A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameJames Martin Edson 
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55Birth30 Jan 1862, Dry Grove, Coles Co, llinois11
Death15 Feb 1929, New Hampton, Harrison Co, Missouri11 Age: 67
FatherAlonzo Smith Edson (1827-1904)
MotherPatience Arloa Ferguson (1833-1868)
Spouses
Birth29 May 1863, New Hampton, Harrison Co, Missouri11
Death10 Nov 1947, New Hampton, Harrison Co, Missouri11 Age: 84
Burial13 Nov 1947, Kidwell Cemetery, Dallas Township, Harrison Co, Missouri376
FatherHugh Darby Ross (1819-1902)
MotherCatherine “Katie’ Carter (1821-1898)
Marriage1 Feb 1883, Martinsville, Harrison Co, Missouri
ChildrenAmy Arloa (1885-1887)
Verna Catherine (1889-1893)
Orley Gladys (1890-1936)
Berchia May (1895-1895)
Emma Grace (1889-1989)
Notes for James Martin Edson
EGA #202-21055
Was born on the farm of his Ferguson grandparents in Paradise Township, Illinois. He came by covered wagon to Harrison Co, Missouri with his parents at the age of five years and he spent the greater part of his life in that county. Uncle Jim, as so many called him, was stricken with paralysis at the age of twenty-six years, just five years after he and Margarette were married. Three times in a little over seven years did the parents bear a cruel loss; three little graves in the Russ cemetery bear record of their sorrow. In 1910, he purchased a half section of land in Hale County, Texas. His wife was very homesick, so fifteen months later they moved back to Missouri.
He was a Methodist and attended services in the Edson School until the Hazel Valley Church was built. Later in life he attended church at Willow Row.171
Was born on the farm of his Ferguson grandparents in Paradise Township, Illinois. He came by covered wagon to Harrison Co, Missouri with his parents at the age of five years and he spent the greater part of his life in that county. Uncle Jim, as so many called him, was stricken with paralysis at the age of twenty-six years, just five years after he and Margarette were married. Three times in a little over seven years did the parents bear a cruel loss; three little graves in the Russ cemetery bear record of their sorrow. In 1910, he purchased a half section of land in Hale County, Texas. His wife was very homesick, so fifteen months later they moved back to Missouri.
He was a Methodist and attended services in the Edson School until the Hazel Valley Church was built. Later in life he attended church at Willow Row.171
Notes for James Martin Edson
James died in February. The snow was so deep the family couldn’t get his body to the cemetery, so he was buried temporarily in a snow bank. He was formally buried in the Kidwell Cemetery that next April.