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Note: Andrew Moore Windle was born around March of 1794 in Lexington, Rockbridge County Virginia. On 1 Jan 1811 there was an indenture (examined & delivered) to Robert White, of Lexington, Va. 17 Nov 1819 between Joseph Hoffman and Andrew Windle as two heirs of Daniel Windle who died intestate. Around the age of 19 Andrew enlisted in Captain Henry Stephen's Company of Mounted Infantry, East Tennessee Militia on 4 October 1813 at Newport in Cocke County, Tennessee. This group of volunteers was known as Bunch's Mounted Regiment serving under Colonel Samuel Bunch. Andrew was at the battle of Hillabee but did not participate. Most historians called this "The Hillabee Massacre" which happened about 20 miles east of Talladega, Alabama on 18 November 1813. Andrew's company was paroled at Coosa Blockhouse on the Coosa River in November of 1813. He served 89 days and was honorably discharged on 3 January 1814 at Newport, Virginia. Andrew's rate of pay was 8 dollars per month. The allowance for his horse was 40 cents per day, so Andrew received a total of 58.82 for his military service. Andrew was at Lexington, Virginia when he volunteered for military service the second time. On 15 April 1814, he enlisted and served as a Corporal in Captain John McMullens's Company of Light Infantry. This unit was detached from the 8th Regiment, Rockbridge County, in the Light Corps, commanded by Major Charles F. Mercer. They were attached to the 4th Regiment Virginia Militia. Andrew was honorably discharged at Norfolk, Virginia on 28 July 1814. For this tour of duty, his pay was $10 per month. It was estimated Andrew was discharged 280 miles from home. He was allowed fourteen days to make the return trip home and received fifteen cents per ration or two dollars and ten cents. On 21 April 1815, Andrew's mother, Mary Hawkins Windle, made her will. Andrew was to receive his bed and the furniture marked with his initials as well as ten pounds. Andrew was also to receive his father's sword. (Someone took his sword from Alabama to Florida in the 1960s.) Andrew soon sold his share of his parent's estate. He joined his sister, Betsy, and her husband, Joseph Hoffman, in selling Robert White their one-ninth parts in his Parents land in the town of Lexington, Virginia on 2 January 1816. This included the land where his fathers (Daniel Windle) tavern was. On 15 February 1820, Andrew was in court in Jackson County, Tennessee to make his oath regarding a lost horse. This may be where he met and married his wife, Elizabeth. She was born about 1801 in Kentucky. By early 1823, the Windle family was living in Jefferson County, Alabama. Moving further west around 1827 they moved into Pickens County. Andrew established his home in the small settlement called Carrollton. Andrew M. Windle, his wife, and three children were living there by April 1828. On 29 September 1834, and again on 23 March 1835, Andrew was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace for Pickens County. Three additional children joined the family by 1840. It is interesting to note that this family did not own any slaves at this time. On 17 May 1843, Andrew Moore Windle appeared before the Pickens County Court to appoint John Letcher of Lexington, Rockbridge County, and State of Virginia to be his attorney to adjust or settle any claim or claims which might be due him from James McDowell of Virginia. This Power of Attorney included the right to execute and deliver all needful instruments and papers. I do not know the connection to the McDowell's. John Letcher later became a representative in the U.S. House and he also served as Governor of Virginia during the Civil War from 1860-1864. The James McDowell mentioned here was the father of James McDowell who also served as a governor of Virginia from 1843-1846. On 14 Aug 1844 Andrew purchased 320 acres of land in Itawamba County, Mississippi. This land was in Range 10 East, Township 8 South, Section 1 and Range 11 East, Township 8 South, Section 18. His son-in-law, Theodore Petete, also purchased land in this same area. In 1845, Andrew was appointed postmaster for the city of Carrollton in Pickens County and filled that position until 1851. In 1850, the Windle family was one of forty-one families living in the town of Carrollton yet Andrew's occupation was given as farmer. The oldest son, Robert had his occupation listed as none while twenty-two year old Samuel was a carpenter. William, at age eighteen, was also listed as a farmer. Four of the children were in school: William, Joseph, Rosalene, and Augusta. Andrew's real estate evaluation was $1,200.00. Andrew had purchased his first slave by 1850, a 65 year old female. In September of 1850, Andrew, as a veteran of the War of 1812, became eligible for a bounty land warrant for eighty acres. He applied on 31 March 1851 and was granted Warrant No. 41,236. By 1855, Samuel had married. Robert, William, and Joseph appear to have remained in their father's household. There are two females over 21 that may be his wife and daughter, Elizabeth Margaret. Virginia and Augusta are two of the four females in the household that are under the age of twenty-one. One of the other two females under the age of 21 is Sarah I. Cole, daughter of Elizabeth M. the other cannot be accounted for. She could be another daughter of Elizabeth that died young. When the March 1855 law was enacted regarding bounty land for veterans of the U.S. military, Andrew applied for one hundred sixty acres. The application was dated 25 April 1855. At this time he returned his warrant #41,236 for the eighty acres he received under the 1850 act. This must be when Andrew built a home in what is now called the Marvin Chapel Community. The legal description was the E 1/2 of NW 1/4 in Section 5, Township 21, Range 14W. There was also a farm on his land. 20. His first home in Carrollton, became the site of the American Legion Building. On 7 October 1859, Andrew paid the Federal Land Office in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama four dollars and ninety seven cents for thirty nine and 75/100 acres of land in the South West Quarter of the South West Quarter of Section 32, Township 20, Range 14 West, Pickens County. The price per acre was twelve and one half cents. This land was obtained under a special act for those who wished to obtain land adjoining a farm or plantation already owned or occupied by the applicant. The legal description of this property was NW 1/4 of SW 1/4 & E 1/2 of SW 1/4, Section 32, Township 20, Range 14 W. This would give Andrew all of the SW 1/4 of Section 32. When Andrew applied for this land he stated that forty acres of his then holdings were in cultivation and there was a dwelling house on the property. Andrew's patent, #27622 was recorded at the Tuscaloosa Land Office on 7 October 1859. This land in section 32 must be where Andrew build a mill on a small stream which ran through this property. This stream is still known today as Mill Branch Creek. An article in the West Alabamian on 2 May 1860, 9 May 1860, & 30 May 1860: "We are authorized to announce A. M. Windle as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, Election next August. Elizabeth Windle died sometime in early 1860. W. F. Sutton, a great grandson of Elizabeth's has an entry in his family Bible of 1860 for her death. Andrew was living with their daughter, Virginia Rosalene Sutton, in 1860. Andrew's real estate holdings were valued at $7,000.00 and his personal property at $400.00. Most of his children were married and living nearby. Andrew is no longer the owner of a slave. Andrew had at least three sons in the Confederate Army, one did not return home. After the war, Andrew was living in Township 21, Range 16 West. With him were two females over the age of twenty. They were Elizabeth and Augusta his daughters. In 1870, Andrew was living in Bostic Precinct of Pickens County beside his son, Robert. There is no amount given in the 1870 census for his personal property or real estate. Was this an oversight of the census taker or did it all go to the Confederacy for which his sons fought? Two of his daughters, Elizabeth and Augusta are listed with Andrew as well as Elizabeth's two daughters and Joseph's son, David. On 19 October 1872, Andrew, at the age of seventy-two applied for a pension for his military service. He was living near Carrollton. Elijah Harris and Theodore Petete were witnesses to Andrew's application and swore that "at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States did he adhere to the cause of the enemies of the government, giving them aid or comfort". M. L. Stansel, the postmaster of Carrollton attested to the "good character for truth and veracity" of the two witnesses. On 21 December 1872 Andrew's claim #28.315 was approved. He was to receive eight dollars per month. This was retroactive to 14 February 1871. Andrew died at his home on Sunday the 5th of April 1874. He was buried on Monday the 6th of April. Andrew may be buried in an unmarked grave at or near Marvin Chapel, a rural Methodist Church Cemetery near Carrollton, Pickens County, Alabama. Many of his descendants are buried there. There is an even older cemetery south of Marvin Chapel called "The Windle Cemetery", it is possible he could be buried there. Most of Andrew's records I obtained from Mrs Estella Morrison from Missouri. Notes & sources are listed below. 1. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census. Andrew was 56 in 1850, 66 in 1860 but 75 in 1870. His applications for Bounty Land and Pension give his age, and his obituary in 1874 stated he was eighty so his birth would have been about 1794. 2. Military Records, War of 1812, National Archives, Washington, D.C. 3. Application of Bounty Land Warrant, 1851, National Archives, Washington, D.C. 4. Op. cit., Military, 1812. 5. Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia Book Y, page 488. 6. Rockbridge County, Virginia Will Book 4, pages 135, 136 & 137. 7. Rockbridge County, Virginia, Deed Book J, page 488 et. seq. 8. Works Progress Administration, Project No. 65-44-1465, June 1936, Records of Jackson County Ranger Book 1817-1860, page 137. 9. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1850, Family 41 in Carrollton. 10. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1850, Family 41 in Carrollton. 11. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1850. 12. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1830, Samuel was born in Pickens Co. 13. Marilyn D. Barefield & Carr B. Barefield, Pickens County, Alabama, 1841- 1861, Southern Historical Press 1984, page 87. 14. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1840, page 342. 15. Rockbridge County, Virginia, Deed Book X, page 131 & 132. 16. Op. cit., Barefield, page 91. 17. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1850, page 3, Dwelling and family #3. 18. Pickens County, Alabama, Slave Schedule, 1850, 21 Sept. 1850. 19. Pickens County, Alabama, State Census, 1855. 20. Windle Family Records of John Cheek, Oklahoma City, Ok. 21. Land Office, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Recorded Vol. 73, page 500. 22. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1860. 23. Op. cit., Slave Schedule, 1860. 24. Op. cit., Alabama State Census, 1866. 25. Pickens County, Alabama, Federal Census, 1870. 26. Marriage, Death & Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers, 1819-1893, page 121. Taken from "The Livingston Journal", Sumter County, Alabama. 27. C.P. Spell and N. Pepper, Abstracts of Marriages and Death Notices, Pickens County, Alabama, page 24. Andrew's record was taken from "The West Alabamian", 1865 to 1881.
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