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Note: N200 (Note: Death certificate gives Dearborn Co. Indiana as place of birth)
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Recollections of Nancy Stockton Edwards
Israel Farnsworth Stockton, my father, said that he was born on his father's farm near Trenton N.J. And afterwards lived in Philadelphia where he learned his father's trade of hatter. He was married to Sally Hall Lord in New York, and they lived in Berlin, Chenango Co. where their children Mary Ann, and Wm Lord , were born.
After the birth of Wm Lord, they moved to Ohio, near Withemsville, Clairmont county, where their children Lydia Lord, Benjamin Lord and Sally were born. I was born on the Laughery Creek Valley farm, three miles from the Ohio river.
The valley which was entirely occupied by the two farms of my father lay so deep between the Ohio hills that the sun was not visible for an hour after sunrise on the plains and the sunsets were correspondingly early.
At the time father bought his two farms in the Laughery Valley, there was a grist mill and a distillery on them. The grist mill was run by water power and an overshot wheel. He hired a miller to run the mill, who ground his neighbor's grists of corn, wheat, etc.
Amanda was playing near the mill race one day, when she slipped into the water, and the current was so strong that, in spite of her efforts, she was carried along swiftly towards the wheel. Benjamin saw her, and running to her he caught her by the hair just as she was going over the wheel, and by a great effort, managed to pull her out. After rescuing his sister, he was so weak and faint that he had to be carried to the house.
There was one peach and three apple orchards on the farm and the distillery was used to make peach and apple brandy when he bought the farms. Although it was the custom in Indiana at that time to have liquor decanters filled on the sideboard of nearly every house, and offered to all visitors, father did not keep liquor in sight in the house. The distillery was, however, in a very prosperous financial condition, about two years after moving to the farm. About this time some young men of the neighborhood got Brother William to drinking one day. In consequence of it he was brought home in an intoxicated condition. This so shocked my mother that she implored father to give up the distillery at any cost, rather than have drunkards in the family, and he at once stopped the manufacture of liquor at a large financial loss.
After this they got rid of their fruit and produce by sending them south. They built a flat boat on the Laughery Creek and loaded it with onions, potatoes, beans, apples, peaches and cider. They floated the boat down to New Orleans and sold the produce and boat, and they came back on the steamboat. The year following they sold their produce in the same way and cleared enough in the two years to pay off all debts that had occurred in buying the farms.
After giving up the distillery, father built a hattery and the hats that he sent out were the finest in the west. Mother was the only one who could properly bind the fine silk hats. During the winter months on Monday she would wash, iron, and bake during the day time and from Tuesdays to Saturdays she would spin yarn during the day and at nights would bind hats, with the usual work of the family coming in between times, which was done with the help of the children. She was called upon for miles around to go and see her sick neighbors and never failed to go where she was needed. Her mode of treatment up to this time was the old-fashioned botanical system, giving sweats and pukes, yarb tea and other homely remedies. While they lived at this place some poor silks moved into the neighborhood and small pox broke out in their mist. The neighbors generally were scared, fearing contagion. When mother was a little girl, her family were all inoculated with small pox, the method used at that time as a protection against the disease, and all of the family had the disease in a mild form. She did not, therefore, fear it, and putting on an old suit of clothes, she went to the family in their trouble and laid out the body of one of the girls who had died.
There was an old blacksmith shop down by the barn on the Laughery Creek farm, afterwards used for a chicken house and then abandoned, because of being unsafe and the children were forbidden to climb about it. A big walnut tree grew close to it, and the nuts fell upon the roof. We children disobeyed and climbed upon the roof, and when caught in the act, Roxanna was switched by her mother and I was locked in the cellar. When I heard Roxanna's screams I congratulated myself on getting off so easy. Father had brought back from his southern trip big sugar hogsheads which held several bushels of bell flowers, golden pippins etc. and were kept in the cellar. I climbed up and succeeded in getting a very large and fine apple, the taste of which lingers in my mouth to this day. When grandmother came to interview me there was a twinkle in her eye at sight of the apple already fast disappearing, and the scolding I got was a mild one. Nothing plagued me so much as to be called Aunt by Adelia and Roxanna, which of course they enjoyed doing.
After farming among the hills for more than twenty years my brothers wanted to go to a more level country and they bought land in Milan, Ripley County Indiana, and their action led to father buying a farm in the same vicinity. I was eight years old at that time and remember very well the journey from Aurora to Milan in a mover's wagon. I carried in my arms all the way a large cat, which was snow white all over its body and had a tail which was marked black, white and yellow. We were living on this farm when William Henry Harrison ran for the presidency. I remember going to Laurenceburg, 20 miles away to a mass meeting, and the I heard a brass band for the first time. All day long I listened to the entrancing music, and long afterwards they would repeat themselves o'er and o'er in my mind. In 1842 father bought a farm in Henderson Co. near Oquawka Illinois, and moved with his family to that place. After I was married and went to live in Leavenworth, I met Mr. Mann, the Universalist minister again. He knew me and called me by an old nickname: Nan Twink. He was the first minister I remember. My father was a very modest man, attending to his own business, never pushing himself forward in anyway. He was mild and amiable in disposition, loving and affectionate to his family, and put a charitable construction on everything he heard. He never kept close accounts with his neighbors, but preferred that they should be indebted to him for kindness or money's worth. He had a just and merciful nature, and was a literal follower of the golden rule. I never knew a more lovely character. He positively had no enemies. He was a public spirited man, and helped along any measures for the general good. On the other hand, if a neighbor came to grief and had his goods sold under the hammer, he would never take advantage of such necessity. Where ever he lived, he planted fruit trees, saying that if he did not live to enjoy the fruit, others would.
My mother was an able, strong, energetic and intellectual woman. She was a great reader and strong mentally and spiritually. No one could impose on her and she did no evil, more that that she would suffer no evil. Open and straightforward, nothing remained doubtful where she was. As a mother she was strict and impartial, and whatever she planned for her children to do they had to do. Her word was law, but it was the law of love and justice. She was a faithful and tender nurse to the sick in her home and a comforter in affliction everywhere. A neighbor in trouble who sent for her said, Oh Mrs. Stockton! If you were only a Methodist I would love you more than anyone in the world. Mother answered If you love me enough as a Universalist to send for me when you need me, I am satisfied.
Father's second son, Benjamin Lord Stockton, was my nurse when I was a child, and if I had a favorite, it was he. He was of a tender and loving disposition, and very handsome. He studied medicine and graduated in the regular Dr. Curtiss' school of medicine in Cincinnati. He began practice in Monmouth, Ill. But in a couple of years tired of the place. One day he said good by to friends and the bleak prairies, packed his saddle bags, and mounting his fine black horse, started for the South where he was married. He once came north with his wife and two children, and tried to make his home in Oquawka, but the dissatisfaction of his wife finally drove him back south. He was forced to act as surgeon to the Confederate wounded. He lived in New Philadelphia Mississippi where he raised a family. He died there shortly after the war and nothing farther is known of his family as they refused to correspond with their Northern Relatives.
(transcription of handwritten notes taken from conversations with Nancy Stockton. It isnt known when these notes were taken or who wrote them. The handwriting doesnt match that of Charles Ellis Brewster or Fannie May Edwards, but may be that of Edward Junius Edwards who was actively involved in researching the family history.)
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1883 - LAMBDA. LOMBARD. The Chapter was represented at the Fourth Division Conference by the S. A., and to say that he had a grand time, would be mild. He was especially impressed with the excellence of Omicron occupying the highest place among the Fraternities of one of our best Western institutions, and hopes for a renewal of the many happy acquaintanceships formed in Iowa City. The conference was a big success, enabling the men of our division to know each other better. In this social way the conferences fill a field unoccupied without them, and one which must be filled in order that our progress may be symmetrical and homeogeneous. Though widely scattered, all of the Chapters save one were represented, and from Chapters outside the division were visiting Deltas. The Omicron's halls are most conveniently arranged for a gathering of this kind, being in the center of the city, and only a block from the college buildings. Next year we meet with B. II., Minneapolis, Minn. We have recently laid a new carpet in our hall, and added some new chairs, which makes our pleasant little .hall look brighter and more cheerful.
At our last meeting we were the happy recipients of an elegant plush wall banner, with a spray of roses embroidered thereon, from Mrs. John Edwards, Minneapolis, Minn., for which the Chapter expresses heartfelt thanks. At a meeting of the alumni and friends of the college, held at the Palmer House, Chicago, May 8th, $45,000 was added to the endowment fund.
(The Rainbow of the Delta Tau Delta, volume 7,By Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, 1883)
1885 - Minneapolis Tribune Jan 2 1885
Mrs. John Edwards
At Mrs. John Edwards', 500 Eighth street south, Mrs. R. E. Noteware, Miss F. A. Edwards, Miss E. Junius Edwards, Mrs. J Frank Calhoun, Mrs Charles E. Brewster and Miss Evelyn Burt assisted. The hours were from 2 o'clock to 6 o'clock, and callers were most agreeably entertained. The flowers were in the form of set pieces and very handsome.
Mrs. Edwards wore a beautiful toilet of maroon velvet, point lace and diamonds.
Miss Edwards, blue velvet, point lace and diamonds.
Miss E. Junius Edwards, peacock blue silk, duchesse lace, diamonds.
Mrs. Brewster, black brocaded satin, lace, diamonds.
Mrs. Noteware, gray brocaded silk, plain silk trimmings, diamonds.
1887 - Minneapolis Tribune Dec 2 1887
An exibition of art needlework will be given by Mrs. L. A. Dawson, assisted by her pupils at the house of Mrs. John Edwards, No. 500 Eighth street south, on Saturday, Dec. 3 from 2 o'clock until 5.
1888 - Minneapolis Tribune Feb 1 1888
The Ladies' Social Circle of the Church of the Redeemer will meet this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. John Edwards, 500 Eighth Street south, to make articles both useful and ornamental for the New England dinners which are to be held Feb 15 and 16 in the rooms next to Jeffery's carpet store on Sixth street.
1889 - Minneapolis Tribune Nov 3 1889
Mr. and Mrs John Edwards and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brewster, joined in receiving their many friends at 500 Eighth street south, Wednesday evening. The floral decorations were especially elaborate and in the best of taste. In the dining room rose was the prevailing hue, and to further carry out the idea clusters of Jacquemenot roses adorned the mantels. The center table was spread with a rose tinted cloth, while clusters of waxen tapers shone out from beneath rose-colored shades. Palms and ferns were banked against the walls, while between the parlors was suspended a floral screen of rose geraniums and the intertwined tendrils of smilax. After the reception of the guests an elegant collation was werved by Norner, and during the evening Danz's band rendered an exceptionally fine program of instrumental music.
Among the guests of the evening were:
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Pillsbury, Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Shutter, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Eastman, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Weed Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. Will Northrup, Miss Mars, Mr. and Mrs. Preston King, Mrs. Marston, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Calhoun, Mrs. R. J. Baldwin, Miss Folwell, Mr. Powell, Rev. Dr. J. H. Tuttle, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L Berge, Dr. and Mrs Lawrence, Geo. Christian, Mrs. Frank H. Peavey, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stratton, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. Cummings, the Misses Cummings, Prof and Mrs. J. C. Moore, Mrs S. W. Sample, Miss Sample, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bartleson, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Tenney, Mr. and Mrs. B Hicks, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Fargo, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wyman, Judge and Mrs. F. Von Schiegell, Judge and Mrs. J. F. Best, Dr. and Mrs. R.D. Ftizgerald, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Eastman, Capt. and Mrs. S. P. Snider, Rev and Mrs J.B. Starkey, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Chamberlain, Rev. and Mrs. L.G. Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse G. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Thompson, Miss Caskon, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Farnbar, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Clerihew, Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs R.W. Cummings, Mrs. Winthrop, Mr. and Mrs. Geo H Rust, Mr. and Mrs. James H Rickey, the Misses Rickey, Mr. and Mrs. John O. P. Wheelwright, Mrs. L. A. Dawson, Miss Moore, Mr. and Mrs. D. Andrews, Miss Marie Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foulke, St. Paul; Dr. A. Donald, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Conkey, Miss Conkey, Miss Faith Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Morse, Prof. Carl V. Lachmund, Mr. and Mrs. David Calhoun, Keithsburg, Ill; George M. Cole, J. H. Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Rundhill, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Soule, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Gregory. Charles Soule, Harry Soule, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Waldo, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. R.S. Palmer, Mrs. S. W. Sample, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kenyon, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. E. Brace, St. Anthony Park; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bradon, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. B C. Hicks, J. F. Cole W. B. Kelly, Dr. and Mrs. J.L. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. S.S. Linton, Mr. and Mrs. Brookwalter, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Scofield, Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Stoneman, Judge and Misses Pierce, Miss Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Hayward, I. E. Burke, Miss Stella Calkins, Mr. and Mrs. Chas,P. Stevens, Mr. and MRs. Guthrie, L. Krugers, Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Bristol, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Small.
1895 - July 19 - Aledo Press; vol 1, no. 40 - “Mrs. John Edwards left Monday morning for her home in Minneapolis, going via Chicago, where she will stop for a short visit.”
1897 - July 11 - St Paul Globe:
THESE JOYS HAVE FLED
.Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Brace gave a dinnerFriday for H. N; Hardy, of Lincoln, Neb.,who is their guest. The table was decorated with pink sweet peas. Covers werelaid for Mrs. H. L. Jordan, of Gainesville,X. V.; Mrs. D. Stockton and Mrs. Elliott,of Chicago; Dr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards,of Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards and Mrs. John Edwards, of Minneapolis;H. W. Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. Brace, andEmery U. Brace.
1897 - Minneapolis Tribune Dec 2 1897
During her stay Mrs. Weil will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs Emanuel Cohen. Thursday evening next week the Coterie will give her a handsome reception at the residence of Mrs. John Edwards at which she will read selections from Keats and Shelley. There will also be music.
1899 - Minneapolis Tribune Feb 19 - Travelers Register - Mrs. John Edwards and Miss Edwards will leave this week for California to remain several months. (note: Sarah was living in CA at this time and perhaps this was when Sarah took ill as she died in June of this same year)
1900 Census- indicates Nancy had 10 children 6 of whom were living at that time. We know of Mary who died in infancy, but know nothing of the other two. In 1900 Rachel Eugenie (called Genie) and Sarah had died, Flora, Fannie May, Edward Junius, Laura Maud, Charles Lincoln, and Clara were still living. We dont know who the tenth child was. Nancy was living at 500 8th street in Minneapolis with Laura Maud. Edward Junius and his family were living there as well. Adelia Wickersham is there, too, listed as a companion. Adelia shows up in the 1900 census as also living with her son Ellis in Warren Co, Ill. so she may have split her time between the families.
1900 Dec 05 - Minneapolis Tribune - Mrs. John Edwards and Miss Maud Edwards will spend the Christmas holidays with Prof. Charles L. Edwards, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
1901 March 03 -Minneapolis Tribune
Mrs. John Edwards and Miss Maud Edwards are in Chicago at present. They will leave for Kansas City this week and will remain there until April 1. Nicholas Edwards was living in Topeka, KS in 1897, and may have still been there in 1901. Perhaps Nancy and Maude were going to visit Nicholas.
1903 Minneapolis Journal May 05 - Building Permits - Mrs. N. S. Edwards, 2321 Blaisdell avenue, frame barn, $1,500.
1904 - May 1 - Minneapolis Tribune - Strayed - Light colored Jersey cow without horns, halter on neck, white tip on tail. Reward. Notify or return to Mrs. John Edwards, 2321 Blaisdell av.
Note: The house at 2321 Blaisdell Ave was built by E. J. Edwards in 1901 :
1901 -Minneapolis Journal - Nov 2 - The Keith company is preparing plans for a residence on Twenty-fourth street and Blaisdell avenue for Edward J. Edwards. It will be 36 x 52, two stories, attic and basement, frame. The foundation is about completed by Contractor F. H. Fa. Cost, $8,500.
1904 - Minneapolis Journal Ad -July 06
GIRL TO ASSIST WITH GENERAL HOUSEWORK; two in family; Mrs. John Edwards, 2321 Blaisdell ave.
WANTED - EXPERIENCED GIRL FOR GENERAL housework; two in family. Mrs. John Edwards, 2321 Blaisdel av.
1906 - Feb 08 - Minneapolis Tribune: EDWARDS-Mrs. Nancy Stockton Edwards, wife of the late John Edwards, died, at her home, 2321 Blaisdell avenue, this morning at 78 years of age. The funeral announcement will be made later.
Death certificate states senility paralysis from cerebral hemmorhage
1906 - Feb 10 - Minneapolis Tribune -
MRS. NANCY STOCKTON EDWARDS
The funeral of Mrs. Nancy Stockton Edwards, wife of the late John Edwards, was held at the residence on Blaisdell avenue at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon by Dr. Joseph K. Mason of the Church of the Redeemer and Miss Emilie Gilbert, reader in the First Church of Christ Scientist.
The bearers were the six eldest grandsons, Arthur J. Edwards, Philip J. Noteware, John E. Calhoun, and Frederick D. Calhoun, J. Paul Edwards, and Charles S. Brewster. Internment was at Lakewood.
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1906 - Minneapolis Journal - Apr 15 - FOR SALE - FINE CARRIAGE HORSE BRIGHT bay, weight 1,400 lbs, 9 years old, gentle, well broken and sound, can be seen at 2321 Blaisdell av or telephone J. F. Calhoun.
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E. B. Mann
About this time a Universalist preacher by
the name of E. B. Mann, a speaker of much
eloquence and persistence, came into the coun-
try and preached wherever he could get an audi-
ence. Mr. Mann made trouble in this Lutheran
church. He preached through this section of
country twenty, years or more, and used to travel
about in a one-horse wagon. He was a very
good man, much respected, and came near con-
verting the entire community in the neighbor-
hood of the old Lutheran church to his way of
thinking. It was about 1840, during the pas-
torate of Rev. Mr. Uinkle in this church, that
the society was divided, many of the members,
including the pastor himself, adopting the doc-
trine of universal salvation.
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NANCY STOCKTON EDWARDS
Birth:
Feb. 26, 1828
Death:
Feb. 7, 1906
Family links:
Parents:
Israel Farnsworth Stockton (1778 - 1859)
Sarah Hall Lord Stockton (1789 - 1864)
Spouse:
John Edwards (1814 - 1896)
Children:
Sarah Edwards Jones (1848 - 1899)*
Flora Edwards Fargo (1850 - 1923)*
Edward Junius Edwards (1854 - 1911)*
Rachel Eugenie Edwards Noteware (1856 - 1888)*
Clara Z. Edwards Calhoun (1858 - 1940)*
Fannie May Edwards Brewster (1861 - 1931)*
Charles L. Edwards (1864 - 1937)*
Laura Maud Edwards (1870 - 1931)*
Siblings:
Mary Ann Stockton-Brown Chapin (1808 - 1848)*
William Lord Stockton (1810 - 1865)*
Benjamin Lord Stockton (1813 - 1884)*
James B. Stockton (1818 - 1891)*
Edwin Stockton (1820 - 1885)*
Amanda Stockton Matthews (1823 - 1881)*
Nancy Stockton Edwards (1828 - 1906)
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Lakewood Cemetery
Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Minnesota, USA
Plot: SECTION 10 LOT 148 GRAVE 5
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Record added: Aug 31, 2010
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