Mary Eloise Andrews

Brief Life History of Mary Eloise

When Mary Eloise Andrews was born on 8 December 1868, in Comer, Barbour, Alabama, United States, her father, William Alfred Andrews, was 49 and her mother, Laura Eugenia Wilson, was 30. She married George Washington Grant on 18 May 1891, in Comer, Barbour, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Spring Hill, Barbour, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 16 Belcher, Barbour, Alabama, United States in 1920. She died on 18 October 1955, in Hurtsboro, Russell, Alabama, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Spring Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery, Spring Hill, Barbour, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Grant
1864–1897
Mary Eloise Andrews
1868–1955
Marriage: 18 May 1891
Laura Grant
1892–1904
John Hunter Grant
1893–1975
Dorris Grant
1897–1905

Sources (13)

  • M E Andrews in household of W A Andrews, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Mary E. Andrews, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Eloise A. Long, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .

History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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