Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Elizabeth Clements GRUWELL
Elizabeth, the third child of Timothy and Alice Gruwell married Daniel Gaskill, who died in 1854. She then married Edward Hussey, and moved to Cedar Bluffs, near West Branch, Iowa. Tradition, apparently passed from her daughter Huldah Gaskill Heacock to Huldah's granddaughter, Mary Heacock Streeter, says that Elizabeth Gruwell climbed through a window when she was 17, and eloped on a horse with Daniel Gaskill, who was not a Quaker. Her grandson, Charles Clement Heacock, told this story about "Grandmother Hussey": One day, when the men folks had gone to town and Grandmother Hussey was alone with the children, she heard a little pig squealing. Rushing out of the house, she found a big bear about to get into the pig pen. She took a gun and shot the bear dead. This incident must have happened in Ohio, as Grandmother Hussey had no small children in Iowa. In the early 1880s, she returned to Ohio for a visit, and Pauline Heacock Pallady, daughter of Daniel Heacock, then a small girl, still remembers the incident. She writes "Grandmother Hussey visited at my father's when I was a small girl. I can just remember her sitting in the kitchen smoking a corncob pipe." Since the name of Edward Hussey does not appear in the 1860 census, when Elizabeth Hussey was living with her children, Joseph and Carrie Gaskill, he had probably died, and her second marriage lasted only about five years. Her last years were spent living with her daughter, Eliza, in Honey Grove. She died January 23, 1889, while visiting her son Nathan in Cedar Rapids.
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