History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. 5, p. 154,
McCracken County.

     ANDREW E. COLE, OR Jack Cole, as he is known by his business
signature and his personal friends and acquaintances, has lived at
Paducah since early boyhood, learned the trade of carpenter here, was
associated with his father in the contracting business, and for the past
eleven years has been engaged in that business on his own account.  He
is one of Paducah's able business men and esteemed citizens.
     He was born in Dresden, Tennessee, May 1, 1878.  His paternal
ancestors came from Scotland and settled in North Carolina in Colonial
times.  The founder of the family in Tennessee was his
great-grandfather, a native of North Carolina, who did the pioneer work
of developing a farm in Weakley County, Tennessee, where he died at the
venerable age of ninety-six.  The grandfather John Cole, was born in
Weakley County in 1825, spent all his life in that county as a farmer
and lay Baptist preacher, and died in 1888.  He married a Miss Speed, a
native of Tennessee.
     J. A. Cole, father of Jack Cole, was born near Dresden, Weakley
County, Tennessee, in 1847, acquired his education in that rural
community, and at the age of seventeen enlisted in the Confederate Army,
serving the last two years of the war.  After the war he became a
farmer, but in 1890 moved to Paducah, where until he retired in 1908 he
was a successful contractor and builder and has to his credit many of
the substantial residences and business houses of the city.  He served
several terms as a member of the Paducah School Board, is a democrat, a
Mason and a member of the Baptist Church.  He has been three times
married.  His first wife was Miss Durham, who died in Weakley County,
Tennessee, mother of the following children: R. L., a Baptist clergyman
at Lufkin, Texas; Vira, Wife of J. A. McFall, an Oklahoma farmer; and
Kate, wife of Tom Tansel, a farmer in Gibson County, Tennessee.  J. A.
Cole married for his second wife Mrs. Mary (Travis) Case, who was born
in Weakley County in 1847 and died at Union City, Tennessee, in 1882. 
She was the mother of three children: J. T., a railway engineer living
at Little Rock, Arkansas; Jack or Andrew E., and Willie, who died in
infancy.  The third wife of J. A. Cole was Mrs. Annie (Freeman)
Brightwell, a native of Weakley County, Tennessee.
     Jack Cole finished his education in the public schools of Paducah,
being twelve years of age when his father moved there.  At the age of
thirteen he was working to learn the trade of carpenter and builder, and
since 1910 has been in business for himself in that line.  He has
perfected his organization and equipment, and handles many of the larger
building contracts not only in Western Kentucky but in Tennessee and
Illinois.  He put up the first Baptist Church building at Paducah and
the plant of the Wilson Stove and Manufacturing Company at Metropolis,
Illinois, besides numerous high schools and churches.  His offices are
in the Guthrie Building.
     Mr. Cole is a deacon of the Baptist Church, a member of the Paducah
Board of Trade, and resides at 1049 Monroe Street.  In 1900, at
Metropolis, Illinois, he married Miss Carrie Hutchison, daughter of Noah
and Mary (Logdon) Hutchison, now deceased.  Her father was a mechanic at
Paducah.  Mr. and Mrs. Cole had four children: Walter, born in 1901, now
assisting his father in business; Mary, born in 1903, a student in the
Paducah High School; Jack, born in 1905, in the Junior High School; and
Bessie, born in 1909, a pupil in the grammar schools.  The mother of
these children passed away at Paducah in 1910.  Mr. Cole subsequently
married Miss Iva Morrison, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Morrison,
substantial farming people of Livingston County Kentucky.  To this union
were born three children: Frances, in 1913; Elizabeth in 1915, and
Clarence, in 1917. (picture facing page) 

Brightwell Case Durham Freeman Hutchison Logdon McFall Morrison Speed
Tansel Travis Cole
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Livingston-KY NC Weakley-TN Scotland TX OK Gibson-TN AR IL

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