Catharine Andrews (maiden name: Hunter) was born around 1834 in New York to Albert and Julia Hunter. Her father was a carpenter who owned $500 of real estate by 1850. The family moved to Marysville, Ohio, in the 1840s, and she married Reuben Andrews around 1857. They had at least two children: Flora, born around 1859; and Minnie, born around 1861. They lived in Trimbelle, Wisconsin, and her husband worked as a mill hand. By 1860, they owned $200 of real estate and $100 of personal property. They moved to Chicago, Illinois, in the 1860s, and by 1870, they owned $1,000 of personal property. Her husband died in 1906, and she died in Chicago on April 7, 1913.