Photos - Clarence and Lillian Andis Family

Clarence "Cood" Andis and his wife Lillian Beatrice (Critchlow) Andis

c. 1915

thanks to Dennis Boring for this photo

Andis siblings:

back: Clarence Clurage "Cood", Bernard "Bob", Charles Elmer
middle: Mamie Ethel, Lora Edith, Clara Alice
front: Martha Ellen (Yount) Andis (mother)

unknown date

thanks to Gail Prewitt for this photo

Clarence "Cood" Andis

unknown date

thanks to Dennis Boring for this photo

Lillian Beatrice (Critchlow) Andis

unknown date

house belonging to "Cood" and Lillian Andis

29 Jun 1978
Epsom, Indiana
photo by Bill Fielder, on the day Lillian was buried;
the house was sold in 1966

thanks to William L Fielder for this photo

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notes from William L Fielder:

The barn would have been a way back behind her flower garden. I had a "fort" built there that to my dismay my sisters turned into a play house!!!! With Aunt Lillian's help!! There had been a vegetable garden behind the house, but I never saw alot growing there.

The chicken coup was down a path through the weeds behind the barn, I think. I loved to help her gather the eggs on occasion. In late 1962 & early 1963 my family lived in Martinsville, Indiana, and we took all of the chickens to our house, WOW! How do I remember the stench of those chickens in the crates IN OUR car and on top of it. I HATE that smell to this day. It was a stormy night and the windows had to be closed. What torture!

Aunt Lillian's house had an outhouse out the kitchen door and back a way, and I was scared to go there by myself. There was no light in there.

I remember getting chiggers and there was nothing to put on them, Aunt Lillian gave me bacon grease to rub on them. I think she ran out of bacon grease. OH, and just so you know, it did not work. I about died with that itch. In the evenings she taught me to crochet rag rugs. She made a big oval one and I made a small round one. I became quite good at it as did my sisters. She also took Readers Digest magazines and turn them into little round houses, painted and decorated them.