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From: The Auchs <>
Subject: [GABIBB] A Macon reference LaVARRE, ANDREWS
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:55:14 -0500


I recently received copies of correspondence written by my great uncle
William J. LaVarre, Jr. His father was William John (Johanne) LaVarre Sr.
(born in Macon 11/22/1876) and his mother Jennie Grey Andrews, daughter of
Reverend Lewis F. Wilson Andrews. A news clipping after Jennie's 3rd
marriage noted that her 2nd husband "Mr. Lavarre was killed" a few years
after they married. This excerpt from her grandson's correspondence in
1978 explains that. The Haynes' family reference is in Virginia.

There is some creative license in claiming Mr. Lavarre's expected
longevity: the murder took place when Jennie was in her 30s, so it's
unlikely that "Mr. Lavarre" was elderly at his demise although he could
easily have been in his 60s or 70s (his father-in-law's age) I suppose.

[] are mine

"My maternal grandfather [William B. Haynes] went to sleep one night and
didn't awaken for Sunday services or his 100th birthday. My mother's
[Lelia Goddin Haynes LaVarre]horse, trapped in a woodchuck's hole, fell and
produced her broken hip at age 87. My father [William J. LaVarre Sr.], a
Naval architect at the beginning of this century, died of disgust at what
he had to witness, at age 91. And to top this long-life inheritance off,
my paternal grandfather LaVarre would have lived to more than 100 years in
Macon Georgia if a radical terrorist of that time hadn't mistaken for his
father-in-law, Dr. L.F.W. Andrews of Macon who published the once-famed
Daily Confederate newspaper of the pre-Civil War adamance, and shot him in
his back."

Christina Auch mailto:
Personal Family History website
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~familiesacrosstime/

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