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1451	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] p. 46 - "like her Aunt Mary, Edith had musical talent, and became an accomplished pianist and singer. While she was in Italy with her parents, she met her future husband. After they were married, as Luigi was in the Italian diplomatic service, they were stationed successively in Rome, Lisbon, Tokyo, Panama, and La Paz. Then they moved to Lima Peru where Luigi went into banking. In 1961 they moved to Italy. A. Mary: " died in 1990 of a stroke/heart attack. Lived in Eupilio, Italy in summer (per Irene E. Bliss "they called this old building a 'villa') and an apt in Lugano, Switzerland in winter. She enjoyed her music, played piano at concerts in Switzerland, Endured high blood pressure. "	Eddy, Edith Potter (I57736)
1452	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] p. 46. Brown 1921 - interested in natural history. Published several books on this subject and for some years ran an "insect Zoo".	Eddy, Charles Brayton(Brayton) (I80356)
1453	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] p. 47 - father was Italian Ambassador to Peru. Federico is Director for Peru of the Italian firm Carlo Erba.	Bombieri, Federico (I80412)
1454	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] Richard was a very successful businessman who married the daughter of a wealthy yachtsman at the club where Richard worked. Her father was a wool buyer and also the wool buyer for the army during WWI (where made most of his money). At Plum Beach in RI, near Newport, was where they met, where Dick was working as a deck hand for Janet's father. They were killed in the late 70's or 80's by an older man who fell asleep at the wheel(man had a seizure which some think was epilesy), came into their lane, and killed Richard instantly. Janet died shortly thereafter. They were headed to see one of their children, Whitney, who they saw, and were way to see Richard's sister, Ann, before Richard changed to another company. 3/10/02 Whitney says that this company was called Economics Laboratories in St. Paul, Minn. 3/20/02 - Mary Eaton says: There was a disturbance at a Thanksgiving football game. Frequently, Ted and Mary were invited to join Ashley's for the Brown vs. xxx football - when played in Providence. The Ashleys almost always went to the game - (Mary and Ted went to game separately) - and then went to the Ashleys for dinner at Rochambeau Avenue. This particular time, during the game, there was alot of blowing of whistles and the game stopped - it seemed to be a lot of youngsters running around - eventually the game restarted. When Mary and Ted got to Rochambeau Avenue, Dick, who was something of a "rascal", they were greated by comments "Did you see them" - and they were told that Dick and some friends of his decided not to pay, so they climbed over the wall and landed right on the field and the game was stopped.	Ashley, Richard (Dick) Chace (I80373)
1455	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] rumor has it that he walked out on family Saving Ancesters. p 44 Uncles Clarence and Charlie had moved to Providence where they set up the firm of Eddy Brothers and did an extensive wholesale fruit and nut business. Their younger brother, Phil, joined them and later set up a wholesale fruit business of his own.	Eddy, Phillip Enoch (I80342)
1456	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] Saving Ancesters: p. 46 Lamson graduated from Brown in 1916. He served in WWI, and married an English gift who died after a few years. p. 46 At first Lamson lived in Providence, where he was in business. Later he acquired the two houses in Somerset and for several years he and Bernadette lived first in one, then in the other. Then he sold both houses: The Poplars to an electrical contractor named Charette, and the Bowers house to Dr. Ralph Grusmark, a veterinarian.	Eddy, John Lamson (Lamson) (I80355)
1457	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] saving Ancestors. p. 38 Died of a sudden heart attack while he and author's mother were visiting him in Middletown.	Cady, John Hamlin (I39602)
1458	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] She was burried in Woodlawn Park, Coconut Grove, Florida along with her father...	Eaton, Lavinia (I35086)
1459	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] Smith College - 1938 - in music - piano. She had the honor of being chosen to do the Senior Recital. Medical issues: had breast cancer at age 53- then a myxoma cyst in her heart (part of it broke off and occluded the sight in one eye), died in 1990 at age 73 when she refused to continue with chemotheropy - and the cancer must have caused complications in her kidneys/liver?	Gittens, Dorothy (I61890)
1460	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] Stuttered very badly. Mary Bowman and Caddy were very good friends	Eddy, Clarence(Caddy) Franklin (I80364)
1461	[Decendants Daniel Brayton Eddy online Decendant Tree.FTW] the family moved to Calif. Helen came back to take care of Walter when his live-in help of many years quit. - per A. Mary	Hammond, Helen May (I48321)
1462	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Eaton, S.E. (I35088)
1463	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Waddleton, P.G. (I80298)
1464	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Cady, M. (I07320)
1465	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Ashley, R.C. III (I80433)
1466	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Ashley, B.B. (I17837)
1467	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	EDEY, D.C. (I84607)
1468	[Edey.FTW] "Strange Wedding" by J.H. Edey, A.G.S. No. 1300 While doing research in the Edmonton Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society library in the winter of 1982, I found a book entitled "Marriage Notices of Ontario" by William D. Reid. In the index there was the name Betsey Edey and referred to Page 176. There I found the following: "20 January 1843. Upon the ice, on the Chaudiere Lake, on Tuesday, December 27th, James F. Taylor, of Hull, to Betsey Edey, of the same place (Rev. Mr. Williams)". In the Introduction to this book I found that the book had been published after Reid's death from extracts he had taken from different newspapers and periodicals which were published between 1813 and 1854. The item above had been extracted from "The Church" which was published at times in Coburg and at times in Toronto between 1837 and 1849. I decided that when I could I would find the original account in "The Church". On September 2, 1983, I was in the Archives of Ontario, Toronto, and got the Microfilm N52 R1P, a copy of "The Church, Toronto, 6 May, 1837 - 30 June 1843". The print was small and difficult to read but in the issue of 20 January, 1843, I deciphered the following information as best I could: "STRANGE WEDDING - Taking it Coolly! - On Tuesday 27 Decr last, James F. Taylor, Esq., of Hull to Miss Betsey Edey of the same place. The ceremony was performed by the Revd (?) Mr. Williams at 7 o'clock in the evening, upon the ice, on Chaudiere Lake. 'Not a drum was heard, or a conjugal note, As alone on the cold ice they hurried." The reasons assigned for selecting this cool retreat is that Ministers of the Methodist persuasion are not authorized by the law to marry persons in Lower Canada. The Revd Gentleman did not conceive Hymen's torch would afford his optics sufficient light to read the marriage ceremony by, he had therefore provided himself with a lantern. After the knot was tied, the happy pair drove off for a more genial clime to enjoy the honeymoon. Ottawa (Aylmer) Advocate, 3 Jan." When I was in Ottawa later that month I asked to see a copy of the Ottawa (Aylmer) Advocate of 3 January 1843 but it was not available in the Public Archives of Canada or in the Ottawa Public Library. I would like to read the original story. It is interesting to note that Betsey (Elizabeth was her right name) was the third wife of James Finlayson Taylor and that her brother, Nelson, married Margaret Taylor, daugher of James F. Taylor and his second wife, Nancy Olmstead on 10 March, 1853. Thus, Elizabeth was the step-mother of her sister-in-law. Edmonton 30.12.1983	EDEY, Elizabeth (I84884)
1469	[Edey.FTW] "Wellwood Resident Passes Away" On Tuesday, September 23, Mrs. Moses Edey passed away after illness of over a year's duration. She had been suffering with a bowl trouble until a week ago when she contracted quinsy which was the immediate cause of death. Deceased whose maiden name was Jessie Rebecca Kilgour was in her fifty-first year and was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alex Kilgour, having been a resident of the Big Plain for twenty-nine years. She came from Huntly Township, Ontario with her parents. A family of six, three boys and three girls, ranging from twenty two to eight years of age are left with the father to mourn. Three sisters and three brothers, all residents of the plain include Mrs. H. Bradley, Mrs. Ed Walker, Mrs. Robert Robinson, George Kilgour, Allen Kilgour, Wellwood and William Kilgour, Pleasant Point. The funeral, which was largely attended by friends and neighbors, was held on Wednesday, at 12:30 from Zion Church, Wellwood, to the Wellwood Cemetery. Rev. R.H. Lowry and T.C. Court, conducted the services. The bereaved family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in their hour of trial. A note about the name Kilgore, it is also spelled Kilgour, depending on where you find your material.	Kilgore, Jessie Rebecca (I84672)
1470	[Edey.FTW] Alexander Moses Edey received a letter from a "long lost relative in Quebec dated February 19, 1965. The contents of the letter are as follows. The return address is shown as Wyman, Quebec. Mr Dear Cousin, Mr. A.M. Edey, I can address you as "Cousin", for I know, since receiving your most welcome letter that we are indeed related. I was thrilled to have your letter and I thank you very much for writing so promptly, and for telling me so much about your family. I know very little about the Huntley Edeys, but I do know that your grandfather, Moses Edey, was my Grandfather (Richard's) brother, and that your grandfather lived on a farm next to his for a time after they left Hull and came to live in Onslow on the other side of the Ottawa River from Huntley, to which your grandfather later moved. Three other brothers, Nelson, Elliott, and Delormie, of whom you have probably heard, or maybe knew, settled in Aylmer, about a mile on this side of the town, and a sister, whom we knew as (great-aunt) Aunt Betsy, married a magistrate in Aylmer, and the house on the Aylmer Road still stands and is in excellent condition though the other Edey homes are either quite gone, or in a rather poor condition. Aunt Betsy's unmarried sister, Great Aunt Amelia, lived with her until death. Another brother, Edmund, lived in Arnprior, but his family grew up and I only know slightly one or two of them. I think that is all of the family, at least that I knew about. They came up from the U.S. with some other families (from Vermont) with the U.E. Loyalists, with Philemon Wright who founded Hull back in 1802 or thereabout. One of the families who came up with Philemon Wright was the Joseph Wyman family of Mass., U.S.A., one of whom married ? Wright, and two sisters of the Wyman family married two brothers of the Edey family. Richard married Mary and Edmund married Hannah. I did not know any of the latter family except two. Most of them are buried in the cemetery at Arnprior. My Great grandparents, (Wyman's) graves are in the Anglican Cemetery at (Quyon?) So much for the family history as I know it. I was glad to know that your son-in-law is improving in the invigorating Switzerland air, and getting strong. It must have been very hard for him when he was working among the starving children in Indonesia and I do not wonder that his health broke down. I take the little magazine "World Vision" and have seen a picture of Mr. Hieni German-Edey feeding the orphans and his name appeared often and that is how I came to be interested in his name and to write to him. Your daughter wrote me such a lovely letter and sent me such a lovely little picture of the family. They have a lovely family and I think your daughter is wonderful to carry on when her husband is ill. You know, I have a daughter living not far from Spirit River. Her husband is a Civil Engineer and is on the big Peace River Project M.B.C. Their name is Miller and they live at Hudson Hope in the community of workers on the project and seem to like it now. They spent about 6 years at Pakistan (building dams, etc) and their daughter, needing schooling she could not get there, was sent to Switzerland for a year or two, so we know a little about Switzerland. I got out my maps and I find that Spirit River is quite near to Hudson Hope, 200 or so miles, I figured, and maybe when the deep snow is gone and the highways are good, my daugher can drive out to see you. Intend to send your and your daughter's letters to my daughter as I know she would be very interested to know to learn there are Edey's near. As for me, I live alone on my own home with a housekeeper, who is very good to me. I shall be 86 years old if I live till July, and am now in very good health, though very ill with heart trouble and live months hospitalized in early spring. I had to have a partial amputation of my foot some years ago which leaves me partially crippled, but I get about the house very well with a cane. I have four of a family, all of whom have been married and away for a good many years. The elder son has been 20 years at Chalk River Atomic Plant and my other son is a Doctor in an Ontario city, and my other daughter lives in the U.S. (in the state of Ohio) but hope to come back to Canada to live this year. I have 9 grandchildren. They all come to seem me once or twice a year, and the son at the Atomic Plant comes every other week. I live right in the country, about 40 miles from Ottawa, and just off a good highway and we have every convenience, and enjoy living. I have been a widow since '53 and still miss my good man. Now, I must not tire you with all this about myself and family. I shall close, for this time at least. If you should care to write to my daughter, her address is, Mrs. E.L. Miller, Box 328, Hudson Hope, B.C. I should be very pleased to hear from you any time you feel like writing to me. May God bless and keep you and your dear ones - Yours in His Service - (Mrs) Mildred Edey Pritchard, (descended from Moses Edey Senior through his son Richard Edey.) 'Enclosed' with the above letter was an article which is labelled as having come from "The Equity". "The Wymans and Edeys: A Link With the Past" It is of great local interest to report the close connection between certain prominent Pontiac families and one of Western Quebec's most illustrious founding fathers - Philemon Wright. Philemon Wright, the founder of Hull, returned to Woburn, Mass., and brought out several families to settle his new found country. Among these pioneers were the Edey and Wyman families. (Philemon Wright was married to Abigail Wyman). Two Edey brothers, Edmund and Richard, married 2 Wyman sisters, Hannah and Mary Prentiss. Edmund and Hannah Edey later settled in what is now known as Arnprior, while Richard and Mary Prentiss Edey followed the trail through the bush along the Ottawa River on horseback and settled at Onslow, around the year 1825. They settled in the dense wilderness consisting mainly fo large birch, maple, elm, pine, hemlock and spruce trees. Here they built their home out of logs and raised their family. When they first came as settlers, they called the area Woburn, afther their home in Woburn, Mass. where the Wymans had lived previous to coming to Canada. This remained the name until Joseph Wyman, Jr., changed it to Bellerice, after a girlfriend Belle Rica, he had left behind in Woburn, Mass.The name was changed from Bellerice to Wyman around the year 1907. Joseph Wyman was the first mailman for this area, delivering the mail on horseback from Aylmer to Portage du Fort. This was quite an improvement at this time, as the coach served as a means of transportation for people as well as mail. The first postage stamp used in this area was in the year 1851. Wyman was the heart of the mail route in the area. Coachmen changed horses here for the rest of their journey and let theirs rest, to be picked up on the return trip. Trains were unheard of, as were highways and other modes of travel that we take for granted today. The first PPJ (Pontiac Pacific Junction) passed through Bellerica on January 13, 1886. With the coming of families to the area, a school had to be built and one of the teachers contributing much to the cultural growth of the area was Lucy Wyman Edey. She was a gifted descendant of the Wyman-Edey families, and taught school in the little schoolhouse for 22 years, where she taught music, and astronomy, as well as Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. She prepared many of her pupils to go to the city and write and pass their teachers examinations. She composed and wrote words for music, and wrote poems. Miss Lucy Edey was an aunt of Mrs. W.F. Pritchard (Mildred), Mrs. W.D. Campbell, (Maynie), Mrs. S.E. McDowell, (Lu Prentiss) and S. Wyman McKechnie. Lucy Wyman Edey wrote very colourful poems of the times in which she lived, and also of the times that she heard about from her father and mother. She wrote some of her poems under the pen name of George K. Brown. Many of these poems were brought to mind on her way to and from school. These poems described life in the district in her time in very picturesque tones. Held in high esteem by her pupils, one pupil wrote when Lucy Wyman Edey was in failing health, asking if she was in need of any comforts that he could supply in response to all that she had done for him.	EDEY, Mildred (I84095)
1471	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Friesen, A.L.C. (I84583)
1472	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	EDEY, C.J. (I84606)
1473	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, C.F. (I84595)
1474	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, C.E. (I84705)
1475	[Edey.FTW] Edey, Samuel, (born 1786, died 1868), located in R. 2, lot 19, adjoining what is now Aylmer, the village being bounded on the east and west by the two brothers. He married (1) Abigail, daughter of Thomas Wright, who was the brother of Philemon and father of Benj. Hooper and John, (2) Elizabeth, a sister of Abigail. She was the widow of Abram Booth. His third wife was Sarah Bloss. Children: The first few were Samuels, but all died young; Jane, m. Ralph Kenny, brother of Robert, the pioneer; Abigail, m. Henry McNally, whose son Henry is now the well known Mayor of Aylwin, up the gatineau; Luther, m. Mary Al, daughter of Frank Maswell, the pioneer; Lydia, m. Hugh Blair; and Mary, M. Andrew Pritchard, son of James, of the Gatineau.	Edey, Samuel (I84274)
1476	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, E.A. (I84565)
1477	[Edey.FTW] From a letter received October, 1993 from Uncle George Edey Dear Norma, I read your letter, I'll make an effort. I was born in Manitoba on July____ _______. We left Manitoba in April _____ ______. I was 4 years old. I remember the trip on the road from Manitoba, sitting on the train watching the country go by, seemed a long road. When we had reat of a cone on the trip, I told them I would like a warm one. When in Edmonton on an elevator, brother Reg was afraid so a lady caught him & put her apron over his head till it stopped. Dad & Uncle John had one car between them coming from Manitoba. Dad met us at the train in Spirit River with team & wagon, it was half mud & half snow - about the 20th of April. He took us to Courtesy Corner, in the middle of Spirit River, run by Mrs. Brooks - for breakfast which felt really pleasant. It was nice to be back together again. So we were taken to a place north of Spirit River till that fall. We stayed around Spirit till Dad filed on a homestead, we were out there for summer holidays, in the year 1930. I started to school that fall. Moved to homestead 30 of April. On the 12 day of May we got burnt out, so had to rebuilt again. Dad & Clare went to twon, Mother & Agnes were home with the younger ones. I thought I would stay out with Cub - the little dog, so I got locked out, but then didn't think it so funny so finnally Brother Reg let me in. That night when black dark there was something prowling around the house. So Cat was looking through the opening between logs all built up. Cub was barking under the house but didn't come out because he was involved with a porcupine a while before. When haying time came we'd all sleep out, but when night closed in I'd head for the house - the older boys stayed with Reg. Strawberry picking time wasn't my specialty. I'd get tired & lay down and sleep, very good company. Going to pick berried with the neighbours mile north, Mother and I were walking, while crossing steep hole on the pole fence, the handle of her pail came off so I took my shoes off and stepped down to get the handle and we kept going across coulies or run, something jumped up. Mother said, "Have Martins got cattle in here?" I said, "Mother, that's a Bear," she said, "Well we're going to run." "My Dad said not to run." - She said, "You are with mother & you are going to run." So we ran. Sister Kathleen said to Mother, "If we had that bear yesterday at the picnic, you'd have won the race." In 1930 there was a picnic at the Burnt River, where there was a booth. We went to play soft ball, horse shoes, foot racing. We had courduroy on the road we had to cross over. We came across through some willows coming in that year. After the fire in 1931, we used sling shots for getting meat, to eat, as we lost everything in the fire that year. The forge and Anvil vise were at the neighbours so missed the fire. Dad worked at the mill west putting shoew on the horses, doing blacksmith work. Dad was on the schoolboard for some time. We had 2 miles to go to school. When I was young we used to herd cattle. We had no fences - We'd take them out in the fields and bush and try to keep them in line. It was hard to keep them in line. Dad was poor for himself, he was better at helping others or working for others. He did blacksmithing for neighbours - also sharpened their shears. He worked at the mill sheoing horses - any harnessing that needed to be done he'd do it. He could also black-smith weld - shich he'd do at the mill - he'd put lazes on plow shears with rivets. He smoked at that time (we'd sneak and smoke leaves while herding cattle). Dad had a huge home made chair - he'd keep his can of tobacco stuffed down in it. I decided I'd like to try a bit - I'd had a sample - then my big sister Agnes caught me and my face showed it all - she knew there was something up. She asked what was going on. (I'd snuck it outside) I said I didn't think much was going on - & went out. She didn't tell on Reg & I but I knew she knew, so that was the end of my smoking. That took the boredom out of cattle herding. Clare and I spend nights outside guarding hay stacks from fire - We lay down & slept in the tack watching for sparks. This was in earlier years - I was farming the hills at White Mountain - everyone was gone at the time, I was the one at home with Dad & Mother, I was too slow at stooking one time. Mother and Agnes came up and helped me stook - Dad run the binder most times, he also left me to run it lots. (Notes I struggled to read - Norma J. Kingdon) Dad stacking with the neighbours came home, but as work in the strong wind so he went to bed quite early. So the horses had to be watered, so Morley said, "Shall I take the team up," but Dad threw a fist past his ear and the next morning had not remembered. The wind got real strong mostly in the fall. The winter usually quite cold but some time the wind get and there would be a chinook and snow would melt and quite often it got icy for the horses, We had to put shoes on them so they could travel. Clare had a tooth aching so Dad took him to Spirit River to get it out and mother and two children were home. The rest of us were in school. It was a real nice morning and mother smelled smoke so went to the neighbours for help. By that time the forest crown fire came through and we had no home to go to. We again stayed at the neighbours till they had some place to live. There was a lumber house across the creek where we stayed in till they rebuilt. That summer they got a cow and a team of horses, they had a small barn by that time. That may have been in 1932. They had house warming and that also is in the memory. My Uncle John and family came for it and the next morning. So Uncle John walked to town and got a pirs? and some brought him back to get the car started.	Edey, George Alexander (I84449)
1478	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, K.V. (I84207)
1479	[Edey.FTW] From the Archives of Ontario, Microfilm N88 R7P, "The Christian Guardian", May 7, 1856 - March 13, 1861 Dated April 22, 1857 Moses Edey of Aylmer Circuit Died on the seventh day of February last, at his residence, near the Village of Aylmer, in the seventy fourth year of his age, brother Moses Edey, one of the oldest and most esteemed members of our church on this Circuit. He was a native of Vermont in the United States. He emigrated to Eastern Canada, and settled in the township of Hull, fifty-two years ago where he continued to resided in the midst of a numerous and respectable family, until the close of his life. During the early part of his life, he manifested an entire indifference to the claims of the Christian religion. A few years after locating in this country, he was brought to feel His obligations to love and serve his Divine Redeemer, while suffering from sickness, through the conversation and prayers of a pious friend. It was not, however, until sometime after this event, that he surrendered himself wholly to the service of God. In 1827, he sought and obtained salvation, through faith in the atonement of Christ, and connected himself with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. In which he held an official position and in whose institutions he remained unswervingly attached, until God removed him to the Church triumphant. Brother Edey possessed an unblemished Christian character. To a profession of piety, he added a general deportment that constrained all who knew him to acknowledge the genuiness of his religious experience. The joys of his piety were never ecstatic, but always earnest, never enthusiastic, but always consistent. His advancement in holiness was not the most rapid; but it was increasing. His course through the world was as the path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day." By brother Edey's death, the community has lost an influential and valuable member; the church a wise councillor and liberal supporter; and a family a tender husband and an affectionate parent.	Edey, Senior Moses (Senior) (I84881)
1480	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, G.E. (I84597)
1481	[Edey.FTW] Hiram Edey Brother of Moses Samuel Edey, son of Moses Edey Jr. Hiram Edey, son of Moses Edey and Elizabeth Chamberlin, was born in Huntley Township, Carleton County in 1867. His occupation was one of a carter. He married Elizabeth (Lyda) Bassett, a daughter of Thomas Bassett and Isabella (Bella) Foster. Lyda ws born on August 29, 1875 in Eastman's Springs (later renamed Carlsbad Springs in 1902), Gloucester Township, Carleton County. Hiram and Lyda had two children, neither married; 1) Wilbert Thomas Edey was born in Ottawa on December 10, 1900. He died in Lakeland, Florida on March 6, 1977 at the age of 76, and is buried in Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa. 2) Howard Edey was born in Ottawa on February 24, 1904. He died in Whitehorse, Yukon on July 17, 1961 at the age of 57, and is buried in Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa. Hiram Edey died in Nepean Township, Carlton County, on September 12, 1941 at the age of 74. He was originally buried in the private Edey Cemetery in P.Q. but was later moved to Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa. Lyda Bassett died in Ottawa on November 4, 1960 at the age of 85, and is also buried with her husband and sons in Pinecrest Cemetery.	Edey, Hiram (I84813)
1482	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, R.J. (I84480)
1483	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	McKenzie, J. (I84586)
1484	[Edey.FTW] Jane, a sister of Moses and Samuel Edey, came to Canada with Samuel. They, with their mother, came in the dead of winter all the way from Vermont in a sled drawn by an ox. Some of the family claim that they were not so poor, and that they had two oxen. What's the odds! An ox more or less makes little difference a century afterward. Jane married Edmund Chamberlain, son of Nathaniel. The Edeys have become connected with nearly every prominent family in this part of the Valley. Moses died at the age of 74 and Samuel at 82.	Edey, Jane (I84273)
1485	[Edey.FTW] Joseph Weston is the widower of Mary Weston. His second marriage is to his first wife's sister, Isabel.	Family: Weston, Joseph / MacKinnon, Isabel (F23849)
1486	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, T.B. (I84566)
1487	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, D.R. (I84598)
1488	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, J.H. (I84680)
1489	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, A.R. (I84873)
1490	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Hannah, K.A. (I84633)
1491	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Hannah, F.C. (I84635)
1492	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, A.A. (I84805)
1493	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, M.A. (I84596)
1494	[Edey.FTW] Marriage Notes for Isabel Mackinnon and Joseph Weston: Joseph Weston is the widower of Mary Weston. His second marriage is to his first wife's sister, Isabel.	MacKinnon, Isabel (I84352)
1495	[Edey.FTW] Miss Emily Edey of the Township of Hull (daughter of Moses Edey Senior) From the Archives of Ontario, Microfilm N88 R5P. "The Christian Guardian", June 3, 1846 - November 26, 1851 Dated Feb. 7,1849 Departed this life, on the 12th. Day of December, 1848, Emily Edey, daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Edey, of the Township of Hull, Canada East, aged twenty-three years. Thus a flower is cut down when just beginning to bloom." In the midst of life we are in death. Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh. A few weeks before her departure, the subject of these remarks was to all appearance in perfect health. No one acquainted with her anticipated so sudden a removal; but alas how are their hopes blasted in a moment! Emily is gone! Yea, she is gone; but gone we believe to be an inhabitant of that bright abode where the wicked cease from trembling and the weary are forever at rest. Emily had the advantage of being a part of a family whose united head feared God and endeavored to serve him. She waas the subject of many prayers, and we have reason to believe that these prayers were answered in the salvation of her soul. The insidious foe was steady to his purpose, and she visibly declined in strength day by day. Yet all had hopes of her speedy recovery except herself and her mother. She never murmured nor complained, her mind was calm and serene; and she met death without a struggle or a groan. A few days before her death, on seeing her mother enter the sick chamber, she looked up in her face with a smile and said, "Mother, Heaven is a good place; I think I shall not get well; I have just been praying to my Heavenly Father, and he says that 'not a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice'. The inference is easily drawn. She felt her insignificance; but being persuaded of the unbounded goodness and mercy of God in Christ Jesus, she could with composure leave her all in his hands for time and eternity. The occasion was improved by the Rev. J. Elliott, from that portion of holy writ, "She is not dead but sleepeth," to a very numerous assembly of relatives and friends; after which, our dear departed one was conveyed to the house appointed for all living. Her remains were deposited in her father's orchard, there to remain till the last trump shall sound and call the sleeping nations to the bar of God. May her numerous relatives at that day be found associated with her at the right hand of the Judge! So prays.	EDEY, Emily (I84889)
1496	[Edey.FTW] Moses Chamberlain Edey, Architect, etc., Ottawa, Ont. was born, in September, 1845, in Pontiac County, Que. He is the son of Richard and Mary Edey. His parental grand parents were born in Vermont, but being dissatisfied with the changes that had taken place there, determined to brave the difficulties and hardships of a pioneer life in Canada. In 1812, they settled in Aylmer, Queb., where the father of our subject was born. His wife, whose maiden name was Wyman, is of a family distinguished in the annals of both American and Canadian history, her forefoathers having sailed from England for America in the "Mayflower". Mr. Edey's parents are still living, and in 1892, celebrated their golden wedding, under most auspicious circumstances. Mr. Edey received a good education at the common schools. At the age of seventeen, he removed to Arnprior, where he learned the carriagemaking trade, afterwards working three years at the same business in Ottawa. He went to Toronto, spending a year under Mr. Thomas, receiving instruction in the building trade. He then proceeded to Moravia, N.Y., where he studied under Mr. Z. T. Stearns, Architect, and was afterwards, for a time, connected with the Casey Tool Co., of Auburn, N.Y. He then carried on building in Ottawa, but on account of his health, retired, and has since devoted himself strictly to his profession. For five years, Mr. Edey, attended the Ottawa School of Art, and holds diplomas for practical geometry, free hand drawing, drawing from models, building, construction and industrial design. He is also a member of the Ontario Society of Architects, the A.O.U. W. and Select Knights, Ottawa; was a member of the Garrison Battery, Ottawa, two years, and served with that corps at Prescott. In religion, Mr. Edey is a Methodist; in politics a Liberal-Conservative. He was married, May, 1872, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Williams, Esq. of Russell County, Ont. His family consists of two daughters.	Edey, Moses (I75636)
1497	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, N.J. (I83904)
1498	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Reive, R.W. (I84557)
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1500	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Halliday, R.J. (I84785)

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p. 46 - "like her Aunt Mary, Edith had musical talent, and became an accomplished pianist and singer. While she was in Italy with her parents, she met her future husband. After they were married, as Luigi was in the Italian diplomatic service, they were stationed successively in Rome, Lisbon, Tokyo, Panama, and La Paz.

Then they moved to Lima Peru where Luigi went into banking. In 1961 they moved to Italy.

A. Mary:

" died in 1990 of a stroke/heart attack. Lived in Eupilio, Italy in summer (per Irene E. Bliss "they called this old building a 'villa') and an apt in Lugano, Switzerland in winter. She enjoyed her music, played piano at concerts in Switzerland, Endured high blood pressure. "

Eddy, Edith Potter (I57736)

1452

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p. 46. Brown 1921 - interested in natural history. Published several books on this subject and for some years ran an "insect Zoo".

Eddy, Charles Brayton(Brayton) (I80356)

1453

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p. 47 - father was Italian Ambassador to Peru. Federico is Director for Peru of the Italian firm Carlo Erba.

Bombieri, Federico (I80412)

1454

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Richard was a very successful businessman who married the daughter of a wealthy yachtsman at the club where Richard worked. Her father was a wool buyer and also the wool buyer for the army during WWI (where made most of his money). At Plum Beach in RI, near Newport, was where they met, where Dick was working as a deck hand for Janet's father.

They were killed in the late 70's or 80's by an older man who fell asleep at the wheel(man had a seizure which some think was epilesy), came into their lane, and killed Richard instantly. Janet died shortly thereafter. They were headed to see one of their children, Whitney, who they saw, and were way to see Richard's sister, Ann, before Richard changed to another company.
3/10/02 Whitney says that this company was called Economics Laboratories in St. Paul, Minn.

3/20/02 - Mary Eaton says:

There was a disturbance at a Thanksgiving football game. Frequently, Ted and Mary were invited to join Ashley's for the Brown vs. xxx football - when played in Providence. The Ashleys almost always went to the game - (Mary and Ted went to game separately) - and then went to the Ashleys for dinner at Rochambeau Avenue.

This particular time, during the game, there was alot of blowing of whistles and the game stopped - it seemed to be a lot of youngsters running around - eventually the game restarted. When Mary and Ted got to Rochambeau Avenue, Dick, who was something of a "rascal", they were greated by comments "Did you see them" - and they were told that Dick and some friends of his decided not to pay, so they climbed over the wall and landed right on the field and the game was stopped.

Ashley, Richard (Dick) Chace (I80373)

1455

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rumor has it that he walked out on family

Saving Ancesters. p 44
Uncles Clarence and Charlie had moved to Providence where they set up the firm of Eddy Brothers and did an extensive wholesale fruit and nut business. Their younger brother, Phil, joined them and later set up a wholesale fruit business of his own.

Eddy, Phillip Enoch (I80342)

1456

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Saving Ancesters: p. 46

Lamson graduated from Brown in 1916. He served in WWI, and married an English gift who died after a few years.

p. 46 At first Lamson lived in Providence, where he was in business. Later he acquired the two houses in Somerset and for several years he and Bernadette lived first in one, then in the other. Then he sold both houses: The Poplars to an electrical contractor named Charette, and the Bowers house to Dr. Ralph Grusmark, a veterinarian.

Eddy, John Lamson (Lamson) (I80355)

1457

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saving Ancestors. p. 38

Died of a sudden heart attack while he and author's mother were visiting him in Middletown.

Cady, John Hamlin (I39602)

1458

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She was burried in Woodlawn Park, Coconut Grove, Florida along with her father...

Eaton, Lavinia (I35086)

1459

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Smith College - 1938 - in music - piano. She had the honor of being chosen to do the Senior Recital.

Medical issues: had breast cancer at age 53- then a myxoma cyst in her heart (part of it broke off and occluded the sight in one eye), died in 1990 at age 73 when she refused to continue with chemotheropy - and the cancer must have caused complications in her kidneys/liver?

Gittens, Dorothy (I61890)

1460

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Stuttered very badly. Mary Bowman and Caddy were very good friends

Eddy, Clarence(Caddy) Franklin (I80364)

1461

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the family moved to Calif. Helen came back to take care of Walter when his live-in help of many years quit. - per A. Mary

Hammond, Helen May (I48321)

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1463

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Cady, M. (I07320)

1465

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"Strange Wedding" by J.H. Edey, A.G.S. No. 1300

While doing research in the Edmonton Branch of the Alberta Genealogical
Society library in the winter of 1982, I found a book entitled "Marriage
Notices of Ontario" by William D. Reid. In the index there was the name
Betsey Edey and referred to Page 176. There I found the following:

"20 January 1843. Upon the ice, on the Chaudiere Lake, on Tuesday,
December 27th, James F. Taylor, of Hull, to Betsey Edey, of the same place
(Rev. Mr. Williams)".

In the Introduction to this book I found that the book had been published
after Reid's death from extracts he had taken from different newspapers
and periodicals which were published between 1813 and 1854. The item
above had been extracted from "The Church" which was published at times in
Coburg and at times in Toronto between 1837 and 1849. I decided that when
I could I would find the original account in "The Church". On September
2, 1983, I was in the Archives of Ontario, Toronto, and got the Microfilm
N52 R1P, a copy of "The Church, Toronto, 6 May, 1837 - 30 June 1843". The
print was small and difficult to read but in the issue of 20 January,
1843, I deciphered the following information as best I could:

"STRANGE WEDDING - Taking it Coolly! - On Tuesday 27 Decr last, James F.
Taylor, Esq., of Hull to Miss Betsey Edey of the same place. The ceremony
was performed by the Revd (?) Mr. Williams at 7 o'clock in the evening,
upon the ice, on Chaudiere Lake.

'Not a drum was heard, or a conjugal note, As alone on the cold ice they
hurried."

The reasons assigned for selecting this cool retreat is that Ministers of
the Methodist persuasion are not authorized by the law to marry persons in
Lower Canada. The Revd Gentleman did not conceive Hymen's torch would
afford his optics sufficient light to read the marriage ceremony by, he
had therefore provided himself with a lantern. After the knot was tied,
the happy pair drove off for a more genial clime to enjoy the honeymoon.
Ottawa (Aylmer) Advocate, 3 Jan."

When I was in Ottawa later that month I asked to see a copy of the Ottawa
(Aylmer) Advocate of 3 January 1843 but it was not available in the Public
Archives of Canada or in the Ottawa Public Library. I would like to read
the original story.

It is interesting to note that Betsey (Elizabeth was her right name) was
the third wife of James Finlayson Taylor and that her brother, Nelson,
married Margaret Taylor, daugher of James F. Taylor and his second wife,
Nancy Olmstead on 10 March, 1853. Thus, Elizabeth was the step-mother of
her sister-in-law.

Edmonton 30.12.1983

EDEY, Elizabeth (I84884)

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"Wellwood Resident Passes Away"

On Tuesday, September 23, Mrs. Moses Edey passed away after illness of
over a year's duration. She had been suffering with a bowl trouble until
a week ago when she contracted quinsy which was the immediate cause of
death.

Deceased whose maiden name was Jessie Rebecca Kilgour was in her
fifty-first year and was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alex Kilgour, having
been a resident of the Big Plain for twenty-nine years. She came from
Huntly Township, Ontario with her parents.

A family of six, three boys and three girls, ranging from twenty two to
eight years of age are left with the father to mourn. Three sisters and
three brothers, all residents of the plain include Mrs. H. Bradley, Mrs.
Ed Walker, Mrs. Robert Robinson, George Kilgour, Allen Kilgour, Wellwood
and William Kilgour, Pleasant Point.

The funeral, which was largely attended by friends and neighbors, was held
on Wednesday, at 12:30 from Zion Church, Wellwood, to the Wellwood
Cemetery. Rev. R.H. Lowry and T.C. Court, conducted the services.

The bereaved family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in
their hour of trial.

A note about the name Kilgore, it is also spelled Kilgour, depending on
where you find your material.

Kilgore, Jessie Rebecca (I84672)

1470

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Alexander Moses Edey received a letter from a "long lost relative in
Quebec dated February 19, 1965. The contents of the letter are as
follows.

The return address is shown as Wyman, Quebec.

Mr Dear Cousin, Mr. A.M. Edey,

I can address you as "Cousin", for I know, since receiving your most
welcome letter that we are indeed related. I was thrilled to have your
letter and I thank you very much for writing so promptly, and for telling
me so much about your family. I know very little about the Huntley Edeys,
but I do know that your grandfather, Moses Edey, was my Grandfather
(Richard's) brother, and that your grandfather lived on a farm next to his
for a time after they left Hull and came to live in Onslow on the other
side of the Ottawa River from Huntley, to which your grandfather later
moved.

Three other brothers, Nelson, Elliott, and Delormie, of whom you have
probably heard, or maybe knew, settled in Aylmer, about a mile on this
side of the town, and a sister, whom we knew as (great-aunt) Aunt Betsy,
married a magistrate in Aylmer, and the house on the Aylmer Road still
stands and is in excellent condition though the other Edey homes are
either quite gone, or in a rather poor condition. Aunt Betsy's unmarried
sister, Great Aunt Amelia, lived with her until death.

Another brother, Edmund, lived in Arnprior, but his family grew up and I
only know slightly one or two of them. I think that is all of the family,
at least that I knew about. They came up from the U.S. with some other
families (from Vermont) with the U.E. Loyalists, with Philemon Wright who
founded Hull back in 1802 or thereabout.

One of the families who came up with Philemon Wright was the Joseph Wyman
family of Mass., U.S.A., one of whom married ? Wright, and two sisters of
the Wyman family married two brothers of the Edey family. Richard married
Mary and Edmund married Hannah. I did not know any of the latter family
except two. Most of them are buried in the cemetery at Arnprior. My
Great grandparents, (Wyman's) graves are in the Anglican Cemetery at
(Quyon?)

So much for the family history as I know it.

I was glad to know that your son-in-law is improving in the invigorating
Switzerland air, and getting strong. It must have been very hard for him
when he was working among the starving children in Indonesia and I do not
wonder that his health broke down.

I take the little magazine "World Vision" and have seen a picture of Mr.
Hieni German-Edey feeding the orphans and his name appeared often and that
is how I came to be interested in his name and to write to him. Your
daughter wrote me such a lovely letter and sent me such a lovely little
picture of the family. They have a lovely family and I think your
daughter is wonderful to carry on when her husband is ill.

You know, I have a daughter living not far from Spirit River. Her husband
is a Civil Engineer and is on the big Peace River Project M.B.C. Their
name is Miller and they live at Hudson Hope in the community of workers on
the project and seem to like it now.

They spent about 6 years at Pakistan (building dams, etc) and their
daughter, needing schooling she could not get there, was sent to
Switzerland for a year or two, so we know a little about Switzerland.

I got out my maps and I find that Spirit River is quite near to Hudson
Hope, 200 or so miles, I figured, and maybe when the deep snow is gone and
the highways are good, my daugher can drive out to see you. Intend to
send your and your daughter's letters to my daughter as I know she would
be very interested to know to learn there are Edey's near.

As for me, I live alone on my own home with a housekeeper, who is very
good to me. I shall be 86 years old if I live till July, and am now in
very good health, though very ill with heart trouble and live months
hospitalized in early spring. I had to have a partial amputation of my
foot some years ago which leaves me partially crippled, but I get about
the house very well with a cane.

I have four of a family, all of whom have been married and away for a good
many years.

The elder son has been 20 years at Chalk River Atomic Plant and my other
son is a Doctor in an Ontario city, and my other daughter lives in the
U.S. (in the state of Ohio) but hope to come back to Canada to live this
year. I have 9 grandchildren. They all come to seem me once or twice a
year, and the son at the Atomic Plant comes every other week.

I live right in the country, about 40 miles from Ottawa, and just off a
good highway and we have every convenience, and enjoy living. I have been
a widow since '53 and still miss my good man.

Now, I must not tire you with all this about myself and family. I shall
close, for this time at least.

If you should care to write to my daughter, her address is, Mrs. E.L.
Miller, Box 328, Hudson Hope, B.C.

I should be very pleased to hear from you any time you feel like writing
to me.

May God bless and keep you and your dear ones -

Yours in His Service -

(Mrs) Mildred Edey Pritchard, (descended from Moses Edey Senior through
his son Richard Edey.)

'Enclosed' with the above letter was an article which is labelled as
having come from "The Equity".

"The Wymans and Edeys: A Link With the Past"

It is of great local interest to report the close connection between
certain prominent Pontiac families and one of Western Quebec's most
illustrious founding fathers - Philemon Wright.

Philemon Wright, the founder of Hull, returned to Woburn, Mass., and
brought out several families to settle his new found country. Among these
pioneers were the Edey and Wyman families. (Philemon Wright was married
to Abigail Wyman). Two Edey brothers, Edmund and Richard, married 2 Wyman
sisters, Hannah and Mary Prentiss. Edmund and Hannah Edey later settled
in what is now known as Arnprior, while Richard and Mary Prentiss Edey
followed the trail through the bush along the Ottawa River on horseback
and settled at Onslow, around the year 1825. They settled in the dense
wilderness consisting mainly fo large birch, maple, elm, pine, hemlock and
spruce trees. Here they built their home out of logs and raised their
family.

When they first came as settlers, they called the area Woburn, afther
their home in Woburn, Mass. where the Wymans had lived previous to coming
to Canada. This remained the name until Joseph Wyman, Jr., changed it to
Bellerice, after a girlfriend Belle Rica, he had left behind in Woburn,
Mass.The name was changed from Bellerice to Wyman around the year 1907.
Joseph Wyman was the first mailman for this area, delivering the mail on
horseback from Aylmer to Portage du Fort. This was quite an improvement
at this time, as the coach served as a means of transportation for people
as well as mail. The first postage stamp used in this area was in the
year 1851. Wyman was the heart of the mail route in the area. Coachmen
changed horses here for the rest of their journey and let theirs rest, to
be picked up on the return trip.

Trains were unheard of, as were highways and other modes of travel that we
take for granted today. The first PPJ (Pontiac Pacific Junction) passed
through Bellerica on January 13, 1886.

With the coming of families to the area, a school had to be built and one
of the teachers contributing much to the cultural growth of the area was
Lucy Wyman Edey. She was a gifted descendant of the Wyman-Edey families,
and taught school in the little schoolhouse for 22 years, where she taught
music, and astronomy, as well as Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. She
prepared many of her pupils to go to the city and write and pass their
teachers examinations. She composed and wrote words for music, and wrote
poems. Miss Lucy Edey was an aunt of Mrs. W.F. Pritchard (Mildred), Mrs.
W.D. Campbell, (Maynie), Mrs. S.E. McDowell, (Lu Prentiss) and S. Wyman
McKechnie.

Lucy Wyman Edey wrote very colourful poems of the times in which she
lived, and also of the times that she heard about from her father and
mother. She wrote some of her poems under the pen name of George K.
Brown. Many of these poems were brought to mind on her way to and from
school. These poems described life in the district in her time in very
picturesque tones.

Held in high esteem by her pupils, one pupil wrote when Lucy Wyman Edey
was in failing health, asking if she was in need of any comforts that he
could supply in response to all that she had done for him.

EDEY, Mildred (I84095)

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Friesen, A.L.C. (I84583)

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EDEY, C.J. (I84606)

1473

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1475

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Edey, Samuel, (born 1786, died 1868), located in R. 2, lot 19, adjoining
what is now Aylmer, the village being bounded on the east and west by the
two brothers. He married (1) Abigail, daughter of Thomas Wright, who was
the brother of Philemon and father of Benj. Hooper and John, (2)
Elizabeth, a sister of Abigail. She was the widow of Abram Booth. His
third wife was Sarah Bloss.

Children: The first few were Samuels, but all died young; Jane, m. Ralph
Kenny, brother of Robert, the pioneer; Abigail, m. Henry McNally, whose
son Henry is now the well known Mayor of Aylwin, up the gatineau; Luther,
m. Mary Al, daughter of Frank Maswell, the pioneer; Lydia, m. Hugh Blair;
and Mary, M. Andrew Pritchard, son of James, of the Gatineau.

Edey, Samuel (I84274)

1476

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1477

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From a letter received October, 1993 from Uncle George Edey

Dear Norma,

I read your letter, I'll make an effort. I was born in Manitoba on
July____ _______. We left Manitoba in April _____ ______. I was 4 years
old. I remember the trip on the road from Manitoba, sitting on the train
watching the country go by, seemed a long road.

When we had reat of a cone on the trip, I told them I would like a warm
one.

When in Edmonton on an elevator, brother Reg was afraid so a lady caught
him & put her apron over his head till it stopped. Dad & Uncle John had
one car between them coming from Manitoba. Dad met us at the train in
Spirit River with team & wagon, it was half mud & half snow - about the
20th of April. He took us to Courtesy Corner, in the middle of Spirit
River, run by Mrs. Brooks - for breakfast which felt really pleasant. It
was nice to be back together again.

So we were taken to a place north of Spirit River till that fall.

We stayed around Spirit till Dad filed on a homestead, we were out there
for summer holidays, in the year 1930. I started to school that fall.
Moved to homestead 30 of April. On the 12 day of May we got burnt out, so
had to rebuilt again.

Dad & Clare went to twon, Mother & Agnes were home with the younger ones.
I thought I would stay out with Cub - the little dog, so I got locked out,
but then didn't think it so funny so finnally Brother Reg let me in.

That night when black dark there was something prowling around the house.
So Cat was looking through the opening between logs all built up. Cub was
barking under the house but didn't come out because he was involved with a
porcupine a while before.

When haying time came we'd all sleep out, but when night closed in I'd
head for the house - the older boys stayed with Reg.

Strawberry picking time wasn't my specialty. I'd get tired & lay down and
sleep, very good company.

Going to pick berried with the neighbours mile north, Mother and I were
walking, while crossing steep hole on the pole fence, the handle of her
pail came off so I took my shoes off and stepped down to get the handle
and we kept going across coulies or run, something jumped up. Mother
said, "Have Martins got cattle in here?" I said, "Mother, that's a Bear,"
she said, "Well we're going to run." "My Dad said not to run." - She said,
"You are with mother & you are going to run." So we ran. Sister Kathleen
said to Mother, "If we had that bear yesterday at the picnic, you'd have
won the race."

In 1930 there was a picnic at the Burnt River, where there was a booth. We
went to play soft ball, horse shoes, foot racing.

We had courduroy on the road we had to cross over. We came across through
some willows coming in that year. After the fire in 1931, we used sling
shots for getting meat, to eat, as we lost everything in the fire that
year.

The forge and Anvil vise were at the neighbours so missed the fire. Dad
worked at the mill west putting shoew on the horses, doing blacksmith
work.

Dad was on the schoolboard for some time.

We had 2 miles to go to school.

When I was young we used to herd cattle. We had no fences - We'd take
them out in the fields and bush and try to keep them in line. It was hard
to keep them in line.

Dad was poor for himself, he was better at helping others or working for
others. He did blacksmithing for neighbours - also sharpened their
shears. He worked at the mill sheoing horses - any harnessing that needed
to be done he'd do it. He could also black-smith weld - shich he'd do at
the mill - he'd put lazes on plow shears with rivets.

He smoked at that time (we'd sneak and smoke leaves while herding cattle).
Dad had a huge home made chair - he'd keep his can of tobacco stuffed down
in it. I decided I'd like to try a bit - I'd had a sample - then my big
sister Agnes caught me and my face showed it all - she knew there was
something up. She asked what was going on. (I'd snuck it outside) I
said I didn't think much was going on - & went out. She didn't tell on
Reg & I but I knew she knew, so that was the end of my smoking. That took
the boredom out of cattle herding.

Clare and I spend nights outside guarding hay stacks from fire - We lay
down & slept in the tack watching for sparks. This was in earlier years -
I was farming the hills at White Mountain - everyone was gone at the time,
I was the one at home with Dad & Mother, I was too slow at stooking one
time. Mother and Agnes came up and helped me stook - Dad run the binder
most times, he also left me to run it lots.

(Notes I struggled to read - Norma J. Kingdon)

Dad stacking with the neighbours came home, but as work in the strong wind
so he went to bed quite early. So the horses had to be watered, so Morley
said, "Shall I take the team up," but Dad threw a fist past his ear and
the next morning had not remembered. The wind got real strong mostly in
the fall. The winter usually quite cold but some time the wind get and
there would be a chinook and snow would melt and quite often it got icy
for the horses, We had to put shoes on them so they could travel.

Clare had a tooth aching so Dad took him to Spirit River to get it out and
mother and two children were home. The rest of us were in school. It was
a real nice morning and mother smelled smoke so went to the neighbours for
help. By that time the forest crown fire came through and we had no home
to go to. We again stayed at the neighbours till they had some place to
live. There was a lumber house across the creek where we stayed in till
they rebuilt. That summer they got a cow and a team of horses, they had a
small barn by that time. That may have been in 1932. They had house
warming and that also is in the memory.

My Uncle John and family came for it and the next morning. So Uncle John
walked to town and got a pirs? and some brought him back to get the car
started.

Edey, George Alexander (I84449)

1478

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Edey, K.V. (I84207)

1479

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From the Archives of Ontario, Microfilm N88 R7P, "The Christian Guardian",
May 7, 1856 - March 13, 1861

Dated April 22, 1857

Moses Edey of Aylmer Circuit

Died on the seventh day of February last, at his residence, near the
Village of Aylmer, in the seventy fourth year of his age, brother Moses
Edey, one of the oldest and most esteemed members of our church on this
Circuit. He was a native of Vermont in the United States. He emigrated
to Eastern Canada, and settled in the township of Hull, fifty-two years
ago where he continued to resided in the midst of a numerous and
respectable family, until the close of his life. During the early part of
his life, he manifested an entire indifference to the claims of the
Christian religion. A few years after locating in this country, he was
brought to feel His obligations to love and serve his Divine Redeemer,
while suffering from sickness, through the conversation and prayers of a
pious friend. It was not, however, until sometime after this event, that
he surrendered himself wholly to the service of God. In 1827, he sought
and obtained salvation, through faith in the atonement of Christ, and
connected himself with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. In which he held an
official position and in whose institutions he remained unswervingly
attached, until God removed him to the Church triumphant.

Brother Edey possessed an unblemished Christian character. To a
profession of piety, he added a general deportment that constrained all
who knew him to acknowledge the genuiness of his religious experience. The
joys of his piety were never ecstatic, but always earnest, never
enthusiastic, but always consistent. His advancement in holiness was not
the most rapid; but it was increasing. His course through the world was
as the path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect
day." By brother Edey's death, the community has lost an influential and
valuable member; the church a wise councillor and liberal supporter; and a
family a tender husband and an affectionate parent.

Edey, Senior Moses (Senior) (I84881)

1480

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Edey, G.E. (I84597)

1481

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Hiram Edey

Brother of Moses Samuel Edey, son of Moses Edey Jr.

Hiram Edey, son of Moses Edey and Elizabeth Chamberlin, was born in
Huntley Township, Carleton County in 1867. His occupation was one of a
carter.

He married Elizabeth (Lyda) Bassett, a daughter of Thomas Bassett and
Isabella (Bella) Foster. Lyda ws born on August 29, 1875 in Eastman's
Springs (later renamed Carlsbad Springs in 1902), Gloucester Township,
Carleton County.

Hiram and Lyda had two children, neither married;

1) Wilbert Thomas Edey was born in Ottawa on December 10, 1900. He died
in Lakeland, Florida on March 6, 1977 at the age of 76, and is buried in
Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa.

2) Howard Edey was born in Ottawa on February 24, 1904. He died in
Whitehorse, Yukon on July 17, 1961 at the age of 57, and is buried in
Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa.

Hiram Edey died in Nepean Township, Carlton County, on September 12, 1941
at the age of 74. He was originally buried in the private Edey Cemetery
in P.Q. but was later moved to Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa.

Lyda Bassett died in Ottawa on November 4, 1960 at the age of 85, and is
also buried with her husband and sons in Pinecrest Cemetery.

Edey, Hiram (I84813)

1482

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Edey, R.J. (I84480)

1483

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McKenzie, J. (I84586)

1484

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Jane, a sister of Moses and Samuel Edey, came to Canada with Samuel. They,
with their mother, came in the dead of winter all the way from Vermont in
a sled drawn by an ox. Some of the family claim that they were not so
poor, and that they had two oxen. What's the odds! An ox more or less
makes little difference a century afterward.

Jane married Edmund Chamberlain, son of Nathaniel.

The Edeys have become connected with nearly every prominent family in this
part of the Valley.

Moses died at the age of 74 and Samuel at 82.

Edey, Jane (I84273)

1485

[Edey.FTW]

Joseph Weston is the widower of Mary Weston. His second marriage is to
his first wife's sister, Isabel.

Family: Weston, Joseph / MacKinnon, Isabel (F23849)

1486

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Edey, T.B. (I84566)

1487

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Edey, D.R. (I84598)

1488

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Edey, J.H. (I84680)

1489

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Edey, A.R. (I84873)

1490

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Hannah, K.A. (I84633)

1491

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Hannah, F.C. (I84635)

1492

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Edey, A.A. (I84805)

1493

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Edey, M.A. (I84596)

1494

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Marriage Notes for Isabel Mackinnon and Joseph Weston:

Joseph Weston is the widower of Mary Weston. His second marriage is to his first wife's sister, Isabel.

MacKinnon, Isabel (I84352)

1495

[Edey.FTW]

Miss Emily Edey of the Township of Hull (daughter of Moses Edey Senior)

From the Archives of Ontario, Microfilm N88 R5P. "The Christian Guardian",
June 3, 1846 - November 26, 1851

Dated Feb. 7,1849

Departed this life, on the 12th. Day of December, 1848, Emily Edey,
daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Edey, of the Township of Hull, Canada
East, aged twenty-three years. Thus a flower is cut down when just
beginning to bloom." In the midst of life we are in death. Be ye also
ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh.

A few weeks before her departure, the subject of these remarks was to all
appearance in perfect health. No one acquainted with her anticipated so
sudden a removal; but alas how are their hopes blasted in a moment! Emily
is gone! Yea, she is gone; but gone we believe to be an inhabitant of
that bright abode where the wicked cease from trembling and the weary are
forever at rest. Emily had the advantage of being a part of a family
whose united head feared God and endeavored to serve him. She waas the
subject of many prayers, and we have reason to believe that these prayers
were answered in the salvation of her soul.

The insidious foe was steady to his purpose, and she visibly declined in
strength day by day. Yet all had hopes of her speedy recovery except
herself and her mother. She never murmured nor complained, her mind was
calm and serene; and she met death without a struggle or a groan.

A few days before her death, on seeing her mother enter the sick chamber,
she looked up in her face with a smile and said, "Mother, Heaven is a good
place; I think I shall not get well; I have just been praying to my
Heavenly Father, and he says that 'not a sparrow falls to the ground
without his notice'. The inference is easily drawn. She felt her
insignificance; but being persuaded of the unbounded goodness and mercy of
God in Christ Jesus, she could with composure leave her all in his hands
for time and eternity.

The occasion was improved by the Rev. J. Elliott, from that portion of
holy writ, "She is not dead but sleepeth," to a very numerous assembly of
relatives and friends; after which, our dear departed one was conveyed to
the house appointed for all living. Her remains were deposited in her
father's orchard, there to remain till the last trump shall sound and call
the sleeping nations to the bar of God. May her numerous relatives at
that day be found associated with her at the right hand of the Judge! So
prays.

EDEY, Emily (I84889)

1496

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Moses Chamberlain Edey, Architect, etc., Ottawa, Ont. was born, in
September, 1845, in Pontiac County, Que. He is the son of Richard and
Mary Edey. His parental grand parents were born in Vermont, but being
dissatisfied with the changes that had taken place there, determined to
brave the difficulties and hardships of a pioneer life in Canada. In
1812, they settled in Aylmer, Queb., where the father of our subject was
born. His wife, whose maiden name was Wyman, is of a family distinguished
in the annals of both American and Canadian history, her forefoathers
having sailed from England for America in the "Mayflower". Mr. Edey's
parents are still living, and in 1892, celebrated their golden wedding,
under most auspicious circumstances. Mr. Edey received a good education
at the common schools. At the age of seventeen, he removed to Arnprior,
where he learned the carriagemaking trade, afterwards working three years
at the same business in Ottawa. He went to Toronto, spending a year under
Mr. Thomas, receiving instruction in the building trade. He then
proceeded to Moravia, N.Y., where he studied under Mr. Z. T. Stearns,
Architect, and was afterwards, for a time, connected with the Casey Tool
Co., of Auburn, N.Y. He then carried on building in Ottawa, but on
account of his health, retired, and has since devoted himself strictly to
his profession. For five years, Mr. Edey, attended the Ottawa School of
Art, and holds diplomas for practical geometry, free hand drawing, drawing
from models, building, construction and industrial design. He is also a
member of the Ontario Society of Architects, the A.O.U. W. and Select
Knights, Ottawa; was a member of the Garrison Battery, Ottawa, two years,
and served with that corps at Prescott. In religion, Mr. Edey is a
Methodist; in politics a Liberal-Conservative. He was married, May, 1872,
to Mary, daughter of Thomas Williams, Esq. of Russell County, Ont. His
family consists of two daughters.

Edey, Moses (I75636)

1497

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Edey, N.J. (I83904)

1498

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Reive, R.W. (I84557)

1499

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Halliday, R.E. (I84787)

1500

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Halliday, R.J. (I84785)

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