Born in Bonita, a small town in northeastern Texas, "Andy" was a farmer in his early years, but around 1890 switched to working as a tinsmith. Andy owned and operated several sheet metal shops in Texas and New Mexico, installing metal flashing on houses and barns and fabricating rain gutter and linings for water-troughs and sinks.
Andy was the son of Jesse Rountree, a cavalry trooper for the CSA from Texas and Mary Gordon, the daughter of a prominent medical doctor from Missouri. About 5 foot 6 and 120 pounds, Andy lost the sight in his left eye as a young man in an accident when he fell -- close to a farm hand sewing a horse harness with a needle.
Andy had the aura of an old Texas cowboy -- he wore a beat-up Stetson, sported a large mustache and rolled his own cigarettes using Bull Durham tobacco from a drawstring pouch. Andy was quiet and kept to himself, except when his temper surfaced. He gradually lost his hearing with age and became almost deaf.
He married Maude Ola Staples of Bonita, Texas in 1891 and they had eight children, Francis, Esther, Florence, Cleo, Dick, Narcia, Spencer and Dudley.
Andy was the son of Jesse Rountree, a cavalry trooper for the CSA from Texas and Mary Gordon, the daughter of a prominent medical doctor from Missouri. About 5 foot 6 and 120 pounds, Andy lost the sight in his left eye as a young man in an accident when he fell -- close to a farm hand sewing a horse harness with a needle.
Andy had the aura of an old Texas cowboy -- he wore a beat-up Stetson, sported a large mustache and rolled his own cigarettes using Bull Durham tobacco from a drawstring pouch. Andy was quiet and kept to himself, except when his temper surfaced. He gradually lost his hearing with age and became almost deaf.
He married Maude Ola Staples of Bonita, Texas in 1891 and they had eight children, Francis, Esther, Florence, Cleo, Dick, Narcia, Spencer and Dudley.
Born in Bonita, a small town in northeastern Texas, "Andy" was a farmer in his early years, but around 1890 switched to working as a tinsmith. Andy owned and operated several sheet metal shops in Texas and New Mexico, installing metal flashing on houses and barns and fabricating rain gutter and linings for water-troughs and sinks.
Andy was the son of Jesse Rountree, a cavalry trooper for the CSA from Texas and Mary Gordon, the daughter of a prominent medical doctor from Missouri. About 5 foot 6 and 120 pounds, Andy lost the sight in his left eye as a young man in an accident when he fell -- close to a farm hand sewing a horse harness with a needle.
Andy had the aura of an old Texas cowboy -- he wore a beat-up Stetson, sported a large mustache and rolled his own cigarettes using Bull Durham tobacco from a drawstring pouch. Andy was quiet and kept to himself, except when his temper surfaced. He gradually lost his hearing with age and became almost deaf.
He married Maude Ola Staples of Bonita, Texas in 1891 and they had eight children, Francis, Esther, Florence, Cleo, Dick, Narcia, Spencer and Dudley.
Andy was the son of Jesse Rountree, a cavalry trooper for the CSA from Texas and Mary Gordon, the daughter of a prominent medical doctor from Missouri. About 5 foot 6 and 120 pounds, Andy lost the sight in his left eye as a young man in an accident when he fell -- close to a farm hand sewing a horse harness with a needle.
Andy had the aura of an old Texas cowboy -- he wore a beat-up Stetson, sported a large mustache and rolled his own cigarettes using Bull Durham tobacco from a drawstring pouch. Andy was quiet and kept to himself, except when his temper surfaced. He gradually lost his hearing with age and became almost deaf.
He married Maude Ola Staples of Bonita, Texas in 1891 and they had eight children, Francis, Esther, Florence, Cleo, Dick, Narcia, Spencer and Dudley.
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