EDWARDS, Rachel 1842 - 1869

EDWARDS, GIFT, FORE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/25/2007 at 15:00:12

"Fairfield Ledger Weekly"
April 15, 1869
Page 3, Column 6

DIED. In Walnut township, on Monday, April 5th, 1869, Mrs. Rachel EDWARDS, wife of Jas. D. EDWARDS, in the 28th year of her age.

When quite young, her father, Jacob GIFT, with his family, moved from Fulton county, Penn., to this county. Soon afterwards, at the age of 14 years, she joined the Methodist E. Church, and has lived ever since a consistent member. Quite and unassuming in life, with the Bible the subject of her daily study, she lived a most exemplary christian and ornament of her family and society, and died in the triumph of the Redeemer’s love.

“Bear her away, friends, to her last home!
Peacefully lay her down in the tomb;
Lightly, tread lightly, ‘round the low bed---
Sweetly now sleeps the beautiful dead.
Sorrowful mourner, weeping no more.
Meet her upon yon beautiful shore.” C.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: James David EDWARDS was born in Penn. 9 March 1831; served in both infantry and cavalry regiments in Civil War, from Jefferson County. After Rachel's death, he married, in Jefferson County, on 15 Jan. 1871, Margaret FORE, daughter of Jacob FORE. Margaret died 10 Jan. 1892. James D. EDWARDS died 17 Nov. 1927 at Stromsburg, Nebraska.