Kimble County, TX - Biographies, The Andrew Allsup Family
Wednesday, April 19, 2000

Submitted by:  burtwyat@ctesc.net  (Frederica Wyatt)
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The Junction Eagle, Thursday, June 10, 1976, Page 7, Sec. 4
(with permission of publisher)

                            The Andrew Allsup Family

  Andrew Allsup and his wife, Margaret, moved their family to Kimble County in 1902, settling
on the South Llano River.  Andrew was the son of Henry Pulliam Allsup and Edditha Moore Allsup
of Hickory County, Missouri.  Margaret's parents were Britton C. Vest and Sinnia Cates Vest
of Llano County, Texas.
  Andrew and Margaret were married in 1894 at Valley Spring, Texas, and homesteaded in Menard
and Edwards Counties before settling in Kimble County, where they lived the remainder of their
lives.  Their post office in Menard County was Capitola, near the historic old blockhouse,
and their home in Edwards County was about thirty miles from Rocksprings on Dry Devil's River.
Andrew built many of the rock tanks still in use in Edwards County.
  After moving to Kimble, Andrew was employed at the Four Mile Dam, first helping to build the
structure, and later as caretaker.  Evidence of the lime kiln he built on Crisp Hollow is still 
visible.  For most of his life, however, he was a rancher.
  Andrew and Margaret were parents of ten children, including two sets of twins:  Marion Edgar
and Mary Eddith, who married Isaac Farris; and Rufus and Ruth, who married William Cunningham.
The other children included Bessie, who married John Matt Burt, Jr.; Britton, who married
Lillian Randolph Bradford; Boone; Tom, who married (1) Viola Thomas (2) Emma Fleming; Robert,
who married Louise Dean; and H. C. (Lum), who married Juanita Neff.
  Family members now living are Eddith, Bessie, Tom, Robert, and Lum.  Andrew Allsup (1860-1937)
and Margaret (1870-1958), and several of their children and grandchildren are buried in the
Wooten Cemetery southwest of Junction.
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Written by Frederica Burt Wyatt, granddaughter.