Addie Warren Andrews was born on 5 April 1886 in Jackson, Madison Co. Tn. He moved with his family to Waco, Tx. when he was a baby, where they lived about three years before moving to the Cookville area in Titus Co. Tx. when he was about five years old. He grew up in Titus County where he met and married on 2 October 1904 to Lessie Mary Higgins, daughter of James William and Mary Jane McBride Higgins.
Addie passed away 12 November 1974 at Tyler, Texas.

Addie was a farmer and lived most of his life in Titus Co. Tx. and McCurtain Co. Ok. with the exception of living near Stockdale in Wilson Co. Tx. for about a year and a half and in Scottsdale, Arizona for about six months.

Addie moved from Broken Bow, Ok in the fall of 1915 to Stockdale, Wilson Co. Tx. where Lessie's family lived. They traveled by wagon and the trip took about three weeks. During the trip, there daughter, Esther, became ill. When it became late in the day, Addie stopped at a likely looking farm and explained that his baby was sick and he needed "to be put up for the night". It was common in those days for people to accommodate in their homes people who were traveling. The man said he had just put some fresh hay in his barn and there was plenty of room in the barn for all of them if he wanted to stay there. Addie became a little indignant at being offered a barn to stay in and said "I didn't ask to sleep in your *#%& barn. I told you my baby is sick and I won't have my family sleeping in any ****&#* barn. If you don't want to put us up for the night just say so and I'll go on down the road til I find someone who will". After that outburst the man invited Addie and his family to stay the night in his home, which they did.

About a year and a half later Addie moved his family back to Broken Bow, OK. This time they traveled by train. They loaded everything they owned, including the livestock, on boxcars. Addie rode in the boxcar with the livestock so he could care for them during the trip. During one night after a short nap, he awoke to find the boxcar in which he was riding, disconnected and left on a side track in the middle of nowhere. When the wheels of a boxcar became hot, it was disconnected and left until it was cold. The boxcar in which Addie was riding was picked up by the next train the next day.