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Submitted by: Gayla Sturbaum (updated 3/23/05)
Email address: gsturbau@du.edu
 

HUSBAND: [John?] James EDWARDS (Senior)
('John' James is given on Eva's LDS marriage rec and the 1880 Iowa Census
    - otherwise the name is James.)
Birthdate: March 20, 1819, Brecknockshire, South Wales
    (Date taken from headstone, census, and naturalization intent documents
    filed in Schuylkill, Co., Pennsylvania - dated, Sept. 7 1846) Emigrated from
    Wales on May 6, 1842 on the Ship Trenton from Liverpool to New York.
date and place of marriage: Feb 28, 1851 Dodgeville,
    Wisconsin (LDS IGI file, Wisconsin vitals records)
military service: unknown
Death date: Aug 7, 1886, Dayton, Iowa
Buried: Grove Hill Cem., Readlyn, IA-shares headstone with daughter Mariette
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
 
WIFE: Mary JONES
Birthdate: August 9, 1828 Llanfihangel Ar Arth, Carmarthenshire, Wales
    (LDS IGI, Headstone at Grove Hill Cem.)
date and place of marriage: Feb 28, 1851 Dodgeville, Wisconsin
    (LDS IGI file)
Death date: April 11, 1907, Dayton, Iowa
    (Mary's death certificate
Buried: Grove Hill Cem. Readlyn, Iowa - shares headstone with son, Simon
Father: Simon JONES Llanfihangel Ar Arth Wales, Pantglas Farm
    (Mary's death certificate, LDS IGI British marriage birth records)
Mother: Margaret DAVIES Llanfihangel Ar Arth Wales
    (Mary's death certificate, LDS IGI British marriage, Birth records)

CHILDREN

CHILD 1: Margaret (Maggie) Diane EDWARDS (1870 Iowa Census)
Birthdate: Dec. 02, 1851, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
MARRIED: Daniel Frank WHITNEY (native of Vermont)
date and place of marriage: June 02, 1874 Dayton,
Webster, Iowa (LDS IGI No. America marriage)
Death date: Aug. 04, 1923 Maynard,
Fayette Co., Iowa -- Buried Greenwood. Cem. Fayette
Co. IA

CHILD 2: Sarah EDWARDS
Birthdate: About 1853 (1860 Wisc. Census)
MARRIED: John W. Meyers (Myers)
date and place of marriage: October 23, 1871 Black
Hawk Co. Iowa (IGI Batch M587282)
Death date:  unknown - died before 1920

CHILD 3: Anna Elizabeth EDWARDS (1870 Census, Fairview Cemetery/Spokane, WA)
Birthdate: About July, 17, 1855
Dodgeville, Wisconsin (1860 Wisc. census)
MARRIED: Frederick W. TIEDT (1885, 1895 Iowa State
census; 1930 Spokane, Wash, Rock Lake census b.
05/25/1855, d. 02/08/1938,
date and place of marriage: December 31, 1875 Bremer
Co. Iowa records
Death date: TIEDT, Ann Elizabeth, d.
08/09/1930, 6-23, Nee: Edwards
http://www.interment.net/data/us/wa/spokane/fairview_cemetery.htm

CHILD 4: Benjamin EDWARDS
Birthdate: About 1857, Dodgeville, Wisc.
(1860 Wisc. Census)
MARRIED:
date and place of marriage:
Death date: unknown, not found after
being listed in 1860 Wisc. census

CHILD 5: James Phillip EDWARDS
Birthdate: May 23, 1859 Dodgeville,
Wisconsin  (1860 Wisc. Census, his death certificate)
MARRIED: Anna Maria (h) EDWARDS (maiden name EDWARDS)
- Divorced abt. 1900
date and place of marriage: Dec. 31, 1882, Bremer, Co.
Iowa (LDS IGI files) Married by L. Ellingwood M.G.
Witnessed by Maggie Whitney and Simon F. Edwards.
OTHER MARRIAGES: Elizabeth SIMMS, Boulder Co.,
Colorado about 1907
Death date: May 28, 1939 Boulder, Co
(buried Longmont/Mountain View Cem) Death certificate,
headstone

CHILD 6: Simon S. EDWARDS
Birthdate: Feb. 19 1861 Dodgeville,
Wisc. (1870, 1880, 1900 Iowa census, headstone in Iowa)
MARRIED: No
date and place of marriage:
Death date: Oct. 27, 1918 (1919?), Bremer
Co. Iowa (headstone, buried Grove Hill, Readlyn,
Bremer Co.  IA) - Cause of death -- "Struck by C&GW
train"

CHILD 7: Amelia EDWARDS
Birthdate: About 1863, Dodgeville, Wisc. (1870 Iowa census)
MARRIED:  George Richards
date and place of marriage: October 6, 1879 - Bremer
Co. Iowa  -- Married by L. Ellingwood M.G.
Death date: unknown -- Listed in Simon's
will as living at Athol Kansas in July, 1920 (Pleasant
Twp. Smith County KS.  1920 Census)

CHILD 8: George A. EDWARDS
Birthdate: About 1865, Dodgeville, Wisc.
(1870 Bremer Co. Iowa census, 1900 & 1920 Fayette Co. Iowa census)
MARRIED: Ann  (died 1956 Fayette Co, Westgate IA
buried Greenwood Cem.)
date and place of marriage:  Fayette, Co IA?  Lived in
Westgate, IA - mentioned in James Phillip EDWARDS,
Colorado obit. 1939.  Buried Greenwood Cem., Fayette,
Co. Iowa
Death date: Fayette, Co., Westgate, Iowa
1941.

CHILD 9: Mariette EDWARDS
Birthdate: About Sept. 1867 Dodgeville,Wisc.
MARRIED:
date and place of marriage:
Death date: March 13, 1871 (three years,
5 months, 25 days) Headstone - Grove Hill Cem. Bremer
Co, Readlyn Iowa

CHILD 10: Phoebe Edith EDWARDS
Birthdate: 1870 Bremer, Co. Iowa. (4
mos. old in 1870 Iowa census)
MARRIED: Charles H. LEVERTON  (died 1954)
date and place of marriage:  unknown
Death date: 1945 - Buried Laurel Oak
Cemetery, Henry Co. Missouri, Windsor Twp. (Rootsweb
name search "Missouri")

CHILD 11: Eva Jemima EDWARDS (1880 Iowa census)
Birthdate: Mar. 1872
MARRIED: John RICHARDS
date and place of marriage:  Sept. 10, 1890 Iowa
Bremer Co, Iowa (LDS IGI No. America marriage) and
Bremer Co. records) Waverly First Methodist Episcopal
Church, Witnesses: Jane Boydston and C.H. Manwell -
Married by A.C. Manwell - clergy.
Death date:  October 25, 1911 Bremer Co.
Iowa  (Probably buried in Wilson Grove Cemetery -
Sumner Twp. Fayette, Co., Iowa. - in unmarked grave on
lot owned by John Richards - two stones not inscribed)
Bremer county records indicate a John W. Richards
(ours?)  Died July 2, 1944 cemetery not given.

CHILD 12: Irene (Rena) EDWARDS
Birthdate: April 9, 1875
MARRIED: Homer A. CARPENTER (b. Aug. 3 1864 - d. May
27 1919 (Iowa Cem. Records)
date and place of marriage: December 28, 1891 Bremer
Co. Iowa (LDS IGI No. America) Witnesses: Phoebe
Edwards and Addie A. Brooks - married by C.H. Brooks
Justice of the Peace.
Death date: May 5, 1907 (Ancestry.com
Iowa Cemetery Records) Wilson Grove Cem. Sumner Twp.
Fayette, County, Iowa.
widowed
 

SOURCES:
Sources listed by each individual's name.

NOTES:
James Edwards Sr. (b. 1819 Brecknockshire S.
Wales) is alternately listed as John in the 1870 Iowa
census and as John James in LDS records for some of
his children.