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carried a full line of merchandise. He was widely
known as a remarkably astute businessman as well as
a civic leader.
R. G. Andrews was one of the first mayors of
Winnsboro after the city was incorporated. He ran for
congress in 1907 but was defeated. He was twice a
delegate to the Democratic National Convention. An-
drews paid for the building of the first brick elementary
school in Winnsboro and he was also one of the
founders of Southern Methodist University.
Rowland Gwynne and Maggie Norris Andrews
were the parents of one daughter, Sallie Lucy, who
married James Edward Old. Two sons were born to this
marriage: James Rowland Old, a physician, and
Gwynne Edward Old, an attorney.
Rowland Gwynne Andrews died 8 February 1918.
Both he and his wife, Maggie Norris Andrews, who died
in 1935, were buried in Lee Cemetery.
Source: Mrs. J. E. Old
W. H. (BILL) APEL, born 23 September 1865 in
the New Hope Community, married Mary Elizabeth
Davis of Upshur County circa 1890. His parents were
William and M. E. Apel.
Bill Apel served two terms as sheriff of Wood
County, 1916-1920. He also served as deputy under his
brother, Hiram Apel, who was sheriff of the county
1898-1902.
W. H. and Mary Elizabeth Apel were parents of
two children: Willie May Apel Mounts and Lona Apel
Brabham.
Apel was married the second time to Miss Ruth
Smart. They lived in the Concord Community. Bill
Apel died 9 August 1943 and was buried in the Concord
Cemetery.
BENJAMIN F. ATTAWAY, born 1839 in Georgia,
married Laura Weston Neal, born 1849 in Carroll
County, Georgia came to Wood County prior to 1880
and settled east of Winnsboro near Maple Springs.
Fourteen children were born to this marriage:
Cohen Stephen, married Rhoda Spencer
Alpha Omega, married Tom Azbell
Mary M., married Will Shelby
John Valentine, married Nettie Seats
Charles C., married Dora Fornby
Benjamin F., Jr., married Osie Lee Fuller
William F., married (1) Hattie O'Neal; (2)
Emma Crumpler
Henry W., married Gladys TrappMartha Lee, married Harry Byrd
Alice, married Henry KiserWillie Louvina, married Mort Morgan
Arthur H., married Belle Sneed
James F., died in infancy
Nellie, no marriage recorded
Source: Records of Stephen Howell Neal
The ELI AWTRY family came to Wood County
prior to 1873 from Cedartown, Georgia and settled in
the Oak Grove Community. Deed records show that on
3 October 1873, Eli Awtry purchased 100 acres of land
from C. F. Davis in the G. W. Watson Survey.
Emmett Awtry, son of Eli Awtry, lived in the same
community and was married three times: (1) Ella A.
Burford, in 1881; (2) Sallie E. Stiggins, (3) Elizabeth
Williams, in 1889. A daughter, Maude, was born to the
Awtry-Stiggins marriage. Children of Emmett and
Elizabeth Williams Awtry were: Ina, Iris L., Irma, Roy,
and John H.
Colonel John Awtry served in three wars: World
War I, World War II, and most of the Korean Conflict,
before being retired for permanent disability incurred
in line of duty. He was born in Wood County in 1897,
the son of Emmett and Elizabeth Williams Awtry and
is presently residing in Laguna Hills, California.
Emmett Awtry served as Tax Assessor of Wood
County, 1902-1906.
Source: Colonel John H. Awtry and Ona Wood
JOHN BAILEY, born in Greenville District,
South Carolina 8 September 1823, married Huldah
Houseworth in DeKalb County, Georgia, 6 April 1849.
The couple moved to Wood County in the fall of 1851,
and settled one mile west of Perryville on Caney Creek.
,Just before reaching the site of their new home,
Bailey stopped to take part in his first religious service
in Texas. A short time before, Joe Rice had taken a
yoke of oxen and hauled logs for benches to be used for
a church located near the old Jefferson Road. The con-
gregation had gathered when Bailey drove up and the
Reverend John Davis, brother-in-law of P. M.
Gunstream, was preaching. Bailey and his wife stopped
to join in the service.
John Bailey purchased 346 acres of land from John
Heiter for $1.75 per acre. It took him six years to pay forhis land. The first four years the family lived in a 16
foot log cabin. Having no nails, the boards were at-59
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