When Edward Leoan Andrews was born on 1 February 1874, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States, his father, Addison Albinus Andrews, was 25 and his mother, Lucretia Elizabeth Hamilton, was 26. He married Beulah Molinda Marchant on 24 February 1896, in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Idalia, Yuma, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 3, Kit Carson, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died on 26 April 1947, in Burlington, Kit Carson, Colorado, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Burlington, Kit Carson, Colorado, United States.