Sketch of Andrew Davidson, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Andrew Davidson, of Kentucky, came to Missouri in 1811, but returned
in 1813, and married Sarah Johnson.  In 1830 he came back to Missouri
and settled in St. Charles County.  His children were: Susan, Green-
berry, William, Angeline, Eliza J., Salome and John.  The old gentle-
man was a great friend of the Indians, and in order to manifest his
good feelings, he kept a lot of tobacco with which he would fill their
pouches when they stopped at his house.  One of his sons, a mischievous
lad, poured a pound of gunpowder into the tobacco, and several of the
Indians got their faces and noses burnt in attempting to smoke it. This
of course, was taken as a mortal offence, and it was with the greatest
difficulty that Mr. Davidson kept the Indians from killing himself and
family.	

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