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Christian Truby
CHRISTIAN TRUBY, of South Buffalo township, Armstrong county, now living
retired, is of German birth, being a native of Kurhessen (Hessen-Cassel),
Germany, born July 28, 1835. George and Barbara Truby, his parents were of the
same place. The father was a carpenter by trade.Coming to America in 1848, the family made the voyage in the sailing vessel
“Albert,” a three-masted schooner, and were eight weeks on the
ocean, landing at Baltimore, Md. They proceeded to Cumberland, Md., and later
to Pittsburgh, Pa., by wagon, this journey being made in the winter time.
Later they came to Freeport, Armstrong county, and Mr. Truby worked out the
first two years. Then he obtained a farm in Butler county, Pa., where he and
his wife died. They were members of the Lutheran church. They had a family of
seven children: Elizabeth, who died in Germany; Catherine, who died aged
eighty-two years; Rosanna, who died aged thirty years; Eliza, deceased;
George, deceased; Christian; and Henry, who served in the Civil War in the 5th
Pennsylvania Cavalry and was shot in the mouth and jugular vein, being taken
to a hospital on Long Island, where he died and was buried.Christian Truby attended school only two years, in his native land, being
obliged to learn English without instruction. However, he has been a great
reader in his time, though he has had to give up reading lately because of
failing eyesight. As a boy of fifteen he was employed as driver on the
Pennsylvania canal, and also worked at home on the farm. For two years he
worked on a steamboat. Going to Muskingum county, Ohio, he worked at the trade
of stonemason two seasons. Then he returned home and was married to Anna
Elizabeth Waishupt. After his marriage Mr. Truby continued to live at home,
taking care of his parents until they died, after which he left Butler county,
coming to Freeport and settling on an island for two years. He has worked at
the carpenter’s trade ever since, and among the houses which he has built is
the home on Franklin street in which he has lived since its completion.Mrs. Truby was born in Hessen-Cassel, Germany, daughter of Henry and
Elizabeth Waishupt, of that place, where the father died. As they had
relatives in Pennsylvania, the mother and children came to America in 1850,
and located in Freeport, Pa., where Mrs. Waishupt died. Mrs. Truby is the only
one of the family now living. To Mr. and Mrs. Truby have been born children as
follows: Lizzie, who is living in Philadelphia, Pa.; Fred, living in Oklahoma;
Augustus, at home; Henry, deceased; John, of Butler, Pa., a carpenter and
contractor; Catherine, deceased; George Edward, living at home, who is engaged
as a tinner and carpenter; Lewis, a carpenter, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Charles,
a barber, of Philadelphia; Emma, living in Philadelphia; Mary, living in
Philadelphia; and Samuel G., a street car conductor in Philadelphia.Mr. Truby has always been a Republican in politics and during the Civil war
he was a Union sympathizer. On Sept. 19, 1864, he enlisted in Company D, 67th
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, doing considerable guard duty; he
was in the battle of Sailor’s Creek. He was discharged June 20, 1865, at
Washington, D. C.. Mr. Truby is a member of Weaver Post, No. 32, G. A. R. When
he went to the war he had to leave his wife and five small children, and she
ran the farm without other help, though obliged to get in all the grain and
put in more for the next season. She also had to market all the produce, take
care of the horses and cattle, build fences and get up the wood in the winter.
Help could not be hired readily in those times and it was a terrible task for
the frail little woman. Mrs. Truby can tell of many hardships experienced in
the early days of the county.Mr. and Mrs. Truby are members of the Lutheran Church at Freeport. He was a
Sunday school teacher in that church for twenty years. In his earlier years he
was a noted singer, and gave singing lessons.Source: Pages 667-668, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed September 1998 by James R Hindman for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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