At the same time she furthered her own education in various schools including six terms at the Ladies' Female Seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston.

[4] Subsequent to having written and submitted a poem to the Review and Herald, she was recognised by James White as a talented writer.

Upon arriving in Saratoga Springs, New York, she was healed through "anointing and prayer"[1] During the three and a half years before her death, she contributed around 45 articles to the Review and Herald and to the Youth's Instructor.

The failure of Andrews to follow through with the marriage prompted Ellen White to write that "Annie's disappointment cost her life.

She died from the disease on Thursday July 26, 1855, at her family's home in West Wilton, New Hampshire.