It is known that Mary Johnson continued to live in Pike County, Mississippi after the Civil War. From information given by her descendants, she married George Andrews a former enslaved man. I have been unable to find proof of their marriage at this time. George and Mary Andrews recorded race as black enumerated in the 1870 census. The household of Thompson Andrews was recorded as white enumerated in the census above George and Mary Andrews. Because these families had the same surname I looked for a possible connection. I wanted to find information about George Andrews.
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| "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFSG-413 : 29 May 2021), George Andrews, 1870. |
Transcribed Pike County, Mississippi Federal Census 1870
|
NAME |
AGE |
SEX |
COLOR |
OCCUPATION |
PLACE OOF
BIRTH |
|
Andrews
Thompson |
59 |
M |
W |
Farmer |
Mip |
|
Sarah |
20 |
F |
W |
housekeeper |
“ |
|
Mary |
5/12 |
F |
W |
|
|
|
Andrews
George |
47 |
M |
B |
Farmer |
Mip |
|
Mary |
43 |
F |
B |
housekeeper |
“ |
|
Caroline |
15 |
F |
B |
|
“ |
|
David |
9 |
M |
B |
|
“ |
|
Margret |
7 |
F |
B |
|
“ |
|
Ester |
4 |
F |
B |
|
“ |
|
Mary |
2 |
F |
B |
|
“ |
Thompson Andrews was also known as Wade Thompson Andrews. His family is identified from two sources; 1) the book Source Records From Pike County, Mississippi 1789-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly. In Luke Ward Conerly's book. James Andrews came from Georgia and he settled with his family on Bogue Chitto in the early 1800's. 2) a transcribed copy of the will of his father James Andrews on the website "Find A Grave". I have not be able to authenticate or verify the copy of the will. It is from these sources I have made a graph of the family.
In item number four of James Andrews' will, he bequeathed to his son Andrew Jackson Andrews a negro slave boy George 15 dark complexation his date of birth would be 1835 at the time of the writing of the will. This maybe George Andrews who married Mary Johnson. The ages however do not correspond. From the 1870 census George date of birth would be 1823. It is also important to note that Andrew Jackson Andrews married Lucinda Brumfield. Lucinda Brumfield is the sister of Henry Sims Brumfield and Joseph Warren Brumfield who are in the "Ancestral Picture".
I looked for the other enslaved people listed in the will; John 25, Jane 15, Mike 12, Jerry 13 and Patsy 15 years old using the surname Andrews. I thought that they might be related and retained the name of their enslaver. My research was not exhaustive using Ancestry.com, Family Search.com, Newpaper.com, Chronicling America and Mississippi Archives and History website. I was unable to find these individuals.
I will continue to my research for information concerning George and Mary Andrews prior to 1870.
--- The Tree Gardener
