Unknown if maiden name sp. is Fullar or Fuller. Father, Will J B Fullar is the name written on back of photo of him. He left before she was born. Her mother was Martha Ann "Mattie" Hailey. She died when Mary was 12 yrs old, left in care of step-father, Mr Carter, who kept her out of school to go logging with him using a 2 man saw. She left him & went to live with Uncle John & aunt Sylvie Hailey with their large family - she felt like her cousins were brothers & sisters. 'Ola' was her nickname used by the family in Oklahoma. Mary married a widowed man, Mr. Williams, who had a son named Cody. They had 2 children, Velma Jolita & Fred Orval Williams. She left Mr Williams because he abused her and started a relationship with Frank Finc (or Fink?) who fathered her 2nd daughter Vernis. She left him because he didn't treat her older children well. She then married much older James Andrews to give father to her 2 children and baby on the way (Vernis). Her 4th and last child was born with Mr Andrews, James Andrews Jr. James Andrews Sr was born in Denmark and his name was Janus Andreas Dam (Dam means "pond" in Danish). He changed his name after a while in the USA because fellows would make fun of his name.
They lived in Indio on a farm during the Depression, then moved with the children to Beaumont, CA. They lived a while in Tucson, AZ. and Mary returned there some time after Mr Andrews passed on. Mary worked all her life. Logging, farming, itenerant crop picker as young married when Fred was a baby, dragging him along on the cotton sack while picking cotton - she said he liked it better as the sack filled with cotton! Worked in a cannery at Dole or Libby leaving the youngsters in the yard of the house she rented, across the street from the factory & she'd look in on them when she got breaks. You can't do that these days!
On the farm in Indio, she would have to set an alarm to water crops at night to prevent them wilting in the scorching heat.
Jimmy bought the place in Beaumont so she wouldn't have to do that anymore. He worked on the Santa Fe railroad as fireman - which means stoking the fire - hard work - he retired about 10 yrs past retirement because he lied & said he was younger.
Mary worked greasing the wheels of the train during WW2 because all the men were gone to war. She said she was scared she'd get run over while under the big wheels.
They built the house in Beaumont from a Sears Kit House. Vernis remembered helping put in the plumbing.
My memories of grandma Mary at her home in Beaumont - a glass bowl with caramels; watching Lawrence Welk show on TV; asking for a glass of buttermilk because it sounded so good (but tasted AWFUL!:], she didn't make me finish it). She kept a newspaper photo of Clark Gable & Carole Lombard in a frame in her glass fronted bookcase with the family photos. She had a picture of her oldest son's grandchildren without shirts - she 'colored-in' shirts on them with an inkpen!
She taught herself to play guitar, piano and accordion and sang. One of her favorite songs was "Long Black Veil".
She sang "Pretty Little Indian Naponee(sp?)" -
"Pretty little Indian naponee, won't you come and marry me. We'll live in an Indian teepee down by the sea. I'll wear feathers on my head, paint my cheeks an Indian red, if you will only be my naponee."
She taught this song to me & my brother & sister - & the cousins, too, I guess - and to my children when she came to live with us when she had Alzheimer's. She lived the last years of her life with us and she died in my arms.
from US Census 1930 under: husband James A Andrews;
Home in 1930: Indio, Riverside County, California; own home; lives on farm;
Spouse's Name: Veala (wrong spelling, should be Veola, apparently hadn't started using first name Mary yet) age 28; age at first marriage: 19; father born in: Germany; mother: Arkansas
Race: White
Thelma Williams (should be Velma); step-daughter; age 9; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
Fred O Williams; step-son; age 6; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
[my mother Vernis would be born August 19, so Mary was 5 1/2mos. pregnant at the time. My uncle Jim, James A. Andrews Jr. would be born 2 years later in 1932. He married Louise, my dear aunt Lou. Uncle Fred married my mom's best friend from high school, Margie.]
Dearly loved grandson, son of her son James Jr & daughter-in-law Louise:
Roger A. Andrews (1957-1994)
They lived in Indio on a farm during the Depression, then moved with the children to Beaumont, CA. They lived a while in Tucson, AZ. and Mary returned there some time after Mr Andrews passed on. Mary worked all her life. Logging, farming, itenerant crop picker as young married when Fred was a baby, dragging him along on the cotton sack while picking cotton - she said he liked it better as the sack filled with cotton! Worked in a cannery at Dole or Libby leaving the youngsters in the yard of the house she rented, across the street from the factory & she'd look in on them when she got breaks. You can't do that these days!
On the farm in Indio, she would have to set an alarm to water crops at night to prevent them wilting in the scorching heat.
Jimmy bought the place in Beaumont so she wouldn't have to do that anymore. He worked on the Santa Fe railroad as fireman - which means stoking the fire - hard work - he retired about 10 yrs past retirement because he lied & said he was younger.
Mary worked greasing the wheels of the train during WW2 because all the men were gone to war. She said she was scared she'd get run over while under the big wheels.
They built the house in Beaumont from a Sears Kit House. Vernis remembered helping put in the plumbing.
My memories of grandma Mary at her home in Beaumont - a glass bowl with caramels; watching Lawrence Welk show on TV; asking for a glass of buttermilk because it sounded so good (but tasted AWFUL!:], she didn't make me finish it). She kept a newspaper photo of Clark Gable & Carole Lombard in a frame in her glass fronted bookcase with the family photos. She had a picture of her oldest son's grandchildren without shirts - she 'colored-in' shirts on them with an inkpen!
She taught herself to play guitar, piano and accordion and sang. One of her favorite songs was "Long Black Veil".
She sang "Pretty Little Indian Naponee(sp?)" -
"Pretty little Indian naponee, won't you come and marry me. We'll live in an Indian teepee down by the sea. I'll wear feathers on my head, paint my cheeks an Indian red, if you will only be my naponee."
She taught this song to me & my brother & sister - & the cousins, too, I guess - and to my children when she came to live with us when she had Alzheimer's. She lived the last years of her life with us and she died in my arms.
from US Census 1930 under: husband James A Andrews;
Home in 1930: Indio, Riverside County, California; own home; lives on farm;
Spouse's Name: Veala (wrong spelling, should be Veola, apparently hadn't started using first name Mary yet) age 28; age at first marriage: 19; father born in: Germany; mother: Arkansas
Race: White
Thelma Williams (should be Velma); step-daughter; age 9; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
Fred O Williams; step-son; age 6; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
[my mother Vernis would be born August 19, so Mary was 5 1/2mos. pregnant at the time. My uncle Jim, James A. Andrews Jr. would be born 2 years later in 1932. He married Louise, my dear aunt Lou. Uncle Fred married my mom's best friend from high school, Margie.]
Dearly loved grandson, son of her son James Jr & daughter-in-law Louise:
Roger A. Andrews (1957-1994)
Unknown if maiden name sp. is Fullar or Fuller. Father, Will J B Fullar is the name written on back of photo of him. He left before she was born. Her mother was Martha Ann "Mattie" Hailey. She died when Mary was 12 yrs old, left in care of step-father, Mr Carter, who kept her out of school to go logging with him using a 2 man saw. She left him & went to live with Uncle John & aunt Sylvie Hailey with their large family - she felt like her cousins were brothers & sisters. 'Ola' was her nickname used by the family in Oklahoma. Mary married a widowed man, Mr. Williams, who had a son named Cody. They had 2 children, Velma Jolita & Fred Orval Williams. She left Mr Williams because he abused her and started a relationship with Frank Finc (or Fink?) who fathered her 2nd daughter Vernis. She left him because he didn't treat her older children well. She then married much older James Andrews to give father to her 2 children and baby on the way (Vernis). Her 4th and last child was born with Mr Andrews, James Andrews Jr. James Andrews Sr was born in Denmark and his name was Janus Andreas Dam (Dam means "pond" in Danish). He changed his name after a while in the USA because fellows would make fun of his name.
They lived in Indio on a farm during the Depression, then moved with the children to Beaumont, CA. They lived a while in Tucson, AZ. and Mary returned there some time after Mr Andrews passed on. Mary worked all her life. Logging, farming, itenerant crop picker as young married when Fred was a baby, dragging him along on the cotton sack while picking cotton - she said he liked it better as the sack filled with cotton! Worked in a cannery at Dole or Libby leaving the youngsters in the yard of the house she rented, across the street from the factory & she'd look in on them when she got breaks. You can't do that these days!
On the farm in Indio, she would have to set an alarm to water crops at night to prevent them wilting in the scorching heat.
Jimmy bought the place in Beaumont so she wouldn't have to do that anymore. He worked on the Santa Fe railroad as fireman - which means stoking the fire - hard work - he retired about 10 yrs past retirement because he lied & said he was younger.
Mary worked greasing the wheels of the train during WW2 because all the men were gone to war. She said she was scared she'd get run over while under the big wheels.
They built the house in Beaumont from a Sears Kit House. Vernis remembered helping put in the plumbing.
My memories of grandma Mary at her home in Beaumont - a glass bowl with caramels; watching Lawrence Welk show on TV; asking for a glass of buttermilk because it sounded so good (but tasted AWFUL!:], she didn't make me finish it). She kept a newspaper photo of Clark Gable & Carole Lombard in a frame in her glass fronted bookcase with the family photos. She had a picture of her oldest son's grandchildren without shirts - she 'colored-in' shirts on them with an inkpen!
She taught herself to play guitar, piano and accordion and sang. One of her favorite songs was "Long Black Veil".
She sang "Pretty Little Indian Naponee(sp?)" -
"Pretty little Indian naponee, won't you come and marry me. We'll live in an Indian teepee down by the sea. I'll wear feathers on my head, paint my cheeks an Indian red, if you will only be my naponee."
She taught this song to me & my brother & sister - & the cousins, too, I guess - and to my children when she came to live with us when she had Alzheimer's. She lived the last years of her life with us and she died in my arms.
from US Census 1930 under: husband James A Andrews;
Home in 1930: Indio, Riverside County, California; own home; lives on farm;
Spouse's Name: Veala (wrong spelling, should be Veola, apparently hadn't started using first name Mary yet) age 28; age at first marriage: 19; father born in: Germany; mother: Arkansas
Race: White
Thelma Williams (should be Velma); step-daughter; age 9; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
Fred O Williams; step-son; age 6; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
[my mother Vernis would be born August 19, so Mary was 5 1/2mos. pregnant at the time. My uncle Jim, James A. Andrews Jr. would be born 2 years later in 1932. He married Louise, my dear aunt Lou. Uncle Fred married my mom's best friend from high school, Margie.]
Dearly loved grandson, son of her son James Jr & daughter-in-law Louise:
Roger A. Andrews (1957-1994)
They lived in Indio on a farm during the Depression, then moved with the children to Beaumont, CA. They lived a while in Tucson, AZ. and Mary returned there some time after Mr Andrews passed on. Mary worked all her life. Logging, farming, itenerant crop picker as young married when Fred was a baby, dragging him along on the cotton sack while picking cotton - she said he liked it better as the sack filled with cotton! Worked in a cannery at Dole or Libby leaving the youngsters in the yard of the house she rented, across the street from the factory & she'd look in on them when she got breaks. You can't do that these days!
On the farm in Indio, she would have to set an alarm to water crops at night to prevent them wilting in the scorching heat.
Jimmy bought the place in Beaumont so she wouldn't have to do that anymore. He worked on the Santa Fe railroad as fireman - which means stoking the fire - hard work - he retired about 10 yrs past retirement because he lied & said he was younger.
Mary worked greasing the wheels of the train during WW2 because all the men were gone to war. She said she was scared she'd get run over while under the big wheels.
They built the house in Beaumont from a Sears Kit House. Vernis remembered helping put in the plumbing.
My memories of grandma Mary at her home in Beaumont - a glass bowl with caramels; watching Lawrence Welk show on TV; asking for a glass of buttermilk because it sounded so good (but tasted AWFUL!:], she didn't make me finish it). She kept a newspaper photo of Clark Gable & Carole Lombard in a frame in her glass fronted bookcase with the family photos. She had a picture of her oldest son's grandchildren without shirts - she 'colored-in' shirts on them with an inkpen!
She taught herself to play guitar, piano and accordion and sang. One of her favorite songs was "Long Black Veil".
She sang "Pretty Little Indian Naponee(sp?)" -
"Pretty little Indian naponee, won't you come and marry me. We'll live in an Indian teepee down by the sea. I'll wear feathers on my head, paint my cheeks an Indian red, if you will only be my naponee."
She taught this song to me & my brother & sister - & the cousins, too, I guess - and to my children when she came to live with us when she had Alzheimer's. She lived the last years of her life with us and she died in my arms.
from US Census 1930 under: husband James A Andrews;
Home in 1930: Indio, Riverside County, California; own home; lives on farm;
Spouse's Name: Veala (wrong spelling, should be Veola, apparently hadn't started using first name Mary yet) age 28; age at first marriage: 19; father born in: Germany; mother: Arkansas
Race: White
Thelma Williams (should be Velma); step-daughter; age 9; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
Fred O Williams; step-son; age 6; father born in: Texas; mother: Oklahoma
[my mother Vernis would be born August 19, so Mary was 5 1/2mos. pregnant at the time. My uncle Jim, James A. Andrews Jr. would be born 2 years later in 1932. He married Louise, my dear aunt Lou. Uncle Fred married my mom's best friend from high school, Margie.]
Dearly loved grandson, son of her son James Jr & daughter-in-law Louise:
Roger A. Andrews (1957-1994)
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