Edmunds, William 1856-1925

EDMUNDS, SWEGER, BURTON, EBERHARD, HERMAN, RASIC

Posted By: Janet Schuldt, Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/17/2009 at 14:11:11

Hawarden Independent, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, USA Thursday, October 15, 1925

Death of Well Known Farmer, Wm. Edmunds passed away at Home Monday Morning (October 12, 1925).

Was Nearly 70 Years of Age and Had lived in this Community for Thirty-Six Years.

Wm. Edmunds, for thirty-six years a resident of this community, passed away at his home, a mile east of Hawarden, at 12:45 Monday morning. Mr. Edmunds had been in gradually failing health for the past two years, suffering from a bronchial affection and during the past summer his condition became perceptibly worse. He was bedfast a trifle less than a week, however, after he contracted pneumonia, which was the immediate cause of his death.

Funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. W.A. WinterStein of Laurens, who until a week ago was pastor of the Methodist church in this city. It so happens that Mr. Edmunds and Rev. WinterStein were born in houses just across he street from one another in a town in Canada, although Mr. Edmunds had left that place years before Rev. WingterStein was born.
This circumstance brought about a bond of friendship between the two men and it seemed very fitting that Rev. WinterStein should be called to officiate at the funeral. Interment was made in Grace Hill cemetery.

Wm. Edmunds was born at Richmond Hill, Canada, February 26, 1856, so was nearing the age of three score years and ten when death called him. When a lad of 15 years he started to work in a saw mill at Holland Center, Canada, and in a short time was engineer at the mill and continued in this capacity for a period of about ten years. On December 31, 1882, he was united in marriage with Miss Eva Christine Sweger at Chatsworth, Canada and they immediately started farming near that place where they remained for seven years. They came to Sioux county in 1889 and moved into the farm then known as the Amos Price place, three miles south of Hawarden, where they remained for ten years. They then moved onto the farm one mile east of Hawarden, which Mr. Edmunds had purchased, where they have lived for the past twenty-six years. Through hard work and the exercise of good business judgment Mr. Edmunds accumulated a competency whereby he was able to spend his declining years in comparative ease. Besides his wife, he is survived by four children, Miss Florence Edmunds of Los Angeles, Calif., who had been here for the past two months and Mrs. C. E. Burton and Roy and Milton Edmunds, all of this community. He is also survived by one brother, James Edmunds of Holland Center, Canada.

The Edmunds home has always been one where the spirit of hospitality was ever apparent and this but naturally drew many friends into the family circle who learned with deepest regret of Mr. Edmunds’ death and extend sincere sympathy to the members of his family.

One of town relatives and friends who were here to attend the funeral include Mr. and Mrs.. Ray Eberhard of Lyons, S.D., Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Edmunds of Bridgewater, S.D., and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Herman and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rasic of Sioux City.