Re: ANDRUS of ORONO ONTARIO CANADA
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Re: ANDRUS of ORONO ONTARIO CANADA
Robert ANDRUS 12/23/09
My greatgrandfather married an Andrus; Sarah Wealtha Andrus. She was known as Wealthy Gilfillan. You have her name wrong on this site; it is Wealthy not Wyman. She is related to Edson Andrus but I forget the connection. They are in the family plot in Bowmanville. You are right on about their religion. The Gilfillans & Andrus families were all Disciples of Christ; a Scottish Calvinist Protestant church very prominent in the Orono area at that time. People married within the church. The two families were very active in the Temperance Movement in Ontario, etc. Like the Andrus family, the Gilfillans were Americans from Chautaqua County in Western New York coming to Orono circa 1830. Wealtha Andrus Gilfillan was the 2nd wife of Jas Gilfillan so she was my father's step grandmother. She died in the 1930s. Her son was George Elliot Gilfillan DDS, graduate of the University of Toronto. He lived at Uxbridge.There you go.