His mother is also listed as Amey Thweatt. His wife, Mary Maxey's father, William Maxey, was the brother of General Rice Maxey, whose son was General Samuel Bell Maxey.

Both Varney and his brother, Jones Andrews, served the War of 1812. Jones migrated to Williamson County, Tennessee and Varney to Grayson County, Texas.

Varney Andrews
in the U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815
Name: Varney Andrews
Company: 6 REG'T (SHARP'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: CORPORAL
Rank - Discharge: CORPORAL
Roll Box: 5
Microfilm Publication: M602

Varney Andrews
in the War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815

Soldier: Varney Andrews
Widow: Mary W Andrews
Marriage Date: 10 Sep 1826
Date Enlisted: 5 Jul 1813
Date Discharged: 7 Jan 1814
Soldier's Death Date: 13 Mar 1879
Soldier's Death Place: Grayson Co, Tex
Military Service Location: Virginia
Pension Number - #1: WO 36080
Pension Number - #2: WC 24270
Bounty Land Number - #1: 22861 80 50
Bounty Land Number - #2: 21195 80 55
Roll Number: 2
Archive Publication Number: M313

Varney Andrews
in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Varney Andrews
Gender: Male
Birth Place: VA
Birth Year: 1794
Spouse Name: Mary Williams Maxey
Spouse Birth Place: KY
Spouse Birth Year: 1802
Marriage Year: 1826
Marriage State: KY

Reference: THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
Volume 1
Part 1
CHAPTER VIII GRANTS SOUTH OF WALKER'S LINE (1825-1923)
THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY

Varney Andrews
in the Kentucky, Land Grants, 1782-1924
Grantee: Varney Andrews
Number of Acres: 150
Survey Date: 10 Jul 1838
County: Jackson
Watercourse: Proctors Cr
Book Number: 3

KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
page 893
Grantee: Andrews, Varney
Acres: 8
Book: 3
Page: 107
Date Survey: 6-20-1833
County: Jackson
Watercourse: Cumberland River

Varney Andrews
in the 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Age: 8
Home in 1860: Monroe, Kentucky
Name of Slave Owner: Varney Andrews
All Slaves Owned:

In early part of the 21st century, Larry W. Smith lived in the house built by Varney Andrews Jr. in Celina, TN in 1836 before his move to Grayson Co,Tx in 1858. His 16 yr old son is buried in the Varney Andrews Cemetery abt 200 yrds west of the home on the side of hwy 52 west of Celina, TN.

According to the letter of Hampton Gee Maxey, (8) Fred Maxey, in 1930, bought the plantation home in Celina, Tennessee built in 1838 by (3) Varney Andrews.(3) Varney Andrews and Mary Williams Maxey, his wife, lived in this home until 1858, when they disposed of their entire holdings in Tennessee and moved to Grayson County, Texas.

PRENTISS M. ANDREWS:
Poem entitled, "The Cowboy Christmas Ball," quoted in Walter Prescott Webb's THE GREAT PLAINS, mentions "Varn Andrews", who has to be the Varney Andrews who moved from Grayson County, Texas to Anson, Texas around the turn of the century. A Judge P.J. Andrews or P.T. Andrews, from Grayson County, Texas is quoted giving character testimony for one of the "jurors" in the THE GREAT HANGING AT GAINSVILLE (An event in 1862 in which a quasi-legal court hung 42 supposed Union conspirators at Gainesville, Tx. This Judge Andrews came from Missouri to Grayson, County, Tx in 1857 and is likely the same Patrick Thomas “P. T.” Andrews who went from TN to MO to TX and is ref rred to in THE ANDREWS FAMILY, DESCENDANTS OF VARNEY ANDREWS by James Ray Andrews.

MARRIAGE: - ANDREWS MARY MAXEY JUL 7,1802 JUL 16,1880 WED VARNEY ANDREWS JR. SEP 10,1826 IN KY.

ANDREWS VARNEY JR. OCT 7,1797 MAR 3,1879 WED MARY WILLIAMS MAXEY SEP 10,1826 IN KY. GREENWOOD OR JENKINS CEMETERY, GRAYSON COUNTY TEXAS GREENWOOD IS LOCATED AT BELLS TEXAS ON LOVERS LANE ROAD

Varney Andrews – Celina

The farm on the North Side of the Cumberland River, opposite the town of Celina, was owned by Varney Andrews, on which he lived for many years and sold to Bennett Stone in 1855 (brother of Francis Gates). Sometime near the year 1870 it was purchased by A.P. Green (greatgrandfather of G.B. Stone; J.R. Stone married first, Nancy Green.) from Mrs. Patsy Stone, widow of Bennett Stone, who lived on it for a few years and sold it to Dr. B.S. Plumlee. H.H. Kyle later bought it from Plumlee and it is now owned by Fred Maxey and Dr. Eagle Bushong. (The dwelling built by Andrews is still standing, over 100 years old).

Varney Andrews Cemetery -Celina, TN:

Located about 500 yards west of Cumberland River Bridge. The Cemetery is adjacent to the left side of the Clay County Highway 52. This cemetery is overgrown with honeysuckle, ivy, bushes, and trees. The Cemetery lies within the boundries of an electric fence and cannot be seen from the highway.

Jackson County, Tennessee
Court Cases Transcribed by Kara Porter

Amonett v. Bransford

08 Jul 1850. W. C. Walker and Varney Andrews were commissioned by the Chancery Court to divide the "negroes belonging to the late firm of Amonett & Bransford between Nancy B Amonett, Virginia Amonett, Tennessee G Amonett, and Benjamin F. Amonett distributees & Martha P Amonett widow of William Amonett decd of the one part and Thomas L Bransford of the other part on the 2 day of November 1849 at Kinderhook near Celina in the county of Jackson...

BURIALS AT GREENWOOD CEMETARY, BELLS, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS:

ANDERWS ED GRAY AUG 21,1881 JUN 16,1883 S/O J. R. & M. R. ANDREWS
ANDREWS JOHN M. AUG 27,1877 FEB 6,1898 S/O J.R. & M. R. ANDREWS
ANDREWS MARY MAXEY JUL 7,1802 JUL 16,1880 WED VARNEY ANDREWS JR. SEP 10,1826 IN KY.
ANDREWS VARNEY JR. OCT 7,1797 MAR 3,1879 WED MARY WILLIAMS MAXEY SEP 10,1826 IN KY.

Children

1. William Allen [William Andrew] Andrews b: 30 SEP 1827 in Monroe Co., Kentucky
2. John Benjamin Andrews b: 29 AUG 1 828 in Monroe Co., Kentucky
3. Edwin Jones Andrews b: 16 JAN 1830 in Monroe Co., Kentucky
4. Alvin Rufus Andrews b: 16 AUG 1833 in Jackson Co., Tennessee
5. Robert Cobb Andrews b: 24 JAN 1836 in Jackson Co., Tennessee
6. Nancy Williams Andrews b: 7 OCT 1837 in Jackson Co., Tennessee
7. Varney Francis Andrews b: 9 SEP 1839 in Jackson Co., Tennessee
8 . James Radford Andrews b: 23 SEP 1841 in Jackson Co., Tennessee
9. Mary Elizabeth (Mollie) Andrews b: 23 JUL 1843 i n Celina, Tennessee
10. Mark Henry Andrews b: 6 APR 1845 in Celina, Tennessee

The grave of Varney Andrews, Jr. is at Greenwood Cemetery, near Bells, Texas.

BOOK BY JAMES RAY ANDREWS
CHAPTER IV
PAGE 44

(3) VARNEY ANDREWS, JR. The second Varney Andrews was born October 7, 1794, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, during the administration of George Washington, the first President of the United States. He was the seventh of a family of ten children. He grew up as a youth on the south bank of the Meherrin River in Mecklenburg County, where the family plantation was in operation.

The Republic was exceedingly young during his youth. Even so, the population was then pushing across the Appalachian Mountains into the new state of Kentucky. He probably listened to tall tales about Kentucky from earliest childhood. The records indicate, however, that he may have stayed around home until age 18, when he enlisted in the United States Army, and served a term during the War of 1812 with Great Britain. In later years, he was described in a document which appeared in his war service record, as "18 years of age, six feet tall, had blue eyes and blond hair." (Ref: General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, file designation WC 24270.)

This record shows that he served as a Corporal in the Sixth Regiment of Virginia Militia, commanded by Captain John Moore, in the Command of Lieut. Col. Grief Green; that he volunteered in Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia on or about the fourth day of July, A. D. 1813, for a term of six months; that he served the six month term of enlistment and was discharged at Camp Cross Roads, near Norfolk, Virginia, in January, 1814. He was discharged with full honors.

The records disclose nothing about where and how he spent the years between the termination of his military service until he went to Kentucky in 1818. There are no records concerning him in Kentucky until he married Mary Williams Maxey in Monroe County, Kentucky, September 10, 1826.

Mary Williams Maxey was born in Barren County, Kentucky, July 7, 1802. She was the daughter of William and Nancy Maxey, who came to Kentucky from Halifax County, Virginia about the end of the eighteenth century. Since the descendants of the second Varney Andrews are equally descended from Mary Williams Maxey, the available Maxey family history is made a part of this record.

The marriage of (3) Varney Andrews and Mary Williams Maxey united two families which even at that early date had been several generations in America.

The first and second Varney Andrews had each participated in the only wars their country had been drawn into. The first (2) Varney Andrews, left an illiterate orphan when very young, accumulated a large estate, and assisted in a very material way, each of his ten sons and daughters to launch their own careers during his lifetime. He lived to a great age, and obviously was a man of great force of character who commanded immense respect in his generation. Indeed the impact of his forcefulness was such that both men and women of my generation, now living in Mecklenburg County, have as a middle name the name Andrews.

The second (3) Varney Andrews was thirty two years of age, and Mary Williams Maxey was twenty four years old, when they were married. It was the first marriage for each of them, according to a statement made by his wife which was part of Varney's war service record.

The will of the first (2) Varney Andrews relates that his son Varney was given one horse and a small "wagon", two women servants and several hundred dollars in cash, during the father's lifetime. The horse and wagon were probably used to transport his gear to Kentucky in 1818. The servants were quite obviously gifts at the time of his marriage to Mary Williams Maxey. By 1826, the year of the marriage, travel between Mecklenburg County and parts of Kentucky had become much less hazardous and uncertain, following the opening about 1795 of the famous Wilderness Trail through Cumberland Gap.

The Wilderness Trail in 1795 was the only artery of travel to the new State of Kentucky, and was not made passable to vehicles until that year. Even then, there were few bridges. Most rivers and streams had to be forded. But by 1826, the stage coach system was flourishing, and it is safe to believe that the two Andrews families in Virginia and Kentucky visited with and kept in close contact with one another.

Varney and Mary Williams Andrews reared a large family, some of whom distinguished themselves in their community, and all of whom lived to earn the respect of their friends and neighbors.

In Tennessee (3) Varney Andrews became more than an average successful planter. He acquired large acreage in Jackson County, and the home he built is still standing near Celina, Tennessee. There are no records or letters indicating the reason for the move from Tennessee to Texas in 1838. Certainly at his age, 64 years, there must have been compelling reasons for him to leave a land of apparent security and venture into a new State where all the hazards of frontier life had to be faced. We wonder perhaps if the pioneering instinct which led him to Kentucky and to Tennessee had something to do with his decision.
There were facts and some family tradition that lead to a different conclusion.

My father, (5) Samuel Varney Andrews, told me many times that the reason for the move of the Andrews family from Tennessee to Texas was "to avoid being overrun by invading armies in a war between the states." This was the opinion of the second (3) Varney Andrews, who was my father’s grandfather. He predicted the conflict, and believed the clan would be in less danger in Texas than in Tennessee. Certainly he was not impelled to the move by economic necessity.

He transported his entire family, his animals, his equipment and all his people from his home place in Tennessee to Grayson County, Texas. On arrival he immediately acquired a large acreage of choice farmlands in Grayson County, and became a successful planter in a totally new environment.

Grayson County, Texas, Deed Book L-200 records the purchase by Varney Andrews from P. T. Corneal of 1,280 acres of land on Dec. 8, 1858. He purchased 140 acres from Clark in December, 1860. (Deed Records, Book M-1169.) A purchase of 532 acres from S. Eashburn on Dec. 8, 1860, was recorded in Deed Record Book N-260. His will, executed March 10, 1879 bequeathed to his wife "all of a certain tract of land being part of 470 acres deeded to me by Stephen H. Scott and wife." We found no public record of this transaction.

The United States Census Report for 1860 listed the value of his farm land, home, equipment and chattels at $18,250.00.

The move to Texas accomplished what he was determined to do, according to family tradition. He protected his estate from the ravages of invading armies. Although four of his sons defended their State in the Confederate Army, Varney carried on as a planter and emerged from the blight which overran the seceding States after the close of the war, with his holdings intact. We have never had any authentic information as to how this was done, when so many of the land owners of the State were taxed so heavily by the imposed State Government that they lost everything.
His wife’s nephew, Samuel Bell Maxey, who with his father Rice Maxey, preceded Varney and Mary Williams Andrews to Texas in 1857, was largely responsible for the escape of Texas from invading Armies in the War between the states, which began less than three years after the arrival of the Andrews family in Texas.

Samuel Bell Maxey was made a General in the Army of the Confederate States of America, and was given charge of the military forces in north Texas. He accepted this responsibility, although he had bitterly opposed secession. The delegation from his home County, Lamar, was the only delegation to the State Secession Convention which voted solidly against secession. Nevertheless, when secession became an accomplished fact, the county and all its citizens threw themselves wholeheartedly into the conflict. General Maxey succeeded in preventing the Union armed forces from crossing the State borders in north and east Texas.

(4) Edwin Jones Andrews served as a commissioned officer in General Maxey's command. Other sons of Varney and Mary Williams Andrews, who also served in the military establishment, were probably in the same command.

A record which was a part of the family bible of Varney and Mary Williams Andrews, listed the sons and daughters born to this couple. Their names follow:

(4) William Al(l)en Andrews, b. Sept. 30, 1827, in Kentucky.
(4) John Benjamin Andrews, b. in Kentucky Aug. 29, 1828, died October 19, 1835.
(4) Edwin Jones Andrews, b. January 16, 1830, Monroe County, Kentucky, died July 17,1900, at Sherman, Texas.
(4) Alvin Rufus Andrews, b. August 16, 1833, Jackson County, Tennessee. Died at Sherman, Texas, about 1905.
(4) Robert C. Andrews, b. January 24, 1836, in Jackson County, Tennessee. Died at Floydada, Texas, 1917.
(4) Nancy Williams Andrews, b. October 7, 1837, Jackson County,
(4) Varney F. Andrews, b. Sept. 9, 1839, died March 27, 1858.
(4) James Radford Andrews, b. Sept. 23, 1841, Jackson County, Tennessee. Died at Whiteright, Texas, 4-5-1927.
(4) Mary Elizabeth Andrews, b. July 23, 1843, at Celina, Tenn., Died Grayson County.
(4) Mark Henry Andrews, b. April 6, 1845, at Celina, Tenn., Died at Sherman, Texas.

An infant, b. Sept. 12, 1831, died in a few hours.

(3) Varney Andrews, Jr., lived on and operated the large farm in Grayson County, near the town of Bells, until his death March 13, 1879. His son, Dr. R. C. Andrews attended him in his final illness. Senator Samuel Bell Maxey, at home in Paris, Texas between sessions of Congress, and his wife, Marilda Cass Denton Maxey, went to the Andrews home immediately upon receipt of a telegram from Dr. R. C. Andrews announcing his father's death. (Ref: GSA, National Archives, file WC 24270.) Each of his living sons and daughters, all of whom lived in Grayson County, were also present.

(5) Mary Williams Maxey Andrews, his wife, lived with her son, James Radford Andrews at his farm home after the death of her husband. (Ref: U. S . Census Report, Grayson County, 1880.) As so frequently happened in that age, her name "Mary" had become "Polly", and she was so listed in the census report. The Sherman Register, a newspaper published at Sherman, Texas, at her death identified her as Mrs. Polly Andrews. The adoption and use in official records of such "pet" names, has caused endless confusion to researchers.

The death of "Polly" Andrews came about in a tragic manner and greatly shocked the entire community. Her daughter Mary, with her husband Anderson P. King and their family live on a farm two or three miles from the James Radford Andrews farm. On July 15, 1880, "Polly" Andrews spent the day with the King family and remained to eat supper. Between eight and nine o’clock P.M., Anderson King hitched a team of horses to a wagon and undertook to drive her to her home. It was a moonless night, and on the road the horses became frightened at some object in the dark and bolted- "ran away," as it was always described when I was a boy. "Polly" was thrown from the seat of the wagon to the ground. When Anderson Bing found her in the darkness she was dead, it was later determined, of a broken neck. She was 78 years of age, had lived the life of a useful citizen in three states, and reared a large family. She was greatly beloved by all who knew her.

The bodies of Varney Andrews, Jr., and Mary Williams Maxey Andrews were buried in Greenwood Cemetery, near the farm home in which they lived until their death. Handsome gravestones mark their resting place. Several other members of the family of later generations are also buried in this cemetery.

Available information about the sons and daughters of Varney and Mary Williams Maxey Andrews and their families, is set forth in the following pages of this and the next chapter.

(4) William Al(l)en Andrews -The first born son. His birth in Kentucky was recorded in the Varney Andrews family bible. No other record concerning him was found, and he was not listed in any census report which we examined.

(4) Alvin Rufus Andrews - He was married January 31, 1872 to Ella Daniels.

According to the U. S. Census Report of 1880, he was deputy Tax Collector for Grayson County, and had the following children:
(5) Betta, age 7
(5) Rice M. age 6
(5) Richard, age 4

The will of Varney Andrews, proved in Probate Court, June 19, 1879, named Edwin Jones Andrews and Alvin Rufus Andrews, executors “ of my last will and testament.: The will provided for the sale of lands of the estate and an equal division to all surviving sons and daughters, except William Andrews who was not mentioned, after specific bequests were paid. County Judge S. D. Steedman, by formal action June 19, 1879, appointed J. B. Morgan and A. M. Bryant to view and appraise the property belonging to the estate of Varney Andrews, deceased, and report their action to the court. (Ref: Sheet 4, Volume I, pages 543, 544 and 545, Probate Minutes, Grayson County, Texas.)

According to court records of Grayson County, the executors never made an accounting of their stewardship to the court. Efforts were made to bring the executors into court and have them make a report of their actions. Two court orders were issued to this end. A court order recorded in Book M, Probate Minutes, page 314, read as follows:

"Estate of Varney Andrews, December 13, 1882, E. J. & A. R. Andrews, executors.“

“It is ordered by the Court that E. J. & A. R. Andrews, Executors of the Estate of Varney Andrews, deceased, be cited to appear at the January Term, 1883 and file report showing the condition of the estate."

A similar entry, appeared in Book M, page 361, and read as follows:

"Estate of Varney Andrews, Deed. l-17-1883."

"It is ordered by the Court that E. J. & A. R. Andrews, Executors be cited to appear at the March term, 1883, of this Court and file a report showing the condition of the estate, and show cause why inventory has not been filed ..”

Neither the record books, nor the Docket file which contained the original will of Varney Andrews, nor any records of Court action contained further mention of any action taken by the court, and there was no indication that the Executors ever filed answer to these court orders, or ever filed an inventory report, or made any other accounting of the estate.

These circumstances may explain an apparent coolness which appeared to exist between the family of E.J. Andrews and the families of the brothers and sisters, all of whom except the Dr. R. C. Andrews family lived in Sherman or Grayson county when I was a boy. I lived with my family in Sherman from 1900 to 1910, as a young teen age boy. I never saw my grand aunts Mary King and Nancy Arterberry both of whom lived in Grayson County with their families until their deaths. I remember seeing my grand uncle Mark Henry Andrews on the streets of Sherman, a town of about 5,000 people, one time, and never anywhere else. I never saw his wife or any other member of his family until about 1915 when his son Henry Leon Andrews came to Amarillo, Texas, where I was then living.

I never saw my grand uncle James Radford Andrews, who lived at Whitewright, Texas, in Grayson County, about twelve miles from Sherman, until he came to Amarillo about 1914 to attend a Confederate Veterans Reunion. I never saw any member of his family, anywhere or at any time. All these grand aunts and uncles had large families, prospered, lived well and educated their children. My grandfather, Edwin Jones Andrews had a large family.

I did not know Alvin Rufus Andrews, nor any member of his family. I only remember that he lived in Sherman until his death about 1905.

According to Ray's Roster of the 16th Texas Calvary, CSA, (4) Alvin Rufus Andrews was Ordnance Sergeant, Company D, Organized near Mantua (Grayson County) in February 1862. Other members of this organization who were living in Sherman, Texas, in 1905 were Chilton A. Andrews and Mark Henry Andrews. (4)Mark Henry Andrews was the youngest son of Varney and Mary Williams Maxey Andrews.

Chilton A. Andrews was listed in the U. S. Census Report for Grayson County, 1860, as the son of P.J. Andrews, one of eleven children of this family.

No public record identified P.J. Andrews, or his relationship to Varney Andrews. Landrum’s Illustrated History of Grayson County, Texas, published in 1960, records his birth place as Kentucky, and that he came to Texas from Missouri in 18119. According to the 1860 Census Report he was born in 1811. That he was known to the Andrews family in Tennessee in 1858 is proven by a passage in a letter written from Plano, Texas, dated May 2, 1858 by L. W. Oglesby to Alvin Rufus Andrews at Celina, Tennessee. Oglesby was a relative by marriage to Edwin Jones Andrews, and his wife Burnetta Fowler Andrews. He said:

"I also have been at Patrick Andrews'.. twice. They were all well and doing well. Patrick Andrews is a well informed man and gave me more information about the Country than any man. I am much taken with him. He has his steam mill in successful operation."

Chilton A. Andrews married Missouri Bullock October 18, 1870. (Grayson County Marriage Records.) I did not knew the family in Sherman but did meet three of their daughters in Amarillo, Texas, where I lived prior to World War I. They were: Mrs. Ray Wheatley, Mrs. Charles A. Fisk, and Miss Ruth Andrews.

(4) ROBERT C. ANDREWS, son of (3) Varney and Mary Williams Maxey Andrews, married Jan. 1, 1854, Lucy Kirkpatrick, b. 1837, d. 1922. This marriage was recorded in the (3) Varney Andrews family bible. It took place in Jackson County, Tennessee. This couple came to Texas in 1858 with all other members of the (3)Varney Andrews clan.

There is no record showing where (4) Robert C. Andrews received his education. It is of record, however, that he had started the practice of medicine immediately upon his arrival in Texas. The U. S. Census Report for Grayson County, 1860, recorded his occupation as physician. He later practiced in a small town near Paris, Texas. In 1891 he moved to Floyd County, in western Texas, and helped establish the town of Floydada in that County.
Descendants of this couple follow:

(5) MAXEY W. ANDREWS, b. 1854
(5) Mary Williams Andrews. b/ 11-24-1857; d. l-3-1926; m. Jim King.
(5) Marinda Maxey ANDREWS, b. 1-1-1860 ; d. 12-6 -1875. This child was named for the wife of General Samuel Bell Maxey, Mirilda Cass Denton Maxey.
(5) VARNEY ANDRENS, b. 7-9-1864, in Grayson Co., Texas; d. 9-6-1943 at Plainview, Texas; m. Elma Josephine Pickens, b. l-17-1870. Married at Anson, Texas, 11-19-1890. Josephine Pickens died 12-18-1921 at Floydada, Texas.

Children born to this couple were:
(6) AGNES I. ANDREWS, b. 3-10-1892; d. 6-25-1892.
(6) MARVlN K. ANDREWS,b. 6-4-1893, d. 12-18-1897,
(6) CARTER COBB ANDREWS, b. 2-4-1896 at Valley View, Texas; m. 1-18- 1920 Ruth Seale at Plainview, Texas.

ISSUE:
(7) ANNA JO Andrews, b. 1-12-1921; m Clarence Farnham (In U.S. Navy during World War II)

ISSUE:
(8) Cheryl Louise Farnham, b. 2-26-1944

(6) CLEO ANDREWS, b. 2-18-1899 at Valley View, Texas; married Clarence Coins, 4-21-1921 at Lockney, Texas. Clarence Coins died May, 19530

ISSUE:
(7) JO V. GOINS, b. 1-22-1922 at Floydada, Texas; m. H. Allen Bingham 11-17-1945 at Jacksonville, N.C. They both served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.

ISSUE:
(8) Sharon Lynn Bingham, b. 12-26-1946.

(6) MAURINE ANDREWS, b. 3-11-1906 at Valley View, Texas; m. 5-21-1926 at Floydada, Texas, Cecil Delk, b. 11-14-1902.

This couple was living at Amarillo, Texas in 1963.

ISSUE :
(7) VARNEY ROBERT DELK, b. 4-8-1939 at Amarillo, Texas; m. 1-19-1963 at Fort Worth, Texas, Linda Jean Hubbard, b. September, 1939. VARNEY ROBERT DELK entered the U.S. Air Force May 10, 1963. Both he and Linda Jean, his wife, are graduates of the Texas Christian University, Fort worth, Texas.

(5) SARAH SHIELDS ANDREWS, b. 9-25-1865, d. ca 1941; m. David Leonidas Flynt. Children of this couple were:

(6) Dee Flynt
(6) Edward Flynt
(6) Lonnie Bob Flynt, m. E.E. Ivy ca 1904.
(6) Byrdie, m. F. Thompson.
(6) Lucy Flynt, m. Alva Jacob Moore.
(6) Elizabeth Flynt, m. Jack Lynch.
(6) Margaret, m. John Floyd.
(6) ODIE FLYNT, b. 1-14-1874, d. 5-16-1955; m. 12-24-1893 Alfred Eustace Boyd, b. 12-11-1869, d. 4-7-1936.

ISSUE:
(7) WILLIAM LEONIDAS BOYD, b, 2-3-1895.
(7) MAXEY ALFRED BOYD, b. 3-22-1902.
(7) INA MARGARET BOYD, b. 11-18-1900; m. Earl Taylor Platt 7-4-1942.

INA MARGARET PLATT is descended from the immigrant ancestors, (-2) THOMAS ANDREWS, who arrived in Virginia in 1685, and from JOHN OLIVER EUSTACE, JR., who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1825.

(4) NANCY WILLIAMS ANDREWS - b, 10-7-1837; d. 11-20-1921; m. 1-8-1857 Benjamin Franklin Arterberry, b. 2-11-1833 in Jackson Co., Tenn.; d. 10-11905, Grayson Co, Texas. Benjamin Franklin Arterberry was the son of Thompson Arterberry, b. 3-9-1806; d. 9-5-1872 in Monroe Co., Ky., and Elizabeth Johns, b. 4-17-1813. Thompson Arterberry was the son of Moses Arterberry, b. in N.C., served in the War of 1812, and died in Kentucky. Benjamin Franklin Arterberry performed valiant service in the War Between the States. He was Sergeant of Company "D", First Battalion, Texas Sharp Shooters, CSA, commanded by Major James Burnet, in the overall command of Major General Samuel Bell Maxey.

Numerous letters written throughout the years 1863-64-65, by his wife Nancy Andrews Arterberry to Sergeant Arterberry, and many of his letters to her during that tragic period, vividly depict the loneliness, the heartaches, and the unhappiness of this young couple brought upon them by events beyond their control.)

Children of (4)) NANCY WILLIAMS (ANDREWS) ARTERBERRY and Benjamin Franklin Arterberry were:
(5) Lou Andrews Arterberry, b. 10-1-1860, d. 9-2-1944.
*(5) Mary E. Arterberry, b. 12-25-1870, d. 11-24-1950; m. W.C. McLemore, b. 2-27-1872, d. 12-31-1951.

There children were:
(6) Holly Arterberry McLemore, b. 9-8-1904 at Savoy, Texas; m. Clrristine Veazey, b. 12-25-1907 at Van Alstyne, Texas. This couple hand one son.
(7) Joe Edward McLemore, b. 12-13-1934 at Hillsboro, Texas. Dr. Joe Edward McLemore was a Captain in the USAF, stationed in England in 1963. Christine Veazey the Mother of Capt. Joe Edward McLemore, was the daughter of John Thomas Veazey, b. 6-10-1876 at Van Alstyne, Grayson Co., Texas, and his wife Monte Zuma Thornton, b. 6-15-1877 at Cherokee, Alabarra, d. 11-12-1945 at Sherman, Texas. John Thomas Veazey was the son of G.E. Veazey, b. 7-19-1854, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama, and Savannah Pogue, b. Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama. G.E. Veazey was the son of G.W. Veazey, b. 1816, Greene County, Virginia, died 1864 while in the army of the CSA. Savannah Pogue was the daughter of John L. Pogue and Elizabeth Gray.

(6) Holly Arterberry McLemore and wife Christine Veazey McLetrore were, in 1963, living in Baytown, Texas. He was principal of R. E. Lee High School, and his wife was teaching in the public school.

(The story of the Mary E. Arterberry family follows this schedule.)

(5) Milissa A. Arterberry, b. 1858, d. 1929; m. Clem A. Belote b. 12-1-1852, d. 4-10-1934.
(5) Horace H. Arterberry, b. 1865.
(5) Thomas E. Arterberry, b. 10-27-1868.
(5) Rufus Arterberry, b. 1866.
*-(5) Mary Elizabeth Arterberry, m. W.C. McLemore, b. 2-27-1872, d. 12-31-1951.

There children were:
(6) Holly Arterberry McLemore, b. 9-8-1904 at Savoy, Texas; m. Christine Veazey, b. 12-25-1907 at Van Alstyne, Texas.

This couple hand one son.
(7) Joe Edward McLemore, b. 12-13-1934 at Hillsboro, Texas.

Dr. Joe Edward McLemore was a Captain in the USAF, stationed in England in 1963. Christine Veazey, the Mother of Capt. Joe Edward McLemore, was the daughter of John Thomas Veazey, b. 6-10-1876 at Van Alstyne, Grayson Co., Texas, and his wife Monte Zuma Thornton, b. 6-15-1877 at Cherokee, Alabama, d. 11-12-1945 at Sherman, Texas. John ThomasVeazey was the son of G.E. Veazey, b. 7-19-1854, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama, and Savannah Pogue, b. Dadeville, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama. G.E. Veazey was the son of G.W. Veazey, b. 1816, Greene County, Virginia, died 1864 while in the army of the CSA. Savannah Pogue was the daughter of John L. Pogue and Elizabeth Gray.

(4) VARNEY FRANCIS ANDREWS - This young man died in Tennessee when 18 years of age, shortly before the family moved to Texas. No information relative to the manner of his death, except that it was sudden and tragic, was available in any family record.

In a letter written at Plano, Texas, May 2, 1858, and addressed to (4) A. R. (Alvin Rufus) Andrews, young Varney's brother, L. W. Oglesby, a relative by marriage of Burnetta Fowler Andrews, said this:

"I have received two letters from home since I left, one from Martha (his wife, Martha Fowler) stating the sudden and unfortunate death of your Brother Varney, which mortified my feelings very much, for Varney was a youth that I thought a great deal of. His kind and affectionate manner was the theme of all who knew him, and to be taken from his earthly scenes so young and so promising is a sad and bereaving calamity upon his Father and Mother, Sisters and Brothers."

In this letter, L. W. Oglesby also stated that in another letter from his wife Martha, dated April 11, 1858, he learned that (4) Edwin Jones Andrews and his wife Burnetta Fowler Andrews, with their family had departed Celina, Tennessee, on April 8, 1858, on the historic move to Texas.

Another portion of the letter said: "I have seen your Uncle Rice Maxey, and Samuel Bell Maxey. They were well pleased and both well."

(4) JAMES RADFORD ANDREWS - Married 10-11-1870 to Mary Rosa1ba Maloch. b. 3-25-1852 d. 8-28-1909.

ISSUE:
(5) Charles E. Andrews, b. 1875 d. 1942.
(5) John H. Andrews, b. 8-27-1877, d. 2-6-1893.
(5) Edgar Andrews, b. 8-2-1881, d. 6-6-1883.
(5) Lucian Andrews, b. 1884, d. 1949.

This son of Varney and Mary Williams Maxey Andrews owned and operated a 200 acre farm in the immediate vicinity of the Varney Andrews farm near Bells, Texas, in Grayson County. The family lived on this farm, the children were born there, and they prospered. At some unrecorded time the family moved to Whitewright, Texas, a small town a few miles from the farm. The family lived there until the death of both the father and mother. Their bodies are buried at Whitewright. (4) James Radford Andrews, in 1861 enlisted in the Ninth Texas Cavalry and served under General Bragg in the Principal engagements in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky. He was engaged in the battles of Shiloh, Murphreesboro and Perryville. In the latter days of the war he was transferred to the west side of the Mississippi, where he served under General Samuel Bell Maxey until the war's end.

(4) MARY ELIZABETH ANDREWS- This daughter of Varney Andrews, Jr., was born 7-23-1843 and died 11-13-1918. She married Anderson P. King, September 4, 1860. Anderson King was born in Tennessee in 1832 and died in Grayson County, Texas, in 1918. His father was Robert Elmer King, Sr.

Their Children:
(5) Edgar King, b. 1861, d. 1893.
(5) Sam C. King, married Vinnie Bynum 12-18-1894.
(5) Nannie L. King, b. 5-7-1863.
(5) R. Varney King, b. 9-19-1871.
(5) Lulu Belle King, b. 9-11-1864, d. 5-24-1943. Married 12-28- 1882.
(5) Rufus A. King, b. 12-14-1875, d. 12-7-1907.

(6) Robert Hailey King, Jr., b. ~1888.
(6) Oscar King, Jr. , b. 6-20-1892.
(6) Lou Belle King, b. 10-17-1893.
(6) Earl King, b. 7-26-1897.

Following the death 1-15-1897 of her first husband, Robert Bailey King, Lulu Bell King married 11-20-1902, William Pascal Vaughn of Grayson County, Texas. William Pascal Vaughn was born 4-24-1870, died 4-28-1942.

To this union was born:
(6) Katherine Vaughn, b. 8-1-1905, m. 10-3-1926 to James Emory Christian. Children born to Katherine and James Emory Christian were:

(7) William Vaugh Christian, b. 9-18-1927; m. (1st) 6- 26-1946 Demetra Dora DePhillipsi

ISSUE:
(8) David Michael, b. 6-26-1949. m. (2) 6-9- 1956 to Martha Jean Kincaid, b. 1-14- 1934;
m. Martha Jean Kincaid

ISSUE:
(8) Ellen Kincaid Christian, b. 9-26-1960.

(7) James Emory Christian, Jr., b. 10-21-1933; m. 9-3- 1955 Greta Joyce Mode, b. 7-1934;

ISSUE:
(8) James Emory Christian, III, b. 8-15-1956; (8) Joseph William Christian, b. 11-10-7.957.

All data concerning the (4) Mary Elizabeth (Andrews) King family were obtained from the Anderson P. King and the Robert Hailey King family bibles, and from gravestones in the Greenwood Cemetery near Savoy, Texas, and in the cemetery at Whitewright, Texas. The James Emory Christian family records supplied information concerning that family.
(4) MARK HENRY ANDREWS, b. 4-6-1845, Jackson County, Tenn.; d. 4-2-1919, Grayson County, Texas; m. Etna Louella Goben, b. 8-31-1858, Fannin County, Texas.

ISSUE:
(5) Mary Ethel Andrews, b. 5-16-1882, Grayson County, Texas; m. Claude C. Shumate. Living in Dallas, Texas, 1963.
(5) Vera Annette Andrews, b. 9-21-1884, Grayson County, Texas; m. (1st) Ralph Dowler; (2nd) Fred Monroe. Vera Annette Andrews died at Dallas, Texas 2-12-1963.
(5) Henry Leon Andrews, b. Grayson County, Texas, 12-9-1086, d. 6-12-1952; m. (1st) Julia Atkins; (2nd) Fairy Arnette.
(5) Alluwe C. Andrews, b. Grayson County, Texas, 3-28-1890; m. Ella Mae Alexander, 5-28-1913. Living at Anahuac, Texas, 1963.
(5) Mark Oren Andrews, b. Grayson County, Texas, 2-11-1880, d. 12-23-1947; m. 2-14-1900 Sarah Maggie Wright, b. 10-4-1881.

ISSUE:
(6) Sarah Frances Andrews, b. 8-2-1913; m. Clifford A. Taylor, Living in Dallas, Texas, 1963.
(6) Ralph Oren Andrews, b. 10-14-1903; m. (1st) Fredrika Haizlip, d. 7-7-1944; (2nd) 12-18-1948 Roberta Wheeler of Hillsboro, Texas.

ISSUE of first marriage:
(7) Guv Hayden Andrews. b. 12-28-1933: in. 8-31-1957. Jacquelyn Smart, b. 10-29-1934.(This family record continued next page)
(7) Margaret Virginia Andrews, b. 10-15- 1935; m. 1-29-1953 Dr. Eldon O. Harrison.

ISSUE:
(8) Gregory Scott Harrison,, b. 5-28-1954;
(8) Glen Eldon Harrison, b. 10/3/1956;
(8) Lisa De Anne Harrison, b. 11/12/1960;
(8) Shannon Wade Harrison, b. 6/6/1962.

The Dr. Eldon O. Harrison family lived in Richardson, Texas in 1963.