Spouse:
Catherine Whitesides (December 14, 1824 Monroe County, KY-December 23, 1910)

Bible Entry: Varney F. Andrews and Catherine Whitesides was married Feb. 3, 1846.

Children:
1. Mary E. Andrews (November 19,1846 Monroe County, Kentucky- ____)

2. William George Andrews (July 10, 1852 Monroe County, Kentucky - December 24, 1918 Monroe County, Kentucky)

3. Elizabeth Chilton Andrews (April 30, 1855 Monroe County, Kentucky- ____). In 1874, she married Hugh K Bedford Sr (Birth 2 FEB 1843 Kentucky; Death 16 JAN 1923 Monroe County, Kentucky).


Census of 1860 for Tompkinsville, Monroe Co., Kentucky - Three children and living next to Wm. J Gee. Shows he is 40 and Catherine is 35.

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.

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.

Name: Varney Andrews
Residence: Monroe, Kentucky
Age: 30 years
Estimated birth year: 1820
Birth place: Kentucky
Film number: 442981
Image number: 00456
Reference number: 38
Dwelling: 369
Household id: 391
Marital status:
Free or slave:
Collection: 1850 United States Census

Name: Catherine Andrews
Residence: Center Point, Monroe, Kentucky
Birth date: 1825
Birth place: Kentucky, United States
Relationship to head-of-household: Wife
Spouse name: V. F. Andrews
Spouse birth place: Kentucky, United States
Father birth place: Kentucky, United States
Mother birth place: Kentucky, United States
Marital status: Married
Age: 55 years
Occupation: Keeping House
Children:
Eliza C. Bedford
NARA film number: T9-0434
Page: 309
Page letter: A
Entry number: 5788
Film number: 1254434
Collection: 1880 United States Census

Name: V. F. Andrews
Residence: Center Point, Monroe, Kentucky
Birth date: 1819
Birth place: Kentucky, United States
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Spouse name: Catherine Andrews
Spouse birth place: Kentucky, United States
Father birth place: Virginia, United States
Mother birth place: Kentucky, United States
Race or color (expanded): White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Age: 61 years
Occupation: Farmer
Children: Eliza C. Andrews
NARA film number: T9-0434
Page: 309
Page letter: A
Entry number: 5787
Film number: 1254434
Collection: 1880 United States Census

Name: Varney F Andrews
Residence: Magisterial District 4, Center Point, Turkey Neck, Martinsburg, Wortinsburgh Precinct, Monroe, Kentucky
Birth date: Nov 1817
Birth place: Kentucky
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Father birth place: Kentucky
Mother birth place: Kentucky
Race or color (expanded): White
Marital status: Married
Years married: 53
Estimated marriage year: 1847
Children:
Elizza Bedford
Immigration year:
Enumeration district: 0083
Sheet number & letter: 11A
Household id: 170
Reference number: 35
GSU film number: 1240544
Image number: 00669
Collection: 1900 United States Census