George Pool Andrews was born 30 July 1844 in Henderson County Tennessee. Tenth child of Gray Bount and Sally Harman Andrews.
Died: 25 November 1929 , possibly of leukemia, in Titus County , TX. and is buried in Concord Cemetery in Morris County. Texas. He served in Company K, 27th Infantry, Confederate States of America. He enlisted 18 days after his 17th birthday. Despite the fact that his military record shows he deserted, he served four years and drew a pension.

George enlisted in the Confederate Army at age 17. He became a Fife Major and led General Forrest's troops into the Battle of Shiloh playing the song of his choice. "The Girl I Left Behind Me." He served for four years and drew a pension.

George married three times. In 1870 he brought his first wife and two small children by wagon from Mississippi to visit the family at the old home place in Tennessee. While there, an epidemic of flux (bloody dysentery) broke out and his wife and both children died.

His second marriage was to Laura Polk Taylor and they had one child, John Taylor Andrews. Laura died in 1879 of tuberculosis.

In 1880 George married Virginia Belle "Virgie" Lane and they had 12 children. Their first child and the last three children died as infants.

George raised a negro baby, named Lewis, along with his children. The Mother knew she was dying so she sent for George to come take the baby to raise or find a good home for him. When George got there, she was already dead. Lewis was treated just like the rest of the children except he wasn't allowed to eat with the family and he slept in a room off the kitchen. Addie Andrews, one of George's sons, said when he was a small child he would cry because he wasn't allowed to eat with Lewis. When Lewis was grown, he told some of the family that he didn't know in which world (black or white) he belonged. He said he didn't fit into either one.
Lewis was listed in the 1880 census in Madison Co. Tn. in the household with George P. Andrews as a black servant.
G.P Andrews - age 35 - widow-farmer
Clarra - age 9 - daughter (actually was his step daughter)
John Andrews - age 6 - son
Greely Jones - age 8
J. Edwards - age 25 – laborer
Amanda - age 17 – black servant
Lewis - age 8 - black servant

Addie, son of George, said he was a baby when his father moved his family to Texas, which would have been possibly late 1887 or early 1888. There were a number of friends and relatives who left Tennessee with George. His brother, Adam (Add) and his family; John, Ned, Gus and Greely Jones and Eliza, their mother; Simon Vess and his sister who later married Greely Jones; Lucy, the colored cook, whom Lewis later married, were all in the group traveling to Waco, Texas.

Joseph Lane, George's brother-in-law had already moved to Waco, Tx. by the time George moved there.

George lived in Waco for about three years before moving to the Cookville area in Titus Co. TX. He purchased land there on 30 Sept. 1891. The 1900 Census of Titus Co. shows he owned 110 acres. His son Frank and Frank's wife lived in the home he built there in the late 1800's or early 1900's until each of them died.

1st marriage on 28 Nov. 1867 to Mary Jane Martin, born 28 Aug. 1850 and died 11 Aug. 1870. Children were Sally Andrews, born 20 Jan. 1869, died 6 Aug 1870. Richard Blount Andrews, born 12 May 1870, died 5 Aug. 1870.
Mary Jane and both of her children died within one week in an epidemic of Flux (bloody dysentery) and are buried in the Harman Cemetery in Tennessee.

2nd marriage in 1973 to Mrs. Laura Polk Taylor (Reid) widow of Augustus Reid. Laura and Augustus were married on 1 March 1869. They had a daughter , Clara Polk Reid, born 28 June 1870. In the 1860 census record of Madison Co. Tn. Laura is listed as being 10 years old in the household with Wm. W. Manley, age 21, overseer, and Liddie Manley, age 16, and James Wilson, age 28. In the same census record was Abner Taylor, age 70, blind, born in Tn. He was a farmer.
Laura Taylor, age 53
Andrew Taylor, age 18
Rebecca Taylor, age 15
Lizzie (Lessie) Taylor, age 12
Olivia Taylor, age 10
Madison Co. Tn. Newspaper article: 1873
Married at the residence of Mrs. Abner Taylor, of this county on the 12th. Ist. By Rev. Geo. K. Brooks, Mr Geo. P. Andrews and Mrs. Laura P. Reid of Madison Co.
Attendants were Dr. L. B. Grady and Miss Olivia Taylor, Jack Manley____Laura Taylor.
"We congratulate our friend Andrews that he has transplanted so fair a flower from the living parterre of Madison County beauties, one that will ever shed such sweet fragrance on his pathway through life, and who is more deserving of such a prize than the gallant and true man in all the relations of life that has won it."

Laura was born in 1850, died 8 Aug. 1879 of consumption (tuberculosis). Laura was a second cousin to President James Knox Polk and was the daughter of Thomas L Taylor's brother. They had one son: John Taylor Andrews born 26 Nov. 1873 in Jackson, Madison Co. Tn. Died 15 Jan. 1953 of leukemia and is buried in Concord Cemetery in Morris County Tx. He never married.

3rd Marriage on 1 Dec. 1880 in Madison Co. Tn. To Virginia Belle"Virgie" Lane daughter of John H. and Esther Worke Brandon Lane. Virgie was born 12 Nov. 1864 in Giles co. Tn. Died 18 Oct 1903 of childbed fever in Titus Co. Tx. She is buried in Concord Cemetery in Morris Co. Tx. They had 12 children:
Sallie H Andrews (1869 - 1870)
Richard B Andrews (1870 - 1870)
John Taylor Andrews (1873 - 1953)
Lizzie Esther Andrews Brown (1882 - 1971)
Jodie Bell Andrews (1884 - 1941)
Addie Warren Andrews (1886 - 1974)
George Buford Andrews (1888 - 1969)
Lena Andrews Keith (1895 - 1918)
Benjamin Franklin Andrews (1897 - 1956)
Thomas H. Andrews (1900 - 1901)
Infant Son Andrews (1901 - 1901)
Virgie Bell Andrews (1903 - 1903)