Andrew L. Waddell

1886-1938 · Virginia

Born 1886, Virginia

Died 1938

Mother: Mary M. Kerns

Children include Fred

Andrew L. Waddell was born on 20 October 1886 in Virginia, the youngest of the large family of James W. Waddell and Mary M. Kerns. His mother was then about fifty by the family's reckoning. His brothers were J. Willie, Walter and George Waddell, and his sisters included Ida Craun, Lucille, born about 1885, and two who married a Hamilton of Keyser, West Virginia, and a Crossley of Ohio.

He married Carrie Virginia Grimes. Their children were Gibson, Mildred and Fred Albert, born on 28 April 1917. Carrie died at Rectortown on 18 December 1921 after a brief illness, and was buried at Middleburg, leaving "three young children, two boys and one girl." Her stone at Sharon Cemetery calls her his beloved wife.

Andrew made his living at Rectortown, a village in northern Fauquier County. He kept a garage and filling station there. In 1929 he advertised "Two New Texaco Pumps and Polite Service. Lunches." He also did work for the county roads, making road drags and repairing a road grader. He bred dogs and kept race horses.

On 17 February 1927 he married a widow, Mrs. Mary Grimes, at Hagerstown, Maryland. She was born Mary Warrener at Glencoe, Maryland, in 1897, the daughter of English parents, and brought two children of her own, Anna and Leslie Grimes. In November 1930 she went into the Winchester Memorial Hospital for an operation and died there, aged 33.

His mother lived with him in her last years. She died at his house on 4 August 1932, at 96 by her own count. Two months later his sister Lucille was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Washington.

Through the 1930s Andrew ran a horse named Braw Scott in the flat races at the horse shows of the Virginia hunt country. Braw Scott ran second in the mile in 1933 and third in the mile and a quarter in 1937.

Andrew died on 2 April 1938, aged 51, and was buried at Middleburg on the following Tuesday. Many people came from Rectortown. Wm. D. Hurlbut of Haymarket settled his estate. In October 1939 his son Fred, "youngest son of the late Andrew Waddell," married Elizabeth Carter, and that August Fred ran Braw Scott at the Berryville show himself.

Parents

Mary M. Kerns 1836-1932

Children

Fred Albert Waddell 1917-1979

Sources

Commonwealth of Virginia certificate of death, state file no. 79-037498, Fred Albert Waddell, filed 17 December 1979; Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QVRC-9DGD, image ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PB-MSMX-H

Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 3 October 1932, page B-1, "Hit-and-run driver sought by police in widow's death"; Chronicling America, Library of Congress, sn83045462

Find a Grave, memorial 19395771, Andrew L. Waddell, Sharon Cemetery, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, photograph added by John Trundle, 25 February 2012

Find a Grave, memorial 19395816, Sharon Cemetery, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, photograph added by Hope, 16 May 2007

Chief Justice, Marshall, Virginia, 9 August 1932, page 1, "Mrs. Waddell, 96, of Rectortown Dies"; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, CJT19320809.1.1

Chief Justice, Marshall, Virginia, 9 August 1932, page 2, Middleburg items; the same notice in the Blue Ridge Herald, Leesburg, 11 August 1932, page 1, "Mrs. Waddell Dies"; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, CJT19320809.1.2 and BRHR19320811.1.1

Chief Justice, Marshall, Virginia, 11 August 1931, page 1, "Mrs. Mary M. Waddell ninety-five last week"; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, CJT19310811.1.1

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 7 August 1929, page 1; Chief Justice, Marshall, Virginia, 5 August 1930, page 1; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19290807.1.1 and CJT19300805.1.1

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 14 January 1922, page 1, "Death of Mrs. C. V. Waddell"; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19220114.1.1

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 5 March 1927, page 6, Rectortown column; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19270305.1.6

Chief Justice, Marshall, Virginia, 25 November 1930, page 1, "Mrs. A. L. Waddell expired suddenly"; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, CJT19301125.1.1

Chief Justice, Marshall, Virginia, 20 March 1929, page 4, and 2 April 1929, page 5, Texaco dealers' advertisement; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, CJT19290402.1.5

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 9 September 1933, page 8; Loudoun News, Leesburg, 26 August 1937, page 6; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19330909.1.8 and LNS19370826.1.6

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 9 April 1938, page 3, Middleburg column, and 11, 18 May and 1 June 1938, page 6; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19380409.1.3 and TFD19380518.1.6

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 4 January 1930, page 5; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19300104.1.5

Fauquier Democrat, Warrenton, Virginia, 18 October 1939, page 4; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, TFD19391018.1.4

Virginia death certificate of his son Fred Albert Waddell, 1979 (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:QVRC-9DGD); Evening Star, Washington, 3 October 1932, page B-1; Find a Grave memorials 19395771 (stone) and 14242491.; Fauquier Democrat, 14 January 1922, 5 March 1927, 4 January 1930, 6 December 1930, 9 September 1933, 9 April 1938, 18 May 1938, 18 October 1939; Chief Justice, Marshall, 2 April 1929, 25 November 1930, 11 August 1931, 9 August 1932; Loudoun News, 26 August 1937; Manassas Journal, 26 March 1920; all on Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia.

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