Helen "Pansy" Whittemore

On June 6, 1877, at Vermillion, Andrew married Helen L. Knowles (Jan 9, 1839 – Feb 19, 1882). She was a daughter of Consider Knowles and Mary Spurr Knowles. She died a month after the birth of their daughter, Helen "Pansy" Pickett, who was given to the Horace J. and Rachel Austin family for adoption. She was called "Pansy" because Rachel Austin thought she looked like a cute pansy in her childhood bonnet. Only when Pansy reached the age of sixteen did she learn about her parents, when Andrew wrote a letter and gave her gifts of small items that had belonged to her mother Helen. Little is known for certain about Andrew's third wife, Mary Williams Pickett.