Mary Jones Edwards

EDWARDS, DAVIS, JONES, WHITNEY, TIEDT, RICHARDS, LEVERTON, CARPENTER

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Date: 2/13/2009 at 10:41:41

Mrs. Mary Edwards -- Mary Jones [daughter of Simon Jones and Margaret Davis] was born in Carmerthenshire, [Llanfihangel Ar Arth], Wales, Aug. 9th, 1828; died in Sumner, Iowa, April 11th, 1907, aged 78 years, 8 months, 2 days. She came to America in company with a brother in November, 1849, and located at Dodgeville, Wis. Here she was united in marriage to James Edwards Feb. 27th 1850. To this union were born four sons and eight daughters, three sons and six daughters of which survive her, viz: Margaret Whitney of Maynard, Iowa; Ann Tiedt of Wilson Creek, Wash.; James P. Edwards of Colorado [Boulder, Co.]; Simon F. Edwards of Sumner, [IA]; Amelia Richards of Athal, Kan.; George A. Edwards of Westgate, [IA]; Phoebe Leverton of Sumner, [IA]; Eva J. Richards of Sumner; Irene Carpenter of Westgate, [IA]. She is also survived by thirty-seven grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren. In November, 1869, she with her husband and family moved from Dodgeville to Bremer county, Ia., locating first in Franklin township and later Dayton township. Mr. Edwards died Aug. 6, 1896 [1886]. In February, 1886, she moved to Sumner, where she has since resided. She united with the Established Church in Wales in her early girlhood. After coming to America she joined the Baptist church of which she was a member till 1900, when she joined the United Brethren church in Sumner. Grandma Edwards, as she was familiarly called, was a devout Christian woman. She, like the Master, went about doing good, visiting the sick and having a kind, cheerful word for all. In the delirium of her last days she imagined herself coming to America, her sons and daughters as children about her. She connned over the Welsh hymns she was wont to sing and frequently murmured "It is enough." She is at rest and her labors do follow her. The funeral was conducted from the U.B. church by the pastor. Rev. J. W. Bonnell. Interment was made in Grove Hill Cemetery. -- Sumner Gazette, April 18, 1907 issue, Research by Elvira Hebell.

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