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Marriage: Children:
  1. William T Edelen: Birth: ABT 1861. Death: BEF AUG 1870

  2. Catherine B Edelen: Birth: SEP 1864 in Kentucky. Death: 26 MAR 1930 in Harrodsburg, Mercer Co., Kentucky

  3. Georgia Maxwell Edelen: Birth: 20 OCT 1866 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Kentucky. Death: 5 OCT 1914 in Wichita, Sedgwick Co., Kansas

  4. James L Edelen: Birth: ABT 1867. Death: BEF AUG 1870

  5. Allen Shuttleworth Edelen: Birth: 15 FEB 1875 in Casey, Kentucky. Death: 7 FEB 1940 in Kentucky


Sources
1. Title:   History of Kentucky Illustrated, Edition 4
Page:   p. 846, 1014
Author:   W.H. Perrin, J.H. Battle, G.C. Kniffin
Publication:   Name: F.A. Battey and Company, Louisville, Kentucky, Chicago, Illinois 1887;
2. Title:   Nancy Leake Flack's Genealogy
Author:   Nancy Leake Flack
3. Title:   Crolian William Edelen Research
Author:   Crolian William Edelen
Publication:   Location: Marion County Public Library, 201 E. Main St., Lebanon, Kentucky 40033;
4. Title:   Lewis Edelen Garrison, 92 Highlands Court, Wetumpka, AL 36093-1308
5. Title:   Charmaine Goemmer Welker
6. Title:   Tarkington/Tarkenton/Tarkinton Family History
Publication:   Location: http://www.tarkington.com/index.cfm;
7. Title:   1850 Census for Boyle County, Kentucky
8. Title:   Marriage Bond - Boyle County, Kentucky
Publication:   Location: Boyle County, Kentucky Circuit Court, Danville, Kentucky;
9. Title:   1880 Census for Marion Co., Kentucky
10. Title:   1870 Census for Casey Co., Kentucky
11. Title:   1900 Census for Mercer Co., Kentucky
12. Title:   1910 Census for Boyle Co., Kentucky
13. Title:   E-mail from Deb Shillo -- First contact 5 November 2006
14. Title:   Commonwealth of Kentucky, State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death - Mrs. Kate Edelen Goddard

Notes
a. Note:   Information provided on death certificate states that she was born March 30, 1843 rather than 1844. Will of Mary T. Edelen Knowing my time is short and I am so anxious for my poor child Katie Goddard who is without a home to have one. I give her everything I possess on this earth today. --- cash, fur ---- wearing apparel, jewelry, Bric a Brac everything except what Allen has given me. I want him to take Georgia, Allen and their father have good homes. I want what I have put in a home and deeded to Mrs R. E. Goddard and children this property never to be taken for debt of any kind. Mary T. Edelen Never speak of this until I am put away.
  State of Kentucky Boyle County Court, September Term 1911 I J. B. Nichols Clerk of the Boyle County Court do certify this the foregoing last will and testament of Mary T. Edelen decd was on this day ----- ----- having been duly proven was ordered to be recorded which is now done. Given under my hand this 18 day of Sept 1911. J. B. Nichols
  The 1900 federal census for Mercer Co., Kentucky shows that her parents were born in Virginia.
  The 1910 federal census for Boyle Co., Kentucky shows that she was the mother of three children, all of whom were still living in 1910.
  MRS. LEN G. EDELEN LAID TO FINAL REST Member of One of the State's Oldest Families passes Away in Mercer Danville, Ky. July 17 -- Mrs Len G. Edelen died yesterday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. E. Goddard, in Harrodsburg. The funeral services were held this afternoon at the Edelen home and interment followed in the Bellevue Cemetery. Mrs. Edelen was a member of one of Kentucky's most prominent families, a daughter of the late William Tarkington, and was sixty-nine years of age. A remarkable coincidence was that the day of her death was the fifty-first anniversary of her marriage. She is survived by her husband, L. G. Edelen, and three children. L. G. Edelen of Danville, Mrs R. E. Goddard of Harrodsburg, and Mrs. B. L. Eaton of Wichita, Kan She is survived by two sisters Mrs. James A. Shutlesworth of Louisville, and Mrs. James Tarkington of this county Dr E. M. Green, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of which she was a devoted member for many years, conducted the services. Many beautiful floral offerings covered the grave, and a large concourse of mourning friends were present at the final rites. Source: Lexington Herald, Lexington, Kentucky, Volume 41, Issue 199, Page 2, Tuesday, July 18, 1911 www.genealogybank.com/


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