Obituary of Henry Montgomery Andrews, Conecuh, AL submitted by Stephen Lee ================================================================================ USGENWEB NOTICE: All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed and copyrighted by: STEPHEN LEE ================================================================================ May 2003 Obituary of Henry Montgomery Andrews from The Evergreen Star, January 19, 1893 TRIBUTE OF RESPECT Died at his residence near Belleville, January 8th, 1893, Mr. Henry M. Andrews, at the ripe old age of 89 years, 6 months and 16 days. Mr. Andrews was born in Sumter county South Carolina, June 22, 1803, and came to Alabama in 1818, before our admission into the Union as a state. Indians roamed over the forests in those days, and game of the larger kind was abundant, of which the writer has frequently heard him make mention. Mr. Andrews was a southern planter in the full sense of the term in ante-bellum days, was possessed of liberal means, was hospitable and charitable, the friend and stranger receiving a hearty welcome and friendly greeting at his home, where peace and plenty reigned. For many years Mr. Andrews was a consistent member of the Baptist church, a good neighbor, a good citizen and as upright Christian gentleman. Politically, Mr. Andrews was a Douglas democrat, believing that the peculiar institution of the south would go where clime and soil favored; nor was he ever led off, or astray by new, strange or untenable "isms" and doctrines. He kept the true democratic faith to the end. Correctness and consistency characterized his long and useful career, and in his death the county has lost a worthy citizen and his family a kind and loving father.