Husband: James EDWARDS
aka: John Edwards (Senior) 'John' Edwards 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.
Death date: Aug 7, 1886 Dayton, Iowa
Buried: Grove Hill Cem., Readlyn, IA-shares headstone with daughter Mariette)
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

Marriage date: Feb 28, 1851 Dodgeville,
Wisconsin (LDS IGI file, Wisconsin vitals records)

Wife: Mary JONES
Birthdate: August 9, 1828 Llanfihangel Ar Arth, Carmarthenshire, Wales (LDS IGI, Headstone at Grove Hill Cem.)
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
Spouse: Daniel Frank WHITNEY (native of Vermont)
Marriage date: 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)
Spouse: John W. Meyers (Myers)
Marriage date: 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)
Spouse: Frederick W. TIEDT (1885, 1895 Iowa State census; 1930 Spokane, Wash, Rock Lake census b. 05/25/1855, d. 02/08/1938,
Marriage date: 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)
Spouse:
Marriage date:
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)
Spouse: Anna Maria (h) EDWARDS (maiden name EDWARDS) - Divorced abt. 1900
Marriage date: 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)
Spouse: No
Marriage date:
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)
Spouse: George Richards
Marriage date: 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)
Spouse: Ann (died 1956 Fayette Co, Westgate IA buried Greenwood Cem.)
Marriage date: 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.
Spouse:
Marriage date:
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)
Spouse: Charles H. LEVERTON (died 1954)
Marriage date: 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
Spouse: John RICHARDS
Marriage date: 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
Spouse: Homer A. CARPENTER (b. Aug. 3 1864 - d. May 27 1919 (Iowa Cem. Records)
Marriage date: 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.
 

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.