About these letters

Samuel Andrews saved his letters. Copies of some letters came to my sister Linda Sanders and I through the good graces of Marian Andrews Edward about a dozen years ago and she is currently sending the remaining letters and she and her brother have given me permission to post them online for all Andrews researchers.

Transcriptions and some original images of letters written by Andrews and Carrick family members to one another are in this collection. Somehow they were saved, either by Samuel or just stored at his home, and passed down to us today. The images online are small but if you click on an image it should enlarge to a readable and printable size. Enjoy.


Who are the people in this photograph?


DeLight Birchell Andrews sent the photo and the names a few years ago and said that this reunion was held before 1898 at the home of John G. Andrews, brother of Samuel. John lived in Campbell township, Ionia County, Michigan at that time.


Front row l to r: Mr and Mrs. S.A. Watt [friends or relatives??]; James C. Andrews; John G. Andrews; Samuel Andrews and his wife Amanda Catherine Wiles Andrews; Anna Newton Andrews and her husband Edward Andrews; David Johns [friend of the family].


Back row l to r: Henry Culler and wife [probably friends of the family]; James McFarland [cousin] ; Martha Andrews ; Carey Andrews and his wife Dazy Perry Andrews Harvey Andrews; Amos Otis Andrews; Mr and Mrs Henry Wills [friends of the family].




Monday, November 19, 2012

1907 01 17 Harvey Andrews to Samuel Andrews


Claypool, Ind.   Jan 17 1907

Dear Uncle and Family

your letter received was
glad to here from you
once more was glad to
here you was all well
but was sorry to here
of Walters death. but
I suppose it was a grate
releaf after all to the poor
sufferer. also to those poor
girls. we are all well
but my poor Mother. she
is very little better iff any
her face is not draud quite
so bad but her color is very
bad and she is very weak
and trembly can hardly

feed herself and it has
affected her mind some
and worrys so mutch
about everything I hardly
know what to do sometimes
She has a great deal of misery
in her head and has to take
easing tablets or I don’t know
what the Poor thing would
do the Doctor says she is
liable to have another stroke
any time so we don’t know
what the results will be.
Mother Warren is failing
’pretty fast to but is still
keeping house. She is with
us from Saturday evening
till Monday morning every
week She is realy not fit to
keep house at all and the time
is not far distant when she

will bee with us to so you
see we are tied pretty close
to home. Will. Oda &
Baby are well we think Baby
is just right.
Milt Bechtelheimer was
here this week to see Mother
and us. their folks are
all well. I talked to
James McFarland this evening
they are all well except poor
Eva she is no better and
no hopes of her getting any
better she is bedfast most
of the time. I saw Mr. John
Jonston sometime ago and
he said you and Aunt Manda
talked of comeing during

the holidays to pay us a visit
I was so in hopes you would
come I can talk better than I
can write. I received the paper
with Poor Walter’s death. I
also got a letter from Retta
now Uncle please write and
till iff the girls has anything
left and what they intend
to do also iff Frank
came for for the Funeral.
will close for this time
hoping to here from you soon

            I am yours as ever
            Harvey Andrews
            Claypool, Ind.
PS Bruce Whittenberger
had a sale of horses yesterday
there was a span of norman mares
5 years old red roans both in foal
you would of bought iff you would of
bin here.


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