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Note: Name: Amanda Edwards Birth Year: abt 1915 Gender: Female Race: White Birthplace: Illinois Marital Status: Single Relation to Head of House: Daughter Home in 1930: Bald Hill, Jefferson, Illinois, USA Map of Home: View Map House Number: 17 Dwelling Number: 171 Family Number: 171 Lives on Farm: Yes Attended School: Yes Able to Read and Write: Yes Father's Birthplace: Missouri Mother's Birthplace: Illinois Household Members: Name Age Roy Edwards 42 Isabelle Edwards 39 Amanda Edwards 15 Henry Edwards 13 Maudie Edwards 12 Martha Edwards 8 Richard Edwards 5 Elmus Edwards 5 Marie Edwards 2 Amanda Eve Lemons SESSER Amanda Eve Lemons, 82, died Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1997, at Franklin Hospital in Benton. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Brayfleld Funeral Home in Sesser with the Rev. Dwight Dame officiating. Burial will be in Dryden Cemetery in Jefferson County. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. She was a housewife and a Bap tist. She born Feb. 26, 1915, in Wil liamson County to LeRoy and Isa-belle (Isaacs) Edwrards. She married David Lemons Dec. 8, 1930, in Jefferson County. He survives. Other survivors include three sons and daughters-in-law, Lloyd and Sue Lemons and Wade and Gloria Lemons, all of Sesser and Gary and Linda Wade of Louisville, Texas; six daughters, Shirley Davis of Carbondale, Rosa and Bill Cobb of Johnston City, Doris and Bill Stinson of Houston, Texas, Carol Wilkerson of Sesser, Charlotte Lemons of Sesser, Norma and Bob Haley of Waltonville; three brothers, George Ray Edwards of North Augusta, S.C., Clyde Edwards of Yuma, Ariz., and Richard Edwrards of Sesser, two sisters, Marie Kis-lewski of Sesser and Martha Jack son of Benton; 26 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; twro great- great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Parents, two sisters and one brother preceded her in death.
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