Before the Civil War, Lizzie Andrews (maiden name: Simmons) was a slave of Charles Green Andrews, a Methodist pastor in Madison County, Mississippi. She married Alexander Andrews around 1858 in Madison County. After the war, she lived with her husband in Vicksburg, Mississippi. They had four children together: Robert, born March 20, 1873; May, born December 14, 1874; Alexander, born November 16, 1876; and Simon, born November 14, 1879. She died on April 25, 1910, of unknown causes, likely in Vicksburg.