Moses Truehart and Eliza Truehart - charcoal drawing, framed (replaced tintype of Corinda) - 2' x 3'
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Title
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Moses Truehart and Eliza Truehart - charcoal drawing, framed (replaced tintype of Corinda) - 2' x 3'
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Description
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This charcoal drawing is of Moses Truehart and Eliza Truehart, a married couple with deep roots in the Sourland Mountain region of New Jersey.
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Moses Truehart (1816-December 6, 1901) and Eliza (full name Elizabeth Unk according to Ancestry.com records) (1815 or 1816-January 12, 1902) married and had two children together: Sarah Lucinda (née True) Hoagland and Levi Spencer True (Ancestry.com 2009a, The Hopewell Herald 1902).
Moses was a farmer who owned land in Hopewell, and Eliza was a housekeeper (Ancestry.com 2009a; Ancestry.com 2010). The couple “continued to grow [their] family, and [their] descendants still live in Hopewell to the day” (Witness Stones Project and Timberlane Middle School 2022). According to 1860 Census records, the couple had been living with their daughter Sarah, her husband Henry Hoagland, and their grandsons Spencer and William (Ancestry.com 2009a; Ancestry.com 2009c; Ancestry.com 2009c).
Eliza’s obituary notes that she passed away in the care of her daughter Sarah Hoagland, that she was “a member of the Old School Baptist Church,” and that “she and her husband were highly respected colored people” (The Hopewell Herald 1902).
Beverly Mills is the co-founder of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum located in Skillman, NJ. On her maternal side, Mills traces her ancestry back to Friday Truehart– her being his fifth great granddaughter (Katmann 2014, 6; Witness Stones Project and Timberlane Middle School 2022, 11).
Friday Truehart (May 29,1767-1845) and Judah (or Juda) Shue (circa 1773-September 3, 1855) had three children together (Ancestry.com 2022, Witness Stones Project and Timberlane Middle School 2022). Their names were Isaac (b. 1792), Aaron (b. 1805), and, featured in this charcoal drawing, Moses (Witness Stones Project and Timberlane Middle School 2022, Buck and Mills 2021, The Hopewell Herald 1902).
For more family history on the True(hart) family, see the BJ&R item “Billy Truehart milkbox” or search for other items contributed by the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum.
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Contributor
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SSAAM
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Date Created
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(n.d.)
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Creator
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Unknown
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Rights
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This work is believed to be in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States. For more information, see http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/
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Identifier
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Unknown
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Subject
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Charcoal drawing
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Love
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African American families
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African American farmers--History.
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Hunterdon County (N.J.).
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Sourland Mountain (N.J.)
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Format
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Image
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Extent
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1
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Spatial Coverage
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Hillsborough Twp. NJ
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Publisher
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SSAAM
