George Harshbarger had to have been from near the Mt. Sidney area of Augusta County, Virginia, because he married my great-aunt, Ollie Virginia Croushorn, who grew up a member of the Salem Lutheran Church at Mt. Sidney. I believe that Gge. was a Mennonite. She was one of three daughters of Mary Catharine Switzer Croushorn and Wm. Frederick Croushorn, a Civil War veteran and farmer at Mt. Sidney. She had three brothers: John who died at age 19 in a hunting accident; my grandfather, James (Jim)Wm. Croushorn,(who has many descendants) and Charles Croushorn who had no children.
I don't know anything yet about George's family.
At some point in the early 1900s, they decided to move to Montana from the Shenandoah Valley. They lived near or in a town called Plentywood, MT, where Gge. did farming and managed, so I was told, some kind of coal mining operation. My mother told me that Ollie cooked for all the miners and that they lived near the Canadian border.
As Ollie's health failed, the doctor advised them to move to warm weather at a low altitude near the sea, and they decided to move to Pass Christian, Miss., on the Gulf of Mexico. I think it had a Mennonite colony. And so they moved there probably around 1934. Their four sons all went; but one, Russell R., went back to live in Oregon and married his sweetheart from Montana. They lived in Portland, Oregon. The other sons, Wm. Wirt, Clement Croushorn, and Tallis Titus, stayed on the Gulf.
Ollie passed away in 1937, probably of kidney complications from high blood pressure. I know that she had high blood pressure. My mother told me that. Ollie had visited Virginia a few times over the years when they lived still in Montana.
Children other than William Wirt: died in Miss. I believe
Tallis Titus Harshbarger: #28126917 died in Miss.
Russell Randolph Harshbarger: (have not found his grave; lived in Oregon. I talked to his wife once years ago.)
Clement Croushorn Harshbarger: died age 100 in Miss.
I don't know anything yet about George's family.
At some point in the early 1900s, they decided to move to Montana from the Shenandoah Valley. They lived near or in a town called Plentywood, MT, where Gge. did farming and managed, so I was told, some kind of coal mining operation. My mother told me that Ollie cooked for all the miners and that they lived near the Canadian border.
As Ollie's health failed, the doctor advised them to move to warm weather at a low altitude near the sea, and they decided to move to Pass Christian, Miss., on the Gulf of Mexico. I think it had a Mennonite colony. And so they moved there probably around 1934. Their four sons all went; but one, Russell R., went back to live in Oregon and married his sweetheart from Montana. They lived in Portland, Oregon. The other sons, Wm. Wirt, Clement Croushorn, and Tallis Titus, stayed on the Gulf.
Ollie passed away in 1937, probably of kidney complications from high blood pressure. I know that she had high blood pressure. My mother told me that. Ollie had visited Virginia a few times over the years when they lived still in Montana.
Children other than William Wirt: died in Miss. I believe
Tallis Titus Harshbarger: #28126917 died in Miss.
Russell Randolph Harshbarger: (have not found his grave; lived in Oregon. I talked to his wife once years ago.)
Clement Croushorn Harshbarger: died age 100 in Miss.
George Harshbarger had to have been from near the Mt. Sidney area of Augusta County, Virginia, because he married my great-aunt, Ollie Virginia Croushorn, who grew up a member of the Salem Lutheran Church at Mt. Sidney. I believe that Gge. was a Mennonite. She was one of three daughters of Mary Catharine Switzer Croushorn and Wm. Frederick Croushorn, a Civil War veteran and farmer at Mt. Sidney. She had three brothers: John who died at age 19 in a hunting accident; my grandfather, James (Jim)Wm. Croushorn,(who has many descendants) and Charles Croushorn who had no children.
I don't know anything yet about George's family.
At some point in the early 1900s, they decided to move to Montana from the Shenandoah Valley. They lived near or in a town called Plentywood, MT, where Gge. did farming and managed, so I was told, some kind of coal mining operation. My mother told me that Ollie cooked for all the miners and that they lived near the Canadian border.
As Ollie's health failed, the doctor advised them to move to warm weather at a low altitude near the sea, and they decided to move to Pass Christian, Miss., on the Gulf of Mexico. I think it had a Mennonite colony. And so they moved there probably around 1934. Their four sons all went; but one, Russell R., went back to live in Oregon and married his sweetheart from Montana. They lived in Portland, Oregon. The other sons, Wm. Wirt, Clement Croushorn, and Tallis Titus, stayed on the Gulf.
Ollie passed away in 1937, probably of kidney complications from high blood pressure. I know that she had high blood pressure. My mother told me that. Ollie had visited Virginia a few times over the years when they lived still in Montana.
Children other than William Wirt: died in Miss. I believe
Tallis Titus Harshbarger: #28126917 died in Miss.
Russell Randolph Harshbarger: (have not found his grave; lived in Oregon. I talked to his wife once years ago.)
Clement Croushorn Harshbarger: died age 100 in Miss.
I don't know anything yet about George's family.
At some point in the early 1900s, they decided to move to Montana from the Shenandoah Valley. They lived near or in a town called Plentywood, MT, where Gge. did farming and managed, so I was told, some kind of coal mining operation. My mother told me that Ollie cooked for all the miners and that they lived near the Canadian border.
As Ollie's health failed, the doctor advised them to move to warm weather at a low altitude near the sea, and they decided to move to Pass Christian, Miss., on the Gulf of Mexico. I think it had a Mennonite colony. And so they moved there probably around 1934. Their four sons all went; but one, Russell R., went back to live in Oregon and married his sweetheart from Montana. They lived in Portland, Oregon. The other sons, Wm. Wirt, Clement Croushorn, and Tallis Titus, stayed on the Gulf.
Ollie passed away in 1937, probably of kidney complications from high blood pressure. I know that she had high blood pressure. My mother told me that. Ollie had visited Virginia a few times over the years when they lived still in Montana.
Children other than William Wirt: died in Miss. I believe
Tallis Titus Harshbarger: #28126917 died in Miss.
Russell Randolph Harshbarger: (have not found his grave; lived in Oregon. I talked to his wife once years ago.)
Clement Croushorn Harshbarger: died age 100 in Miss.
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