Running River Andrews
Running River Andrews | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1880 Zian Mountains, Pahl, Zamastan |
| Died | September 20, 1933 Goldeville Stars Inn, Goldeville, Wallenland |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Resting place | Old Goldeville Cemetery, Goldeville, Wallenland |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Bell (m. 1904 - d. 1913), Cynthia Black (m. 1915 - d. 1920), Lilian Morrison (m. 1922 - 1933) |
| Children | MB: Abraham (1905) James (1907) Alexandre (1910) Anna (1911) CB: Joshua (1915) Holly (1915) Paul (1915) Margaret (1917) Hosanna (1920) LM: Maple (1922) Joseph (1922) Linda (1923) Dorothy (1926) |
| Parent(s) | Alexandre Andrews neé Seymour (mother), Sebastian Andrews (father) |
| Residence | Goldeville Stars Inn |
Running River Andrews (c. 1880 - September 20, 1933) or by his baptismal name, Jethro Sebastian Andrews, was a Caticeze labourer that organized Wallenland's first workers' strike and pastor of the Church of the Latter Days Revelation and a militia commander during the Eden Valley Dispute and the Wallene Civil War.
Born to Sebastian and Sunflower Andrews in around the 1880s in a small Caticeze community nestled in the Zian Mountains, he was tutored personally by a Church of Zian preacher, Jacob Honeywood, who gave the ability to read and write for Running River and his father who taught carpentry, later aspiring to be a carpenter in the future but due to laws that hindered and prohibited Caticeze people to work in Zamastan freely, he took the opportunity to work for the Wren & Johnson Mining Company in Wallenland. Along with 97 other Caticeze men, all of them worked at Night River Mine with other workers of foreign backgrounds. Conditions were horrenduous for the miners and after 3 months, a strike was planned that intended to demand for proper conditions and medical care. These demands were met with aggression by the foremen who shot and killed 8 miners, leading to the miners' first repsonse being to kill, capture, or drive off nearly all the foremen from the mine. Company militiamen were sent along with colonial troops to put down the strike, ending in a ceasefire and eventually the closure of the mine and the company. Soon after, Running River returned to his village in Zamastan and married a Caticeze woman, Margaret Bell, and became a self-employed carpenter but felt uneasy from potential attacks by white Zamastanians and the law so he moved back to Wallenland with his pregnant wife, his mother, and other Caticeze families after bribing a captain of a whaling ship that was set to resupply in Valhókoà's Blue Eye Harbour. Running River was soon hired in the Blue Eye Hotel and during his employment met Elmer Reeter, an Elbresian preacher of the Church of the Latter Days Revelation that was intending to convert anyone to his faith. After being convinced by Reeter to convert to the CotLDR, so did his family and subsequently other families that emigrated with the Andrews and soon joined the CotLDR's wagon train. The CotLDR eventually settled in Virgin Valley and Running River became a well-trusted and hardworking member of the church, using his carpentry skills to help build houses and the town's church until he became a reverend and preacher of the CotLDR
Early life
Born in the early 1880s to Sebastian 'Dancing Stag' Andrews; a carpenter and fur-trader, and Sunflower Andrews, neé Seymour, the Andrews lived a quiet life in the Zian Mountains in a small Caticeze community. Running River was at first taught at home, learning basic carpentry, hunting, skinning before his tenth birthday from his father and sewing and cooking from his mother. In 1891, ...