Okay - does any of this ring a bell with any other ANDREWS families? We have great family records beginning after Eliza and the children returned to Randolph Co, GA between 1846 and 1850 but Frederick/Fredric ANDREWS/ANDERS' father is ? We do know that the widow Eliza ANDREWS and their children lived close to a Jane ANDREWS, widow of James Highsmith ANDREWS, and their children in the 1850* and 1860 Randolph Co Census records, were of similar ages and had children with similar names leading me to suspect a close relationship between Frederick ANDREWS and James Highsmith ANDREWS. * 1850 Census, Randolph Co, GA - ANDREWS, Jane ANDREWS 33F, widow of James Highsmith ANDREWS, and their children: Eli 13M, W.H. 12M, Jn F. 10M, Wm L., 8 M, Jasper 7M, Amanda H 5F, Sarah C. 3 F. (W.H., age 12, is William Hill Andrews, later the author of a Civil War diary upon which book, "Footprints of a Regiment" is based). Based on the information below, ANDERS must have been the name he was using 1828 and 1830. Once might be a misspelling- but three times? 1828 - "To any ordained minister, Judge, Jus. of the Court or Justice of the Peace, you are hereby authorized and empowered to celebrate and join to them by marriage agreeable to your rules and ? Mr. Frederick ANDERS and Ms Elizar ODOME and this by our sufficient warrent for the same given under my hand this 24 April 1828. -- Wm L? Deputy Clerk of the County . ... Certified that agreeable to the above warrant I have joined together Frederick ANDERS and Elizar ODOM in the holy State of Matrimony the 10th [might be 1st] day of May 1828. (signed) A. ODOM, M.G. Entered March 15th 1830. I have a photocopy of page from Pulaski Co. Georgia records. Marriage records; ANDERS, Frederick to Mrs. Elizar ODOME 1 MAY 1830 by A. ODOM, M.G. (Eliza's grandfather, Archibald ODOM, minister of the gospel). History of Pulaski County Georgia; Hawkinsville DAR 1935 Publ by Walter E Brown Publishing Co, Atlanta; p. 448. 1828 - Dec. 29, Ga. Journal: Pulaski Sheriff's sale...first Tuesday in February (1829)...Courthouse in the town of _tford, Pulaski County, 202 1/2 acres of oak and hickory land in the 22 dist., wherein Frederick ANDERS now lives...this being the property of Elias REGAN... Genealogical Abstracts from the Ga. Journal, Vol. 3 1830 Census - Pulaski Co, GA - ANDERS, Frederick (head of household - age between 20 and 30 years, 1 female 20-30, 1 female under age 5* * IF theirs, probably under 2 as they were married in 1828. This girl appears with Frederick and Eliza in 1830 and 1840 census records, but is not with Eliza and the other children when she returns to GA as a widow in 1845 and does not appear in any family history. The 1830 Pulaski Co GA census is also the one where Mrs. Elizabeth ODOM (Eliza's mother) is now the "head of household" with only a few of the children listed. Was there an epidemic of some kind at that time? Or had something else happened and some of the children farmed out to relatives - Eliza, perhaps, taking her young sister Antinette? This Frederick ANDERS would certainly appear to be our Frederick ANDREWS as both Archibald ODOM and Mrs. Elizabeth ODOM (wife? widow? of James Madison ODOM, Sr.) live nearby. Other children: James Frederick ANDREWS b. 23 SEP 1830 in Pulaski Co, GA; Warren ANDREWS b. 1836 in Early Co., GA (Warren died during the War Between the States in a Yankee prison); David Crockett ANDREWS b. 10 APR 1840 in Randolph Co., GA (where, according to county records, his father owned a dry goods and hardware store in Cuthbert); Susan Priscilla ANDREWS b. 16 OCT 1843 in Early Co, GA (but, that same year, Frederick ANDERS signed a petition for a road in Randolph Co, GA); William P. ANDREWS b. 16 APR 1844 in Calhoun Co., FL after the family moved to a land grant near Dead Lake for Frederick's service in the Indian Wars. Thomas Hull ANDREWS b. 31 JUL1846 in Balls Bluff, Gadsden Co, GA - one week after his father died of "the fever." A determined Eliza and their children had pulled him from the land grant to Balls Bluff in a bed on a sledge, Eliza having decided that a free swamp was still a swamp. This child refused the opportunity to pay the back taxes and reclaim the land declaring "it was a swamp and not fit for human habitation." Any help appreciated, Dot Wise Wirth Baton Rouge, LA [email protected]