Colonel Frederick Andes

On this rainy and miserable day, unable to get out and work on gravestones that need attention, today's focus is on organizing papers in my files. Within these papers I came across an obituary for Frederick Andes, a well known and respected German-American from Albany's South End.

Frederick Andes was the proprietor of Andes Lager House; located at 371 South Pearl Street. Andes operated his saloon in the building that would eventually become Eintracht Hall. He was also an Alderman and a member of the German Evangelical Protestant Church. Andes is also buried in the Evangelical Protestant Cemetery. His Civil War tablet gravestone was broken and reset into a newly fabricated base to hold the gravestone of the former Colonel rightly upright.

Andes' death notice from the Times Union dated 29 July 1895, 4:4 reads:

COL. FREDERICK ANDES

of No. 77 Elizabeth street died Sunday,

aged 73 years. He was one of the most 

able of our German citizens and had an

honorable record in private and public

life. He had represented the First ward

in the board of aldermen and had been

tax collector and constable of the town

of Bethlehem. His military career was

with the old Twenty-fifth regiment,

N.Y.S.M., of this city, in whose ranks

he rose by deserved recognition of ability

to the position of commanding officer.

He is survived by his wife, two sons and 

two daughters. The funeral services will 

take place to-morrow. Wadsworth Lodge

No. 417, F. and A. M., will conduct the

interment.