Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Fuller, Karrison 
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  HARRISON FULLER, one of the old settlers of Collinwood township, has his home on
section 4. He is a native of Russell county, Va., and there made his residence until
he was ten years of age, then emigrated to Tazwell county, settling in what
afterward became a part of Buchanan county. Most of this time was spent on a farm
with his parents. In 1862 he was conscripted into the Confederate army, and served
some eighteen months. Having been made lieutenant, and detailed for recruiting
service, he absented himself without leave, and passing the lines, came to
Minnesota. He arrived at Hutchinson, McLeod county, May 14, 1864, and spent the
summer in digging ginseng, and the next winter in hunting and trapping. The
following year he moved to the place where he now lives, but did little toward its
improvement for some three years. The hard frost of August 19,1866, destroying the
little crops he and the other settlers had in, he had considerable difficulty in
getting along, so, with others, he went to Wright county and chopped wood all the
following winter. Many of bis neighbors were sadly pinched with hunger at-that time.
One day he walked to Kingston for provisions, but failed to get them, and on
returning, found that the family had eaten up everything in the house, and he was
forced to go supperless to bed. The next day he was more fortunate, getting some
flour at Greenleaf. Most of the settlers lived through the winter on what game they
could kill, and in the spring on ramps or leeks, elm bark and other herbage. One
family, to his knowledge, lived on game, ramps or leeks, and herbage that winter and
spring. In 1873, after an absence of a year in Virginia, he commenced to develop his
farm properly, and by diligence has succeeded in accumulating a nice property. He
was married March 7, 1861, to Miss Smyth, who was born in Tazewell county, Va.,
April 26, 1845, and is the daughter of Samuel M. and Mary (Justice) Smvth, natives
of Kentucky. By this union there has been ten children, as follows— Ashville, born
November 7, 1862, and married, March 27, 1884, to Mrs. Olarinda (Goble) West: Mary
F., born September 29, 1865, married Solomon Scalf in January, 1883; Pricy J., born
Maj' 19, 1868, married, March 7, 1885, to Armstrong Sellard; Elijah S., born March
15, 1871; James A., born March 20, 1873; Roxelena, born May 24, 1875; Ida A., born
May 26, 1877; Vashti, born May 2, 1880; Lucretia, born November 5, 1882; and Maggie,
born June 30, 1886.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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