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MRS. MARY F. ANDREWS, widow of the late Willard G. Andrews, who died in Ware, Mass., on June 28, 1880, sixty-nine years of age, was born in Granby, Mass., November 6, 1813, and is a daughter of Timothy P. and Esther (Dunbar) Marsh, respectively natives of Old Hadley and Foxboro, Mass.

Her father was a successful agriculturist, and also engaged in the business of a clothier, having his cloth-dressing establishment on his farm. His wife bore him ten children, five sons and five daughters, all of whom, except two sons, lived to adult life. Three sons and three daughters married, and all except Mrs. Andrews reared families of children. One daughter, Laura, died at the age of nineteen years. Their father died in 1828, sixty-two years of age; and their mother in 1856, eighty years old. Mrs. Andrews was the ninth child born to her parents, and is now the only survivor.

Her marriage with Willard G. Andrews was performed in 1836. He was a son of Prince and Clarissa (Morse) Andrews, of Ware, and grandson of Phillip Morse. His parents had a family of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. Of these, two sons died in infancy, and all the rest subsequently, with the exception of Calvin and Jerome, who reside in De Kalb County, Illinois. Their mother died in 1837, over eighty years of age. After Mrs. Andrews’s marriage she and her husband lived for a year in Illinois. In 1840 they returned to Ware, where the remainder of the forty-four years of their married life was happily spent, and where she is still residing. Mr. Andrews, who was a highly respected and honored citizen of Ware, was a successful dealer in farm machinery, and had acquired a moderate competency before his death. Mrs. Andrews is a consistent member of the First Congregational Church of Ware Centre, of which her husband was also a communicant.