HISTORY & DIRECTORY OF MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE 1807- 1907
CENTURY REVIEW 1805 -1905 MAURY COUNTY
1906 SUPPLEMENT
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Silver Creek Store and Station, one mile east of Bryant's, just over the line in Marshall Co., is directly associated with Maury Co. Interests. The store is owned by W. L. Andrews, who was born near Lewisburg, August 23, 1881, son of N. G. and Sallie E. (Bryant) Andrews. Farming in boyhood, at the age of 19 he engaged as clerk for F. L. Patterson, and in 1905, became a partner with the Patterson Brothers and manager of the Silver Creek store. The firm buys and ships produce from Park's, Bryant's and Silver Creek, making sales above $75,000 and furnishing a staple market to farmers in this vicinity. Mr. Andrews last year married Stella, dau. of Orlando and Josephine (Wright) Simpson, of Fairfield, Ill. Orlando is a son of John Simpson, a former resident of Lebanon, Tenn.

The above was copied 12 August 1966
Frances Tindell

On the West side of the square in Lewisburg, he owned the Rutledge Pharmacy building, the Peoples and Union Bank building (was a director of the bank), and owned and operated a grocery store on the East side of the square as well as a grocery store in Silver Creek. The Silver Creek store had a railroad spur along side it for unloading produce and canned goods. This spur ran between Columbia and Lewisburg, the Lewisburg section running through his farm in Lewisburg along a still visible railroad bed between the farm house and the sun perch fishing hole on the way to Sally and Milton Evans' tenant house on the farm. The spur presumably connected with the L&N railroad between Nashville, Birmingham and beyond, which ran along the back border of the farm.

ONLY HANDWRITING THAT EXISTS OF WILLIAM L. ANDREWS, SR.:

LETTER TO FATHER-IN-LAW ORLANDO SIMPSON UPON BIRTH OF DAUGHTER SARA JOSEPHINE ANDREWS JUNE 22, 1908:

Mr. Orlando Simpson
Fairfield, ILL.
R.t 20#

Dear Father,

How do you like the above? She is a fine 9 lb. baby and her name is Sara Josephine. She arrived this morning at 3:20. Mother and baby doing fine at present.

6/22/08 Yours - WLA

RESOLUTIONS:
At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Peoples & Union Bank at 1:30 p.m., December 31, 1924 in the offices of the bank, the following committee was appointed to draft resolutions in regard to W. L. Andrews, deceased, a former member of the Board of Directors of the bank:

R. B. Berry, Nat L. Burton and Thos. L. Cathey, who beg leave to submit the following report:

Whereas, it has please[d] the all-wise Creator, on the 21st day of December, 1924, to remove from our midst and from earthly action our good friend and fellow worker, W. L. Andrews, a director of the Peoples and Union Bank for many years.

Whereas his life was one of usefulness and success and that of a Christian gentleman and whereas he was ever prompt and zealous in the discharge of his duties as a director of this institution, and of his duties to his church, of which he was a loyal member,

Whereas the loss caused by his departure is keenly felt.

Therefore be it resolved that we submit with all becoming humility tot (sic.) this dispensation of the all-wise Creator and Ruler of the universe and that we as directors and officials of the Peoples and Union Bank greatly and deeply deplore so great a loss in the taking away of our worthy member and co-laborer.

Resolved that the life and character of W. L. Andrews as a Christian gentleman was worthy of admiration and respect and that his character, his private and public life evince the belief that in his removal from the scenes of earthly action that Divine Providence has taken him higher up, to a Heavenly home, eternal in the Heavens.

Resolved that his loyalty to this institution and to his home and to his church was sincere and genuine.

Resolved that we tender heart-felt sympathy to his family, and that this preamble and these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the bank; that a copy of the same be furnished to the family of the deceased and a copy to the Marshall Gazette for publication.

Signed by the Committee this February 10th, 1925.
R. B. Berry, N. L. Burton, T. L. Cathey

ROTARY CLUB PASSES RESOLUTIONS:

"Whereas, Rotarian W. L. Andrews recently departed this life, after a lingering illness of many months, and at the termination of a long period of suffering; and

"Whereas, during much of this time he was untiring in his efforts to remain at his post of duty as citizen and as a servant of mankind in his business life, and

"Whereas, he was true to the principles of Rotary and attended the weekly meetings faithfully so long as he was physically able, therefore, be it

"Resolved, That in his death Rotary loses one of its most valuable adherents, and the Lewisburg Club one of its most highly esteemed members, be it,

"Resolved further that these resolutions be filed with the records of the club and a copy thereof be given to his family, and to the local press.

"W. R. MONTGOMERY."
"W. M. CARTER."
"W. P. McCLURE."

W. L. ANDREWS

Lewisburg, Tenn., Dec. 22. –(Special)-
W. L. Andrews, prominent citizen and business man, died here Sunday night, aged 43 yeasr (sic.). Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church Tuesday at 10 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. B. F. Isom and the Rev. E. L. Steele. He was a member of the Methodist church and is survived by one son and a daughter; his father and mother; two brothers, Bryant and Kenneth Andrews of Columbia, and two sisters, Mrs. Bascom Hendrix and Mrs. Myrtle Harris.

Mr. William L. Andrews, a leading citizen and business man, died Sunday night at 6:30 o'clock at his home in this place, after a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held in the Methodist Church Tuesday at 11 o'clock, conducted by Revs. B. F. Isom and E. M. Steel, followed by burial in the Liggett cemetery near Berlin.

Mr. Andrews was 43 years of age, was a member of the Methodist church and had long been connected with the retail grocery trade in Lewisburg, enjoying an extensive patronage and being held in high esteem by a large circle of friends. He is survived by his father nad (sic.) mother, Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Andrews, his wife and two children, Sara and William L. Jr., two brothers, Bryant and Kenneth Andrews of Columbia, and two sisters, Mrs. Bascom Hendrix and Mrs. Myrtle Harris.

Will of William L. Andrews recorded in Book D of Wills, Page 286, Marshall County, Tennessee Office of Recorder of Deeds:

I, W.L. Andrews, a citizen and resident of Marshall County, Tennessee, do hereby make and publish this instrument of writing as my last will and testament;

Item 1: I direct that my funeral expenses and all my just debts be paid first from the money and other personal property that I have at the time of my death or may come into the hands of my executor. I further direct that my said executor also pay from my personal estate the incumbrance on my farm of about 175 acres, as evidenced by a mortgage or deed of trust thereon to the Federal Land Bank of Louisville. I direct that he make a compromise settlement of same with the said Federal Land Bank and pay said mortgage in full as soon as practicable; and I also direct that he pay off the incumbrances on my other real estate.

Item 2: I devise and give my farm, which I purchased from Miss Maud Ogilvie, and also the adjoining tract of about 61 acres, situated in the 3rd Civil District of Marshall County, to my two children and wife, Stella V. Andrews, to be under her supervision Management and control until my son William L. Andrews arrives at the age of Twenty-one years; and I direct that my wife as trustee and guardian for said children receive the rents and incomes from said real estate and expend same during the minority of my said son, after paying taxes and reasonable expenses for repair and improvements, for her support and for the support, education and maintenance of my two children.

Item 3: I devise and give to my children and wife the two business houses and let which I own on the south side of the public square in the town of Lewisburg, said pproperty to be under her supervision, management and control until my son reaches the age of twenty-one years; and I direct that she as trustee and guardian for said children receive the rental income from said property and expend same during the minority of my son, after paying taxes and reasonable expenses for repairs, improvements and insurance, for the support of herself and for the support, education and maintenance of my two children.

Item 4: When my two children have both attained the age of Twenty-one years then said children and their mother are to become fee simple and equal owners of said farm lands and business houses and let, each to own in fee a one-third undivided interest therein.

Item 5: I devise and give to my wife absolutely and in fee four vacant lots in the town of Lewisburg - Three of said lots being in the Buchanan Addition and the other on Limestone Avenue.

Item 6: I give and bequeath to my said wife all of my household goods, furnishing and furniture, and also my automobile.

Item 7: I have heretofore given the piano to my daughter Sarah Josephine Andrews, and I now wish to confirm this gift to her.

Item 8: I give and bequeath to my wife five shares of the capital stock of the First National Bank of Lewisburg.

Item 9: I give and bequeath to my son William L. and my daughter Sarah Josephine ten shares of the capital stock of the Peoples & Union Bank of Lewisburg--to each five shares-- and I direct their mother as guardian for them receive the income from said shares of stock and use and expend same (during their respective minorities) for their education, maintenance and support.

Item 10: I give my interest in all the live stock and feed-stuff on my farm to my wife, and direct that she and my sister (Myrtle supposedly) continue to own said stock together and

Item 11: I have provided life insurance in the amount of one thousand dollars payable to my wife as sole beneficiary and two policies of fifteen hundred each payable to my son and to my daughter. I direct that the income from this insurance money of my two children be used by their guardian for their education, maintenance and support during their respective minorities.

Item 12: I have other insurance on my life to the amount of twelve thousand dollars which will go to my wife and children according to the provisions and terms of the respective policies. I direct that the income from the insurance money of my two children under these policies be received and used by their said guardian for their education, maintenance and support during their respective minorities.

Item 13: I own eight shares of stock of the Lewisburg School Company. I give to each of my children four shares of this stock, but the same is not to be sold or disposed of until said children respectively become twenty-one.

Item 14: I devise and give my house and lot on Verona Avenue in Lewisburg, where I now live, to my wife Stella V. Andrews in fee simple, and I give to her two thousand dollars out of my personal estate, provided she sell said house and lot within the time fixed by law for administration of my estate and invest the proceeds from sale of said property together with said two thousand dollars in other real estate in Lewisburg for a home for herself and our said children, taking the title to said real estate so purchased to herself for and during her natural life or widowhood with remainder in fee at her death or marriage to our said children.

Item 15: I want the residue and remainder of my personal property sold by my executor and the money given equally to my wife and children, to each a one third part thereof and I direct that my executor dispose of my stock of groceries, merchandise and fixtures either by public or private sale, or at retail, within such reasonable time as his judgment and discretion may determine.

Item 16: I nominate and appoint my wife Stella V. Andrews guardian of our children Sarah Josephine and William L. Andrews, and I authorize and direct my executor to pay over to her as guardian all funds which come into his hands under this will for said children and payment to her as guardian will be full discharge and acquittance of said executor for said funds; and I direct that my wife as guardian invest all said funds, with the approval of said executor, in United States Government bonds, or in state, county or municipal bonds, for said minor children. I further direct that said guardian use and expend the income from said bonds for the education, support and maintenance of said children during their respective minorities. It is my will that my wife be not required to make bond as guardian of said children, except such bonds as may be required in connection with the insurance money mentioned item 11 of this will. I request that the money received by my wife from my estate be also invested in bonds.

Item 17: I do hereby nominate and appoint my friend Thos. L. Cathey executor of this my last will and testament.

Witness my signature to this instrument, this 26th day of September, 1924.

W.L. Andrews.

Signed and published in our presence, and we have subscribed our names hereto and at the request of the testator.

This 26th day of September, 1924.

J.F. Crutcher.
T.L. Coleman.

BOOK N-3, Page 566, Marshall County, Tennessee Office of Recorder of Deeds:

W. L. ANDREWS DEED TO 175 ACRES BY MAUDE OGILVIE. (UNMARRIED)

For the consideration hereinafter stated, I, Maud Ogilvie (unmarried), have this day bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey unto W. L. Andrews, his heirs and assigns, a certain tract of land, situated in the 3rd. (old 15th) Civil District of Marshall County, Tennessee, about 1 3/4 miles northwest of the town of Lewisburg & Franklin Turnpike, and bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point in the center of the Lewisburg and Franklin Turnpike at the intersection of the said turnpike with the east boundry line of J.O. Ewing (formerly J.C.C. Ewing) running thence North 10 degrees east 126-2/5 poles to a set rock; one of J.O. Ewing's corners, thence south 66 degrees east 113 poles to a set rock in Ewing's line; thence south 85 1/2 degrees east 54-3/5 poles to a post a corner of the Walker land; thence south 4 degrees west 15 poles to a stake in wire fence the north boundry line of the Snell land; thence south 87 1/2 degrees west 106-2/5 poles to a point in the center of the aforesaid turnpike; it being the southeast corner of J.C. Ewing's Kerchaval, tract; thence with said pike north 39 degrees west 68 poles; thence continuing with the pike; north 47 1/2 degrees west 45-3.5 poles to the beginning, containing 175 acres.

To have and to hold unto the said W. L. Andrews, his heirs and assigns, forever, together with all the improvements and appurtenances thereunto belonging.

This consideration for this conveyance is the sum of Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars, (9,700.00), satisfactorily arranged as follwos: The said W.L. Andrews has executed to me his promissory note of even date herewith for Two Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-five ($2425.00) Dollars due and payable Jan 1, 1924, bearing interest from date maturity, and also to me his promissory note for Two Hundred Seventy-five ($275.00) Dollars due and payable Jan. 1, 1925, bearing interest from Jan. 1, 1924; and a lien is hereby expressly retained on said land to secure the payment of said notes, both principal and interest; and for the balance of said consideration the said W.L. Andrews assume and agrees to pay the indebtedness on said land to the amount of Seven Thousand ($7000.00) Dollars evidenced by a deed of trust to the Federal Land Bank of Louisville, said deed of trust being dated June 8, 1922, and of record in T.D.book W-2-page 457, of the Register's Office of Marshall County, Tennessee.

I covenant with the said W.L. Andrews, his heirs and assigns, that I am the lawfully owner of said tract of land and have a good and lawful right to convey the same; that said tract of land is unincumbered, except by the said Deed of Trusr to the Federal Land Bank of Louisville; and except as to said incumbrance I will forever warrant and defend the title to said real estate to the said purchaser, his heirs and assigns, against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever.

The grantor, Maud Ogilvie, agrees to surrender possession of said realty to the purchaser, W.L. Andrews, on Jan. 1, 1924. Said Andrews agrees to pay taxes on same for the year 1923 and to pay the amortization payment to the Federal Land Bank of Louisville due Sept. 1, 1923--the amounts paid by him to be credited on the said note for $2425.00,

Witness my signature, this 20 day of August 1923.
MAUD OGILVIE

STATE OF TENNESSEE)
COUNTY OF MARSHALL) Before me T.L. Coleman a Notary Public, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Maud Ogilvie (unmarried) the within bargainor, with whom I am Personally acquainted, and who acknowledged that she executed the within instrument for the purposes therein contained.

Witness my hand an official seal at office this 20th day of August 1923.

T.L. COLEMAN, Notary Public., (SEAL)
Filed in Office at 1:50, P.M. January 31, 1924.
W.O. WHITEHEAD R.O.M.C.

YOUNGEST GRANDSON'S REFLECTIONS ON HIS FAMILY AND ANCESTORS:
When I read [our] family histories, I'm made aware of how much we received from our ancestors. How hard some worked in schools, in medicine, in business to earn the material properties that became our farm(s). The odd thing is that there's no connection at all to these benefactors in terms of gratitude or respect-no love. In some cases, such as Aunt Sara, these are the very people for whom we feel scorn. And yet we accept or feel entitled to what they left us. To me, this seems a great sin. To ask for or take from others without love. And I believe this kind of taking leads to a dishonorable way of giving: To give in guilt or pity or in expectation and manipulation, rather then in the openness of love. So, while we're not alone in this at all, I think we only obtusely appreciate what we have. Deep down there's great insecurity about what is and is not ours.

You know, I don't think I ever really asked Daddy about his side [of the family], at least not back in the '80s. He never talked with interest about his family with me--not the way Mama did of her side. And I don't think I was as interested as a result... I think I assumed Daddy's family were simply country folk without occasion or inclination to reflect on where they came from or came to be where they were.

I didn't think it out, honestly. I loved Daddy very much, so I don't see it as a lack of interest in me. I just assumed that all his ancestors were like Grandmother or Aunt Sara. And since Daddy didn't even talk with me about his mother or sister, questions never occurred to me to ask.

It's sad really. That's why I was asking .. if Daddy ever talked about his father or Grandfather...the men who raised him. I never heard more than, "My father died when I was eight." There's much about Daddy that I'm just now learning from you.. My questions prompted by snippets of what I pick up since his death. Ironic that I always found Daddy so accessible, but now can't ask so many question that matter to me now that I too am a father...

Since becoming a father myself, and especially these days in dealing with my brothers and sisters, I've been thinking long about "sins of the father." In philosophy there's a concept Nietzsche called "eternal return," and Freud had a concept called "repetition compulsion." ... The very simple and awful fact [is] that we repeat in our life the things we cannot make right with ourselves. It's significant to me that the old exposition above says, "a people past feeling." It's not about unfeeling people, but those who, conceivably, felt too much. This may seem trivial, but I believe it's those of us who haven't a balance in feeling that risk becoming callous. I once heard a brilliant director instructing a young actor in how to play a villain. After many retakes and in frustration the young actor shouted, "Maybe I am just too young to have experienced real evil." The director looked at the actor for a while without words and then finally nodded saying, "Son, to play a villain you don't tap experiences of evil, you reach into your experience of pain. Monsters are not born, they are made." Within the bleakest hearts, you find shattered hope, misguided love, disappointed expectations. In hearts, it's the victim that is father to the villain... I teach my children how to love and respect and share, not by what I preach, but by how I love and share and respect. No matter how compelling my words or how beautiful the philosophy I share with [my children], I believe (and fear) my children learn most about how to treat others by how I treat my brothers and sisters. I know my children are aware of our problems sharing the farm...

I would love to feel faith in my family. I'd love to feel when I visit we can just enjoy each other. Truly enjoy in the spirit of asking nothing of each other but being together. That we can try not to ask for more than love offers: acceptance and non-judgment. ... We should never ask for more acceptance for one sibling than for another; We should never be asked to take sides or to view another as evil, not brothers or sisters, not our father or mother, and not even Aunt Sara. It's a lack of charity that not only makes us wrong but also makes us ugly. It may not seem to matter at all, but I think the way we dealt with Aunt Sara and treated her is the clearest failing of our family. It showed us at our worst. Our faith at its weakest. Aunt Sara was difficult, of course. She was the most [____] and fearful person I've met. But none of us was able to give her what she needed to turn from resentment to love. We only fed the resentment. To say she stole from you is to get something terribly wrong: We shouldn't covet what we haven't been offered...

I know we believe very different things, and I know that to tell you my beliefs in a fully authentic conversation would lead to a meltdown that neither of us could withstand. I know the burden of tolerance is upon me, but that too is part of my faith: acting with humility. Trying to avoid participation in evil through fear, hate and harm by allowing that I haven't got the only truth. Mine isn't the only way to be good. I would never act upon my fears in a way that would negate your choice.

FROM OLDEST GRANDSON:
FROM "THE ARROWHEAD FIELD"
Dad was born in 1916 to William Lafayette Andrews, Sr. and Stella Simpson in the small rural town of Lewisburg, about fifty miles south of Nashville. Named after his father, Dad was southern to the core, educated in private schools and raised under a chivalric ethic that esteemed civility and courteousness, reserve and restraint. By the time of my father's birth, Grandfather Andrews, a graduate of Macon Business College, was already a prominent entrepreneur who owned two general stores. Soon he would open a bank and buy up prime real estate on the Lewisburg Square. He was a hardworking, fastidious and socially conservative teetotaler who died in 1924 in his early forties. No one knows for sure the cause of death but his extremely jaundiced appearance during his last days suggests a form of hepatitis. Dad lost his father at the tender age of eight and was raised thereafter by his mother and a sister, my Aunt Sara, who was eight years his senior. More so than my Dad, it was Aunt Sara who acquired my grandfather's conspicuous talent for moneymaking through scrupulous frugality. Two years ago, Aunt Sara died, one month shy of ninety-four. To the end she reminisced about her wealthy friends in the Junior League and the prominent social elites of Nashville with whom she associated as a young woman in the twenties.

Left with a small fortune in savings and investments, my widowed paternal grandmother abandoned the small town of Lewisburg and moved to Nashville with her two children whom she enrolled in private schools. Aunt Sara graduated from Belmont Methodist College and later headed the children's section of the Nashville Public Library, a position she retained until retirement in 1973.

As a child, my father attended Duncan Latin Grammar School and Hume-Fogg in Nashville. In high school at Hume-Fogg, Dad's favorite course was an astronomy class in which the teacher encouraged the students to make their own reflector telescope. His instrument had a 6-inch mirror with lenses sufficiently powerful to reveal the rings of Saturn. His first year in college was at Davidson in North Carolina where the highlight of his spring semester was a trip he took with a friend hitch-hiking to South Carolina. There he met an old African-American woman who proudly informed him that, when she was a young girl, she stood in a crowd of people listening to a speech given by John C. Calhoun, the great southern fire-eating apologist for slavery whose stand on states rights portended secession and Civil War. In his sophomore year, Dad returned to Nashville where he attended Vanderbilt University. There he could often be found on the campus tennis courts where he brandished a Write-Didson racquet and sported a wicked backhand. Although much of his social life centered on his Vanderbilt fraternity, Sigma Nu, he took his studies seriously and reaped the rewards in stellar grades. In 1938, toward the end of the Great Depression, he entered Vanderbilt Law School where he displayed enthusiasm for FDR's New Deal programs and sympathized with the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War. The world of the Andrews was thoroughly WASP and they moved in a social milieu that would have appeared alien to my mother.

Son WL Andrews, Jr.:
My father's store - Bob Adams lived next door to us and worked for my father. That's the old store. It's right next to – this is where the old Peoples & Union Bank was and after he died, sold it to Dr. Veldon Harwell. And he bought the store from my father. Where Parson's Pharmacy is now. Before Dr. Leonard bought it for his daughter, the bank was on the left side and McBride & Rutledge Drug Store was next to it on the right, all in the same building. Then upstairs there was a law office that one time we rented to the governor Prentice Cooper. The back of it was owned by a lodge. My father didn't own that. My mother rented it to Printice Cooper after my father died. See, we kept that until 1964. The money I got from that is what I bought the Santa Fe farm, Bill and Claudia bought 1/3 and we bought 2/3s and so I paid $46,000. We made it even and they paid the $24,000, so that made the $70,000. I put $30,000 into it and I owed $16,000, so I paid mine once a year, and Bill and Claudia paid once a month since they had just started working. Bill was still working for the paper. So that made the $70,000. The Old Hillsboro Farm was $75,000 as you remember and we paid $50,000.

[Side note April 19, 1979 - WLA, Jr. and Aunt Sara accompanied WLA Jr's son John to Nashville for his trip to work in Saudi Arabia . Distracted, John ended up going through the wrong gate, onto a plane to Pittsbourgh instead of Newark, N.J. The plane returned to the gate for John to catch the right plane. On that flight, John talked to the person next to him who said he was from Shelbyville and was on his way to mountain climb Mt. McKinley in Alaska. He said he had graduated from a small college in Massachusetts and was working in a bank in Shelbyville. John asked which college, and he said Harvard. He then introduced himself as John Cooper and John Andrews replied that there was a former governor from Shelbyville, Printice Cooper. He said, "that's my father." John then said there is a congressman from Tennessee, Jim Cooper and he said, "that's my brother." He had another brother who had graduated from Harvard Law School.]

My Aunt Mrytle's husband died in 1920 and my father died in 1924, so after my father died, see, he had bought the farm on Highway 431 in January and he intended probably because he had cancer, which I don't think he knew what it was, he intended to retire and live here and he died the following December. I remember when I was a boy, we came out here and burned off all these fields, like sage grass then. He brought all of the boys from the store up there you know that worked for him at the store. I think they used to get off on Thursday afternoons or Wednesday – one afternoon – and they came out here and, of course, I was 7 years old. My father was with them. See, it occurred in January I think after he bought the place. I guess [he found the farm because] it was just for sale. I've forgotten the names of the people he bought it from, but they moved to Nashville and I used to know their names. I think originally it was Ewing property. I think it was sold off before [my father bought it]. Then that track in back was a different one, different track, so he bought it that way too.

But after Aunt Myrtle's husband died, then when he realized I guess that he wasn't going to be able to live here himself, he, I don't know how it came about but anyway Aunt Myrtle lived here with her 4 boys you see. [They moved here] after my father died. My father [probably arranged for them to do that.] He probably talked… And Elgie lived here at one time and then of course Paul was just young, my age, and Elgie and Mary lived here and they bought a place down there and then Aunt Myrtle and David and Evelyn lived here. She had the twin girls and another daughter Nancy, and they lived here.

You know they were going out to Belfast when we were out there. Nancy had just finished [Belfast Elementary School] the year before I started teaching and she was the one who had to have her leg amputated. [Nicholas' farm when he moved here - or after he died] - was sold then and just the money divided up. And, of course, I bought my electric guitar I think with the money I got. That was his [Nicholas']original farm. It was where – see, we were living there when Sara was born. My father and mother were living at Silver Creek when she was born, but I think she was born down there (at Nicholas' farm) at that time. I don't think they were born in hospitals then I guess.

My father was visiting Riggs Harris who had moved to Illinois and their farm was about maybe 2 or 3 miles from Orlando Simpson's farm – maybe not that far. And he met them that way. Riggs Harris, the grandmother lived right down there you know when you go toward the interstate (on highway 50) and go past the, you know that road (on the left just after the Ezell Curve) that goes off to the Bryant Cemetary on the other side there (left side) when you go over the hill there, that first house way over there, I mean it's just after you get out of the hill and the woods, you can see the two houses there. The one way down and that first one was cousin Mildred's. I call her cousin Mildred Harris That would be Paul's grandmother or great grandmother. So Riggs Harris was related to them. It seems to me that some of the Simpsons originally came from Cullyoka. I may be wrong about this.

Daughter-in-law Betty Early Andrews: We know God will bless all of our family in the inheritance (gifting & re-gifting) from Great Grand Father Andrews [several million dollars] and from all of our savings. [Betty's focus was getting stock proceeds out to her children as soon as possible after her husband's death.]

In the 1970s, the President of Peoples & Union Bank told W.L. Andrews' grandson John whom W.L. Andrews had never met, that he wanted John to see something and then took John to the bank's board room to show him a large picture of John's grandfather hanging on the wall with past presidents of the bank. John also bumped into a Mr. Ginsburg in the mid-1980 in Mr. Ginsburg's department store just north and adjacent to the Rutledge Pharmacy building, which William L. Andrews, Sr. had owned, on the Lewisburg square. Mr. Ginsburg had immigrated from Russia when he was 17 years old and had known William L. Andrews, Sr. John Andrews had worked n a Nashville law office in 1986 with Mr. Ginsburg's grandson, Martin Sir, who had been a state legislator and U.S. Congressional candidate i .

William L. Andrews was a very hard worker and accumulated at great deal of wealth, mostly bank stocks and his farm, that he left to his wife and to his son and daughter, which ultimately ended up in his son's estate. Aunt Consulo told daughter-in-law Betty Andrews that WL Andrews constantly raced around and would run form one place to another to serve a customer. Most of his grandchildren, especially John, must have inherited this because they all were very energetic and active, with David more easy-going like his father.

MARRIAGE:
WL Andrews made a trip to Illinois, came back and he wasn't about to marry, but his future wife followed him to Tennessee according to Aunt Lou and Aunt Consulo, and she was married in the dress she came down in. When he died, Stella said, well, what is going to happen to me now, not knowing that he had left a great deal of money and property to her.

It's interesting, but Aunt Sara Josephine Andrews said that the farm in Lewisburg bought by her father, William Lafayette Andrews, was known as the Kercheval farm. I wonder if there is a relationship. here's what Aunt Sara said:

"And next to us were the Ewings who have that beautiful home, you know, the Ewing home. The family who lived in that house, I was sorry for them, they had about eight children, seven or eight, big family, and they couldn't support them, and they had to sell the house. And my father just happened to be there at the auction sell and he thought if he bought it he might get a horse and ride around and his health would return, but it didn't, because that was in the summer, in August and he died Christmas. Kind of sad. And the people who bought it were named McCords. Now the farm was formerly know as the Kershival farm, and the Kershival house is in town, that beautiful house that David likes so much next to Prince McBride. That was the Kershival home. But this was the Kershival Farm and they lived there, and that was the house, it might have burned is the reason they built the new house there. I can't remember. But as a child I remember seeing that house going to my grandfather's down at leap(?), you know, on Franklin Road. But I don't know what happened, but I wish we had restored that house. They had it looking so good. But they didn't have the comforts of life, but they managed fine, enjoyed it and didn't have to pay rent. They weren't out on the street, so we've kept it in the family all these years, but I don't know of anybody who paid anything, they just lived in that one house over and over, it that other little house, but they've always enjoyed it, but not many of them lived there at the same time.

BILL ALLEN (friend of WLA Sr's grandson John Andrews) - Description of photo:
HunterAndrewsStoreLewisburgAW

The photo is not dated; it is 5x7, mounted on a 8x9 board; it has damage from scratches, mold, wear. I believe this photo to be from a collection of my great-grandmother, Nancy Woods Hunter; she was the mother of Woods Hunter shown in the photo, and the mother of my grandmother, Ruth Hunter Allen. The scene is obviously a grocery store. The handwritten inscription on the board is - 'Hunter_Andrews Store __ Lewisburg', 'Jeff Purdom, Mr. Bob Adams, Will Andrews, Woods Hunter'. Woods Hunter was Joseph Woods Hunter, b Jun 1887, Belfast, Marshall Co., TN; son of William Alpheus Hunter & Nancy Elvira Woods; m 7 Jun 1915 Marshall Co., TN to Alice Hastings McCord (children, Joe, & Will who died young); d 28 Jun 1919, Marshall Co, Lone Oak Cem., Lewisburg, TN. Therefore, the photo date is "before mid-1919". I checked the 1920 Marshall Co TN census - Jeff Purdom was age 59, living in Lewisburg, Dist 3; janitor at a public school; married with wife, daughter, & a grandson. R. A. Adams was age 66, grocery store salesman, with wife & a grandson, Robt H ? (maybe Callahan) age 17, salesman in a family grocery; living in Lewisburg, Dist 3, next door to W. L. Andrews & his family. These ages seem to be consistent with those of the men shown in the photo. Note that there appears to be a young boy sitting in the lower left of the photo (not identified in the handwritten inscription); however, he appears to be younger than the ages of the grandsons of Purdom & Adams given in the 1920 census records. Therefore, the boy could have been 'not related to Purdom nor Adams'; or the photo could have been made a number of years prior to 1919. Obviously, Will Andrews is the center focus of the photo; a youthful, confident, well-dressed businessman.

JUNE 20, 1997 INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM LAFAYETTE ANDREWS, JR.:
JEA: So, Daddy, when did you move to Pulaski?
WLA: In the fall of 1925, I guess.
JEA: So about 8 months, 9 months after your father's death.
WLA: I guess in the summer.

JEA: Why did you move to Pulaski, you had no contacts there?
WLA: See the school burned over here.
JEA: You mean where Connelly School used to be?
WLA: It was where Connelly School used to be, and so Price Webb School, a private school. It was a boys school. A boys boarding school; a local girls school. It was kind of like Sonny Webb School now. Of course under the Constitution now you couldn't do that – have a boys school and a girls school separate. Dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

JEA: Where is Red Boiling Springs?
WLA: In southern Kentucky north of Nashville. Place where people went in the old days to drink the water.

JEA: Would your father go up there alone.
WLA: As far as I know. The family didn't go. He'd just go up there for one day maybe, not all the time. I'm not sure how long. He had to settle his business you know, early '24 I believe.

JEA: You mean before he died?
WLA: When he got in ill health.

JEA: Who did he sell it to? Do you know?
WLA: Valton Harwell. Dr. Valton Harwell's father.

JEA: That must have been kind of hard for him to do. He really liked it didn't he? So how long were you in Pulaski? When did you leave?
WLA: A year. Sara went to Ward Belmont in Nashville.

JEA: Oh, that's why you moved? And then you just stayed in Nashville indefinitely.
WLA. I started out at Peabody Demonstration School.

JEA: Oh, that's the first school you went to?
WLA: I went there two years. We moved out on Oakland. We moved when I was eleven in 1928. We lived there for two years, 1926. We lived in a little place just for the summer before we moved over to Belmont. It was a pretty place out there. It's not there anymore - Belview. You remember where the overpass is for 440 on Hillsboro Road? It was a block away toward town.

JEA: So how did Aunt Sara happen to go to Ward Belmont?
WLA: She just wanted to. It's a good school.

JEA: Did you and Aunt Sara have many mutual friends?
WLA: No.
JEA: Did you play together much?
WLA: No, she was an adult as far as I was concerned at that age.

JEA: Did your father have a car or did he just use horse and buggy?
WLA: He had a car, I don't know. Probably a Ford. He had one delivery truck and I think he still used the team too.

JEA: When did he move to that house next to the store, the same time he opened the store there?
WLA: I think he rented the store. He rented the house too, but I don't think he was there that long. The house was build by blind David, a relative, but not a relative on that side.

GRANDSON BILL ANDREWS - A HIGHER PLACE IN HEAVEN - The first instance in which I can recall learning about the race issue was when I was five and when we had just moved from Tennessee to Georgia when my father took a job as a legal consultant with Bell Telephone. The first week at our new home I saw a garbage truck pull up and two African-American city workers emptied our trash can. I asked my mother why they looked so different from everyone else living in our post-World War II Edward Scissorhands-like middle class subdivision with uniform one-story ranch-style homes with manicured lawns.

I remember Mom explaining the difference by saying that God made 'colored people" that way because it was part of his plan, that they were made in his image and likeness, and that we should always treat them with love and respect. My first thought was that, if God were an African-American, then whose image was I made in. Before I asked Mom to explain this conundrum, she said that they led difficult lives because people treated them badly because of their race. When she saw that I was having trouble processing this, she added something I will never forget.She said that when we all die someday and go to Heaven (she's always been an optimist), we will probably find that these people will have a higher place in Heaven because of the way they have been suffering from hate and injustice.

A few years later we were back in Tennessee and living on our 236 acre family farm which Dad had inherited from his father who had been a founder of the People's and Union Bank in town. We lived in a kind of cocoon, protected from the outside world and its racial ills. We went to an all-white Catholic elementary school in nearby Columbia and Dad would drop us off and pick us up. On our farm we had neighbors just two hundred yards from our house. They were a black sharecropping family living in the oldest house in the county. Milton Evans looked elderly but I'm sure his appearance came from a life of hard work. Dad bought all the milk cows and sheep and Milton and his two older sons - Howard and Harvey - would do the milking and shearing and split the profits. As they didn't have running water, Sally and her two oldest girls - Mamie and Maddie - would get their water in buckets from our outdoor faucet on our back porch. We got to know the four older children well because, well, they were our only real neighbors.

When I finished fifth grade at St. Catherines, Dad was offered a job as a principal of a public school in the Belfast community of our county. Mom agreed to let us kids attend that school because she understood the burden it was for my father to do all this driving each day to Columbia. Going to the public school constituted real culture shock for me and my siblings. It was the first time we ever heard the N-word or the F-word and we heard this incessantly. I was in 8th grade six years after the Brown v Topeka Board of Education ruling by the high court but our school was still all white. Integration was neither deliberate nor speedy. I can remember a pretty redhead toward the end of the school day looking out the window and, seeing a yellow school bus approaching, making the grievous mistake of calling out "Our Bus is Here." The classroom broke out in howling laughter because it turned out that the bus in question had shortly before left the black school with its cargo of black children. The girl's complexion seemed to be a darker red than her hair and tears began to well up in her eyes as the insults were hurled at her with a liberal sprinkling of the N-word.

Stories like this became a routine part of my life. I saw the segregated water fountains at the Marshall County courthouse where there were three bathrooms - Men, Women and Colored. I heard the N-word used often when as a freshman I attended the local still-segregated public high school and I was shocked when one of my good friends used the N-word in casual conversation. When I told my mother, she was livid. I suspect that this was one of the reasons why she worked to have me attend Father Ryan High School in Nashville for my next three years. Ryan was integrated and I had African-American students in nearly all my classes. Moreover, the teachers there were committed to the Civil Rights agenda and several had been involved in the sit-ins. I can remember when as a sophomore I had a piece published in the Tennessean newspaper advocating Civil Rights, the teachers all came up to me to congratulate me.

Looking back to that day in Georgia when my mother first told me about racial injustice, I think of what she said about blacks receiving a higher place in heaven than those of us who lived charmed, privileged and comfortable lives. Mom will be 101 years-old in August. Were her hearing better, I'd love to talk to her about that day and ask her why she was so acutely aware of racial injustice when she herself lived a very sheltered and comfortable life.

(In the photograph of us on the couch, from left are my brother John, my sister Joan, I and my sister Susan. The other shot is of us gathering bales of hay in the Arrowhead Field. I'm driving the tractor and Dad stands in front and our black neighbors Harvey and Howard Evans are on the far left, Harvey facing the camera and Howard with his back to the camera. Mom took the shot).

THE COCOON - Moving to Tennessee from our lake house in Canada, we children did not experience culture shock. We were raised in the protective sanctuary of our 236 acre farm on the outskirts of Lewisburg, Dad giving up the practice of law for a profession less lucrative monetarily but, as he confided, more emotionally rewarding. He became a public school teacher and principal.

We lived like innocent hobbits on our farm, robustly incubated. We drank milk so fresh from our cows that it arrived warm, Mom ladle-scooping off the creamy surface froth. When the cows foraged in onions, we could detect the bitter flavor. We swam in the Clay Pond, ate watermelons chilled in the cool waters of Spring, and climbed young maples to such heights that by persistant rocking the trees would gently bend in an arch sufficient to deposit us gently, as if by parachute, back to earth. Dad made us a reflecting telescope with such a large mirror and powerful lens that we could momentarily observe the rings of Saturn, the temporal window of visual splendor compromised by the earth's rotational movement. We raced horses bareback and we hunted arrowheads barefoot. Because Mom wanted us raised as Catholic outliers in WASP land, Dad drove us eighteen miles each school day to a parochial elementary school in Columbia. Mom made sacrifices for our religious training and Dad made sacrifices to please Mom after years of acrimonious religious strife and a two-year separation. He, an Emersonian Transcendentalists who was attracted to Unitarianism, even played the organ at our small St. John's Catholic Church in Lewisburg where the congregation could not have exceeded a hundred souls. As a child laying down at night in the aromatic soft-tilled earth of the Arrowhead Field under a brilliant canopy of a billion stars, I sometimes sensed our unimportance and suspected an existentialist universe inattentive to our yearnings. However thoughts like this were infrequent because Mom and Dad worked tirelessly to convince us that our lives mattered and that we figured prominently in the created universe.

Daughter-in-law's letter:

Monday July 17 - 1972
Beloved John -

Your check for $1487.00 just came in the mail & I am depositing it immediately. Thank you. I am very grateful that you would clear out the bank there & will also send each pay check through Aug. 15th.

Tyne Closing is August 12 and our meeting with Joe Dickinson* will be August 17th (my birthday) after your Aug 15 check arrives. Please, dear John, send every penny you can scrape up. I know you are.
John dear, Daddy thinks you should try your first years to make your money off of the land since you made this huge investment in your farm. He thinks if you work at some regular job like (well, even sales at Friden). You can put each pay-check in beef cattle. That is a big investment & will double every year if you start out buying only springing heifers.

Daddy said since you bought the farm, it's right to make your money that way. He said you can rent your tobacco base each year & make $1500.00 that way too. Beef is big money.

Daddy said construction would take a huge investment, and he said the farm was big enough for you to invest in. He thinks you can really make a real thing of beef cattle if you put even a selling or teaching or modest monthly salary in it. If you set aside your salary each month.

You cannot believe how beautiful our farm is becoming with Daddy working with the side-winder every day. We will have wonderful grazing land.

GOD BLESS YOU. Bill loves Mexico. Daddy, Joan, Susan, Dave, Miriam.

Joel and Mariah (horses) are perky and happy.

*Joe Dickinson's Grandparents:
Jacob McGavock Dickinson, U.S. Secretary of War and Martha Maxwell Overton Dickinson, who is in the family of Lt. General Frank Maxwell Andrews.

From: Susan Andrews
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:28 PM
Subject: Farm possibility.
To: Chris Bell, Dave Brindle, miriam lademan

Dear Joan, Susan & Miriam,

We have been thinking about Miriam's last email about the lot switch/buyout and have come up with an idea we hope you all think will work. I think Miriam likes it so far and, Susan & Joan, if you agree, then we'll see if Bill and David are ok with it.

To buy Bill out, you would be using the stock money of about $180,000. David would get his share of the money - $30,000, and Bill should get $30,000 so the other 4 siblings will be giving Bill $120,000 for his share, which is kind of low. Also, Miriam, your plan has the land that the estate buys from Bill as being owned by the estate, or the 5 sibs. Instead, this has been changed on the map so that the 39 acres will be divided among the 4 sibs keeping their tracts and added onto each person's existing tract. This will avoid our children having the headaches of what to do with joint land in the future. The changes are fairly simple, working with Glen's survey, so hopefully it won't cost too much to do the changes. And each person would have one continuous tract. But then, the other 4 siblings would owe Bill about $60,000 (so that he would get the same as Daniel is paying David), which would be about $15,000 personally from each of the 4 siblings; John, Miriam, Susan and Joan. Is that possible?

The other issue is with Susan's land because she would be getting the land with Annie's house added to her tract which is just 6 acres, instead of getting 11 acres like the other 3. She might be okay with that since she is getting the Chalet. But maybe we could adjust how much she pays to Bill? She could pay less, but then Miriam, John & Joan, would end up giving him more.

And, concerning the lot switches, actually John had been talking with both David and Bill about switching lots since he really likes farmland. Since David is no longer interested in that, Bill & John have agreed to switch. But, if Joan really prefers having the tract next to Miriam, John could go back to having the end tract. At one point, Joan was afraid of having anything in her name because of possible court judgments, so maybe being on the end would be a safeguard to keeping the farm in one piece in case hers got taken. But John could go with either.

As far as driveways, I think we are all fine with keeping the current driveways in use as long as we own our tracks.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THOUGHT TO BE PREVIOUS OWNERS OF WILLIAM L. ANDREWS' 236 ACRE FARM:
(FROM Goodspeeds History of Marshall County - Mrs. Ewing, an artist, lived across highway 431 and the farm of John Ezell, who worked for the Bordon Company in Lewisburg, was contiguous to and just north-west of WLA's farm. WLA's daughter, Sara Jo Andrews, had said her father's 236 acre farm had been known as the Kercheval farm (all of this land, including WLA's, had been owned by a Dr. Ewing at one time)):

GEORGE WYTHE EWING AND WILLIAM K. KERCHEVAL, editors and proprietors of Marshall Gazette, were born and reared in this county, and. while growing up, received their education in the common schools. The former (Mr. Ewing) took quite an extensive course under William Stoddert, D. D.. embracing nearly the entire course of the University of Virginia. After completing his school days, he taught mathematics and lauguage in Lewisburg Institute for two terms, and the same at Farmington Academy and some minor schools. Mr. Kercheval finished his education at Fayetteville, Tenn. In 1841 the Marshall Gazctte was established, and, two years later, Mr. Ewing and two partners purchased the paper and office, and soon after Mr. Kercheval joined him; thus Mr. Ewing and he became sole proprietors, going in debt for the greater portion of it. Both were wholly unacquainted with the business, but notwithstanding, they have made it a success and their crisp, newsy, eight-column paper has a circulation of about 1,100. George Wythe Ewing is a son of James S. Ewing, who was born July 5, 1824, in Maury County, and at the age of twenty began his career as a farmer, following that occupation for a period of fourteen years. In 1845 he wedded Eliza J. Rivens, by whom he had two children, only one of whom (our subject) is living. In 1859 the father came to Lewisburg and engaged in merchandising, following that business almost ever since. Both he and wife are worthy members of the Presbyterian Church. of which he has been an elder for about thirty-two years. For some time during the war he served as conscript officer in the Confederacy. He served as trustee of this county, and also as magistrate. He is a Democrat in politics and the son of William D. and Rebecca (Ewing) Ewing, the former born in 1786, and died in 1872, and the latter born in 1791 and died in 1847.

J. BRITT EZELL, farmer, was born July 14, 1838, in Marshall County, and at the age of thirteen, with the consent of his parents. went to live with J. Britt Fulton, an uncle, who had no children of his own. While with him he received a good academic education. About the same time his uncle took a little girl, by the name of Sarah J. Reynolds, to raise. She and Britt grew up together, went to school together, and as time passed on childish affection gave place to the stronger affections of man and womanhood, and, in 1860, they were united in matrimony. To them seven children were born, five of whom are living. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1861 Mr. Ezell volunteered in Company A, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate Army. After about fifteen months' service as quartermaster and commissary, he was transferred to the purchasing commissary department, where he continued till the close of the war. During the whole time he was in the war he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner. Since that time he has been extensively engaged in farming and trading. When his uncle died he left a farm of 236 acres to our subject and wife, to which has been added sufficient to make it 670 acres. Our subject has lived in this county all his life, and is considered a good farmer and an enterprising citizen. He is a son of Joseph D. and Mary C. (Fulton) Ezell, both natives of Tennessee, the father born in 1810 and the mother in 1817. The father was a farmer, besides being engaged largely in trading and stock raising. For several years he held the position of magistrate, but was not a man who aspired to places of public trust. He died in 1880, leaving his widow and children well provided for. Since his death the mother has lived with her children.

LANCELOT ANDREWS
Although members of the Andrews family in America were predominantly Methodist, as was William Lafayette Andrews (although his son married a Catholic), and the family has had a number of Methodist ministers, the family in England was Anglican. James David Andrews in a 1929 letter stated that the family in America descends from [Nicholas Andrews, the brother of] Lancelot Andrews, whose biography below shows the character of the family before certain members left for the new world.

Lancelot Andrewes' father was a seaman of good repute belonging to Trinity House. It is said that he came from a moderately Calvinistic home, the son of a wealthy shipping family from Suffolk. Lancelot was a patron of learning, being Master of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, besides fifteen modern languages.

When Jesus College, Oxford, was founded, young Andrewes was invited to be one of its foundation fellows, and in 1580 he took holy orders. In 1611 he was on the committee of scholars that produced the King James Translation of the Bible, and is thought to have contributed more to it than anyone else. Those who value the catholicity of the Church and the beauty of holiness in worship, offer a big thank you on the day of his death, as he safeguarded the Catholic heritage in the English Church in its formative years of the Reformation period under Elizabeth I. After the death of his brother Thomas Andrews, whom he loved dearly, he began to reckon of his own, which he said would be in the end of summer or the beginning of winter. And when his brother Nicholas Andrews died, he took that as a certain warning of his own death; and from that time till the hour of his dissolution, he spent all his time in prayer. He died at Winchester House in Southwark, in 1626, and was buried in St. Mary Overy's (Southwark Cathedral), in a demolished chapel east of the Lady Chapel (to where his monument has since been moved).

Britannia Biographies states that Lancelot Andrewes was by far the most distinguished prelate who has occupied the See of Winchester since the Reformation.... He was one of Queen Elizabeth's chaplains by whom, and by her successor James I, the preaching and abilities of Andrewes were held in the highest estimation. (With King James, Dr. Andrews stood in still higher favor than he had done with Elizabeth. He was a patron of learning, being Master of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, besides fifteen modern languages. It is recorded of him that the king had such a veneration for him he refrained from levity in his presence.)

On the accession of James, the See of Rome pronounced a censure on those of the English Catholics who took the oath of allegiance. Controversy ensued when King James himself wrote his "Apology for the Oath." Cardinal Bellarmine replied with great vehemence and bitterness, under the name of Matthew Tortus; and the task of defending the royal author was assigned to Andrewes, who gave to his reply the quaint title of Tortura Torti… His Oriental learning was considerable and, in King James's Bible, he undertook the revision and translation of the historical books from Joshua to the First Book of Chronicles. In patristic theology, he was far more learned than any of the Elizabethan bishops or perhaps than any of his English contemporaries except Usher.

MARIANNE DORMAN expresses that Andrewes began his ministry (a ministry that was to last fifty years) c.1578, a time when the Puritans were trying their hardest, especially through pamphlets and parliaments, to model the English Church on the Genevan. This would have meant discarding the episcopal and apostolic ministry, the Prayer Book, downplaying the sacraments and dismantling the structure of cathedrals. However their demands were always thwarted by Queen Elizabeth. She and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Whitgift) both appointed Andrewes as one of their chaplains, and prevailed on his skills as a preacher and theologian to address many of the issues raised by Puritans in the late 16th Century. So his preaching and lecturing, and later on when a bishop his Visitation Articles always stressed amongst other things the observance of Prayer Book services to be taken by a properly ordained minister, the Eucharist to be celebrated reverently, infants to be baptised, the Daily Offices to be said, and spiritual counselling to be given where needed.

One cannot read Andrewes' sermons or use his prayers without being aware of the centrality of the Eucharist in his life and teaching. It had been the heart of worship in the early Church when the local bishop and people came together constantly to celebrate Christ's glorious death, and partake of His most blessed Body and Blood. That partaking fell into disuse in the mediæval church and was replaced instead by adoration of the Host at the elevation during the Canon. For Andrewes the Eucharist was the meeting place for the infinite and finite, the divine and human, heaven and earth. "The blessed mysteries ... are from above; the 'Bread that came down from Heaven,' the Blood that hath been carried 'into the holy place.' And I add, ubi Corpus, ubi sanguis Christi, ibi Christus". We here "on earth ... are never so near Him, nor He us, as then and there." Thus it is to the altar we must come for "that blessed union [which] is the highest perfection we can in this life aspire unto." Unlike his contemporary Puritans it was not the pulpit but the altar, glittering with its candles and plate, with incense wafting to God, that was the focal point for worship in Andrewes' chapel.

The reason that Andrewes placed so much importance on reverence in worship came from his conviction that when we worship God it is with our entire being, that is, both bodily and spiritually. At a time when little emphasis was placed on the old outward forms of piety Andrewes maintained, "if He hath framed that body of yours and every member of it, let Him have the honour both of head and knee, and every member else."

During those fifty years, Andrewes ministry touched all walks of life. He was chaplain to reigning monarchs for forty years; constant preacher at Court especially for James I; vicar of an important London parish, St. Giles, Cripplegate; and a prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral for fifteen years. He was also Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge for a similar period; a prebendary and then Dean of Westminster Abbey for a total of eight years; Almoner and Dean of the Royal Chapel and finally a bishop for twenty-two years.

So it is not surprising that for many in the seventeenth century Andrewes was considered the authority on worship, and so what he practised in his beautiful chapel, designed for Catholic worship, became their standard for the celebration of the Liturgy. As Andrewes was steeped in the teachings of the Fathers and the liturgies of both Eastern and Western churches it meant that in intention and form he followed the 1549 Prayer Book more than the 1559. His practice shaped the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637 (adopted by the American Episcopal Church in the 1789), and the reshaping of the Liturgy in the English Church in 1662.

As a preacher Andrewes was highly esteemed by contemporaries and later generations. In modern times T.S. Eliot referred to Andrewes as "the first great preacher of the English Catholic Church" who always spoke as "a man who had a formed visible Church behind him, who speaks with the old authority and the new culture, whilst his sermons "rank with the finest English prose of their time, of any time." As well as teaching the Catholic faith according to the Fathers his sermons also reflected an appreciation of beauty as well as knowledge of commerce, trade, art, theatre, navigation, husbandry, science, astronomy, cosmography, fishing, nature, shipping, and even the new discoveries of the world.

There is no doubt therefore that Andrewes saw himself as standing in that long line of Christian tradition embedded in antiquity, and a part of the wonder and loveliness of creation.

There are some notable descendants of Lancelot Andrews living today, including the Parker Bowles children of HRH the Duchess of Cornwall, and the families of General Frank Maxwell Andrews, descendants of Lancelot's brother Nicholas.

TIMELINE WILLIAM LAFAYETTE ANDREWS SR

Birth
August 23, 1881 • Tennessee
Daughter Sara: "Papa was born August 23, 1881."

Age 4 — Birth of brother Jones B. Andrews(1886–1886)
January 20, 1886 • Marshall County, Tennessee

Age 5 — Death of brother Jones B. Andrews(1886–1886)
October 24, 1886 • Marshall County, Tenneseee

Age 7 — Birth of sister Anna "Annie" Lou Andrews(1889–1970)
February 16, 1889 • Tennessee

Age 9 — Birth of brother Roy Bryant Andrews(1891–1949)
January 17, 1891 • Tennessee

Age 16 — Birth of brother Kenneth Allen Andrews(1897–1971)
October 11, 1897 • Tennessee

Age 19 — Census
1900 • Marshall County, Tennessee

Age 19 — Meeting Future Wife
1900 (believed) • Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois
WL Andrews made a trip to Illinois, came back and he wasn't about to marry her, but his future wife followed him to Tennessee according to Aunt Lou and Consulo, and she was married in the dress she came down in.

Age 19 — Occupation
1900 • Lewisburg, Tennessee - At the age of 19 he engaged as clerk for F. L. Patterson, and in 1905, became a partner with the Patterson Brothers and manager of the Silver Creek store. The firm buys and ships produce from Park's, Bryant's and Silver Creek, making sales above

Age 23 — Graduation
December 16, 1904 • GEORGIA ALABAMA BUSINESS COLLEGE, Macon, Georgia - By grandson WXA - He was a (6 Media)
hardworking, fastidious and socially conservative teetotaler & graduate of Macon Business College & was already a prominent entrepreneur who owned two general stores. Soon he would open a bank [no, merely director] and buy up prime real estate on the Lewis

Age 24 — Marriage
September 10, 1905 • Wayne County, Illinois
Stella Viola Simpson
(1883–1970)
Age 26 — Residence
1907 about • Silver Creek, Marshall County, Tennessee
Grocer and Director of Peoples and Union Bank Lewisburg. Silver Greek, a railroad station at the Maury County line, had a store kept by R. C. Harris and presumably William L. Andrews, Sr. took over this store and lived in the Harris house on the property.

Age 26 — Birth of daughter Sara
June 22,1908 • Son WLA Jr: My father and mother were living at Silver Creek when she was born, but I think she was born down there (at Nicholas' farm) at that time. I don't think they were born in hospitals then I guess. Sara was named for her (Sara Bryant).
They called her Aunt Sallie. She died in 1928 and Nicholas died in 1934.

Age 26 — Birth of daughter Sara Josephine "Sara Jo" Andrews(1908–2002)
June 22, 1908 • Lewisburg, Tennessee at her grandfather Nicholas' home. [Brotehr Bill -I don't think they were born in hospitals then I guess.] [5/22/08 per E. Early Bible]

Age 29 — Census
1910 • Civil District 3, Marshall, Tennessee

Age 29 — Occupation
1910 about • Lewisburg and Silver Creek, Tennessee
Grocer and bank director - Grocery Store & Postmaster in Silver Creek. Grocery Store owner [three stores] and member of the board of directors of Peoples & Union Bank in Lewisburg, Tennessee

Age 29 — Residence
1910 about • Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee, Limestone Avenue. In the 1970s, the President of Peoples & Union Bank told W.L. Andrews' grandson John whom W.L. Andrews had never met, that he wanted John to see something and then took John to the bank's board room to show him a large portrait of John's grandfather hanging n the wall with past presidents of the bank.

Age 33 — Residence
1914 • Lewisburg, TN, Limestorne Avenue - Sara was born in 1908, so that would be about 1914.
Son WL Andrews - That's Sara and my father, and that's that house on Limestone Avenue here where we lived before we moved over to Verona Avenue. That was the first house from the corner and now I bet there are 10 houses between there and the corner.

Age 34 — Residence
1915 about • Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee
Verona Avenue

Age 35 — Son's Birth
October 4, 1916 • Lewisburg, Marshall County, TN - By the time of my father's birth, Grandfather Andrews, a graduate of Macon Business College, was already a prominent entrepreneur who owned two general stores. Soon he would open a bank and buy up prime real estate on the on the Square. He was a hardworking, fastidious and socially conservative teetotaler who died in 1924 in his early forties. No one knows for sure the cause of death but his extremely jaundiced appearance during his last days suggests a form of hepatitis.

Age 35 — Birth of son William Lafayette Andrews Jr.(1916–2005)
4 Oct 1916 • At his parents' home on Limestone Avenue in Lewisburg, Tennessee. He was always called "William" by his mother and sister, and "Andy" by his wife (from their Army days).

Age 37 — WW I Draft Registration
September 12, 1918 • Lewisburg, Tennessee
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 about William Lafayette Andrews Name: William Lafayette Andrews County: Marshall State: Tennessee Birth Date: 23 Aug 1881

Age 37 — Military
1918 • He had a family and children by then (Daddy 1 year old or so) and was supplying food to people, so he probably got a draft deferment. He went to a two year business school in Macon Georgia. Nicholas' Father [William Varney Andrews, Tennessee Tucker's husband] was 38 years old when the Civil War broke out, so I would think he would have served but there is nothing about that, and his father, Jones Andrews, served in the War of 1812 and Jone's father, Varney Andrews, served in the Revolutionary War.

Age 39 — Census
1920 • Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee

Age 41 — Property
August 20, 1923 • Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee
175 Acres by Maude Ogilvie. He bought the farm in Lewisburg in August 1924 and died December 21 according to his daughter Sara. His wife Stella built a silo on the farm for the relatives living there over the years.

Age 42 — Property
January 31, 1924 • Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee
Bought a 236 acre farm on highway 431 in two tracts of 175 acres and 61 acres in 1924 when he was ill and hoping to recover, but never lived on the land.

Illness
1924 • Lewisburg, Tennessee - died in 1924 in his early forties (possibly cancer)
No one knows for sure the cause of death but his extremely jaundiced appearance during his last days suggests a form of hepatitis. His grandson Bill Andrews' son Willy almost died with a hepatitis induced liver problem as did his granddaughter Miriam

Bank Building
1924 after • Lewisburg, Marshall Co., TN USA
After his death, his wife rented office space in the bank Building to former Governer Prentice Cooper of Shelbyville

Will
1924 • Lewisburg - Recorded in Book D of Wills, Page 286, Marshall County TN Recorder of Deeds office.I devise and give to my children and wife the two business houses and let which I own on the south side of the public square in the town of Lewisburg, said property to be under her supervision, management and control until my son reaches the age of twenty-one years and I direct that she as trustee and guardian for said children receive the rental income from said property and expend same during the minority.

Age 43 — Death
December 21, 1924 • Lewisburg, Tennessee at Doctor Wheat's hospital (11 Media)
Cause of Death: Paralysis - Tabitic, Non-Specific. Doctor Luther E. Wheat signed the death certificate. When he died, Stella said, well, what is going to happen to me now, not knowing that he had left a great deal of money and property to her.

Burial
December 23, 1924 • Andrews-Liggett Cemetery on his father's farm. His son, at 8 years old, recalls standing in a shed at the cemetery in pouring rain for the burial.
W.L Andrews, Sr. died at Doctor Wheat's hospital in Lewisburg.

Farm After His death
1925 • Lewisburg - WLA Jr - after Aunt Myrtle's husband died, then when he realized I guess that he wasn't going to be able to live here himself, he, I don't know how it came about but anyway Aunt Myrtle lived here with her 4 boys you see [They moved here] after my father died. And Elgie lived here at one time and then of course Paul was just young, my age, and Elgie and Mary lived here and they bought a place down there and then Aunt Myrtle and David and Evelyn lived here.

Sale of Grocery Businesses after His Death
1925 About
Upon his death, his grocery businesses were sold to the father of a doctor in Columbia who later operated upon his daughter-in-law Betty Early Andrews. The doctor said that Betty was the best patient he had ever had. His son also became a doctor.

Probate
1925
He sold the grocery business to Valton Harwell, Dr. Valton Harwell's father. JEA: That must have been kind of hard for him to do. He really liked it didn't he?

Son's Love of Father's Farm and Disposition after his death
2005
Will - I give my farm which I purchased from Miss Maud Ogilvie to my two children and wife, to be under her supervision until my son William L. Andrews arrives at the age of Twenty-one years.
Brother Kenneth
Niece Martha Andrews - Martha Andrews said that her grandfather Nicholas favored his son W. L. over the others and W. L., Jr. and Sara over his other grandchildren. W. L., Sr. had promised her father Kenneth 1/3 of his grocery business if he joined him in running the grocery store. She said that W. L. never gave Kenneth this, but said it might have been because W.L., Sr. died early.

Personality / Work Ethic
He was a hardworking, fastidious and socially conservative teetotaler who died in 1924 on his early forties. No one knows for sure the cause of death but his extremely jaundiced appearance during his last days suggests a form of hepatitis. Dad lost his father at the tender age of eight and was raised thereafter by his mother and a sister, my Aunt Sara, who was eight years his senior.

Grandchildren
David: Yeah, I never met either of my grandfathers. I always thought it was because my Daddy was such a good Daddy, but I remember thinking he must have really missed his Daddy.

Grocery Stores
Also had a grocery store on the east side of the square in Lewisburg and owned the Peoples and Union Bank building and the Rutledge Pharmacy building next to it.

Nickname
Known to many as Willie Andrews

Business Friendships
Grandson John Andrews had met a Mr. Ginsburg in the mid-1980 in his department store just north and adjacent to the Rutledge Pharmacy building, which William L. Andrews, Sr. had owned, on the Lewisburg square. Mr. Ginsburg had immigrated from Russia when he was 17 years old and had known William L. Andrews. John Andrews had practiced law in Nashville in 1986 with Mr. Ginsburg's grandson, Martin Sir, who had been a state legislator and U.S. Congressional candidate.

Closeness to Parents
Aunt Lou and Aunt Consulo told daughter-in-law Betty Andrews that WL Andrews was very devoted to his mother and father and loved each of them very much. He had great respect for his father Nicholas. When his mother died he had his father live on his farm. Despite Consulo saying that he and his wife fought like cats and dogs, Betty feels that he was a good enough man that he would not overtly fight with his wife, but the marriage was not a happy marriage.

Appearance
Like his only son, William L. Andrews, Sr. was strikingly handsome, dignified and distinguished in appearance. WLA, Jr. I never saw my father with his hair parted down the middle. I never saw him look like that in my life.

Biography
Bill Allen: "The photo (of grocery store) could have been made a number of years prior to 1919. Obviously, Will Andrews is the center focus of the photo; a youthful, confident, well-dressed businessman."

Occupation
Martha Thompson - Daddy and my mother were in Cleveland, Ohio working and had a pretty good job and he called and told him that if he came home he'd give him a third of the grocery store, but he didn't. So Daddy came home and worked for him, but he never [pause] gave it. It might have been because he died. I have no idea how long they worked together.

Religion
Methodist - Son WLA looking a picture - I never saw my father with his hair parted down the middle. I never saw him look like that in my life.

DAUGHTER SEAR'S RECOLLECTIONS:
CRB: What is your most memorable experience?

SJA: I had a beautiful childhood. I was saddened by my father's death when I was 16 and I had a long illness when I was, I guess I was in first grade in school. I had a fever and my grandparents came down from Illinois because they thought I was going to die. What they did is hold a mirror over my mouth to see if I was breathing and they would put as needle – they had a nurse from St. Thomas come down, and they put a needle in there and if it closed up, I was living I guess. And while my grandfather Orlando and his wife were there thinking that i was going to die, I came out of the coma and I said I want a drink of water out of Grandpa's well.

Joan Andrews Bell: Which grandpa's well?

SJA: That was the house on Franklin Road, the two story white house, no not in Silver Creek, the one with Andrews-Liggett cemetery on it, Nicholas' well. It was beautiful. It used to be kind of on a hill, but they've done something with the highway and they kept it up beautifully. And they had a big house. It was kind of L-shaped. The front of it had a parlor and a hall that went through there connected to a room they called a family room and my grandparents had a big bed in there. That's where, they had a fireplace and they'd keep warm by the fireplace. And that's where a stairway that went up from their family room and the girls would sleep up there at night.

SJA: His health wasn't good, he worked very hard, and he didn't take enough time off to enjoy life really, but every year my mother would go early and take us on the train to Illinois and my grandfather said I'm so glad to see you that I cry for joy when I see you and I cry in sadness when you leave. But my mother was so close to her father and her half sisters and brother and own sisters too, and so my father would come up and stay maybe a week or two weeks and bring us home. And the first car we had was a Ford. And he didn't take enough time off, but this farm was put up for sale. It was called the Khurcheville home. It was not the house that they have there now. It was a house that had a veranda along the front of it and more attractive than this house. This one was kind of quickly built I think. But it was well built, this other one. And he bought that house in August 1924 and he had, he kept losing weight and looked bad and he died three days before Christmas the year he bought it. And he was the director of the bank there, Peoples and Union. He had several stores. They were stores out in the country at first and then he had one on First Avenue or Second Avenue, I think it's called First Avenue, and then he bought this building on the square and it was a grocery store, and when he sold it to the bank just before he died I guess, then the bank later, there were two stores that he owned, and one of them was a drug store and that's where Winston Rutledge's father was the drugest, owned the drug store, I mean he owned the business, rented it. But the bank decided they'd build a new building across the alley. There was a alleyway there, and that's where Peoples and Union downtown is on the square. There's a picture of my father in the bank's board room. About 33 people have lived on that farm. What he'd do is let them plant any crops or anything like that, anything they wanted to do. My mother built a silo for one of them I think. But I guess they paid enough to pay the taxes but that's about all. His sister, Aunt Mertyl, was the oldest one. Her son is dying over at St. Thomas now. They called the family this morning at 4: 30:

CRB: That's Paul Harris?

SJA: They called the family at 4:30 this morning and they all came down. Be he and his mother and all except his sister, she married young, she never lived on the farm. But all the rest of them lived on the farm. Then Aunt Lou, the one whose daughter-in-law came this afternoon, lived on the farm. And then Uncle Kenneth, who is Martha's father, lived in the little house that they remodeled, the little log house where Milton used to live, later the black man lived there. And it was the cutest little house. It was one of the oldest houses in Marshall County. But I have the most wonderful memories, and that's the greatest place to have them. But this house, someone in Lewisburg, was a historian, he said, "Sara, what happened to the house? It should have been restored. It was the oldest." Part of it is in this house out at Tyne. It's gone now. It was brought down here. I didn't know anything about it. They just went on and did it. I would have done something about it. But my Uncle Kenneth, it was during the depression, he didn't have work, so he had a wife and daughter, that's Aunt Conslo and her daughter Martha, whose husband is dying now of cancer. And they lived, wanted to know if they could come out there, they said now we can't do much for you, we can paint it clean it up and do things like that, but we can't pay rent. We said, well, that's all right. So they lived out there for quite some while. And she was a friend in high school of the Murry's and all those people who were quite well to do in town. And they'd go out there and visit them. And my aunt was a marvelous cook. And they enjoyed it. It was fun to go to the country. It was only a mile and a half from town. And next to us were the Ewings who have that beautiful home, you know, the Ewing home. The family who lived in that house, I was sorry for them, they has about eight children, seven or eight, big family, and they couldn't support them, and they had to sell the house. And my father just happened to be there at the auction sell and he thought if he bought it he might get a horse and ride around and his health would return, but it didn't, because that was in the summer, in August and he died Christmas. Kind of sad. And the people who bought it were named McCords. Now the farm was formerly know as the Kershival farm, and the Kurshival house is in town, that beautiful house that David likes so much next to Prince McBride. That was the Kershival home. But this was the Kershival Farm and they lived there, at that was the house, it might have burned is the reason they built the new house there. I can't remember. But as a child I remember seeing that house going to my grandfather's down at leap(?), you know, on Franklin Road. But I don't know what happened, but I wish we had restored that house. They had it looking so good. But they didn't have the comforts of life, but they managed fine, enjoyed it and didn't have to pay rent. They weren't out on the street, so we've kept it in the family all these years, but I don't know of anybody who paid anything, they just lived in that one house over and over, it that other little house, but they've always enjoyed it, but not many of them lived there at the same time.

Joan: Aunt Sara, were you able to talk to your father before he died, when he knew he was going to die. Daddy says he remember his saying, take care of your mother and your sister to him.

SJA: I didn't know he was as sick as he was, but he died on the 21st and was buried on the 23rd of December, just before Christmas. He taught me how to drive a car. What I think he intended is for us to pass it on to any of the Andrews descendants, you know. He had a son and a daughter, that was all. Then of course, William and i inherited the farm, and my mother, and when she died, it was owned by the two of us. I would like to leave it in trust fund for everybody, but not to be sold. Now, when Betty came down, she wanted to will some of it to her church, and my mother said, "I really wouldn't want a church in my front yard. And she wouldn't sign the papers. I think it made betty unhappy about that. She said, now I belong to another church, but I wouldn't want my church built in the front year.

CRB: But do you remember your father telling you any last words?

SJA: Of course he didn't have an awful lot. At that time it was a great deal. But he invested it well and he had some life insurance, so we never suffered, and then we have taken Uncle Kenneth and Aunt Conslo in about four times, to live with us at different places. Yes, he was a good business man. My mother didn't know how to write a check when he died, and he taught her, showed her something about it when he found out he was sick. But Leonard Cathy was president of the bank and they would help her oh so much. They were wonderful. And we knew everybody in Lewisburg. And he was a very active member in the church. And when he would want to give something, when they needed something, the church, he would call an usher over and wisher in his ear what he would give, and there was some others who were very prominent, who would stand up and say I'll give so and so, and they never paid. And my father thought that was wrong. He would quietly give, but didn't want to be acknowledged for it. Yes, that church is still there in Lewisburg. It's on the street that goes right off of the square. It's across from a funeral home now. It's a Methodist church, and your father taught Sunday school classes there for awhile. He did that after he came back to the farm and Betty didn't come down and he taught classes there. He had a lot of friends. He's not very assertive, your father, he's just peaceful and tries to get along with everybody. Two or three of the members said, I wish he'd be more assertive. But he wanted the peace.

CRB: He must have been like that as a little boy too.

SJA: he was, he was. He was kind of stubborn, one time he got angry on his little tricycle, I still have his little tricycle, it's wooden, and he'd get up and just stomp it like this. He'd jump up and down on it because it wouldn't go the way he wanted it to. But anyway, I've had a good life. I think the war hurt us a lot. It changed our whole lives. We were so concerned about him. He was so unhappy in the service. He didn't like it. But he was chosen by a professor at Vanderbilt to go and be in his group. He took all the Vanderbilt boys that he knew, it was the medical corps. And he chose him, and he was the first one, his number was the first one called in the war. 158. 158 all over the United States were called in. Boy, it killed my mother almost to see him have to go in the war. But he's always been to private schools and made good grades. He went to Duncan which is a private boys school here, a verable fine one. Then he went to Vanderbilt and then to law school. He was in law school at Vanderbilt, but then the war came along and they closed the law school because it didn't have enough in school to continue. And he had to go to UT and get his law degree from UT.

Joan: Aunt Sara, were you already working at the library when Daddy went into the Army.

SJA: Oh, I knew nothing about libraries when I was down in Lewisburg. They didn't even have a library. But, when I came to Nashville I had a friend who finished high school when I did and she was going to be a Liberian and she influenced me I think. She was Mr. P.D. Houston's niece, one of the rich men here in Nashville, a banker, so Mary Lydia said I'm going to be a Liberian. I said, "I bet I'd like that. And I went to library school and Mary Lidia did too. And she became a Liberian at Randolph Macon later.

SJA: (Looking at painting) That shows children first, then books and then flowers.

Joan: That's what you love.

SJA: My mother and father married in Illinois. He went to the World's fair at St. Louis to visit a cousin of his and he met her [Daddy didn't know this.] They married in 1905. Then we went to Chicago for the World's fair, that was in 1931. I was born three years after they married.

SJA: (Looking at photo of Harris House). That was built by a man by the name of Harris I believe. And he was a blond man who designed it. And my father had a store a Bryant Station I believe. And then he bought this store at Silver Creek. It was down in the corner of the yard and it was quite a little community. And they has a spur track, a railroad track that came from Columbia to Lewisburg and they would drop off the mail and they had a little track that would run to the store. See, my brother never lived there. I was born when they lived there. I wasn't born in that house, I was born at my grandmother's over on Franklin Road. But, they stored their Christmas toys in that house, and I got lost one day and my mother thought I might be kidnapped, they didn't kidnap much then, but she couldn't find me, and I had gone up there and gone to sleep where the dolls were. I always loved dolls. And they found me there safe, but they thought I might have wondered away and got hit. They didn't have many cars then either. [Looking at a Calendar with t picture of the house that said, "Robert Harris House, built for his bride between 1880 and 1890. Put on the National Register January 27, 1983."]

SJA: When we bought this house [Lealand] it didn't have a tree in the front yard. 1953. This is John before he had his teeth straightened, school picture. He wouldn't want to see it because he had his teeth straightened and he wouldn't want Susan [his wife] to see it. He had to have quite a bit of work done on his dentures. [Chris – you can see Johnny's face in him.]

SJA: You know, this film is on my eye. I'm going to have cataract surgery on one, then I've got to have the other one in two or three months. [Looking at flowers on the side of the house] My mother planted all of these. When the boys were little, we were looking at the Hydrangias and they were blue.

CRB: You know, Dave Brindle wants to clear some of the trees away from the fields, to get more field for the cows and the horses, and Susan and the girls they put up such a fuss. They want to save all those maples and big cedars.

SJA: My father went up to visit a cousin of his in Illinois and Maryland. So he invited my father up to visit him and his wife. They were Harris'. Some of Paul's background. So when my father he fell in love with my mother. He may have made two trips. But when the time came for the World's Fair, they went to the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1905. They got married not too long after that, I can't remember. And they had a home garden wedding. And she had a first cousin who married the same day. And they were like sisters, like you and Susan. And they were double cousins. My mother's cousin married their, well, I don't know who it works. But anyway, she went to New Mexico and lived. Her name was, I can't think of it now – it was a very prominent name up there. But we enjoyed them so much later. They've always lived out west. They've never lived here. They married in August, I think it was August. My mother was born the 15th of August and my father, I can't remember. I have it written down. He died when he was 43 and my mother was a widow from the time she was 39 on. She never remarried because she was afraid she might marry someone who wouldn't be good to us. Wouldn't accept us.

We lived on Verona Avenue in Lewisburg.

My grandfather was Nicholas green Andrews, his father, I think it was his father, William Vaughn Andrews. Now I can't think how Lucy and Jones came in there, because they named their first child Jones and I think it's in that paper I have though. It's in a book.

SJA; I've been blessed, I really have. I've never seen such friends. The blacks and the whites both help me. This Ulysses mows my grass. Ulysses. He's the one who always bows to you,. He's so nice. He's just a lovely person.