Andrew Jackson Bandy was the eighth child and third son of Andrew Bandy and Rebecca Wooldridge.

Andrew was born c1835, Symmes Township. Lawrence Ohio and was called A.J. when young, but went by Jackson as an adult. He married Mary J. Queen, c1868. Mary was born c1850, Ohio and died between 1890 when youngest child Emma was born and the 1900 census when Jackson was enumerated in Beaver, Pike, Ohio.

One comment before this family sketch begins – per the 1850 census, A.J. was 14 years old and listed in the correct chronological order among his siblings, so born c1835. By 1870, his age was only 28, so born 1842, and the same in 1880. In 1900, he had gotten even younger, with his birth reported as March 1850.

Either he didn’t know how old he was, or didn’t want others to know how much older he was than his wife or whoever reported his age in the censuses didn’t really know when he was born and they guessed!

There are also two gravestone markers at Givens Chapel Cemetery, Pike County, Ohio for Jackson and Mary. His is dated 1849-1903 and hers 1851-1903. However, Jackson was widowed by 1900 and I’m not sure the markers were placed in 1903.

The Bandy family several times with children born in Gallia County, Vinton County and Washington County, Ohio and Jackson lived in Pike County in 1900. These counties are all in the bottom southeastern corner of Ohio and the family likely moved for Jackson’s jobs as he worked as a farm laborer.

Andrew Jackson and Mary Jane (Queen) Bandy were the parents of eight children:

1. Rebecca Martha Bandy, born 7 May 1870, Gallia County, Ohio; died 1959, Ohio. married (1) Ansel Wendle Sherritt, 21 February 1892, Gallia County, Ohio. They apparently divorced, or Martha left, between 1910 and 1920 as he died in 1947, but said he was widowed in the 1940 census when he lived in Gallia County, Ohio. (2) Austin N. Kelley, 15 May 1933, Marion County, Indiana. They were the parents of seven children, with six living in 1910.
2. Grant Ulysses Bandy, born 7 August 1874, Gallia County, Ohio; died 26 April 1935, Urbana, Champaign, Illinois; married Mahala Margaret Denny, 9 December 1897, Pike County, Ohio. Mahala was previously married to Frank Reisinger, as there are also three Reisinger stepsons at home in 1900. Frank died on 17 October 1896, Pike County, Ohio. They were the parents of six children.
3. Jane Bandy, born c1875, Ohio; died after 1880. No further record.
4. Lewis Bandy, born 28 February 1877, Vinton County, Ohio; died 21 May 1969, Montgomery County, Ohio; married Stella Lucas, 22 February 1901, Pike county, Ohio. They were the parents of six children.
5. Cynthia Bandy, born 2 April 1881, Gallia County, Ohio; married Daniel Sherritt, 12 December 1901, Jackson County, Ohio. No further record of Cynthia or Daniel Sherritt after their marriage.
6. Lucinda Bandy, born June 1882, Ohio; died after 1900, when she was at home with her father in Pike County, Ohio. No further record.
7. Edgar Edward Bandy, born 22 August 1889, Washington County, Ohio; died 8 November 1918 of influenza in the pandemic; married Bertha McMann, 10 November 1909, Pike County, Ohio. However, in 1910, 16 year old Bertha Bandy, listed a married, was living with her father, Hezekiah McMann in Pike County, Ohio. Edgar apparently had no children.
8. Emma Bandy, born 22 September 1890, Ohio; died 22 July 1909, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. Emma was handicapped and buried in the State of Ohio Feeble Minded Cemetery in Columbus. No children.

There are a couple of children for whom I know little – Jane and Lucinda, but, for the most part, this family sketch is complete.