William Andrews came to Monroe (Cumberland) Co before 1806. He lived near the Gees and Kirkpatricks close to the Cumberland River.

1965 letter to Nellie Alwilda Brown Thonen (provided by Bill Heob):

In January 1965, I  received a letter from Mrs. Mertie Williams, who stated she is a grand-daughter of Varney Francis Andrews and a daughter of William George Andrews, his son. She stated she owns the farm of Patrick Thomas Andrews’ father (William Alexander Andrews) and that he is buried there near Tompkinsville, Ky. The century old brick house is now torn down.”

On June 12, 1806 in Monroe County, Kentucky William Alexander Andrews married Mary Kirkpatrick (1787–1813) daughter of Moses Kirkpatrick (1763–1835) and Lucy Smith
(1765–1849) and they had the following children:

1. Elizabeth A. Betsy Andrews (b: 17 MAR 1807 Monroe County, KY–1870 Kentucky). In 1826, she married Jesse Leavithe Garrett (Birth 1802 Culpepper County, VA; Death AFT 1850 Kentucky), and they had a son, Wesley Garrett (Birth 18 JAN 1828 Alabama; Death 7 NOV 1930 Bourbon, Kentucky).

2. Lucinda Andrews (27 MAY 1808 Monroe, Kentucky-1836 Clinton, Clinton, Missouri). She married Stephen Jones (1805–1888) and they had the following children: Robert Franklin Jones (Birth JUL 1829 Missouri; Death 1903 Whitewright, Grayson, Texas); Missouri Ann Jones (1831–1895); Nancy Jane Jones (1833–1918) and Benjamin "Ben" Franklin Jones Sr. (1835 St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri-03 JAN 1922 Buffalo Gap, Taylor, Texas).

3. Amy Ann Andrews ( 10 JAN 1809 Monroe, Kentucky; DEATH 1834) On 24 Sep 1828 she married Joseph Jenkins (1803–1869) and they had a daughter, Mary Jane Jenkins (BIRTH 05 AUG 1829 Clinton Co. Missouri; DEATH 02 JAN 1899 Andrew Co. Missouri). Mary Jane Jenkins married Boyd Barr (1827–1917) and they had the following children: Rosa Barr (1856–____); Joseph Barr (1859–____); Mary Barr (1862–1933); Amy Barr (1869–____) and Nellie Barr (1876–____).

4. Patrick Thomas "P. T." Andrews (4 OCT 1811 in Monroe (Cumberland) Co, KY-1869 Texas). On September 3, 1832 he married Polly Williams and they had the following children: Mary Ellen "Nancy" Andrews (1834–1878); Mary Elizabeth Andrews (1836–____); William T. Andrews (1837–1879); Chilton A Andrews (1840–1909); Lydia Ann Andrews (1841–1902); Amanda Andrews (1844–____); Cyrus C Andrews (1847–____); Margaret Andrews (1848–____); George M Andrews (1849–____); Laura Z Andrews (1854–____) and Benjamin Edmund Andrews (1856–____).

On November 22, 1818 in Kentucky, William Alexander Andrews married Elizabeth Hill (July 4, 1786–1868), daughter of Francis Hill and ELIZABETH JONES (1786–___), and they had the following Children:

1. Varney Francis Andrews (BIRTH 03 NOV 1819 Kentucky; DEATH 22 AUG 1902 Monroe, Kentucky). On February 3, 1846 he married Catherine E Whiteside (1824–1910) and they had the following children: Mary E Andrews (1846–____); William George Andrews (1852–1918); Elizabeth Chilton Andrews (BIRTH 30 APR 1855 Monroe, Kentucky; DEATH Dec. 3, 1908).

2. Martha Bugg (Patsy) Andrews (Birth 31 OCT 1820 Kentucky; Death 31 OCT 1881 Grayson, Texas). On November 16, 1842, she married Jesse Baxter (1817-1887) and they had the following children: William Haley Baxter (1843–1918); Sarah Elizabeth Baxter (1847–1885); Albinus J. Baxter (1849–1934); Martha Susan Baxter (1850–1929); Roxanna A. Baxter (1853–1926); John Henry Baxter (1856–1933); Mary Baxter (1857–____); Robert Varney Baxter (1858–____); Price Baxter (1860–____) and Jesse B Baxter (1862–1914).

3. William Nevil Andrews (17 NOV 1821–____)

4. Sally K Jones Andrews (22 DEC 1822 Kentucky–1897 Grayson County, Kentucky). She married George Jenkins (1818–1891) and they had a child William S Jenkins (Birth SEPTEMBER 10, 1856 Grayson Co, TX; Death JAN 13, 1925 Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co, TX). In 1881 William married Lucy Jane Cole (1862–1948) and they had the following children: Sallie Jenkins (1881–____); George Jenkins (1886–____); Ida Jenkins (1889–____); William Jenkins (1893–____) and Frank Escol Jenkins (1895–1969).

5. Nancy A Andrews (1825 Kentucky – ____)

6. Caroline Gee Andrews (1826 Kentucky – ____)


1850 Monroe County, Ky census
Andrews William 66 VA
Andrews Elizabeth 65 VA
Andrews Varney 30 KY
Andrews Catherine 26 KY
Andrews Mary 4 KY

William Andrews
Birth: 23 OCT 1783
Death: 16 APR 1861
Burial: Andrews Cem, Turkey Neck Bend area, Monroe Co, KY

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Father: Varney Andrews Sr b: 25 JUL 1760 in Mecklenburg Co, VA
Mother: Amey Thweatt b: 8 DEC 1765 in Dinwiddie Co, VA

Marriage 1
Mary (Polly) Kirkpatrick b: 27 AUG 1787 Married: 12 JUN 1806 in Monroe (Cumberland) Co, KY

Polly Andrews wife of William Andrews was accidentally killed on the 17th June 1813. (Polly Andrews was in her Indigo garden, William Gee, a neighbor, shot at a squirrel on a fence, and accidentally shot Polly).


Kentucky, MONROE, Roll 388 Book 1, Page 1
1860 Kentucky Census - Tompkinsville
Wm Andrews 77 farmer VA
Elizabeth Andrews 73 f VA

The Saga of Coe Ridge: A study in Oral History
By William Lynwood Montell
The University of Tennessee Press
Prologue: Lost Pages of History
Page 31

Before the Civil War, Sperry Smith was one of the most prominent slaveholders in Turkey Neck Bend... Smith's wife had a sister, name unknown, who married into the white Andrews family of local history fame. This Andrews family owned a group of slaves who assumed the family name after manumission (16) and who then married into the Coe Negro clan on Coe Ridge. In addition to the intermarriage of families that had previously owned some of the Coe Ridge progenitors, Mrs. Andrews and Mrs Smith had a brother who held a portion of the Coe slaves at the time the Civil War erupted. He was Dr. Samuel Moore, a general physician whose office was at Black's Ferry in Monroe County.

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(16) Almost everyone questioned claimed that the Andrews family owned many slaves. The 1860 Census for Monroe County, KY shows that William Andrews owned 10 slaves, while Varney F. Andrews owned four.