When Andrew Jackson Tyson was born on 8 April 1846, in Falkland, Pitt, North Carolina, United States, his father, George Washington Tyson Sr., was 40 and his mother, Sarah Ann Taylor, was 32. He married Sarah Elizabeth Cooper on 3 August 1882, in Tate, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pitt, North Carolina, United States in 1850. He died on 9 July 1910, in Arkabutla, Tate, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Arkabutla, Tate, Mississippi, United States.