mary Hill, died in 1903, Harriet was apparently his caretaker until his death in 1911. They went on extended trips to together to the Richardsons in Florida, to El Paso, and to see the McQuilkens in CA for over a year. Apparently Dick was left tending the garden. 1

Also Harriet acknowledged in writing on 3151911, receipt of the equivalent of ,000 from her father’s estate, either in land or money which was a considerable sum in those day. Plus she got all her father’s household furnishings. Matthew was very well off when he departed giving the equivalent of ,000 to each of his eight children. His estate disbursed ,000 in cash or land equivalents and he had other real estate interests that were to be liquidated upon his death. Using an inflation calculator I found on the Net and assuming his total estate was valued at ,000 in 1911, it would be worth ,315,937.22 today. 1

Do you remember a last name for Ellen’s partner?.

Sources

  1. Source: #S131
  2. Source: #S131




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