When Effie Ethel Andrews was born on 10 December 1911, in Chatham, North Carolina, United States, her father, Horace Dixon Andrews, was 37 and her mother, Nannie Bell Carroll, was 19. She married John Andrew Moore on 14 July 1934, in Danville, Boone, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Gilmer Township, Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 12 February 1990, in Cone Memorial Hospital, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Lakeview Memorial Park, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.