Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-03-13
On. mark ANDREWS.

The death Of DR.. Mark Andrews
occurred at the home Of his daugh-
ter, Mn G. S. Raymond, at San
Antonio, Texas, on Thursday night
at the advanced age Of SO and q half
years.
DR.. Andrews was born in the
State of New York and came South
before the war, accepting position
as member of the faculty Of the Nat
chez Institute.
Resigning this position later he
entered the Louisiana Medical COL
lege at New Orleans, from which
he graduated with honor aid To-
Gated at Waterproof more than fifty
years ago, and where he practiced
bis profession continuously until
1910 when he moved to San An
tonic, Texas, to make bis home
with his daughter, Mrs. RAYMOND,
it being hoped that the higher alti-
tude and dryer climate would prove
beneficial to bis health.
DR.. Andrews was married shortly
after the war to Miss Nellie Meier
rim of Washington. Miss. Several
children were born to this union,
one son, Mark Andrews. Jr., hav-
ing preceded his father to the grave
about eighteen years ago. The child
rem living are: three daughters. Mrs.
G. s. Raymond, Mrs. Jennie Rid
die and Miss Ruth Andrews, and
two sons, Jesse Andrews, q promi-
nent attorney Of Houston, Texas.
and Baxter C. Andrews, who is in
the cotton brokerage business at
Muskogee, Oklahoma, all Of whom
were with their father when the end
came.
Upon the death Of Mrs. Andrews
in 1899, the Doctors youngest
daughter, Miss Ruth, assumed her
mothers place in the home, and
has since devoted her life to the
care and comfort of her father, gen.
erously sacrificing all personal pleas
ures whenever same interferred with
her paternal duty. The evening Of
his life was blessed with the loving
care and unselfish devotion of bis
faithful daughter and his days un-
doubtedly heightened by her tender
care and constant attention.
The remains will be brought TO
Natchez on Sunday and laid to rest
beside his faithful wife. No doubt
many of the DOCTORS old Tensas
friends will attend bis obsequies.
DR.. Andrews life was a long and
useful one. For fifty years he la
bored among the people Of Water
proof and surrounding country, adj
ministering to their ills, rejoicing
in their joys and sympathizing in
their sorrows. A friend to suffering
humanity, he was ever sensitive to
the cry Of distress, and by day and
by night, in sunshine and storm,
he answered the call of life and
death, thought being ever Of pro-
fession first and self afterward. The
people of his section, regardless OF
race and creed and station in life.
loved and honored him as friend
and as physician, and when the
news of his last illness came to this
parish the prayers Of his people rose
as with one voice to the Giver Of
Life for his recovery, and when his
death became known a vail OF sor-
row issued from every lip.
DR.. Andrews was a Christian gen.
tleman, who lived the simple life
and left to his children the heritage
of a name untarnished and un-
dimmed. He was man of gener-
Gus impulse. and never said nay TO
the deserving who sought his aid
or counsel.
But he is gone! Another name
is stricken from the ever-lessening
land marks of our parish. And
though his transition from the
scenes of his trials and labon was
a glorious one, yet to us it brings
infinite pain and sorrow and regret.
May bis soul rest in peacel