Kit Carson County, Colorado
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Kit Carson County Pioneers:
John Edmonds, 8 South 43 West
John claimed a quarter in section 29, 8S 43W in 1890.
Sarah A. (Jackson) Edmonds, born 1841 in Missouri, died in Flagler, Colorado in 1924, buried in Shelby County Missouri # 127008350.
She had married Elias John Edmonds April 7, 1864 inShelby County, Missouri.
ONE POSSIBLE
Matthew EDMONDS was born on 27 Apr 1836 in Wooster,
Wayne, Ohio. He died on 10 Sep 1912 in D.V.S. Home,
Leavenworth, Kansas.
He was buried in Atwood Cemetery, Rawlins, Kansas.
His son, per one tree, was John W. EDMONDS was
born about 1872 in Iowa. In the 1880 Census, John
W. Edmonds was age 8, b. in Iowa. Speculation has it
that John W. was named for his father's brother, John
Wesley who settled in Illinois, and whom they probably
visited four years earlier when Minnie was born in
Illinois."
1886 Goodland, Kansas " CHICAGO LUMBER COMPANY John Edmonds, Manager. The best building material of all grades in the county, satisfaction guaranteed, give us a call Eustis, Kansas "
1887 Atwood, Kansas "John Edmonds built a windmill. "
1892 Atwood, Kansas "John Edmonds departed to some eastern city to learn the jeweler's trade. As a tinker of old clocks he was a success and on his return he will probably be able to adjust the main spring of a cultivator or regulate the balance wheel of a sulky plow. "
1894 Atwood "John Edmonds returned last
Monday from his trip with the circus. "
1898 Oberlin, Kansas "John Edmonds and Mr. Lovejoy, ot Atwood were in Oberlin a couple of days last week. They made this office a pleasant call."
In 1900 Oberlin, Kansas, John is a jeweler, born June 1871 in Iowa, is just married to Tressie August 1881 Indiana.
This is probably Tressie Cutshall, daughter of Wiliam Henry Cutshall 1856-1918 # 40842744 buried in Norton County, Kansas, and Harried 1862-1929.
In 1905 Oberlin, J. W. Edmonds is 34, T. A. 22, and their daughter A.B. is newborn.
April 1906 Goodland, Kansas "John Edmonds, who In the early days managed the Chicago Lumber company yard at Eustis, was here this week auditing the Chicago lumber yard, and left Wednesday for Burlington to audit the yard there. "
1906 Delta, Colorado "John Edmonds, a prominent jeweler of Oberlin, Kansas, made the Doyle’s a flying visit last week. He was on his way to California. One of his cousins was with him. Mr. Edmonds talked some of coming back and locating here."
1907 Atwood, Kansas "John Edmonds and wife, of Delta,
Colorado, arrived in Norcatur, Saturday for a
visit with Mrs. Edmonds parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cutshal and other
relatives and friends. Mr.
Edmonds is feeling quite himself again home until Tuesday since his severe attack of typhoid fever"
In 1910 Salt Lake CIty, John is a jeweler, 30, born in Kansas, Tressie is a jeweler, 28, born in Kanss with Alice 6 in Kansas, and John's father Matthew A. 73, widowed, born in Ohio.
Tressie A. Edmonds, 32, born at Rensalaer,
Indiana to Wm. H. Cutshall
and Harriet Venrick, married
Lawrence L. Rotter on Sept 23, 1912
in Linn County, Iowa.
In 1920 Omaha, Nebraska, Lawrence is an advertising manager for a store, 47, born in Minnesota, Tressie 38 Indiana also works in a store. Lawrence's daughter Alyce 16 born in Kansas and his mother Anna M. 6 born in Wisconsin are with them.
John is in Salt Lake City in 1920, a jeweler, 48, with Matilda 41. Helen G. is 3, June B. seven months, all three born in Utah.
John Edmonds and Matilda Price had June B. Edmonds in Salt Lake City in 1919, and Helen in 1916.
All four are in Los Angeles in 1930.
John W. Edmonds 1871-1956 is buried in Whittier,
California # 107648920, with Matilda (Price) Edmonds 1877-1983.
1977 "Matilda Price Edmonds, who was born in Salt Lake City 100
years ago this month, will be honored at an open house here
Sept. 21. Family members, many of whom live in the Salt Lake City area,
will attend. Mrs. Edmonds was born to British subjects who were
converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
sailed to the United States and crossed the country in a
covered wagon. She was one of eight children. Mrs. Edmonds attended
school through the eighth grade — there were no high schools at the
time, say family members — and then studied dressmaking at a
business college. She worked in this field as a young woman in
California and returned to Salt Lake City and was employed by the
Paris Co. There she met her husband. John Edmonds,
and the two were married in Los Angeles. He died June 22, 1956,
in California. For many years she has resided in California and
Las Vegas. Still an active woman, Mrs. Edmonds assists a
daughter in her Las Vegas real estate business. Additionally,
she took dance lessons in her eighties and pursued other
interests in her nineties. Mrs. Edmonds has two daughters,
four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren."
June 23, 1956 San Bernardino "John Wesley Edmonds. native of Iowa, resident of Yucaipa two years and California 33 years. Funeral Monday at 2:30 p.m. from Rose Chapel at Rose Hills Memorial Park,"
Tressie died in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1961
ONE POSSIBLE
In 1880 Chaffee County, Colorado, John Edmonds is a miner, 35,
born in Illinois, living alone.
ANOTHER POSSIBLE
John Edmonds, born in Canada, was naturalized in Denver County Court on December 26, 1893.
He might be the John E. Edmonds, born Sept 16, 1839 in Canada, died March 9, 1903, buried in Carroll County, MIssouri # 128509620.
ANOTHER POSSIBLE
1898 Silver Cliff, Colorado "The prospects for John Edmonds,
well known throughout this county, to become the possessor of great wealth
are very flattering, if the current reports prove true. He and a Mr. Gordon,
an old-time engineer on the Bassick mine, have owned some claims in the
Sierra Blanca district, near the head waters of the Huerfano river,
for some five or six years, keeping the assessment work up each year.
Other parties, it seems, believing the claims on this property had run
out, last summer relocated them, and by further developments have opened
up what is probably the making of a great mine.
The values are said to run away up in gold. Further particulars we
failed to learn."
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