Thomas Owen Edwards

Notes:

Said to be the son of William J. Edwards and Mary Elizabeth Owens, who also shows his place of brith as Caledonia Twp, Columbia County, Wisconsin. (Harold Henderson, hhsh@earthlink.net)

(Research):

Census Listings:


1900 Census
Wisconsin, Sauk County, Baraboo, 2nd ward
220 241
Edwards, Thos. O. head WM Oct 1871 28 M & WI WAL WAL contractor & carpenter
Minnie wife WF Aug 1866 33 M 7 2 2 WI PA GER
Pearl dau W F Aug 1893 6 S WI WI WI at school
Hazel dau W F Sep 1895 4 S WI WI WI

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Thomas married Minnie A. Benkelman on 17 Aug 1892 in Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin. Minnie (daughter of Johannes "John" Benkelman and Sarah Jane Keech) was born on 28 Aug 1866 in Lima Center, Rock County, Wisconsin; died in Feb 1901 in Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Could this marriage have actually been in 1882? Lorraine Smith Benkelman cites a letter written from Portage, Wisconsin, on August 13, 1882, from Minnie to her cousin G. A. Striffler. She announced she was to be married on August 17. It is more likely that Lorraine mistranscribed the year of the letter, as Minnie was only 15 in 1882.

Married by Lyman B. Webb, Methodist elder, witnesses Chas. Mathison & Cor a Benkleman
"Minnie A. Benkleman" v4 p 0145 on 17 Aug 1892 in Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin

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BonnieMargaret Jacobs writes that Thomas Edwards was "of Baraboo" and that after their marriage the young couple lived in that town, where Thomas worked as a contractor-carpenter. Minnie died of consumption when her daughters were still young, and as a result they were carried for by relatives of their fathers in Baraboo during remainder of their childhood. They later moved back to Portage, where they were married.

1. Pearl Alida Edwards was born on 24 Aug 1893 in Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin; died in Sep 1967 in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin; was buried in Moundville Methodist Church, Moundville, Marquette County, Wisconsin.
2. Sarah Hazel Edwards was born on 18 Sep 1895 in Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin; died on 4 Aug 1961 in Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin.