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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Richard Edwards: Birth: ABT 1863.

  2. Elizabeth Ann Edwards: Birth: 9 OCT 1865. Death: 12 SEP 1952

  3. Jennie Edwards: Birth: 30 JUN 1867. Death: 9 OCT 1918 in McAdoo, Schuylkill Co., Klein Twp., PA

  4. Mary Edwards: Birth: 24 JUL 1870 in Upper Lehigh, Lehigh County, PA. Death: 5 SEP 1926 in At Family Residence 30 West Church St., Shamokin, PA

  5. Richard L. Edwards: Birth: 11 AUG 1871. Death: 3 JUL 1924 in Pottsville, PA

  6. Thomas Jefferson Edwards: Birth: 1873. Death: 25 APR 1888

  7. John R. Edwards: Birth: 24 NOV 1876 in Pennsylvania. Death: 16 APR 1947 in Harrisburg Hospital, Harrisburg, PA

  8. Oliver Perry Morton Edwards: Birth: 20 OCT 1877 in Eckley, PA. Death: 2 JUL 1950 in 104 N. Grant St, Shamokin, Northumberland Co., PA

  9. Margaret M. Edwards: Birth: 14 MAY 1879 in Carbon County. Death: 22 NOV 1908

  10. James Garfield Edwards: Birth: 23 AUG 1881. Death: 10 JAN 1944 in 426 Swatara, Steelton, PA


Sources
1. Title:   1850 Census, Mauch Chunk Twp., Carbon Co., Pg. 325 B
2. Title:   Farrow Funeral Home Burial Records 1876-1988, Shamokin Library
3. Title:   Tamaqua IOOF Cemetery List, Pottsville Library
4. Title:   Civil War Pension File

Notes
a. Note:   Had ten children. Eight were living in 1900 According to Margaret Downing, her descendant: Story: Grandma Edwards ( Margaret Richards) used to smoke a clay pipe. She died of cancer of the mouth ! My mother lived with her after her mother (Margaret Ann Stride Edwards ) died until Grandma died then she went to live with the Mengel's. Grandma also used to sell yeast. The people came around with little pails. Helen Edwards Ware used to scrub her stairs. This all from Helen. Margaret writes in her widow application: "I have one son who works for me who is the only child I have under age, only one legally bound to support me. 10 children, 8 living, the youngest 19 yrs of age by 1900." (It must have been James per Margaret Downing) Margaret Downing also writes: Looks like they had no children before he went off to war. In Civil War pension file, it gives Margaret's birthplace as Llanhilleth, Wales.


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