Ann Elizabeth Gross

  Noted events in her life were:

• Fact 1: Akron Cemetery - Akron, Indiana.

Ann married Samuel Morrett on 18 Nov 1852 in Churchtown, Pennsylvania. (Samuel Morrett was born on 11 Feb 1827 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and died on 10 Feb 1921.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• None-Ending, 22 Oct 1918, Morrett Homestead.

  Marriage Notes:

Ann Elizabeth's friends advised her against marriage, for they thought she would soon be a widow - the Civil War was brewing. However, when the Civil War broke out, the Union Army would not take Samuel because he had lost his teeth.

Samuel and Ann Elizabeth lived in a brick house in Churchtown. Samuel's grocery store was on a corner, across the street from a high monument in memory of a Revolutionary soldier.

In 1855 they moved to Indiana to an 80 acre farm, 3 miles west and .5 miles south of Silver Lake. Samuel bought the farm on October 3, 1854 from John C. and Martha Stockton for approximately $1,000. The purchase was witnessed by Abner Wood, Justice of the Peace in Kosciusko County. They returned to Pennsylvania in 1856 and lived in Plainfield. They returned to Indiana in 1861, with their two sons and one daughter. In 1865 they moved back to Churchtown and later to Mount Pleasant. They then moved to Shepherdstown - five miles north of Mount Pleasant. In the spring of 1876, they returned to Indiana to live permanently.

Samuel was a beekeeper. Ann Elizabeth would peddle honey from a horse and buggy. He also cultivated fruit trees and enjoyed grafting and crossing varieties.

Elizabeth Morrett Riley wrote, "Grandmother always had a jar of sugar cookies in the basement and I would get to fill up the cookie dish. They had cookies and honey every meal. Grandfather had a lot of faith in honey and whenever we were ill he always brought us more honey. Grandmother always attended Eldership, going mostly by train and staying for all of the Sessions. Grandfather always joked about being his own boss while she was gone. He was very hard of hearing and I never remember him going to Church but he could quote Scripture and he enjoyed the Church Advocate. He was staunch in what he believed and wrote letters about the Bible to his cousins and nephews in Pennsylvania. Later in life when his eyes began to fail, he would have us look up Scriptures, to see if he quoted them right. He told us after Grandmother died and he lived with us, that he was ready to die, but he knew that when the time came his body would fight to the last to stay alive."

Samuel and Ann Elizabeth purchased property in Akron but she died before they could move.