Father: Samuel Varney Andrews
Mother: Carrie Edna Boyd
Age at death: 86 years
Spouse & Children:
Mary Barbara Ewald (1892–1958)
James Ray Andrews Jr.
Mary Barbara Andrews
John Joseph Andrews
Leo Anthony Andrews
Second Marriage: Mary Croft Smith McMurry. (b. 16 Oct 1898 in Chambers, Alabama: d.
22 Apr 1981, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas)
Autobiography
from
his book
"The Andrews Family
Descendants
of
Varney Andrews
Virginia Soldier
of the
American Revolution"
My education began in a small country school in Howard County, Texas, and was completed at Sherman Texas. My last year teacher was Miss Martha (Mattie) Pullen, a dignified, gray haired lady for whom I had great admiration and vast respect. I had the great pleasure of visiting with her about 1950, and was much surprised when she remembered me as a student, even giving me quite a bit of the personal history of many of my classmates. She became an institution in Sherman, and recently a new school building was erected in Sherman and named the Pullen School.
On the advice of my doctor following an appendicitis operation, I went in 1910 to Amarillo, Texas to live. It was from Amarillo in 1918 that I was inducted into the U. S. Army. Boot training took place in a training unit at College Station, Texas on the campus of Texas A & M College. From there I was shipped to Camp Joseph E. Johnston near Jacksonville, Florida. Shortly after arrival at that base, I entered the Officer’s Training School and was commissioned October 30, 1918 a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
When I was notified that I had been commissioned, I was without funds with which to equip myself with a uniform and other clothing which had to be obtained to replace the clothing I was wearing. In this crises, my sister, Laura Mabel Andrews, who was then living in Amarillo, came to my rescue with a generous loan. Without her assistance I could never have become and "Officer and Gentlemen."
Before my discharge in June 1919, duty assignments included Fort Meade, Md., camp Dix, N.J., and Fort Humphries, Va. It was while I was on duty at Fort Humphries that I met Mary Barbara Ewald at a dance given at Alexandria by a social service organization.
We were married August 28, 1919, at the home of Mary’s mother, and went to Amarillo to live. In 1923, we returned to Alexandria and lived there until 1934, when we moved to Washington, D. C. We lived in Washington until 1940. The U. S. Department of Agriculture transferred me permanently to Dallas, Texas, in that year.
In the next decade our children completed their education, the two oldest boys served in the military establishment in World War II, and they and their sister, Mary Barbara Andrews, married and established homes of their own.
My retirement from the Federal Service took place November 30, 1956. Mary Barbara Ewald Andrews became ill one week later, and twenty two months later she was taken from us. She left a family deeply in debt to her for a lifetime of patient sacrifice and devotion. The moral and physical welfare of her family was her single aim in life, and her loss was a stunning blow to every member of her family. Interment was at Calvary Hill Cemetery, Dallas. A suitable monument was erected over the grave site, and provisions made for my final resting place by her side. In May, 1959, I had the great good fortune to meet Mary Croft Smith McMurry, widow of Jess A. McMurry, who was killed in an airplane accident in 1956. Through our mutual interest in matters historical our friendship grew and on October 10, 1959 we were married in her home in Dallas. For the record, her son and daughter, and my three sons and my daughter, warmly approved the marriage.
This completes this record of the Andrews family, from 1685 in Colonial Virginia to 1960 in Texas. For my children and their children, there follow other chapters containing an outline of the Boyd-Eustace families, from whom I am descended through my mother.
Mother: Carrie Edna Boyd
Age at death: 86 years
Spouse & Children:
Mary Barbara Ewald (1892–1958)
James Ray Andrews Jr.
Mary Barbara Andrews
John Joseph Andrews
Leo Anthony Andrews
Second Marriage: Mary Croft Smith McMurry. (b. 16 Oct 1898 in Chambers, Alabama: d.
22 Apr 1981, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas)
Autobiography
from
his book
"The Andrews Family
Descendants
of
Varney Andrews
Virginia Soldier
of the
American Revolution"
My education began in a small country school in Howard County, Texas, and was completed at Sherman Texas. My last year teacher was Miss Martha (Mattie) Pullen, a dignified, gray haired lady for whom I had great admiration and vast respect. I had the great pleasure of visiting with her about 1950, and was much surprised when she remembered me as a student, even giving me quite a bit of the personal history of many of my classmates. She became an institution in Sherman, and recently a new school building was erected in Sherman and named the Pullen School.
On the advice of my doctor following an appendicitis operation, I went in 1910 to Amarillo, Texas to live. It was from Amarillo in 1918 that I was inducted into the U. S. Army. Boot training took place in a training unit at College Station, Texas on the campus of Texas A & M College. From there I was shipped to Camp Joseph E. Johnston near Jacksonville, Florida. Shortly after arrival at that base, I entered the Officer’s Training School and was commissioned October 30, 1918 a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
When I was notified that I had been commissioned, I was without funds with which to equip myself with a uniform and other clothing which had to be obtained to replace the clothing I was wearing. In this crises, my sister, Laura Mabel Andrews, who was then living in Amarillo, came to my rescue with a generous loan. Without her assistance I could never have become and "Officer and Gentlemen."
Before my discharge in June 1919, duty assignments included Fort Meade, Md., camp Dix, N.J., and Fort Humphries, Va. It was while I was on duty at Fort Humphries that I met Mary Barbara Ewald at a dance given at Alexandria by a social service organization.
We were married August 28, 1919, at the home of Mary’s mother, and went to Amarillo to live. In 1923, we returned to Alexandria and lived there until 1934, when we moved to Washington, D. C. We lived in Washington until 1940. The U. S. Department of Agriculture transferred me permanently to Dallas, Texas, in that year.
In the next decade our children completed their education, the two oldest boys served in the military establishment in World War II, and they and their sister, Mary Barbara Andrews, married and established homes of their own.
My retirement from the Federal Service took place November 30, 1956. Mary Barbara Ewald Andrews became ill one week later, and twenty two months later she was taken from us. She left a family deeply in debt to her for a lifetime of patient sacrifice and devotion. The moral and physical welfare of her family was her single aim in life, and her loss was a stunning blow to every member of her family. Interment was at Calvary Hill Cemetery, Dallas. A suitable monument was erected over the grave site, and provisions made for my final resting place by her side. In May, 1959, I had the great good fortune to meet Mary Croft Smith McMurry, widow of Jess A. McMurry, who was killed in an airplane accident in 1956. Through our mutual interest in matters historical our friendship grew and on October 10, 1959 we were married in her home in Dallas. For the record, her son and daughter, and my three sons and my daughter, warmly approved the marriage.
This completes this record of the Andrews family, from 1685 in Colonial Virginia to 1960 in Texas. For my children and their children, there follow other chapters containing an outline of the Boyd-Eustace families, from whom I am descended through my mother.
Father: Samuel Varney Andrews
Mother: Carrie Edna Boyd
Age at death: 86 years
Spouse & Children:
Mary Barbara Ewald (1892–1958)
James Ray Andrews Jr.
Mary Barbara Andrews
John Joseph Andrews
Leo Anthony Andrews
Second Marriage: Mary Croft Smith McMurry. (b. 16 Oct 1898 in Chambers, Alabama: d.
22 Apr 1981, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas)
Autobiography
from
his book
"The Andrews Family
Descendants
of
Varney Andrews
Virginia Soldier
of the
American Revolution"
My education began in a small country school in Howard County, Texas, and was completed at Sherman Texas. My last year teacher was Miss Martha (Mattie) Pullen, a dignified, gray haired lady for whom I had great admiration and vast respect. I had the great pleasure of visiting with her about 1950, and was much surprised when she remembered me as a student, even giving me quite a bit of the personal history of many of my classmates. She became an institution in Sherman, and recently a new school building was erected in Sherman and named the Pullen School.
On the advice of my doctor following an appendicitis operation, I went in 1910 to Amarillo, Texas to live. It was from Amarillo in 1918 that I was inducted into the U. S. Army. Boot training took place in a training unit at College Station, Texas on the campus of Texas A & M College. From there I was shipped to Camp Joseph E. Johnston near Jacksonville, Florida. Shortly after arrival at that base, I entered the Officer’s Training School and was commissioned October 30, 1918 a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
When I was notified that I had been commissioned, I was without funds with which to equip myself with a uniform and other clothing which had to be obtained to replace the clothing I was wearing. In this crises, my sister, Laura Mabel Andrews, who was then living in Amarillo, came to my rescue with a generous loan. Without her assistance I could never have become and "Officer and Gentlemen."
Before my discharge in June 1919, duty assignments included Fort Meade, Md., camp Dix, N.J., and Fort Humphries, Va. It was while I was on duty at Fort Humphries that I met Mary Barbara Ewald at a dance given at Alexandria by a social service organization.
We were married August 28, 1919, at the home of Mary’s mother, and went to Amarillo to live. In 1923, we returned to Alexandria and lived there until 1934, when we moved to Washington, D. C. We lived in Washington until 1940. The U. S. Department of Agriculture transferred me permanently to Dallas, Texas, in that year.
In the next decade our children completed their education, the two oldest boys served in the military establishment in World War II, and they and their sister, Mary Barbara Andrews, married and established homes of their own.
My retirement from the Federal Service took place November 30, 1956. Mary Barbara Ewald Andrews became ill one week later, and twenty two months later she was taken from us. She left a family deeply in debt to her for a lifetime of patient sacrifice and devotion. The moral and physical welfare of her family was her single aim in life, and her loss was a stunning blow to every member of her family. Interment was at Calvary Hill Cemetery, Dallas. A suitable monument was erected over the grave site, and provisions made for my final resting place by her side. In May, 1959, I had the great good fortune to meet Mary Croft Smith McMurry, widow of Jess A. McMurry, who was killed in an airplane accident in 1956. Through our mutual interest in matters historical our friendship grew and on October 10, 1959 we were married in her home in Dallas. For the record, her son and daughter, and my three sons and my daughter, warmly approved the marriage.
This completes this record of the Andrews family, from 1685 in Colonial Virginia to 1960 in Texas. For my children and their children, there follow other chapters containing an outline of the Boyd-Eustace families, from whom I am descended through my mother.
Mother: Carrie Edna Boyd
Age at death: 86 years
Spouse & Children:
Mary Barbara Ewald (1892–1958)
James Ray Andrews Jr.
Mary Barbara Andrews
John Joseph Andrews
Leo Anthony Andrews
Second Marriage: Mary Croft Smith McMurry. (b. 16 Oct 1898 in Chambers, Alabama: d.
22 Apr 1981, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas)
Autobiography
from
his book
"The Andrews Family
Descendants
of
Varney Andrews
Virginia Soldier
of the
American Revolution"
My education began in a small country school in Howard County, Texas, and was completed at Sherman Texas. My last year teacher was Miss Martha (Mattie) Pullen, a dignified, gray haired lady for whom I had great admiration and vast respect. I had the great pleasure of visiting with her about 1950, and was much surprised when she remembered me as a student, even giving me quite a bit of the personal history of many of my classmates. She became an institution in Sherman, and recently a new school building was erected in Sherman and named the Pullen School.
On the advice of my doctor following an appendicitis operation, I went in 1910 to Amarillo, Texas to live. It was from Amarillo in 1918 that I was inducted into the U. S. Army. Boot training took place in a training unit at College Station, Texas on the campus of Texas A & M College. From there I was shipped to Camp Joseph E. Johnston near Jacksonville, Florida. Shortly after arrival at that base, I entered the Officer’s Training School and was commissioned October 30, 1918 a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
When I was notified that I had been commissioned, I was without funds with which to equip myself with a uniform and other clothing which had to be obtained to replace the clothing I was wearing. In this crises, my sister, Laura Mabel Andrews, who was then living in Amarillo, came to my rescue with a generous loan. Without her assistance I could never have become and "Officer and Gentlemen."
Before my discharge in June 1919, duty assignments included Fort Meade, Md., camp Dix, N.J., and Fort Humphries, Va. It was while I was on duty at Fort Humphries that I met Mary Barbara Ewald at a dance given at Alexandria by a social service organization.
We were married August 28, 1919, at the home of Mary’s mother, and went to Amarillo to live. In 1923, we returned to Alexandria and lived there until 1934, when we moved to Washington, D. C. We lived in Washington until 1940. The U. S. Department of Agriculture transferred me permanently to Dallas, Texas, in that year.
In the next decade our children completed their education, the two oldest boys served in the military establishment in World War II, and they and their sister, Mary Barbara Andrews, married and established homes of their own.
My retirement from the Federal Service took place November 30, 1956. Mary Barbara Ewald Andrews became ill one week later, and twenty two months later she was taken from us. She left a family deeply in debt to her for a lifetime of patient sacrifice and devotion. The moral and physical welfare of her family was her single aim in life, and her loss was a stunning blow to every member of her family. Interment was at Calvary Hill Cemetery, Dallas. A suitable monument was erected over the grave site, and provisions made for my final resting place by her side. In May, 1959, I had the great good fortune to meet Mary Croft Smith McMurry, widow of Jess A. McMurry, who was killed in an airplane accident in 1956. Through our mutual interest in matters historical our friendship grew and on October 10, 1959 we were married in her home in Dallas. For the record, her son and daughter, and my three sons and my daughter, warmly approved the marriage.
This completes this record of the Andrews family, from 1685 in Colonial Virginia to 1960 in Texas. For my children and their children, there follow other chapters containing an outline of the Boyd-Eustace families, from whom I am descended through my mother.
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