ANDREWS, Ella Cunningham - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Mrs. Ella C. Andrews, 95, one of Newell Township's oldest residents and one of the oldest women of Vermilion County, died at the Danville Care Nursing Home at 8:15 a.m. today (March 26, 1968). She had been in the nursing home since April 1, 1964, and had been ill since January. She had lived most of her life in the Walnut Corner area, northeast of Danville. Born Dec. 25, 1872, on a farm in the Walnut Corner community, she was a daughter of Ambrose F. and Mary Lockhart Cunningham. She was married Feb. 14, 1900, in Danville to H. Scott Andrews who preceded her in death in 1939. Mrs. Andrews attended the old Greer College in Hoopeston and later the Van Buskirk Business College in Danville. She then taught grade school in Newell Township for three years. She was later employed for three years in Chicago before returning to this area. Mrs. Andrews was a life member of the Walnut Corner Church of Christ where she had been a Sunday School teacher and has served as president of the Ladies Aid. Surviving are two sons, H. Eugene Andrews, Danville, and Clark Andrews of Alvin; a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude E. Davis of Oakwood; a sister, Mrs. Mattie Conover of Crawfordsville, Ind.; three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, four brothers and two sisters. Her hobbies were crocheting and knitting. Mrs. Andrews observed her 95th birthday last Christmas with her children at her daughter's home in Oakwood. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Walnut Corner Church of Christ. The Rev. Robert Huxtable will officiate. The body will be taken to the church an hour before services. Burial will be in the Walnut Corner Cemetery. Friends will be received at the Edmund-Jones-Sullivan Funeral Home 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday.