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"...he married his seventeen year old
sweetheart, Eleanor (Nellie) Julian. They apparently had fallen away from the
Quaker faith for they were married by a Justice of the Peace and Eleanor wore
pink strings on her bonnett -- quite a deviation from the strict quaker
custom."
William and Jemima Harvey's son, Absalom, was my great
grandfather. A brief history of Absalom can be found in The history of
Grundy County:
Absalom Harvey was born in Randolph county, North
Carolina, June 13, 1791, where he lived until he was about thirteen years of
age. His father then moved to the Territory of Indiana, where he resided about
thirty-four years. He lived on a farm and used to buy hogs and drive them to
Cincinnati, Ohio to market, following the business about fifteen years. He
served in the War of 1812 under General Harrison. At the close of the war he
married Miss Eleanor Julian, October 5, 1813, and settled on a farm in Wayne
county, Indiana, where he lived until 1820, then moved to Blue River, Henry
county, same State and lived there twenty years. In the fall of 1842 he moved
to Grundy county, Missouri, where he settled on the farm now owned by his son
in Edinburg. He was a noted hunter and used to indulge in the sport a great
deal, and kept several hounds; he used to take his dogs and go up to the
country and start up a deer in the woods on the spot which is now Main Strett,
Edinburg. The deer went through the place snorting, and when the town was
started it was originally called "Bucksnort," owing to this snorting as soon as
they got into town, and was so called for a long time, when the people became
possessed of the idea that it was not a nice name, and it was changed. They
wanted to call it Harveyville, but Mr. Harvey would not have it that way, so an
old Scotchman named McFarland, had the naming of it, and he called it Edinburg
after the classical city in Scotland where he came from. Mr. Harvey very
frequently went with the Indians on their hunting excursions, as they had to
have a white man with them to keep from being molested on these hunting tours.
His death occurred September 17, 1872. He was a kind husband and father,
beloved by all who knew him. He was grandfather to thirty-four children and
great-grandfather to sixteen children. His wife still survives. She was born in
Randolph county, North Carolina, October 9, 1796. She lived with her parents,
Isaac and Sarah Julian, until she was married. She has been a pioneer all of
her life and helped to settle up two new territories before coming to this
county. Their family consisted of eight children, named, respectively, Jemima,
Isaac J., Sarah I., Evan, William C., Elizabeth E., Sophronia J., and a babe
not named. She is grandmother to thirty seven children , great grandmother to
twenty nine children and great great grandmother to three children. She is a
woman of many sterling qualities. Her eldest son (I. J. Harvey) came from
California to visit her in 1873, and she accompanied him back as she wanted to
see those of her grandchildren she had never seen; she remained about three
months. She was reared a Quaker, but not liking that creed, felt as though she
ought to join some church, and so united with the Baptist Church, and still
remains an active member.
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