Edward Monroe Roseman

DEWITT, HURT, IMEL, JAMES, JENNINGS, LAPELLA, MITCHELL, MONROE, POLAND, RAY, ROSEMAN, SHANK, TORODE, WILKINS, WISSLER

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 9/21/2004 at 21:26:04

Edward Monroe Roseman was born February 6, 1833 at Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio to Joseph Roseman and Tapath Catherine Monroe. On December 25, 1856, at Cambridge, Ed married Margaret Poland, daughter of Samuel Poland and Unity Wilkins Poland.

In their early-married life, Ed and Maggie lived in Morris, Illinois. In October 1864, they moved to Webster Township, Madison County where they farmed along the Middle River. Ed also worked as a sawyer. A covered bridge was built in 1883 about a tenth mile from their farmstead and was named the Roseman bridge. Ed helped haul lumber for the bridge and the Rosemans boarded some of the workman during bridge construction.

The union of Ed and Maggie produced ten children; Clara Bell, married Henry Lewis Wissler; Alice died young; Charles T. died unmarried at age 28; Elmer Ellison, married Lauretta (Lora) H. LaPella; Frederick Ulyssus, married Bertha Edna Dewitt; Florence Unity, married Annon James; Alice Carey, married Francis (Frank) Lincoln Torode; Helen (may have died young); James William married Clara Amy Jennings; and Myrtle May who married George Merrill Mitchell.

Maggie became ill in the spring of 1875, about a year after her last child was born, with an illness nobody was able to diagnose. From then until her death, seventeen years later (August 16, 1892), she was an invalid most of the time, being confined to her home and mostly in bed and was said to be deprived of her speech at times. She became much worse about six weeks before she died.

On September 20, 1893, Ed married Savilla Elizabeth Imel, who was divorced from Shubert Hurt. Her parents were both from North Carolina. To this union were born Edward Earl who married Gladys Leone Shank; Leland Eugene, who married Emma Janet Ray; and Ward Theodore.

Ed, who was said to have had coal black hair, 6’ 1” and 185 pounds, died of heart trouble at his home in Union County, a few miles south of Lorimor, Iowa on October 10, 1911. The Rosemans were prominent members of the church and played an active role in the Sunday school.

Source: Obituary, newspaper articles, county, state, and federal records.