Andrew Gass was born the son of Samuel and Rebecca Kerr Gass... He was a blacksmith when he married Mary Polly Collins Moyers, a widow of Mathias Moyers in August 1812. Mary and Mathias had at least 6 children before Mathias died in April 1812, just 4 short months before his widow married again to Andrew Gass, a man 13 years younger than her. He became the stepfather of children he was only a few years older than all the way down to the youngest who was only 2 when his mother married Andrew Gass. According to the bible of the Gass family Andrew and Mary had 5 children, Jane, Julia, Margaret, Andrew Powell and William Thomas Gass. in 1825 he was called to the ministry. His wife Mary Polly died in 1850 and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery. The following was found in the Goodspeed History of East Tennessee book...
Reverand Andrew Gass:
Andrew Gass served in the War of 1812. He was a 4th sgt. in Captain Reuben Tipton's Company, Major John Chiles' Battalion of Mounted Gunmen, East Tennessee Volunteers. He was mustered in on September 20, 1814 at Fort Montgomery and discharged on May 1, 1815 at Knoxville. Upon enlistment he was described as 23 years old, six feet tall, with dark hair and grey eyes. Andrew was appointed Trustee of Jefferson County in 1834. He was a blacksmith by trade and a minister in the Holston Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church. In Holston Methodism it is written of him: "Andrew Gass was a podgy (sic) old fellow when I first knew him....He was a consecrated Christian and a man of spotless integrity...He was often called on to pray in missionary rallies and other special meetings...He was powerfully converted undered the preaching of John Dever of Sulphur Spring Camp Ground in 1825...and in the same year was authorized to preach." He joined the conference in 1843 and did faithful circuit work till his superannuation in 1858. He had a musical voice, and often at the close of one of his solos he found the congregation bathed in tears. He died of apoplexy. In the midst of the excruciating agonies of his last moments he sang along and rapturously the praises of God. Andrew also was a Mason. See: Goodspeed History of East Tennessee, published in 1887..
Reverand Andrew Gass:
Andrew Gass served in the War of 1812. He was a 4th sgt. in Captain Reuben Tipton's Company, Major John Chiles' Battalion of Mounted Gunmen, East Tennessee Volunteers. He was mustered in on September 20, 1814 at Fort Montgomery and discharged on May 1, 1815 at Knoxville. Upon enlistment he was described as 23 years old, six feet tall, with dark hair and grey eyes. Andrew was appointed Trustee of Jefferson County in 1834. He was a blacksmith by trade and a minister in the Holston Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church. In Holston Methodism it is written of him: "Andrew Gass was a podgy (sic) old fellow when I first knew him....He was a consecrated Christian and a man of spotless integrity...He was often called on to pray in missionary rallies and other special meetings...He was powerfully converted undered the preaching of John Dever of Sulphur Spring Camp Ground in 1825...and in the same year was authorized to preach." He joined the conference in 1843 and did faithful circuit work till his superannuation in 1858. He had a musical voice, and often at the close of one of his solos he found the congregation bathed in tears. He died of apoplexy. In the midst of the excruciating agonies of his last moments he sang along and rapturously the praises of God. Andrew also was a Mason. See: Goodspeed History of East Tennessee, published in 1887..
Andrew Gass was born the son of Samuel and Rebecca Kerr Gass... He was a blacksmith when he married Mary Polly Collins Moyers, a widow of Mathias Moyers in August 1812. Mary and Mathias had at least 6 children before Mathias died in April 1812, just 4 short months before his widow married again to Andrew Gass, a man 13 years younger than her. He became the stepfather of children he was only a few years older than all the way down to the youngest who was only 2 when his mother married Andrew Gass. According to the bible of the Gass family Andrew and Mary had 5 children, Jane, Julia, Margaret, Andrew Powell and William Thomas Gass. in 1825 he was called to the ministry. His wife Mary Polly died in 1850 and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery. The following was found in the Goodspeed History of East Tennessee book...
Reverand Andrew Gass:
Andrew Gass served in the War of 1812. He was a 4th sgt. in Captain Reuben Tipton's Company, Major John Chiles' Battalion of Mounted Gunmen, East Tennessee Volunteers. He was mustered in on September 20, 1814 at Fort Montgomery and discharged on May 1, 1815 at Knoxville. Upon enlistment he was described as 23 years old, six feet tall, with dark hair and grey eyes. Andrew was appointed Trustee of Jefferson County in 1834. He was a blacksmith by trade and a minister in the Holston Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church. In Holston Methodism it is written of him: "Andrew Gass was a podgy (sic) old fellow when I first knew him....He was a consecrated Christian and a man of spotless integrity...He was often called on to pray in missionary rallies and other special meetings...He was powerfully converted undered the preaching of John Dever of Sulphur Spring Camp Ground in 1825...and in the same year was authorized to preach." He joined the conference in 1843 and did faithful circuit work till his superannuation in 1858. He had a musical voice, and often at the close of one of his solos he found the congregation bathed in tears. He died of apoplexy. In the midst of the excruciating agonies of his last moments he sang along and rapturously the praises of God. Andrew also was a Mason. See: Goodspeed History of East Tennessee, published in 1887..
Reverand Andrew Gass:
Andrew Gass served in the War of 1812. He was a 4th sgt. in Captain Reuben Tipton's Company, Major John Chiles' Battalion of Mounted Gunmen, East Tennessee Volunteers. He was mustered in on September 20, 1814 at Fort Montgomery and discharged on May 1, 1815 at Knoxville. Upon enlistment he was described as 23 years old, six feet tall, with dark hair and grey eyes. Andrew was appointed Trustee of Jefferson County in 1834. He was a blacksmith by trade and a minister in the Holston Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church. In Holston Methodism it is written of him: "Andrew Gass was a podgy (sic) old fellow when I first knew him....He was a consecrated Christian and a man of spotless integrity...He was often called on to pray in missionary rallies and other special meetings...He was powerfully converted undered the preaching of John Dever of Sulphur Spring Camp Ground in 1825...and in the same year was authorized to preach." He joined the conference in 1843 and did faithful circuit work till his superannuation in 1858. He had a musical voice, and often at the close of one of his solos he found the congregation bathed in tears. He died of apoplexy. In the midst of the excruciating agonies of his last moments he sang along and rapturously the praises of God. Andrew also was a Mason. See: Goodspeed History of East Tennessee, published in 1887..
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