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1501	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Halliday, A.F.L. (I84766)
1502	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Everton, B.E. (I84799)
1503	[Edey.FTW] Notes for John Chamberlin Edey: The following article was written by John Henry Edey for the Spirit River, Alberta, history book "Chepi Sepe", which was published in 1988 John Chamberlain Edey was born February 3, 1893 at Wellwood, Manitoba. He was the second of six children born to Moses Samuel Edey and his wife, Jessier Rebecca Kilgore, who had come from Huntley Township near Ottawa, Ontarion in the 1880's. The Edey ancestors had come from Vermont, USA to the Ottawa Valley about 1805 and the Kilgore ancestors came from Tyrone County, Ireland in the early 1830's. During John's growing up years, farm boys were expected to work on the farm during the busy spring and fall seasons, and they went to school only in the winter months. Since John was the second son, he often helped at the farm of his aunt and uncle, kate and Harry Bradley, who had no son of their own. It was at Bradley's that he met Ethel Elizabeth Jones who had come from Kidderminster, England, in 1910. They were married in 1914 and took over the Bradley farm in 1915. Three years later they moved to another larger rented farm nearer Wellwood. There Ethel died of the flu in March 1920. John and Ethel had three children: Edward Samuel (Ted) born May 13, 1915, John Henry (Harry) born January 6, 1917; and Jessie Mary, born May 11, 1918. When Ethel died John was left with three children under five years of age. At that time farming was done with horses and one or more hired men were required to operate a farm of more than a quarter section. This was especially true during the heavy workload of spring plantin and fall harvesting. John needed a housekeeper who could cook for several men and take care of three small children. It was difficult to get a housekeeper who could handle the workload. During the winter months John and the three children would be alone. The four spent most evenings playing cards or crokinole. In 1924 the family moved to the Fairiview district, near Carberry, Manitoba and in April 1928, the family moved to Spirit River, Alberta. John brought a railway carload of farm machinery, furniture, and three horses from Manitoba. It took over a week to make the trip. There were 20 carloads of settlers on that train with several of them stopping at Spirit River. The family followed at the end of April and John had rented the Lee Tak farm, two miles north of Spirit River when they arrived. He farmed there for two years. During this time he did quite a lot of custom breaking of new land with his horses and breaking plow. In 1930 the family moved to Spirit Valley. During 1930 and 1931 John had no land to farm and used his horses and farm machinery to do custom work for other farmers. During the winter months he hauled wood to Spirit River to sell to the town people. In 1932, John rented the Jack Peackock farm and stayed there until 1944. He then bought the Chabot farm which would be the N 1/2 31-77-50W6 located about 5 miles southeast of Spirit River and just south of the Spirit River Settlement. This was the first land John had owned and he added to it later by buying another quarter just west of it. He farmed there until he retired in 1962 when he moved to the town of Spirit River. Because of ill health he was in hospital in Edmonton and Camrose in 1969. He died in Rose Haven Hospital in Camrose on February 6, 1971. John was active in community affairs and served as director of the Spirit Valley Community Hall Association, the Spirit River Co-op Store, the Smoky River Livestock Shipping Association, and the Farmers' Union local. He was very active in sports in his younger days and continued to play softball until over the age of 50. He was an active curler until poor health forced him to give it up. John's three children grew up in the Spirit River district. They all attended Broncho Creek School. Ted and Jessie went to high school in Spirit River. Ted married Adaline Hirning in 1944 and they still live in Spirit River. Harry married Iris Lewis in Wales in 1945 and they now live in Edmonton. Jessie married Kester Lillico in 1938; they farmed about a mile north of Spirit River. Jessie died in January, 1986. Their stories are given separately. No record of the John Edey family would be complete without an account of Mrs Godfrey, as she was always called. Davina Marion Renton was born on June 6, 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she completed school and went on to take further education and qualified as a specialist in Early Childhood Education. She taught in Scotland for many years before coming to Canada in 1920 to marry an old acquaintance, Alex J. Godfrey. Within three years the couple had separated and Mrs. Godfrey was left on her own. She went back to teaching in Manitoba and it was while teaching that she met the Edey family. She gave up here teaching job to look after the three motherless children. Mrs. Godfrey devoted the rest of her lift to this task often under very difficult circumstances. She too took an activer part in community affairs and was a good friend to all who knew here. She stayed with the Edey family the rest of her life. She was in poor health for a number of years before her death in Spirit River hospital in Septmeber, 1964.	Edey, John Chamberlin (I84673)
1504	[Edey.FTW] Notes for Karen Rebecca Everton: Karen graduated from Grade Twelve and went on to Red Deer College, taking Business Administration. She met Russ Reive and they were married in 1983. On February 3, 1984, their baby Robert (Robbie) arrived. On March 21, 1984, Karen was in a car accident, her husband was driving. Three days later, on March 23, 1984, Karen passed away.	Everton, Karen Rebecca (I84800)
1505	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Everton, L.R. (I84798)
1506	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Baker, M.E. (I84554)
1507	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Baker, N.A. (I84555)
1508	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Halliday, O.E. (I84765)
1509	[Edey.FTW] Notes for Rebecca (Rebe) Mary Edey: OBITUARY OF MARY REBECCA HALLIDAY 1905-1996 Mary Rebecca, daughter of Moses and Jessie Edey, was born on April 25, 1905 in North Cypress and attended school at Wellwood. In 1926 she married John Edward (or Jack) Halliday, a union that would last for over 60 years and be blessed with a family of three daughters and a son. In the early years of the marriage, home was wherever Jack's work took him but in 1950, the family settled in Neepawa. In 1983, Rebecca and Jack moved into Yellowhead Manor. Widowed in December 1987, Rebecca moved into Eastview Lodge the following February and it was there that she passed away on February 10, 1996. Essentially a homemaker and mother, Rebecca enjoyed people and had been involved in the Golden Age Club. She also enjoyed her game of Crib and the Eastview Lodge bowling. Rebecca was predeceased by her husband Jack, three brothers and two sisters. She is survived by her son, her three daughters, two sons-in-law, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. ******************************************************************* As we come together today, to mark the passing of Rebecca Halliday, we are encouraged to do so in faith. The faith that was expressed by the Psalmist in these words. "Those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High, Who abide in the shadow of the Almighty, Will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress, My God in whom I trust." (Psalm 91:vs. 1 & 2) It is by trusting God, by remembering the everlasting love of God, that we can indeed find comfort. Comfort through knowing that our loved ones are held in the arms of The God revealed to us by Jesus, as the loving Heavenly Father. With Rebecca in this safe keeping, we are able to find further consolation in sharing memories of her as mother, grandmother or friend. One, whose life, over its span of 90 years, touched in caring ways, the lives of others. This life span also witnessed truly dramatic changes in ways of living. Her childhood and early years were times when a great deal of effort went into simply meeting basic needs. Homemakeing with hydro and all the labour saving household appliances or the convenience of indoor plumbing was a constant time consuming job. Yet it was homemakeing that Rebecca was at her happiest - baking, gardening, quilting, doing crochet, tending her houseplants and enjoying her family - her children - her grandchildren. They will remember how Grandma always had oatmeal and date cookies for them. She was a real homebody, and while she thoroughly enjoyed visiting family and friends, always wanted to be back home before dark. Rebecca liked a game of Crib and with Jack belonged to the Golden Age Club. Even though she did buy a camera, she was never a photographer like Jack, but she still enjoyed the club outings and trips when Jack would capture all the highlights on photograph or slide. Another hobby they enjoyed together was attending auction sales and they built up a remarkable collection of salt and pepper shakers. Rebecca also had a thing about 4 leaf clovers and every patch of clover she saw would be thoroughtly and patiently searched until she found one, this to the great amusement of her family. There is no way in the short space of this service that we can do justice to the long and loving life she lived. Each one of you, however, will have your own special memories to be cherished and perhaps share. Now her time here is ended, and while there is sorrow at losing her from our sight, there should also be gratitude for the life she lived, the memories she has left, and the rest she has now found. Rev. George Scott February 15, 1996	Edey, Rebe Rebecca (Rebe) Mary (I84677)
1510	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Everton, R.L. (I84797)
1511	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Everton, R.R. (I84556)
1512	[Edey.FTW] NOTES: Samuel Edey, the Mayor of South Hull, is a son of Luther. He is familiarly known throughout the Valley as "Sam". He has been connected with municipal affairs for more than a quarter of a centruy, and few in the Valley will equal him in matters municipal. He is high up in Masonry, having been Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Quebec. "Sam" Discourses on the French-Canadians It is as entertaiing as a stroy book to listen to Sam's experiences in the lumber camps of the far north woods. "I have often been," said he, in one of his reminiscences of the forest, "for months with the French-Canadian shantymen, and a more genial lot of fellows I have never camped with. They are always happy, ready with a song or story, and make the time pass so delighttfully that I never tired of being with them: And then, he said, of the Frendh-Canadian, that which I have often heard remarked before, "I do not believe there is a happier people on the face of the earth, or more willing to do a kindly turn. and what, (as no doubt you have often remarked, in your wanderings through the Province of Quebec), is most commendable in those of the country districts, is this: they seldom build beyond their means, and never for simple show. The result is that they are far happier in a cottage that is paid for than many another people living in mortgage covered palaces, that are so sure to create heart burnings, and jealousies among neighbors." A PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN There are few, if any, in the Valley, morepublic spirited than Sam Edey. To him much is due and the success of the Agricultural Fair held annually in Aylmer. Both Samuel and Mrs. edey take many prizes at these Fairs. The Crown Bank of Aylmer offers, each year, a valuable silver cup for the best herd of cattle. It was this year awarded to Sam, who ways that the farmers of the county of Wright will have to give great attention to the improvement of their cattle else he will get in the habit of taking it annually. This season he offered to compete with any of the adjoining counties. This friendly competition is doing great good in bringin up the standard of all kinds of live-stock. If, in after years, this volume should prove a source of interest to those whose family records are here preserved, they will have much to thank Sam, for the preservation, for when, by reason of the risk attendant upon a local book, I would have given over the task, this man's cheery, "Go ahead, our people will support your efforts," gave heart to continue. Sam is a philosopher, in a way. "I'll never be rich," says he, "nor do I wish to be, since I see the sort that money makes of men, often cold, calculating, selfish - unwilling ever to do a thing that will not bring to themselves direct benefit. I don't refer to the broad rich, but to the little narrow fellows, and most of 'em are - well, not broad." Again he referred to the French. "The Frenchman is the true philosopher. He raises a family regardless of size-and with him the larger the better. He seldom hoards up for a rainy day, for says Jon Batiste: 'What ze use, I nevair can all ze rain keep off, en ef ze roof she leak ze kidz she can change ze place an go whare she is dry." and 'Jon Batiste' is right, for few of us can leave enough to make all of our children a lazy easy-going lot, and had better follow the Frenchman's plan and hoard not up, at the expense of present comfort, and especially if the hoarding make of us grinders of our fellows, as it invariably does. I'd rather be fair than rich." The Colonel never grew tired of listening to Sam. "Rube," he'd often say, "Sam has the correct view of life," and the Colonel was a good judge of the "Correct". Luther Edey is living with his son Luther, in the old Samuel Edey homestead. He is 86, and fairly well for that age.	Edey, Samuel H. (I84324)
1513	[Edey.FTW] Received from J.H. Edey (the following) Information on the EDEY family ......The name "Luther Edey" appears on a petition for a grant of land in Tunbridge Gore. This petition, dated Feb. 5, 1780, is printed in Mary Green Nye's "State Papers of Vermont Vol. V Petitions for Land" on pages 138-9, "Petitions of John Hutchinson et al for Tunbridge Gore". The State of Vermont "Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1785" has the following: page 191 Luther Ede in Capt. Joseph Parkhurst's Co., Aug. 9 - 12, 1780. pages 384-5 Luther Edye in Capt. Abner Seelye's Co. "from the beginning of the campaign 1781 to the 30th June in said year. pages 536-7 Luther Eddy in Capt. Abner Seelye's Co. July 1 - Nov. 17, 1781. Page 590 Luther Eddy in Capt. Beriah Green's Co. Nov. 30, 1781 to March 23, 1782. Pages 627-8 Luther Edy in Capt. Frye Bayley's Co. for 11 days some time between May, 1781 to the end of the war. Received from J.H. Edey (Harry) copies of correspondence which he has received from Angus Gilday. This first letter is dated 28 April, 1986. JANE, MOSES & SAMUEL EDEY. WHO WHERE THEIR PARENTS? FACTS AND SPECULATION. WERE THEY LUTHER AND MARY? From family records, and early research recorded by P.M.O. Evans in "The Wrights" - Moses Edey came to Hull in 1805 from Randolph, Vermont. Jane, Samuel and their mother followed in 1806. Jane married Edmund Chamberlin. Moses married Edmund's sister Elizabeth. Samuel married Abigail Wright, daughter of Thomas and niece of Philemon. Recent research by Harry Edey (JHE), Patrick M.O. Evans (PMOE) and Joan and Angus Gilday (JEG & AMG) has uncovered much of their background. PMOE found a gravestone in Bellevue Cemetery, Aylmer, Quebec, in 1982 - MARY, wife of LUTHER EDEY died November 23, 1842 aged 86 Hence, she was born c. 1756. JHE reported in "Who Was Wd. Edey?" in late 1983 that Vital Records of Vermont report the Edey births, and show the father as Wd. Edey. His further research brought him to the original records in Randolph VT. JEG & AMG visited Randolph in April, 1986, and located the same page 74 in Vol A. of Virths, Deaths, Marriages 1766 - 1868 for the Town of Randolph. The index listing of Edey - Widdow was also noted. Comment - There can no longer be any question of the letters W. meaning anything other than widow. JHE speculatd that the entries were made in 1800 to 1803, while AMG leans toward 1798 or slightly earlier. The main advantage of establishing this date would be to narrow down the period during which the father died. To father Samuel, he must have been alive past mid - 1785. He presumably was dead when Moses became the ward of Evans in March 1798. JHE found an entry in the Accelerated Indexing System which mentioned Edey, Luther, and Tunbridge Gore. JEG found the attached in the Montpelier library. (Note - the footnote is in error - the burning of Royalton was in 1780, not 1777). AMG found the following items in the same library. In the "Historical Souvenir of Randolph, Vermont", Nickerson & Cox, 1895 - "Oct. 16, 1780...Col. Horton's raid from Canada and the Lake up the Winooski, up the Jail Branch, down the first branch of the White River, and the devastation of Caughnawaga Indians in warpaint...These Indians had got seven Randolph settlers, - except Edward Evans, Mr. Eddy, Israel Kibbee, the two Blodgetts, James & Hanry, who had gon to Dresden on Sunday, and young Zadock Steele, who was asleep in the shanty of his father's lot in the north part of the town, and Asa Edgerton, who was in Bennington asking for a charter for the town. On page 2 of the same book - "William Evans...came with his wife, and a brother Edward Evans". John Evans is also mentioned in the book. JHE reported finding the Probate Records of the District of Randolph (copy from his letter attached). JEG & AMG found the same record in Chelsea, VT, where the Probate Court is located. Comment - it is interesting that Evans brothers were chosen, more than 4 years apart, as guardians of Moses & Samuel. Back to the library - the following was found in the census of 1800. Heads of Families - Vermont - Randolph, Orange County. Polly Edy 1 female of 26 & under 45, 1 female under 10 (Note: Jane would be 19 or 20 when this census was taken) Edward Evans 1 male under 10, 1 male of 10, under 16, 1 male of 16, under 26, 1 male of 45 & over. 1 female under 10, 1 female of 10, under 16, 1 female of 16, and under 26, 1 female of 45 & over. John Evans 1 male under 10, 1 male 10, under 16, 2 males 16, under 25, 1 male 45 & over. 1 female under 10, 1 female 45 & over. (Comment in the margin by JHE - I am not too sure of his conclusions here. Comment - Polly is a very common nickname for Mary. It would appear that Samuel was already living with John Evans, even though the adoption was not official until 1802. Still in the library - The Vermont Revolutionary Muster Rolls show a Luther Edey (or Ede, Eddy) in several Randolph companies. One roll, for 1781, show him in Newbury. This is also recorded in the "History of Newbury, Vermont", and a copy of the page is attached. Note he was in the same company as Nathaniel Chamberlin and several of Nathaniel's brothers. The library also contained a book called "The Eddy Family in America". At first this did not seem to offer a good clue. (JHE referred to this book, and the author's sugestion that the father may have been Othniel Eddey.) AMG found in the Supplement October 1940 an interesting addition. The two relevant pages are attached. Comment - Luther Eddy, a son of Elkanah and Patience (Cole) Eddy, B. Mar. 7, 1754, would be of suitable age to marry Mary "Polly", b. c. 1756. Mary entrusted her sons to Edward & John Evans. Could she be their sister? Conclusion - There can be little doubt that Jane, Moses & Samuel were the children of Luther & Mary "Polly" Edey. Research now should concentrate on the suggestions immediately above and any other leads to the originas of Luther & Mary. AMG 1986 04 28 JANE, MOSES & SAMUEL EDEY - WERE THEIR PARENTS LUTHER & MARY EDEY? Research by Patrick M.O. Evans, John Henry Edey, Joan E.G. Gilday & Angus M. Gilday points strongly to Luther & Mary as parents of the three Edeys who came to Hull early in the 19th. century........ In the international Genealogical Index, Angus Gilday found the following, all recorded in Plainfield Twp., Windham City, Connecticut: William Evans Born 10 Oct. 1731 son of Edward Evans/Jannet Edward Evans Born 03 Mar 1750 son of William Evens/Jannet William Evens Born 31 Jan 1752 son of William Evens/Jannet Mary Evens Born 12 April 1756 daughter of William Evens/Jannet John Evens Born 17 Nov. 1754 son of Edward Evens/Mary (There were other children of both William & Edward recorded) At this point, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the mother of Jane, Moses & Samuel was Mary Evens (Evans), wife of Luther Edey (Eddy), daughter of William & Jannet Evens, and probably grand-daughter of William & Jane Evans, and that she arranged for her brother Edward and cousin John Evens to be guardians of her sons. (note by J.H. Edey - quite possible and an interesting speculation. I wouldn't state it quite so strongly as he has done.) Angus Gilday found in the 1940 Supplement of "The Eddy Family in America", by Ruth S.D. Eddey: - Luther Eddy, son of Elkanah & Patience (Cole) Eddy, born March 7, 1754. (This family lived in Swansea and Warren, Rhode Island.) The Eddy/Cole marriage was found recorded in the I.G.I. and the birth of a daughter Amey, but no Luther, and no marriage of Luther & Mary.	Eddy, Luther (I03736)
1514	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, V.M. (I84567)
1515	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Edey, G.R. (I83905)
1516	[Edey.FTW] This is the story of the Alexander Mose Edey family. It was in March of 1892 that a girl, baby daughter, was born into the Watson family, a large family of about 12 or 13. She was of the younger ones who lived in Ireland. Shortly after she was born, about 2 years old, her parents died leaving her orphaned. She was raised in an orphanage. At the age of 16 she was to set sail on the Titanic for Canada, where a sister-in-law had moved after losing her first husband, and married again to one named George Kilgore. She had intended to visit and then go back to Ireland. But for some reason her passage was cancelled, so she took a small boat which took two weeks to come across to Canada. She later heard that the Titanic had sunk. Her name was Fanny Watson. Now in the year of 1892 a baby boy was born to the Mose Edey family, the first born, Alexander Mose. He grew up and attended school only in the winter months as he had to help his parents with the farm work. While yet a young man his mother took very sick. His father got specialists to help her. It took thousands of dollars but of no avail and she passed away. Meanwhile, Fanny was working for a Scottish couple named Jack MacCrae. She had been warned not to have anything to do with the Edeys so she tried to avoid them and her mistress told her that was not right. "The Edey's are a fine people and respectable, you should get to know them." One day Alex Edey came over to visit the MacCraes and they asked him in for dinner. That was the start of a courtship and finally marriage of my mother and dad, on Dec. 3, 1914. My mother was Anglican and believed she was saved at her confirmation. My dad was Presbyterian and I am told took a stand for the Lord at an early age but because they had no fellowship, did not grow in the Lord. Then in Sept. 22, 1915, I Morley Edey, was born. This is where my life started. My mother had a high respect for God and the Bible but did not know how to pass on the good news of salvation. She did implant in our lives the respect for God and His Word, the Bible. We lived too far away from Sunday School to attend until 1925 or 1926. We left our home and moved to a place near our Grandpa and near a small school. There the Salvation Army had Sunday School and church service. WE enjoyed the Sunday School and I remember and I got a book from my Sunday School teacher for, I believe, good attendance. All the while, I believed God and prayed to Him. But never really knew Him. Then in the spring of 1928, in a hurry, my uncle John and Dad moved to the Peace River Country to the town of Spirit River. There we went to the United Church of Canada where I learned the Ten Commandments and the Apostles Creed which I soon forgot. Then in 1931 we moved to the homestead in the Bridgeview area, just one and one half miles south of the peak of White Mountain. We were there twelve days when a forest fire came and burned everything we owned. My mother was home alone when it came up with one toddler and a baby in her arms. She went to a neighbours for help. This was at the beginning of the 1930 depression. We had to start from scratch. Dad and we boys used to work at the saw mill just two miles from our home and finally we started and got established again. Dad used to work out whenever possible and we boys used to work in the harvest field for extra or only money of any amount. In these years before radio, we boys and my sister Agnes, used to play the violins, guitar, banjo, uke and we finally started to play for dances and sometimes made a few dollars that way. We often trapped a little for spending money from the time we were sixteen years old, we boys hunted for our meat supply. We helped in this way. There was no incentive for a young person in those days, nothing but lots of time and nothing to show for it. I took up a homestead when I became of age but never had any ambition to develop it. In the winter of 1938 my brother Clarence and I had a close encounter with a grizzly bear which made me think on spiritual things. If he made one more jump, where would I be? In heaven or hell? I knew not where. In the spring of 1939, PRBI team, with a tent, came to the area, Mr. Ruark, four PRBI students came and Mr. Ruark one night led me to the Lord with Lena, then Brummond, and Edith Brownley, came to know Jesus. Edith's dad had forbidden her to continue at church and a year or two later, she was dragged to death, under a jeep, while her and a friend was out for an evening walk. Of course, Lena is my sister-in-law, Clare's wife. My life had a drastic change that fall, I left home to work at Brownvale, and then to PRBI for the winter, and next summer to Brownvale to work for the summer, then to PRBI next fall. The next year I worked for PRBI in improving and Maintenance work and gospel team work, the best time of my life. Then the army caught up with me. About the same time a young PRBI student and I were engaged to be married which took place that fall in Nanaimo, B.C. November 14, 1942 in a Pentecostal Church. Barbara Bresnahan was this young lady that I married. I worked away from her during the week but was able to be with her on the weekends only because I was with the B.C. forestry as a C.O. or conscientious objecter. She could not get work and she had a rough time making ends meet with my wages of 75 cents per day. We lived like that one winter and then in the spring, I was able to get into the army. Then life was much easier. She was paid wages as well as my own wages. That fall I was shipped to Eastern Canada where I took my basic and advanced training and also a course in shoemakeing, graduating with a B trades pay which was a lot more money. As time went on I was shipped overseas to England. I became a full corporal with trades pay. I was as much as a staff sergeant. Before I went overseas we had our first son born an hour and one half before my birthday, on September 21, 1943 Donovon Mose. I went over to England, it must have been in the fall of 1944, the last of August or the first of September. The war was still pretty hot but there were still buzz bombs and rockets that fell within sounding distance. Then in the fall of 1944, I attended a Bible School in England hoping that it would help me with my studies here at home, but it did not help much so I never got the chance to graduate from Bible School. On returning home we settled in the Watino and helped Barbara's mother with her farm. She, Mrs. Bresnahan, worked out . She was a very independent lady. We got along very well. She was a fine Christian lady. We farmed in Watino from 1946 - 1960. We bought a farm right next to my mother-in-law's farm so could look after both. In 1959, I had to borrow money in order to overhaul my tractor. I said to Barbara, "It would be better if we were to work out instead of working the farm with long hours and nothing to show for it." So in the spring of 1960 April, at Easter holidays, Donovan and I went out to Vanderhoof, B.C. looking for work. We found work in a planer mill, Parks Brothers Lumber Company Incorporated, where I worked until 1968. Then we moved out to Vancover Island for a year with the Nootka Mission where we worked with the native people and lumberjacks. I worked with Dr. McLean at his mission hospital. I worked as a handiman or maintenance man. Dr. McLean was a man who was a go go man, and I was one who took my time and tried to do a good job. So we clashed a little but I enjoyed the work. I used to fly out to camp and villages and go from house to house, telling people Dr. McLean was set up at a certain place and many times I had opportunities to testify of my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ my Saviour. Then in the fall of 1969 I came back home to Vanderhoof and started carpentering with Toby Millard. Then that winter I went to work in the bush with Corney Giesbrecht as a buckerman on the landing. This job I thoroughly enjoyed and worked all winter and then the next summer. The next fall I went to work for a sawmill but it was a long way from home, over icy roads. When I got a chance to come back to Vanderhoof again, I went to work with a planer mill but this one burned down and before it was built up again, they transferred us to another small planer mill. This boss I did not get along with because of his shady deals, so I got a job back with Toby Millard and carpentered for three or four more years. Then work slowed down so I went back to the planer mill and worked until I was 71 years old, grading lumber again. In 1984 or 1985, started building a log house after hours. I put in 3 1/2 to 4 hours every day on Saturdays and holidays for five years. I started out, we had about $1800 in the bank. Then in the September I was 65, I got my old age pension so was able to keep on the building. I built the whole house by myself. I needed some help putting up the rafters and part of the metal. I did my own electrical wiring and plumbing. Tim helped me whenever he had time but on the whole I built it most of it. Barbara and I moved in about 1986 or the spring of 1987 into our new home. Oh, the joy it was to have much room. It was 32' X 44' with a full upstairs and partial basement for furnace and wood room. Barbara was getting bad with arthritis by this time so we bought mechanized power wheel chair. And finally in the fall of 1987, I believe, or thereabouts, she went to hospital in Prince George. She wanted them to give her a new hip, but they wouldn't. So in the next fall, 1988 I believe it was, she wanted to go to Grande Prairie, where she heard they did the job. So we had her moved to Grande Prairie where they did the job in about three weeks after she was here. So I spent that winter between Grande Prairie and Vanderhoof. So in the early winter, some people wanted our place, in Vanderhoof, so we sold and I moved out here. Then, my youngest son, Victor, and family, bought a large acreage, raw land, and asked me if I would help them build a house. I could live with them, so that is what I did. This house is the same size as our Vanderhoof house, only it is frame. It's double 2" X 4" walls on the outside frame . I did a lot or work on it but also I missed a lot of time because of surgery and sickness but I think I can say did 50 percent of the building or more maybe. Now I have the master bedroom of the house and live with Vic and Sandy, his wife, and four grandchildren. I am still quite active and have a shop 28 X 40 feet long where I can spend a lot of my time doing things on my wood lathe and many other tools and enjoy every bit of it. My children's names are Donovan, killed in an auto accident, Charlotte in Washington, U.S.A., Alexander, Valley View, Alberta, Eileen, Vernon, B.C., Thelma, Terrace, B.C., Anne, Beaverlodge, Alberta, Tim, Vanderhoof, B.C. and Victor, Grande Prairie, Alberta. I could tell you many other stories but they will have to wait until next time. I am still active and love to hunt a little but my eyes aren't as good as they used to be but when I get my eyes on game, I can still give them a tough time. I am a member of Grace Bible Fellowship, Evangelical Free affiliated. I am also a committee member for the Shantymen Christian Association. I am also a committee member of the Bear Lake Bible Camp. I love my Saviour, my precious Saviour, He died on Calvary's cross for me, but now He is risen, gone back to heaven, some day He's coming back for me. I praise His name. Barbara has gone to meet the Lord, Jan. 5, 1994, about ten minutes to two and was buried in the Bridgeview Cemetery a week later and now I am come to the end of my story and I hope that this will give you an idea of my life story. May God Bless You all, Thank you. Well, Norma and Les, I hope this will help. There is some tape so I will try to give you some news. Vic works on the City of Grande Prairie buses, he is a bus driver. He has about six horses here and he has fixed up a sleigh and goes sleigh riding and things like that. He is quite active, him and his wife are quite active, Sandy, is quite active in the Alliance church here, the children attend Sunday School. Today, Vic is working, and Sandy and the kids are away at her mothers place for supper so I am on my own. Ann is lives at Beaverlodge, and she has five children and she does some sub teaching, she has her teacher's certificate and she is sub teaching some times. Dennis has had trouble finding a job but he does look after the home . He looks after the cooking and just about everything in the house when Anne is not around. Alex and his family are living in Valley View. But Alex himself is out in the bush running a faller buncher. He gets home about once every two weeks or there abouts and otherwise he is working steady. Alex likes to run big machinery. This Faller Buncher is quite a big machine and he likes it and seems to be doing okay. The weather here has been very cold for about a week and now we have more snow again. We have about 3 or 4 inches last night and we have about 3 feet or more at the present time. We like to go ski-dooing some times, Vic has a couple of ski-doos here but most of all he likes his horses. He likes to ride horse back, he goes up into the mountains in the summertime, for a week, and just rides and then in the wintertime he's got a sleigh that he uses for sleigh rides and then in the summer time he takes people riding with a rubber tired machine, wagon. I don't seem to be able to keep up with my thoughts here so we'll call it just about quits. I hope this is going to be good for you and that all these things will help. I know there are other stories you would like me to tell but right off hand I don't seem to be up on storytelling so I think I will close for now. I am 78 years old, I will be 79 this September. I trust you all that this will help in the writing of the history of the Edey family so may God bless you richly and may the Lord lead and direct you in every way, we pray, in Jesus name.	Edey, Morley Mose Watson (I84562)
1517	[Edey.FTW] This is the story of the Alexander Mose Edey family. This is written by Morley Edey It was in March of 1892 that a girl, baby daughter, was born into the Watson family, a large family of about 12 or 13. She was of the younger ones who lived in Ireland. Shortly after she was born, about 2 years old, her parents died leaving her orphaned. She was raised in an orphanage. At the age of 16 she was to set sail on the Titanic for Canada, where a sister-in-law had moved after losing her first husband, and married again to one named George Kilgore. She had intended to visit and then go back to Ireland. But for some reason her passage was cancelled, so she took a small boat which took two weeks to come across to Canada. She later heard that the Titanic had sunk. Her name was Fanny Watson. Now in the year of 1892 a baby boy was born to the Mose Edey family, the first born, Alexander Mose. He grew up and attended school only in the winter months as he had to help his parents with the farm work. While yet a young man his mother took very sick. His father got specialists to help her. It took thousands of dollars but of no avail and she passed away. Meanwhile, Fanny was working for a Scottish couple named Jack MacCrae. She had been warned not to have anything to do with the Edeys so she tried to avoid them and her mistress told her that was not right. "The Edey's are a fine people and respectable, you should get to know them." One day Alex Edey came over to visit the MacCraes and they asked him in for dinner. That was the start of a courtship and finally marriage of my mother and dad, on Dec. 3, 1914. My mother was Anglican and believed she was saved at her confirmation. My dad was Presbyterian and I am told took a stand for the Lord at an early age but because they had no fellowship, did not grow in the Lord. Then in Sept. 22, 1915, I Morley Edey, was born. This is where my life started. My mother had a high respect for God and the Bible but did not know how to pass on the good news of salvation. She did implant in our lives the respect for God and His Word, the Bible. We lived too far away from Sunday School to attend until 1925 or 1926. We left our home and moved to a place near our Grandpa and near a small school. There the Salvation Army had Sunday School and church service. WE enjoyed the Sunday School and I remember and I got a book from my Sunday School teacher for, I believe, good attendance. All the while, I believed God and prayed to Him. But never really knew Him. Then in the spring of 1928, in a hurry, my uncle John and Dad moved to the Peace River Country to the town of Spirit River. There we went to the United Church of Canada where I learned the Ten Commandments and the Apostles Creed which I soon forgot. Then in 1931 we moved to the homestead in the Bridgeview area, just one and one half miles south of the peak of White Mountain. We were there twelve days when a forest fire came and burned everything we owned. My mother was home alone when it came up with one toddler and a baby in her arms. She went to a neighbours for help. This was at the beginning of the 1930 depression. We had to start from scratch. Dad and we boys used to work at the saw mill just two miles from our home and finally we started and got established again. Dad used to work out whenever possible and we boys used to work in the harvest field for extra or only money of any amount. In these years before radio, we boys and my sister Agnes, used to play the violins, guitar, banjo, uke and we finally started to play for dances and sometimes made a few dollars that way. We often trapped a little for spending money from the time we were sixteen years old, we boys hunted for our meat supply. We helped in this way. There was no incentive for a young person in those days, nothing but lots of time and nothing to show for it. I took up a homestead when I became of age but never had any ambition to develop it. I was glad to get your letter and Questionair. I think that is the best way to jog our memory. If you sent me one I don't remember it but I will try to answer them one by one. We were a very priveleged family. We had Parents who even before they made their last commitment to the Lord were People of High standard. I think I can truthfully say Mom was the keel and rudder of the Family ship. I used to hear many conversations while Mum and Dad were in their bedroom. That I wasn't supposed to hear. Dad loved to read and of course he read something on evolution one time and made mention to Mum. How could we be sure there was a God & that evolution could be true. Mum came right back with "Dad How could you ever believe such a thing." Dad was always a hard working person and always very energetic. We'd go visiting relatives on a Sunday and he'd end up play 'anti-I-over' or ball or horse shoes with us kids. Dad while in Manitoba was not always well. He would take sick with high fever quite suddenly. He used to drive the school van with a team of horses. One day he took sick I was very young. Probably 7 years old and didn't know how to drive. He tied the horses lines on the front of the box and lay down on the floor of the sleigh (winter time) and they went home on their own. His fever would get so high he would go delirious. He would say all kinds of crazy things that made no sense at all. When He & Mother were married they went into debt to buy a farm & build a house. It was right begining of the 1st world war. He had a very hard time making his mortgage Payment. There was a hired man working for the neighbors. Who used to come to our house to visit as a friend and made out he was a friend. But He went & bought our home right out from under us. This hurt Dad very much when a professing friend pulled such a dirty trick. But I believe God was at work. He quickly rented a place near GrandDads place less than 1/2 a mile. He & Grand Dad worked together farming. Dad used to cut oak Posts and hauled wood for sale as well as a few cattle & pigs. I should have told you something more about Mother & Dad when they were married 1st they wanted to have a Christian home. Dad apparently made a stand for the Lord when He was a Young Man & Mother was confirmed in the Anglican (Church of England) when she was quite young. They didn't want to have cards (games) in their home. But their family were quite worldly and soon had them involved in worldly games, etc. My Dad was born & raised in the Wellwood area untill he move to the Peace River Country. In the winter of 1928. Dad & Uncle John went together sometime in that winter then Mum & us kids came April 28, 1928. I remember Dad left a horse for Mum to sell so she could buy our tickets to Spirit River, Alberta. I remember her having a very hard time trying to get some one who would buy it but when she did She got right on the train with us 6 little kids. Kathleen was only about 4 or 5 months old I believe. So she had her hands full. we packed a big lunch to last I think 3 or 4 days worth. But in Edmonton she took us all to a restraunt. When we got to Spirit River it had snowed the day before about 12 - 16 in. And it was mud to the axels for 2 1/2 miles to the place Dad had rented. When we got there Uncle John & another fellow were living their & they moved out that afternoon. What mud what a reception. Dad got a Job with the next door neighbor. His Bosse's name was Jim McGillvary. I should have said Something about My Mother before now. You'll have to forgive my disjointedness of tho't. My Mother was the 2nd. youngest of a family I think of 12 children very large family. I'm not sure of how many. Her Father died when she was quite young her mother died a year or so later. She was raised in an ophanage which she didn't make public. She love her Matron appently she was a fine woman of high Christian Principals of the Anglican Church. They learned many skills of house keeping & knitting. She could knitt very fast and didn't have to watch her needles. When she became 16 Her sister-in-law who had imigrated to Canada after her husband died (Mum's Brother). She married again to My Dad's Uncle George Kilgore. Mother was going to Canada to this Sister-in-law for a visit. She book a passage on the Titanic but for some reason (God's hand) her passage was cancelled and booked on a smaller ship. It took her 2 weeks to cross on it. They also encountered ice bergs. When she arrived at Geo. Kilgore after a while she got a job working as a house keeper for a family in the Wellwood area where My Dads parents live. I believe their Names where Jack?? or Dave?? Mackey? I'm not sure if this is the right spelling of their name. Mackey's were good friend to the Edey family. Now there was a fued bettween Grandad & Geo. Kilgore. Grandad was married to Kilgores sister. Kilgore caried a grudge most of his life. And wouldn't even go to my Grandmother's funeral. But my Mother was warned not to have anything to do with the Edey family. But Mrs. Mackay soon put her wise to this and one day Dad came to visit the Mackay's and Mum didn't want to meet him. But Mrs. Mackay told her what a fine family they were and soon there was a couple pretty friendly and finaly marrage Mother came from Ireland in 1912 and in 1914 Dec 3 I believe the were married & I arrived in 1915 Sept. 22. Now we are in Spirit River in the fall of 1928 we moved to a house 1/2 mile south of Spirit river. Dads new Boss Is now a Bachlor named Mark A. Roycroft a very well to do man. He used to go to Hiwai nearly every winter & Dad look after his horses & place etc. In the mean time Dad had homesteaded in the Bridgeview area. And used to go out whenever he had some spare time and Built a small log cabin. The 1st 2 summers or maybe 3 He work all summer with Mark A. Then the 30's came along and one spring Mark A told Dad he couldn't keep him on steady anymore. He advised Dad to go to his Homestead and come back when Mark A had work which would be harvest time. Which Dad did. We moved out to the homestead I believe April 28 I believe 1931 and on the 12th. of May we burned out. There was about 6" of snow on the ground. Clare had a toothache and Dad figured it would be safe to take him to the Dr & have it pulled when he got home everything was gone. I Believe this was the Protecting hand of God on Him again. If Dad had been at home he may have died in that fire. We stayed at the neighbors that night the next day we went to a house near where our old house was it had one ply of ship lap on it & it had dried out and the wind and cold air came thru every crack and it snowed again that night & we were all cold but lived thru it. Dad said if he had some place to go he would have left but he had no place to go. One of our 1st visitors was a cantancorous old Batchelor who drove in with his team & Buggy and he had gathered some money & a list of things such as chickes & clothes and many of our needs were temporarily supplied many neighbours far & near came & helped us build a house which still stands. But in bad need of repair. We've had to change & repair roofs since then. Mr. George Pring gave us lumber we could work off later. Which we did & worked there for lumber as wages then traded to lumber for Horses cows pigs and almost anything we needed. My 1st. cow Dad told me I could go & make my own deal. I went in fear & trembling to Esher where I made the deal. Later Dad traded me a young heifer for this cow that is where I got started my herd. I had also along with Mother homesteaded. But there was no goal to work for and I didn't get very far proving mine up then One spring We had a picnic at Burnt River (school picninc I believe). the Chairman of the Board ask Mr. Pring to bring in a Bible School student who were working in the Spirit River area to come out and have a service at the Picnic. Which they did and after that a P.B.I. student. A little Irishman by the name of Wilfred Watson who worked at a dairy farm in Spirit River. Many a day he walked 12 miles there abouts on Sunday to hold services in our school. Then when he was to go back to school he got some one from PRBI to take over the services in our school the next spring they brought a big tent to the district and held evangelistic messages for 2 wk which lasted 2 months. Now, Before I go into this part of our story we work in the Mill for Mr. Pring and could by many things even Pork or whole pig we'd buy for $5.00 worth of lumber. We use to hunt for our meat moose & Dear and sometimes bear meat if we were real hungary. When Clare and I became of age to hunt on our own we kept the place in meat summer & winter. Mother canned the meat in summer in winter we froze it. we used to salt it away too sometime; we let very little of it go to waist. We used to trap for weasels & coyotes to buy shells. and sometimes clothes. We always brought our wage home to Mum & Dad untill we left home or went to Bible school. The only spending money we had would be a couple of dollars from weasel hides. And that we tried to buy everyone of the family a small gift for Christmas. One day we were looking at our traps. Agnes wanted to come with me for the walk. On the way we seen these big track in the snow I said it must be some ones horse wandering around but as I walked in his steps I said to Agnes this horse sure steps short as it had snowed during the night & partly covered the track so we couldn't see clearly the imprint but where we came back home we walked along a fence and the track went right thru the fence & never broke it Then it come to me It's a bear I told Agnes I went home told Clare & we both took after it with only One rifle. Now this was Sunday we never, never hunted on Sunday. But Grandad Edey had just come up from Man. and he said he'd like to have a Bear steak. And Uncle John said Alex boys are the only place you will get it for you. Of course me & Clare where those boys. so we were bent on getting this for Grandad Sunday or No Sunday So the hunt was on We had a good Dog with us the best hunting dog we ever had. He stayed within our sight at all times & never left us unless we told him too. Now this area there were only black bear and we were quite green about the fact that this was only a big black Bear we followed his tracts untill we jumped him & of course we set the Dog on him to tree him but the dog made a few excited barks & came back to us. he left and we went to get help & more guns we found Dad & Reg at Frank Brownlees & he gave us his gun & we went back & tried to chase him out of about 5 or 6 acres of heavy willows so we could see him to shoot him but he had different ideas It went around & around this bush and us trying to get him to leave. We were just about played out & I had just told Clare that I had to quit when all of a sudden the bush came alive with a hair raising roar like a male bull & the old bear up on its hind feet coming toward us & parting the brush with it fore Paws. He was about 12 ft. from us and we both started shooting. I had six shells in my gun Clare had 7 in his because he was in the lead with a loaded gun. I shot all my six and said to Clare I'm empty. he said I have one left. I'll hold him off till you reload. I didn't know I was rattled untill I tried to put the shells in my rifle. I didn't know which end to put them in at, but finally made it then Clare shot him behind the ear & finished him off. When that old Bear was 12 ft and coming the tho't went thru my mind if that bear make one more jump would I end up in Heaven or Hell I didn't know. We estimated he weighed while alive at around 1000 lbs. He had many bullet hole (old ones) in him. When we skinned him out we found 11 bullet holes and lead down both sides of his teeth so all 13 shots must have found there mark. We were big heros for some time to come. When my Dad & Reg came to where we downed the bear Dad said That's a Grizzly After we had it out our trapper freind told us it was a grizzly. Now that winter While PRBI students came to the school to hold services Agnes was the 1st to accept the Lord then it was I believe Reg & Mum. I'm not sure of the rest but I know within the year each member had accepted Christ as Saviour & Lord. The following information is taken from the book, "Memories and Moments" about Willowvale, White Mountain & Bridgeview. I do not know the date of publication but I believe it could be in the early 1980's. Apparently this information was submitted by Clarence Edey. Alex Edey was born in Wellwood, Manitoba, in 1891, and lived there until his move to the Peace River area in 1928. Fanny Edey (Watson) was born in Middleton, County Cork, Ireland, in 1891 and came to Canada in 1912. She tried to get passage on the Titanic but was not able to, so her coming was put off until August of that year. She came to Wellwood with the intention of going back to Ireland in a year's time. However, in the meantime, she met Alex and things turned out differently. There were married on December 2, 1914, making their home in the Wellwood district for the next 14 years. The family grew to six, Morley, Clarence, Agnes, Reg, George and Kathleen. Then Alex and his brother John came to the Spirit River district with their families and a box car of settler's effects. Alex arrived in Spirit River on Tuesday, April 3. Bob Inglis was on the same train but they didn't know each other at that time. John came a few days later with the box car of effects. Fanny and children arrived on Tuesday, April 24. There were two trains that came into Spirit River each week - Tuesdays and Fridays. We lived in Spirit River until 1931, when we moved to the homestead. The years that followed brought many exciting times, some pleasant and some not so pleasant, such as fire two weeks after arriving on May 12. Making roads, clearing the first pieces of land for gardens and crops for feed and the logging and mill work. Trying to make ends meet in the 1930's was not easy for the parent with a large family. Hunting and trapping was a part of our life when we came to the homestead, so it had its exciting times too. In November 1938 was no exception when a grizzly bear came into the district, walking in a foot of snow, and causing a little excitement for brother Morley and I. We had Dad and Reg on the road east of the Martin home hoping to chase Mr. Bear out across the road but that didn't work. So after a couple of hours standing, Dad and Reg became cold and were about to go home when we suggested to them to go up a little field of Martin's just behind their buildings and we would try and chase him that way. So after a little more tracking Mr. Bear, he decided he had gone far enough. He sat down twice and tried to make up his mind as what to do, then the third time he decided to do the chasing. The bush was thick alders and willows so he came charging on his hind legs and breaking brush with his fore legs. Mouth wide open and white teeth showing, he was about 12 feet away from us. We fired and he fell to the ground making a very loud bellowing noise. he did not stay down long, so on his feet again, although very dazed, he stood up and took 9 more shots through the shoulders and from the chest to the tail end. Then weakened, he started to stagger back against a clump of willows and with a shot in the neck sank to the ground where another shot was placed to the head. We had two 32 Winchester Special rifles. He was hung up at our farm for a month with the insides taken out. We had him weighed on McArthurs' platform scale and he weighed 595 lbs. The hide was tanned and given to mother. FIRE Then there was the fire two weeks after we had arrived on the homestead. It was a nice warm spring morning on May 12, 1931, very clear with a few curls of smoke coming up in a distance from land clearing. Dad and I left for Spirit River to get my tooth pulled as it ached all night. Little did we know when we left home that morning that it would not be there when we returned. When we arrived in Spirit River around noon, the sky became very smokey, sometimes covering the sun. There were fires between Spirit River and White Mountain. Mother, with two small children at home, decided to lie down with them after dinner, but before she did, she went out and saw the country becoming very smokey. So she decided to take the children and go to the neighbour's, who were the Brownlees, just a mile down the road. (They had more clearing around their house.) So, taking Francis, who was one year old, in her arms, and Kathleen, who was three years old, she headed down the trail, which was just that, with dense bush on both sides. Mother gave Kathleen a ball and by throwing it ahead of her and getting her to chase it kept her moving. After arriving at Mrs. Brownlees, she asked if there were any men around as she had left a horse in the barn which she was unable to turn loose. Mrs. Brownlee was nervous, too, and said there wasn't anyone around. Mother met the other children coming home from school and Morley, who was 15 years old, was not with them. So she sent one of them back for him and his cousin Walter Varnals, who later homesteaded the quarter the school was on. When they arrived at our farmstead, shortly after 4 PM, everything was on fire. The barn was burned with the horse inside, and a sow with 9 little ones, was in a log enclosure behind the barn. The sow managed to get out of the pen but her lungs were so burned that she had to be killed. Four little pigs were saved with two of them having very badly burnt feet. Hens and turkeys were also burned with the exception of five hens and one turkey. One cow was loose so she managed to go ahead of the fire and escape injury. Dad and I came through all the timber south of McArthurs. We had a disc trailing behind our wagon which started to squeal, so thinking it was lacking grease, Dad took an oil can and ran back to squirt some oil on the bearing but just found a root stuck in the disc. While we were stopped we could hear the roar of the fire west of us. Had we been a few minutes later we wouldn't have made it through. Mother met us at the corner of our road and told us not to go up to the farmstead as everything was on fire and burnt up. Mrs. McGovern also had two small children, Lillian and Alex, and she came through two or more miles of winding trail, which was alive with wild life, till she got to McArthurs. Mr. McGovern stayed to fight fire at Pring's Sawmill along with several other men. They would have been overcome by heat and smoke except for a hole dug in the sawdust pile. The day after the fire Mr. Pring stopped by to chat with Dad and he said he hadn't seen any sign of his cow. After he left and walked a couple hundred yards up the road, dad heard a bell. The cow had almost made it out but was overtaken. The frame house that Jolleys had built across from our farmstead was where our family were to move into but it too was on fire. Ed Deener happened to pass by and noticed so he took his smock off, dipped it in the creek and managed to put it out. Then again that evening Dad, Jim Jolley and Walter Varnals went to check on the fire and found it had started burning again, so they poured water on it and spent the night there. After the fire, came the job of rebuilding and getting started again. People were very good, Mrs. Jolley sent out dishes for us to use and much clothing and other needs were met by neighbours, even to supplying many chickens. Mr. Pring supplied lumber to help build a new home, which would be worked out later in regards to payment. The landscape looked pretty bleak, everything black, the green spruce was a mass of standing black stumps and stripped trees. A new house had to be built so a work bee was organized to help with the building which served as the family home for many years and which still stands today. The roof had been changed some from the original one. Bill Moss was a young bachelor at that time and he also lost his little house. Since these past events, Dad - Alex Edey - passed away in Grade Prairie on August 5, 1972, at the age of 81 years and Mom - Fanny Edey - now 91 years old, resides in the Auxiliary Hospital in Grande Prairie. The other members of our family are: Morley - married Barbara Bresnahan - live in Vanderhoof, B.C. and had 8 children - Donovan(killed in a car accident), Charlotte, Alexander, Eileen, Thelma, Timothy, Ann and Victor. Clarence - married Lena Brummond - live in Grande Prairie, Alta, and have 5 children - Catherine, Margaret, Gordon, Darlene and James. Agnes - married Hieni Germann - live in Nashville, Tenn. have 6 children, Priscilla, Heini-Peter, Calvin, Luke, Samuel and Daniel. Reg - married Jean McKenzie - live in Regina, Sask., have 5 children - Norma, Allen, Stewart, Kenneth and Gwendolyn. George - lives in Grande Prairie Kathleen - married Albert Hannah, - live in Halfmoon Bay, B.C. - have 4 children - Lorne, Audrey, Rodney and Florence. Francis - married Emma Weme - live in Creston, B.C. Roy - married Judith Botsford - live in Grande Prairie, Alta, have 3 children - Kerry, Wanda and Douglas. Additional notes by Clarence Edey, received Sept. 8, 1995 BLACKSMITHING IN BRIDGEVIEW In the early years on the homestead, things like plows, wagons, sleighs, whippletrees and chains, etc., wore out, broke, and needed repair. Alex Edey was the answer to many of these problems. He brought with him, to the homestead, a blacksmith outfit, forge and anvil, which was used to repair and help the neighbourhood keep their machinery going. On one occasion, when a casting on a breaking plow broke and had to be ordered, it took several days to come. Alex was asked if he could make a piece to help them keep going until the part arrived, which he did. The new part was never used as the piece he made was much stronger and stood up to the stumps better. Many mornings in the hot weather, if you passed by the Edey's at four-thirty or five A.M., you would have heard the sound of the hammer on the anvil pounding out shears for some neighbour. Blacksmithing was a livelihood for the family also, money was not always received but butter, eggs, lumber, meat or other items were given in trade. It was a place where his six sons found a retreat on a rainy day and also learned from watching and helping Dad. Many happy memories are still in their minds as they remember turning the blower and watching the iron heat in the fire. Then to see the red hot iron shaped into some useful item on the anvil under the weight of the hammer and the know how of the one doing it. Written by Clarence Edey (I believe - {note by Kathleen Hannah}) for submission in "Memories and Moments of White Mountain, Willowvale, Bridgeview".	Edey, Alexander Moses (I84561)
1518	[Edey.FTW] WHO WAS WD. EDEY? BY J.H. Edey, AGS #1300 When I started searching my family background in the summer of 1980 all I knew about the Edey family was the fact that my grandfather had come from Carleton County, Ontario, and settled in Manitoba in the 1880's. On our way to Eastern Canada my wife, Iris, and I visited aunts and uncles in Manitoba and were given an address of their cousin in Carleton Place, Ontario. When we visited this cousin later we found that much research had been done by various members of the Edey family and others in the Ottawa area. We were able to get the books: "What Men They Were!" by S. Wyman MacKechnie and "The Wrights" by Patrick M.O. Evans. We learned that my great great grandfather, Moses Edey, had come from Randolph, Vermont, in 1805 and had settled in Aylmer, Quebec, about 8 miles upriver from Hull. His widowed mother, his sister Jane, and his brother Samuel followed the next year. This information gave us a wonderful start and I began to do further research. Through correspondence with relatives in Ontario who had visited Vermont we learned that the births of the three Edeys mentioned were registered in the Vital Records of Vermont as follows: Jane Edey born in Randolph, June 11, 1780 Moses Edey born in Newbury, September 18, 1781 Samuel Edey born in Randolph, May 18, 1786 The name of the father was given as Wd. Edey. The problem now was to find who was Wd. Edey. What kind of a man was he who had a child in Randolph one year, another in Newbury the next year and a third in Randolph five years later? Why all the moving around? What did Wd. stand for? The Ontario cousins suggested that Wd. could be an abbreviation for Willard. I searched the microfiche at the LDS Genealogical Library in Edmonton and sure enough, there were the three names with birth dates and places as above and the father's name - WD EDEY. I found several Willard Eddys on the microfiche and in the 1790 Census of the United States. There was also a Ward Eddey but none of them seemed to be right. In June, 1983, I sent to the LDS Genealogical Department in Salt Lake City for photocopies of the three records. On all three copies the space for Full Name of Father was written in as Wd. Edey. Spaces for Maiden Name of Mother, Mother's Birthplace, Mother's Residence, Father's Birthplace, and Father's Occupation had been left blank. Each of the photoduplicates had a separate statement as follows: "Town of Randolph. I hereby certify that the facts set forth on the reverse side of this card are matters of record in this office." with the signature "E.F. Briggs, Town Clerk". No dates for this signature were given. This indicated that E.F. Briggs had copied from another source. We were in Vermont in September, 1983. In the Vital Records Office in Montpelier I found the cards and confirmed that the photocopies were exact duplicates. In the Vermont Historical Library I searched for two days for some record of a Wd. Edey without success but I did learn some history of Randolph. There had been an Indian raid on Randolph on October 16, 1780. One man was killed and the other men present were taken captive to Canada where they were kept for two years. Some men escaped because they happened to be absent at the time. Among these was a Mr. Eddy. The women and children were left homeless and had to find shelter in other towns. This could account for the fact that Moses Edey was born in Newbury. Since he was born eleven months after the raid his father was not one of the captives. The settlers of Randolph had applied for the incorporation of the town a few months before the raid and one of the signatures on the application is Thomas Eddy. However, because of the raid and the absence of the settlers, incorporation was not completed and a council was not elected until 1783. I also discovered the E.F. Briggs had been Town Clerk of Randolph from 1910 to 1921. Evidently he had completed the cards during this period. Then I found in the Randolph Town Office what I believe is the source which E.F. Briggs had used. It is "Vol. A. of Births, Deaths, Marriages 1766 - 1868 for the Town of Randolph" - The Index listed the name "Edey - Widdow" and referred to page 74. I had page 74 duplicated and the entries are shown here. (J.H. Edey has shown copies of this information in his article.) When I asked a clerk in the Randolph Town Office what she thought Wd. stood for she immediately said "Widow". I believe she is right and I am continuing my research on that assumption. If this assumption is correct, then E.F. Briggs (or someone in his office) made an error when he filled in the Full Name of Father as Wd. Edey and any records copied from these cards are in error. We did not have time to continue our research in Vermont. I think that the three entries were all made at the same time. Perhaps minutes of Randolph Town Council would have some information about the time the records were started. Evidently they were recorded before the Edey family moved to Canada in 1805-6. The question "Who Was Wd. Edey?" remains unanswered at present. I am writing this article with the idea that someone else may find any record of the first name or maiden name of the Widow Edey who came to Canada with her three children. The book Vermont's First Settlers" by Jay M.Holbrook (p. 31) shows a Thomas Eddy had a Land grant in Randolph on June 29, 1781. I could find no record of the family in the 1790 Census of Randolph or Vermont. "The Vermont Historical Gazetter Volume 2" by Hemenway in considering who was the first child born in Randolph suggests this may have been "Jane Eddy, daughter of a certain widow Eddy who moved into town a short time before the proprietors voted to give the first woman that settled in Middlesex, 100 acres of land. The records show Mrs. Eddy had one child previously, and one after, born elsewhere. It does not appear she received the 100 acres." (p. 1042). This write quotes from older manuscripts. Ruth Story (Devereux) Eddy in her article "The Eddy Pioneers and Settlers in Vermont" in The Eddy Family Association Bulletin Vol. VII, No. I, date October 29, 1927, writes, "In 1780 in Randolph there was a widow Edey with two sons, Moses and Samuel, and a daughter, Jane. She moved there just before the proprietors voted to give the first woman who settled in Middlesex Co. 100 acres of land. I could not find whether she ever received the land. The children bear regular Eddy names. They must belong somewhere on the Eddy tree, probably on the Obadiah of Middleboro branch, but as yet I cannot connect them." The same author wrote a book "The Eddy Family in America" which was published in 1930. On page 169 she gives the name of Jane, Moses, and Samuel Edey and suggests their father may have been Othniel Eddy, the son of Joel Eddy of Ashford, Connecticut. Jonathon Carpenter lists the residents of Randolph near the end of his diary. He usually gives both the first and last names but he has written one surname without a first name. It appears that he wrote "Edy" and then changed the "y" to a 'd' or and 'e' and added a 'y' at the end. This name could be "Eddy", "Edey" or "Edgy". This list seems to have been completed about 1783. When Ontario relatives were in Vermont in September they found records of the two brothers in the Probate Records. I obtained Microfilm No. 6888 Probate Records of the District of Randolph 1792 - 1850 from the LDS Genealogical Department in Salt Lake City and found the following information on pages 74 and 79: Samuel Edey, A Minor -- At a Probate court holden at Williamstown in for the District of Randolph in the first Day of December Anno Domini 1802 Jonathon Frist Esq. Judge -- Samuel Edey a Minor residing in Randolph in said District personally appeared and made choice of John Eavens of said Randolph to be his lawfull guardian. At the said Court the said John appeared & accepted of said trust of Guardian to said Minor who together with William Ramzey of said Randolph became bound in the sum of five hundred dollars as surety for the faithfull discharge of said Trust -- whereupon a Letter of Guardianship issued to the said John Eavens. Attest Jonathon Frist Judge of Probate. Moses Edey, A Minor -- At a Court of Probate holden at Randolph in and for the District of Randolph on the 21st day of March Anno Domini 1798. -- Personally appeared Moses Eddy a minor residing in Randolph & made choice of Edward Evans of said Randolph for his lawful guardian. -- Likewise appeared said Edward Evans and with Joseph Carpenter of said Randolph became bound in the sum of four hundred Dollars as security for his faithgul discharge of said trust -- whereupon a Letter of Guardianship was granted to said edward Evan. Attest David Storrs Register. I wonder if there is any significance to the fact that these choices of guardians were made almost five years apart and at times when the brothers were about seventeen and a half years old. I hope others will find this information useful for further research. Here are my suggestions for continuing research. Somewhere in the Ottawa area there should be some information about the Widow Edey, the mother of Jane, Moses and Samuel. This could be in a family Bible, other family papers, church records, cemetery records, or other sources. In Vermont, there may be clues in the Randolph Town Council minutes or other town records, church records, land records or cemetery records. I spent an hour with Wes and Miriam Herwig, curators of the Randolph Historical Society, and they suggested extensive records in the Baker Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, could be helpful. If they can be found, the manuscripts quoted by Hemenway in the Vermont Historical Gazeteer may give some leads. If the parents of the three Edeys who came to Canada with their mother in 1805-6 can be identified, it may be possible to trace their ancestry back for another two or three centuries. Received from J.H. Edey (the following) Information on the EDEY Family. .......There is a gravestone in Bellevue Cemetery near Hull, Quebec, which has the inscription "In Memory of Mary, Wife of Luther Edey, died 23 Nov. 1842, aged 86 years." I believe that this Mary could only be the mother of the three Edeys who came to Hull from Randolph in 1805-6.	Evens\Evans, Mary (Polly) (I84272)
1519	[EFA4.FTW] 1901 Alberta Census EDDY Emma 33 Cowley EDDY James 22 Cowley EDDY Wallace 38 Cowley	Eddy, Wallace (I18397)
1520	[EFA4.FTW] NameMary Eddy Schlesinger Efa #26696 NewspaperNew York Times Date:January 2002 SCHLESINGER-Mary Eddy. A service to celebrate her life will be held at 1 PM, January 26, 2002, at The Congregational Church, Main Street/Route 44, Salisbury, CT. During the service, family and friends will be invited to share their memories. Please join the Schlesinger family after the service in the parish hall.	Eddy, Mary (I59075)
1521	[EFA4.FTW] Genealogy and Ecclesiastical History of Farmington, Connecticut "REBECCA EDDY," to church Aug. 5th, 1821, daughter of Charles, and No. (270,) born Oct. 3d, 1799, bap. Nov. 17th, 1799. Rebecca Bass married June 28th, 1825, Albert Norton, of Kensington, son of Roger, and Hannah (Rice,) of Wallingford, his wife. She was received to Kensington church, Dec., 1826, by letter from New Britain. She died Aug. 31st, 1828, aged 29, at Kensington. She was by trade a tailoress, and learned of Polly Judd, who married Jesse Eddy. She was the second wife of Capt. Albert Norton, his first being, Lucy, daughter of John Lee; she died April 25th, 1824, when he married, second, as above. Mr. Norton married, third, March 25th, 1829, Ruth, daughter of Cyprian Hart and his wife, Lucy (Hooker.)	Eddy, Rebecca Bass (I09344)
1522	[EFA4.FTW]	Family: Wood, Gail / Eddy, Pauline O. (F04474)
1523	[EFA4.FTW] "St. Marys Oracle" -- St. Marys, WV 12 Dec 1985 WILFRED EDDY 4 Dec 1985 Wilfred "Mike" Eddy, 74, of Wheeling, died last Wednesday at home. He was a retired US mail contractor and a Methodist. Survivors include his wife, Ruth Reed Eddy; three sons, William of Seattle, WA, Fred Eugene of Birmingham, AL, and Robert of Harrisburg, PA; a brother, Glen of Harrisville; a sister, Ann Cochran of New Jersey; and nine grandchildren. Services were conducted at 10:30am Saturday at Park View Memorial Garde Chapel, Wheeling. The Kepner Funeral Home of Wheeling was in charge of arrangements.	Eddy, Wilfred (I76043)
1524	[EFA4.FTW] "The Parkersburg Sentinel" -- Parkersburg, WV 5 Nov 1993 NELLIE I. JONES EDDY 4 Nov 1993 Nellie I. Jones Eddy, 73, of Miamisburg, OH, died Thursday at Kettering Memorial Hospital, Kettering, OH, following a sudden illness. Mrs. Eddy was a member of the Church of Christ. She was born in Hebron, Pleasants County, a daughter of the late L. Oliver and Zula Lamp Jones. She is survived by two daughters, Beverly Ann Clark of Grand Junction, CO, and Linda Eddy of Miamisburg, OH; one son, Michael Eddy of Springboro, OH; three grandchildren; two sisters, Virgie Backus and Betty Morey, both of Parkersburg; one brother W. Sam Jones, of Miamisburg; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hollie A. Eddy; and her twin brother, Norvel E. Jones. The funeral will be at 10am Saturday at Gebhart and Schmidt-Parramore Funeral Home, Miamisburg, OH. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.	Jones, Nellie (I76121)
1525	[EFA4.FTW] "The Parkersburg Sentinel" -- Parkersburg, WV 9 Feb 1990 LILLIAN MAE EDDY 8 Feb 1990 Lillian Mae Eddy, 69, of Belmont, died Thursday at St. Joseph's Hospital. She was born in Jacksonburg, Wetzel County, a daughter of the late Thom and Mollie Yost Cain. She was a 1939 graduate of St. Marys High School. He was a Protestant and a beautician. She is survived by her husband, Ralph R. Eddy; one son, Lawrence Cai Alma; two sisters, Arlie Davis of Foley, AL, and Evelyn Layman of Reynoldsville, WV; two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Effeil Spencer; three brothers and two sisters. The funeral will be 2pm Sunday at the Ruttencutter Funeral Home in St. Marys. Burial will be in Beechwood Cemetery, Alma.	Cain, Lillian Mae (I79570)
1526	[EFA4.FTW] 1784SOLOMON EDEY appeared in the 1784 Census (lower precient eastern shore) as having 7 white males and 12 black males.	Edey, Solomon (I61795)
1527	[EFA4.FTW] 1901 Alberta Census EDDY Fred F 30 Livngst EDDY Margette 26 Livngst EDDY Myrtle 02 Livngst	Eddy, Fred F. (I53678)
1528	[EFA4.FTW] 1901 Alberta Census EDDY Bayse C 22 PnchCrk	Eddy, Bayse C. (I53677)
1529	[EFA4.FTW] 1901 Alberta Census EDDY James 22 Cowley	Eddy, James (I18607)
1530	[EFA4.FTW] EDDY, Norris (father) b Nov 22, 1821 d. Nov 10, 1902 EDDY, Lucy M. (mother) b. Apr 12, 1831 d. Nov 2, 1896 EDDY, Anna M. (d. N. and L. M.) b. May 3, 1861 d. Jun 15, 1895 EDDY, Elenora E. (d. N. and L. M.) d. Sep 9, 1870 ae 12 yr 4 mo 3 da	Eddy, Norris Washington (I01960)
1531	[EFA4.FTW] Genealogical Abstracts from the Mount Carmel Ledger, Northumberland County Eddy, Mellie Miss ch/o Mrs. Wm. Kiefer, Jr. Eddy, Millie lived in Shamokin on Dec 28, 1894 Eddy, Peter lived in Shamokin on May 25, 1894 Eddy, Peter f/o Mrs. William Keifer Jr. of Mt. Carmel Eddy, Peter Mrs. is spending the week with her daughter Mrs. Wm. Kiefer Jr., Mar 16, 1894	Eddy, Peter (I76180)
1532	[EFA4.FTW] Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery Of Newbury, Mass. 1590-1890. Compiled By Rev. Rufus Emery. "Fidelis Et Suavis." Emery Cleave Salem, Mas 1890. 767 STEPHEN7 EMERY (Daniel,6 Daniel,5 Zachariah,4 Zachariah,3 James,2 Anthony1), son of Capt. Daniel and his second wife, Hannah (Bates) Emery; married Sally Eddy of Wales, N. Y. Children: 1915 i IRENE.8 1916 ii JULIA. 1917 iii DANIEL. 1918 iv CYNTHIA. 1919 v SOPHIA, m., 1865, David Huntington of Marengo, Ill. 1920 vi FRANKLIN. 1921 vii STEPHEN.	Emery, Stephen (I22682)
1533	[EFA4.FTW] Genealogy of Captain John Locke of NH A history and genealogy of the descendants of Captain John Locke of Portsmouth and Rye, New Hampshire and his descendants. There is also mention of Nathaniel Locke of Portsmouth and a short account of the history of the Lockes in England. 7991 MINNIE L. JONES (adopted), b. Worcester, Mass., Feb. 18, 187 HARRISON P. EDDY, June 1, 1892, b. Millbury, Mass., Apl. 29, 1870. Graduated from Worcester Polytec. 1891, was Supt. of City Sewer Had: 7992 WILLARD T., b. March 11, 1893; 7993 HARRISON P Feb. 17, 1895; 7994 RANDOLPH L., b. Dec. 15, 1898; 7994a CHARLOTTE F., b. July 4, 1903.	Eddy, Harrison Prescott (I49081)
1534	[EFA4.FTW] http: /newspaperabstracts.com/IA/Clarke/1908/FEB.html County Letters Leslie. -Mr. & Mrs. PRIEST have moved in the house vacated by Mr. BIBEY. Shelby EDDY is moving to Weldon & A.M. SAFFEIL is moving on the EDDY farm. Frak JOHNSON is moving on the TURNAHAN farm & John JOHNSON's nephew from illinois is moving on the JOHNSON farm. Harry SAFFEL is moving on Mrs. HALL's farm. -Smith POLLOCK had a tumor removed at the Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. He is doing well.	Eddy, Shelby Moody (I49943)
1535	[EFA4.FTW] http: /www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/vitalsdr.html Francis Marion Eddy date of death: Mar 22, 1906 county of death: Hamilton City of death: Cincinnati Hospital: City Branch Hospital Res: 1026 W. 6th St. Married Cause of death: Phthisis (TB) Burial: Wesleyan Cemetery State of Birth: OH Cert #134-1906-722	Eddy, Francis Marion (I02004)
1536	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Eddy, J.J. (I06543)
1537	[EFA4.FTW] Margaret Jane Watson Margaret Jane Redman Watson, daughter of George C. and Carrie Ann Smith Redman, was born Feb. 6, 1905, at home south of Van Wert. and died March 3, 2002, at the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola. She was 97. She married Clyde Wesley Watson on Feb. 6, 1924, in Van Wert. They became the parents of two children, Lowell James and Lois Louise. She lived on their farm south of Van Wert her entire married life. She moved to Casual Living in Osceola in January of 1999. She was a member of the Van Wert United Methodist Church and was very active in United Methodist Women. Not only has her family enjoyed her cooking, but she shared it with many others. She helped serve many meals at the church and also at the Humeston Sale Barn. She worked at the Van Wert School in the kitchen, Hanaco and the Red Rooster at Weldon Corner. When she wasn	Redman, Margaret Jane (I18714)
1538	[EFA4.FTW] Marriage Index: MA, 1633-1850 Married: Apr 19, 1833 in: Sturbridge, Worchester Co., MA Gender: F This record can be found at: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0757003. Spouse name: Taylor, David	Family: Taylor, David / Eddy, Betsey (F07132)
1539	[EFA4.FTW] Marriage Index: New Jersey, 1680-1900 Married: Mar. 24, 1808 in: Morris, NJ Gender: F Source: County Clerk Records Film number: 1314453 - 1314454 Spouse name: Fairchild, Enos Spouse gender: M	Family: Fairchild, Enos / Eddy, Elizabeth (F01307)
1540	[EFA4.FTW] McCulloughZilpha Eddy Custer 1841191973-291/2-3-4Mother	Zilpha Marie Eddy (I14195)
1541	[EFA4.FTW] Of the four members of the Eddy family, only one, the father, survived. In mid-December 1846, William Eddy set off to seek help, leaving his wife and two small children behind; when he returned three months later with a relief party, all three were dead. William Henry Eddy A carriage-maker from Belleville, Illinois. Age: [28] Survived Parents: Nathan Eddy and ? b. abt 1816 in Providence, RI m1. abt 1841 to Eleanor Priscilla	Eddy, William H. (I02873)
1542	[EFA4.FTW] On Apr. 3, 1645, John was apprenticed by Samuel and Elizabeth Eddy to Francis Goulder and his wife Katherine of Hobbes Hole, Plymouth, or as it was sometimes called, Wellingsley. They were near neighbors. John must have finished this apprenticeship in which he learned the trade of a blacksmith in 1658. In the records of Edgartown, Marthas Vineyard, under date of Dec. 28, 1659 is the following record. The Town (then called Great Harbour) voted to pay the charge of the Smiths Transportation hither if he desires, this is John Edy of Plymouth. (Edgartown Records, I, 133.) On Oct. 22, 1660, he was the owner of one of the shares of land which was given him by the town (Edgartown Rec. I, p. 147). On May 1, 1663 it was voted that John Edy, having remained three years in town should have a lot of 10 acres and a commonage with two acres of meadow - the meadow lies about the pond at Miles Brook (Dukes Co. Deeds, VI, 115). From these records it would seem that John went to Great Harbour in the spring or summer of 1660, and remained there from the time of his arrival. In the Plymouth Colony Rec. (Vol. 11, p. 37) is a deed dated August 27, 1660, in which "Aron Knapp of Taunton within the government of New Plymouth, husbandman sold to John Eedey of Hymn, blacksmith, ten acres of land, bee it more or less Scittuate and lying Neare unto the land of Nicholas White in the plantation of Taunton aforsaid hounded by the land of John Eddway, Carpenter on the Northwest side: by the Comons on the southeast side and the Mill River on the end of it. At the end of this deed after the signature and the names of the witnesses is the statement "I John Eedey doe by these presents make over this my deed to Daniell Makenny of Taunton." Thus it is probable that soon after the date of this deed Aug. 1660 and before Oct. 22, 1660 John went to Marthas Vineyard and became the blacksmith of this new settlement. John Doggett, his wife's father, had purchased land in Martha's Vineyard, and one of her brothers was there. It seems likely that this was another inducement for the young man to go to the Island. The records of Edgartown show that he became one of its prominent men and took an active part in its life. He bought of John Dogget a plot of six acres for a homestead lot. The exact location of this has not been ascertained, but it is supposed to have been on the "Line" (Sup. Judicial Court Files 4974 also Edgartown Rec., 1, 4, 7). In 1662 he was chosen constable and became a member of the train band. During the period of dissatisfaction with the government of Mayhew, he, together with Thomas Dogget and a few others would not sign the paper showing disapproval (Banks Hist. of Marthas Vineyard, Vol. I). On Jan. 29, 1663, the neck or land called Quanomica was divided and John Eddy, the following year, came into possession of one of the twenty-five shares. The following account is taken from "The History of Marthas Vineyard" by Col. Charles E. Banks. He has made an exhaustive study of all the early families on the Island, and is an authority on all matters pertaining to the early history of the place. This lot was one of the five and twenty, just south of the cemetery on Tower Hill, having a frontage of 142 rods on the harbor. As proprietor he participated in all the divisions of land during his residence in Edgartown, and in 1667 was granted one sixth of the West Chop Neck by Governor Mayhew (Dukes Co. Deeds 1, 239). At this time the project for the purchase of Takemmy was under consideration, and he entered into negotiations with the three partners for admission as a proprietor in the proposed new settlement. Accordingly he offered his lands at Holmes Hole as an exchange for this right, as is shown by the following document:	Eddy, John (I25491)
1543	[EFA4.FTW] Samuel Jr. [int. omits Jr.] and Lucy Stiles, Apr. 5, 1797. [Sarn[u]el Jr., C.R.]	Family: Eddy, Samuel / Stiles, Lucy (F01470)
1544	[EFA4.FTW] The RI Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project Index Yeaw-Howard-Phillips Lot Scituate; Darby Rd ->15 ft. E of tele. po Yeaw, Amy (Eddy) 1776c - 22 Jun 1854	Eddy, Amy (I01947)
1545	[EFA4.FTW] THOMAS HORTON THE HISTORY AND SOME LINES OF THE POSTERITY OF THOMAS HORTON, IMMIGRANT, AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS., 1636. Page 483 Thomas Horton was the son of Joseph, born 1602. Thomas Horton, who had married in England, Mary Eddy, came to America in the ship Mary and John, 1632-33. They sojourned at Windsor, Connecticut, two or three years, where their first son, Jeremiah, was born. They were educated people, the report says. Their signatures are still to be seen in the "Pyncheon Papers" that have to do with the land purchase from the Indians. Thomas Horton was one of the founders of Springfield, Mass., was witness and signer of the Indian Deed, was town officer and proprietor. His lands are minutely described in History of Springfield, Mass., by Mason Green, p. 45: A map is shown, minor matters of record in the same show that Thomas Horton was party to a trivial suit at law with one Mirick. Another entry shows that his levy for ministerial support was	Horton, Thomas (I21862)
1546	[EFA4.FTW] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV page 2077 John C., son of Captain Charles and Deborah (Cadman) Jenckes, was born September 26, 1776, on the Island of RI, and by act of the RI legislature was permitted to adopt a middle name, Charles. His home was in Providence. He married (first) Sarah Snow, and (second) Fanny Smith, daughter of James and Phebe (Wardwell) Smith, of Dighton, MA. By his first marriage there were ten children born, seven of whom died in infancy, the others being: 1. Susan, born March 12, 1803; married Lloyd Shaw, and removed to Illinois. 2. Eliza, born December 12, 1806; married Joseph V. Snow. 3. Amey Ann, born June 25, 1816; married Pardon M. Hale. Of the ten children born to the second marriage, the following three survived childhood: 1. Sarah Snow, born April 18, 1822, died August 14, 1900, unmarried. 2. Charles William, born August 10, 1826, died April 26, 1909; he married Ella Tingley, and they had children: William Cadman, born March 2, 1854, died in infancy; Frederick Tingley, born July 12, 1856, married Emily Houghton; Charles William, Jr., born September 18, 1858, died March 29, 1883; Emma Louise, born October 22, 1864, unmarried; and Ella Maud, born March 18, 1868, unmarried. 3. John Jay, mentioned further on	Jencks, John C. (I18232)
1547	[EFA4.FTW] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV page 1781 Albert G. Eddy, son of Amasa (2) Eddy, was born in Glocester, RI, March 27, 1807, died October 31, 1876. He lived in Providence and in Glocester, RI. He started the liquor firm of Albert G. Eddy & Company, in Providence. He married (first) Olive Arnold, who died the same year. He married (second) Sarah A. Peckham. He married (third) Widow Eunice Brotherton. Children: James F., born December 12, 1826; Augustus F., August 17, 1833, in Glocester; Joseph G., December 23, 1834; Albert O., March 10, 1836; Miranda B., April 13, 1837; Solomon A., November 8, 1838, died June 13, 1850; Jedediah S., July 14, 1840, died August 8, 1853; Jesse Potter, mentioned below; Helen Josephene, July 9, 1847, died December 7, 1848.	Eddy, Albert G. (I06959)
1548	[EFA4.FTW] Record of the Descendants of James Ensign and His Wife Sarah Elson Author: Martha Eunice Ensign Nelson A record of 12 generations of descendants from James Ensign and Sarah Elson (married 1611). 509. AMOS ELIJAH ENSIGN7 (Elijah6, Isaac5, Datus4, David3, David2, James1) B. 5 Dec. 1839, Westfield, Hampden, Mass.; s. of Elijah and Fidelia Kagwin Ensign; d. 7 May 1892, Westfield, Hampden, Mass.; md. 8 May 1862, LOIS ADELAIDE EDD 23 June 1841, Springfield, Pennsylvania. Source: C. S. E. 953. WILLIAM HOLLAND ENSIGN8 (Amos7, Elijah6, Isaac5, Datus4, David3, David2, James1) B. 2 Dec. 1872, Westfield, Hampden, Mass.; s. of Amos Elijah and Lois Adelaide Eddy Ensign; md. CATHERINE FREED, b. abt. 1875. Source: E. E. N. Children (ENSIGN): All born in Little River, Mass. i. Richard, b. 1895 ii. Helena, b. 1897 iii. William, b. 1900 In 1912, William was county Commissioner, Hampden Co., Mass.	Eddy, Lois Adelaide (I79879)
1549	[EFA4.FTW] Rude, Susannah Married: Jul 5, 1749 in: Plainfield, Windham, CT Spouse name: Harris, Nathan	Family: Harris, Nathan / Rude, Susanna (F12576)
1550	[EFA4.FTW] Eddy, Albert Comments: The gender of Albert Eddy is male. Spouse: Antoinette Sterling Marriage Date: Feb 25, 1855 The following source has been recorded for this marriage: FREEMAN'S JOURNAL 1855-03-02 The following additional information has been recorded for this marriage: BOTH LIVE AT WARREN	Family: Eddy, Albert / Sterling, Antoinette (F30057)

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The following article was written by John Henry Edey for the Spirit River, Alberta, history book "Chepi Sepe", which was published in 1988

John Chamberlain Edey was born February 3, 1893 at Wellwood, Manitoba. He was the second of six children born to Moses Samuel Edey and his wife, Jessier Rebecca Kilgore, who had come from Huntley Township near Ottawa, Ontarion in the 1880's. The Edey ancestors had come from Vermont, USA to the Ottawa Valley about 1805 and the Kilgore ancestors came from Tyrone County, Ireland in the early 1830's.

During John's growing up years, farm boys were expected to work on the farm during the busy spring and fall seasons, and they went to school only in the winter months. Since John was the second son, he often helped at the farm of his aunt and uncle, kate and Harry Bradley, who had no son of their own. It was at Bradley's that he met Ethel Elizabeth Jones who had come from Kidderminster, England, in 1910. They were married in 1914 and took over the Bradley farm in 1915. Three years later they moved to another larger rented farm nearer Wellwood. There Ethel died of the flu in March 1920. John and Ethel had three children: Edward Samuel (Ted) born May 13, 1915, John Henry (Harry) born January 6, 1917; and Jessie Mary, born May 11, 1918. When Ethel died John was left with three children under five years of age.

At that time farming was done with horses and one or more hired men were required to operate a farm of more than a quarter section. This was especially true during the heavy workload of spring plantin and fall harvesting. John needed a housekeeper who could cook for several men and take care of three small children. It was difficult to get a housekeeper who could handle the workload. During the winter months John and the three children would be alone. The four spent most evenings playing cards or crokinole.

In 1924 the family moved to the Fairiview district, near Carberry, Manitoba and in April 1928, the family moved to Spirit River, Alberta. John brought a railway carload of farm machinery, furniture, and three horses from Manitoba. It took over a week to make the trip. There were 20 carloads of settlers on that train with several of them stopping at Spirit River. The family followed at the end of April and John had rented the Lee Tak farm, two miles north of Spirit River when they arrived. He farmed there for two years. During this time he did quite a lot of custom breaking of new land with his horses and breaking plow. In 1930 the family moved to Spirit Valley. During 1930 and 1931 John had no land to farm and used his horses and farm machinery to do custom work for other farmers. During the winter months he hauled wood to Spirit River to sell to the town people.

In 1932, John rented the Jack Peackock farm and stayed there until 1944. He then bought the Chabot farm which would be the N 1/2 31-77-50W6 located about 5 miles southeast of Spirit River and just south of the Spirit River Settlement. This was the first land John had owned and he added to it later by buying another quarter just west of it. He farmed there until he retired in 1962 when he moved to the town of Spirit River. Because of ill health he was in hospital in Edmonton and Camrose in 1969. He died in Rose Haven Hospital in Camrose on February 6, 1971.

John was active in community affairs and served as director of the Spirit Valley Community Hall Association, the Spirit River Co-op Store, the Smoky River Livestock Shipping Association, and the Farmers' Union local. He was very active in sports in his younger days and continued to play softball until over the age of 50. He was an active curler until poor health forced him to give it up.

John's three children grew up in the Spirit River district. They all attended Broncho Creek School. Ted and Jessie went to high school in Spirit River. Ted married Adaline Hirning in 1944 and they still live in Spirit River. Harry married Iris Lewis in Wales in 1945 and they now live in Edmonton. Jessie married Kester Lillico in 1938; they farmed about a mile north of Spirit River. Jessie died in January, 1986. Their stories are given separately.

No record of the John Edey family would be complete without an account of Mrs Godfrey, as she was always called. Davina Marion Renton was born on June 6, 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she completed school and went on to take further education and qualified as a specialist in Early Childhood Education. She taught in Scotland for many years before coming to Canada in 1920 to marry an old acquaintance, Alex J. Godfrey. Within three years the couple had separated and Mrs. Godfrey was left on her own. She went back to teaching in Manitoba and it was while teaching that she met the Edey family. She gave up here teaching job to look after the three motherless children. Mrs. Godfrey devoted the rest of her lift to this task often under very difficult circumstances. She too took an activer part in community affairs and was a good friend to all who knew here. She stayed with the Edey family the rest of her life. She was in poor health for a number of years before her death in Spirit River hospital in Septmeber, 1964.

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Notes for Karen Rebecca Everton:

Karen graduated from Grade Twelve and went on to Red Deer College, taking Business Administration. She met Russ Reive and they were married in 1983. On February 3, 1984, their baby Robert (Robbie) arrived. On March 21, 1984, Karen was in a car accident, her husband was driving. Three days later, on March 23, 1984, Karen passed away.

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Notes for Rebecca (Rebe) Mary Edey:

OBITUARY OF MARY REBECCA HALLIDAY 1905-1996

Mary Rebecca, daughter of Moses and Jessie Edey, was born on April 25, 1905 in North Cypress and attended school at Wellwood. In 1926 she married John Edward (or Jack) Halliday, a union that would last for over 60 years and be blessed with a family of three daughters and a son. In the early years of the marriage, home was wherever Jack's work took him but in 1950, the family settled in Neepawa. In 1983, Rebecca and Jack moved into Yellowhead Manor. Widowed in December 1987, Rebecca moved into Eastview Lodge the following February and it was there that she passed away on February 10, 1996. Essentially a homemaker and mother, Rebecca enjoyed people and had been involved in the Golden Age Club. She also enjoyed her game of Crib and the Eastview Lodge bowling. Rebecca was predeceased by her husband Jack, three brothers and two sisters. She is survived by her son, her three daughters, two sons-in-law, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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As we come together today, to mark the passing of Rebecca Halliday, we are encouraged to do so in faith. The faith that was expressed by the Psalmist in these words.

"Those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High,
Who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,
Will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress,
My God in whom I trust." (Psalm 91:vs. 1 & 2)

It is by trusting God, by remembering the everlasting love of God, that we can indeed find comfort. Comfort through knowing that our loved ones are held in the arms of The God revealed to us by Jesus, as the loving Heavenly Father. With Rebecca in this safe keeping, we are able to find further consolation in sharing memories of her as mother, grandmother or friend. One, whose life, over its span of 90 years, touched in caring ways, the lives of others. This life span also witnessed truly dramatic changes in ways of living. Her childhood and early years were times when a great deal of effort went into simply meeting basic needs. Homemakeing with hydro and all the labour saving household appliances or the convenience of indoor plumbing was a constant time consuming job. Yet it was homemakeing that Rebecca was at her happiest - baking, gardening, quilting, doing crochet, tending her houseplants and enjoying her family - her children - her grandchildren. They will remember how Grandma always had oatmeal and date cookies for them.

She was a real homebody, and while she thoroughly enjoyed visiting family and friends, always wanted to be back home before dark. Rebecca liked a game of Crib and with Jack belonged to the Golden Age Club. Even though she did buy a camera, she was never a photographer like Jack, but she still enjoyed the club outings and trips when Jack would capture all the highlights on photograph or slide. Another hobby they enjoyed together was attending auction sales and they built up a remarkable collection of salt and pepper shakers. Rebecca also had a thing about 4 leaf clovers and every patch of clover she saw would be thoroughtly and patiently searched until she found one, this to the great amusement of her family. There is no way in the short space of this service that we can do justice to the long and loving life she lived. Each one of you, however, will have your own special memories to be cherished and perhaps share.

Now her time here is ended, and while there is sorrow at losing her from our sight, there should also be gratitude for the life she lived, the memories she has left, and the rest she has now found.

Rev. George Scott
February 15, 1996

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NOTES: Samuel Edey, the Mayor of South Hull, is a son of Luther. He is
familiarly known throughout the Valley as "Sam". He has been connected
with municipal affairs for more than a quarter of a centruy, and few in
the Valley will equal him in matters municipal. He is high up in Masonry,
having been Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Quebec.

"Sam" Discourses on the French-Canadians

It is as entertaiing as a stroy book to listen to Sam's experiences in the
lumber camps of the far north woods. "I have often been," said he, in one
of his reminiscences of the forest, "for months with the French-Canadian
shantymen, and a more genial lot of fellows I have never camped with. They
are always happy, ready with a song or story, and make the time pass so
delighttfully that I never tired of being with them: And then, he said,
of the Frendh-Canadian, that which I have often heard remarked before, "I
do not believe there is a happier people on the face of the earth, or more
willing to do a kindly turn. and what, (as no doubt you have often
remarked, in your wanderings through the Province of Quebec), is most
commendable in those of the country districts, is this: they seldom build
beyond their means, and never for simple show. The result is that they
are far happier in a cottage that is paid for than many another people
living in mortgage covered palaces, that are so sure to create heart
burnings, and jealousies among neighbors."

A PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN

There are few, if any, in the Valley, morepublic spirited than Sam Edey.
To him much is due and the success of the Agricultural Fair held annually
in Aylmer. Both Samuel and Mrs. edey take many prizes at these Fairs. The
Crown Bank of Aylmer offers, each year, a valuable silver cup for the best
herd of cattle. It was this year awarded to Sam, who ways that the
farmers of the county of Wright will have to give great attention to the
improvement of their cattle else he will get in the habit of taking it
annually. This season he offered to compete with any of the adjoining
counties. This friendly competition is doing great good in bringin up the
standard of all kinds of live-stock.

If, in after years, this volume should prove a source of interest to those
whose family records are here preserved, they will have much to thank Sam,
for the preservation, for when, by reason of the risk attendant upon a
local book, I would have given over the task, this man's cheery, "Go
ahead, our people will support your efforts," gave heart to continue.

Sam is a philosopher, in a way. "I'll never be rich," says he, "nor do I
wish to be, since I see the sort that money makes of men, often cold,
calculating, selfish - unwilling ever to do a thing that will not bring to
themselves direct benefit. I don't refer to the broad rich, but to the
little narrow fellows, and most of 'em are - well, not broad." Again he
referred to the French. "The Frenchman is the true philosopher. He
raises a family regardless of size-and with him the larger the better. He
seldom hoards up for a rainy day, for says Jon Batiste: 'What ze use, I
nevair can all ze rain keep off, en ef ze roof she leak ze kidz she can
change ze place an go whare she is dry." and 'Jon Batiste' is right, for
few of us can leave enough to make all of our children a lazy easy-going
lot, and had better follow the Frenchman's plan and hoard not up, at the
expense of present comfort, and especially if the hoarding make of us
grinders of our fellows, as it invariably does. I'd rather be fair than
rich."

The Colonel never grew tired of listening to Sam. "Rube," he'd often say,
"Sam has the correct view of life," and the Colonel was a good judge of
the "Correct".

Luther Edey is living with his son Luther, in the old Samuel Edey
homestead. He is 86, and fairly well for that age.

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Received from J.H. Edey (the following)

Information on the EDEY family

......The name "Luther Edey" appears on a petition for a grant of land in
Tunbridge Gore. This petition, dated Feb. 5, 1780, is printed in Mary
Green Nye's "State Papers of Vermont Vol. V Petitions for Land" on pages
138-9, "Petitions of John Hutchinson et al for Tunbridge Gore". The State
of Vermont "Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1785" has
the following:

page 191 Luther Ede in Capt. Joseph Parkhurst's Co., Aug. 9 - 12, 1780.
pages 384-5 Luther Edye in Capt. Abner Seelye's Co. "from the beginning of
the campaign 1781 to the 30th June in said year. pages 536-7 Luther Eddy
in Capt. Abner Seelye's Co. July 1 - Nov. 17, 1781. Page 590 Luther Eddy
in Capt. Beriah Green's Co. Nov. 30, 1781 to March 23, 1782. Pages 627-8
Luther Edy in Capt. Frye Bayley's Co. for 11 days some time between May,
1781 to the end of the war.

Received from J.H. Edey (Harry) copies of correspondence which he has
received from Angus Gilday. This first letter is dated 28 April, 1986.

JANE, MOSES & SAMUEL EDEY. WHO WHERE THEIR PARENTS? FACTS AND
SPECULATION. WERE THEY LUTHER AND MARY?

From family records, and early research recorded by P.M.O. Evans in "The
Wrights" - Moses Edey came to Hull in 1805 from Randolph, Vermont. Jane,
Samuel and their mother followed in 1806.

Jane married Edmund Chamberlin. Moses married Edmund's sister Elizabeth.
Samuel married Abigail Wright, daughter of Thomas and niece of Philemon.

Recent research by Harry Edey (JHE), Patrick M.O. Evans (PMOE) and Joan
and Angus Gilday (JEG & AMG) has uncovered much of their background.

PMOE found a gravestone in Bellevue Cemetery, Aylmer, Quebec, in 1982 -
MARY, wife of LUTHER EDEY died November 23, 1842 aged 86 Hence, she was
born c. 1756.

JHE reported in "Who Was Wd. Edey?" in late 1983 that Vital Records of
Vermont report the Edey births, and show the father as Wd. Edey. His
further research brought him to the original records in Randolph VT.

JEG & AMG visited Randolph in April, 1986, and located the same page 74 in
Vol A. of Virths, Deaths, Marriages 1766 - 1868 for the Town of Randolph.
The index listing of Edey - Widdow was also noted.

Comment - There can no longer be any question of the letters W. meaning
anything other than widow. JHE speculatd that the entries were made in
1800 to 1803, while AMG leans toward 1798 or slightly earlier. The main
advantage of establishing this date would be to narrow down the period
during which the father died. To father Samuel, he must have been alive
past mid - 1785. He presumably was dead when Moses became the ward of
Evans in March 1798.

JHE found an entry in the Accelerated Indexing System which mentioned
Edey, Luther, and Tunbridge Gore. JEG found the attached in the
Montpelier library. (Note - the footnote is in error - the burning of
Royalton was in 1780, not 1777).

AMG found the following items in the same library.

In the "Historical Souvenir of Randolph, Vermont", Nickerson & Cox, 1895 -
"Oct. 16, 1780...Col. Horton's raid from Canada and the Lake up the
Winooski, up the Jail Branch, down the first branch of the White River,
and the devastation of Caughnawaga Indians in warpaint...These Indians had
got seven Randolph settlers, - except Edward Evans, Mr. Eddy, Israel
Kibbee, the two Blodgetts, James & Hanry, who had gon to Dresden on
Sunday, and young Zadock Steele, who was asleep in the shanty of his
father's lot in the north part of the town, and Asa Edgerton, who was in
Bennington asking for a charter for the town.

On page 2 of the same book - "William Evans...came with his wife, and a
brother Edward Evans". John Evans is also mentioned in the book.

JHE reported finding the Probate Records of the District of Randolph (copy
from his letter attached). JEG & AMG found the same record in Chelsea,
VT, where the Probate Court is located.

Comment - it is interesting that Evans brothers were chosen, more than 4
years apart, as guardians of Moses & Samuel.

Back to the library - the following was found in the census of 1800. Heads
of Families - Vermont - Randolph, Orange County.

Polly Edy 1 female of 26 & under 45, 1 female under 10 (Note: Jane would
be 19 or 20 when this census was taken)

Edward Evans 1 male under 10, 1 male of 10, under 16, 1 male of 16,
under 26, 1 male of 45 & over. 1 female under 10, 1 female of 10, under
16, 1 female of 16, and under 26, 1 female of 45 & over.

John Evans 1 male under 10, 1 male 10, under 16, 2 males 16, under 25, 1
male 45 & over. 1 female under 10, 1 female 45 & over. (Comment in the
margin by JHE - I am not too sure of his conclusions here.

Comment - Polly is a very common nickname for Mary. It would appear that
Samuel was already living with John Evans, even though the adoption was
not official until 1802.

Still in the library - The Vermont Revolutionary Muster Rolls show a
Luther Edey (or Ede, Eddy) in several Randolph companies. One roll, for
1781, show him in Newbury. This is also recorded in the "History of
Newbury, Vermont", and a copy of the page is attached. Note he was in the
same company as Nathaniel Chamberlin and several of Nathaniel's brothers.

The library also contained a book called "The Eddy Family in America". At
first this did not seem to offer a good clue. (JHE referred to this book,
and the author's sugestion that the father may have been Othniel Eddey.)
AMG found in the Supplement October 1940 an interesting addition. The two
relevant pages are attached.

Comment - Luther Eddy, a son of Elkanah and Patience (Cole) Eddy, B. Mar.
7, 1754, would be of suitable age to marry Mary "Polly", b. c. 1756.

Mary entrusted her sons to Edward & John Evans. Could she be their
sister?

Conclusion - There can be little doubt that Jane, Moses & Samuel were the
children of Luther & Mary "Polly" Edey.

Research now should concentrate on the suggestions immediately above and
any other leads to the originas of Luther & Mary.

AMG

1986 04 28

JANE, MOSES & SAMUEL EDEY - WERE THEIR PARENTS LUTHER & MARY EDEY?

Research by Patrick M.O. Evans, John Henry Edey, Joan E.G. Gilday & Angus
M. Gilday points strongly to Luther & Mary as parents of the three Edeys
who came to Hull early in the 19th. century........

In the international Genealogical Index, Angus Gilday found the following,
all recorded in Plainfield Twp., Windham City, Connecticut:

William Evans Born 10 Oct. 1731 son of Edward Evans/Jannet Edward Evans
Born 03 Mar 1750 son of William Evens/Jannet William Evens Born 31 Jan
1752 son of William Evens/Jannet Mary Evens Born 12 April 1756 daughter of
William Evens/Jannet John Evens Born 17 Nov. 1754 son of Edward Evens/Mary

(There were other children of both William & Edward recorded)

At this point, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the mother of
Jane, Moses & Samuel was Mary Evens (Evans), wife of Luther Edey (Eddy),
daughter of William & Jannet Evens, and probably grand-daughter of William
& Jane Evans, and that she arranged for her brother Edward and cousin John
Evens to be guardians of her sons. (note by J.H. Edey - quite possible and
an interesting speculation. I wouldn't state it quite so strongly as he
has done.)

Angus Gilday found in the 1940 Supplement of "The Eddy Family in America",
by Ruth S.D. Eddey: - Luther Eddy, son of Elkanah & Patience (Cole) Eddy,
born March 7, 1754. (This family lived in Swansea and Warren, Rhode
Island.) The Eddy/Cole marriage was found recorded in the I.G.I. and the
birth of a daughter Amey, but no Luther, and no marriage of Luther & Mary.

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This is the story of the Alexander Mose Edey family.

It was in March of 1892 that a girl, baby daughter, was born into the
Watson family, a large family of about 12 or 13. She was of the younger
ones who lived in Ireland. Shortly after she was born, about 2 years old,
her parents died leaving her orphaned. She was raised in an orphanage. At
the age of 16 she was to set sail on the Titanic for Canada, where a
sister-in-law had moved after losing her first husband, and married again
to one named George Kilgore. She had intended to visit and then go back to
Ireland. But for some reason her passage was cancelled, so she took a
small boat which took two weeks to come across to Canada. She later heard
that the Titanic had sunk. Her name was Fanny Watson.

Now in the year of 1892 a baby boy was born to the Mose Edey family, the
first born, Alexander Mose. He grew up and attended school only in the
winter months as he had to help his parents with the farm work. While yet
a young man his mother took very sick. His father got specialists to help
her. It took thousands of dollars but of no avail and she passed away.

Meanwhile, Fanny was working for a Scottish couple named Jack MacCrae. She
had been warned not to have anything to do with the Edeys so she tried to
avoid them and her mistress told her that was not right. "The Edey's are a
fine people and respectable, you should get to know them." One day Alex
Edey came over to visit the MacCraes and they asked him in for dinner.
That was the start of a courtship and finally marriage of my mother and
dad, on Dec. 3, 1914.

My mother was Anglican and believed she was saved at her confirmation. My
dad was Presbyterian and I am told took a stand for the Lord at an early
age but because they had no fellowship, did not grow in the Lord.

Then in Sept. 22, 1915, I Morley Edey, was born. This is where my life
started.

My mother had a high respect for God and the Bible but did not know how
to pass on the good news of salvation. She did implant in our lives the
respect for God and His Word, the Bible. We lived too far away from Sunday
School to attend until 1925 or 1926. We left our home and moved to a
place near our Grandpa and near a small school. There the Salvation Army
had Sunday School and church service. WE enjoyed the Sunday School and I
remember and I got a book from my Sunday School teacher for, I believe,
good attendance. All the while, I believed God and prayed to Him. But
never really knew Him.

Then in the spring of 1928, in a hurry, my uncle John and Dad moved to the
Peace River Country to the town of Spirit River.

There we went to the United Church of Canada where I learned the Ten
Commandments and the Apostles Creed which I soon forgot.

Then in 1931 we moved to the homestead in the Bridgeview area, just one
and one half miles south of the peak of White Mountain. We were there
twelve days when a forest fire came and burned everything we owned. My
mother was home alone when it came up with one toddler and a baby in her
arms. She went to a neighbours for help. This was at the beginning of
the 1930 depression. We had to start from scratch.

Dad and we boys used to work at the saw mill just two miles from our home
and finally we started and got established again. Dad used to work out
whenever possible and we boys used to work in the harvest field for extra
or only money of any amount. In these years before radio, we boys and my
sister Agnes, used to play the violins, guitar, banjo, uke and we finally
started to play for dances and sometimes made a few dollars that way.

We often trapped a little for spending money from the time we were sixteen
years old, we boys hunted for our meat supply. We helped in this way.

There was no incentive for a young person in those days, nothing but lots
of time and nothing to show for it. I took up a homestead when I became
of age but never had any ambition to develop it.

In the winter of 1938 my brother Clarence and I had a close encounter with
a grizzly bear which made me think on spiritual things. If he made one
more jump, where would I be? In heaven or hell? I knew not where.

In the spring of 1939, PRBI team, with a tent, came to the area, Mr.
Ruark, four PRBI students came and Mr. Ruark one night led me to the Lord
with Lena, then Brummond, and Edith Brownley, came to know Jesus. Edith's
dad had forbidden her to continue at church and a year or two later, she
was dragged to death, under a jeep, while her and a friend was out for an
evening walk. Of course, Lena is my sister-in-law, Clare's wife.

My life had a drastic change that fall, I left home to work at Brownvale,
and then to PRBI for the winter, and next summer to Brownvale to work for
the summer, then to PRBI next fall. The next year I worked for PRBI in
improving and Maintenance work and gospel team work, the best time of my
life.

Then the army caught up with me.

About the same time a young PRBI student and I were engaged to be married
which took place that fall in Nanaimo, B.C. November 14, 1942 in a
Pentecostal Church. Barbara Bresnahan was this young lady that I married.

I worked away from her during the week but was able to be with her on the
weekends only because I was with the B.C. forestry as a C.O. or
conscientious objecter. She could not get work and she had a rough time
making ends meet with my wages of 75 cents per day. We lived like that
one winter and then in the spring, I was able to get into the army. Then
life was much easier. She was paid wages as well as my own wages. That
fall I was shipped to Eastern Canada where I took my basic and advanced
training and also a course in shoemakeing, graduating with a B trades pay
which was a lot more money. As time went on I was shipped overseas to
England. I became a full corporal with trades pay. I was as much as a
staff sergeant.

Before I went overseas we had our first son born an hour and one half
before my birthday, on September 21, 1943 Donovon Mose.

I went over to England, it must have been in the fall of 1944, the last of
August or the first of September. The war was still pretty hot but there
were still buzz bombs and rockets that fell within sounding distance.

Then in the fall of 1944, I attended a Bible School in England hoping that
it would help me with my studies here at home, but it did not help much so
I never got the chance to graduate from Bible School.

On returning home we settled in the Watino and helped Barbara's mother
with her farm. She, Mrs. Bresnahan, worked out . She was a very
independent lady. We got along very well. She was a fine Christian lady.
We farmed in Watino from 1946 - 1960. We bought a farm right next to my
mother-in-law's farm so could look after both.

In 1959, I had to borrow money in order to overhaul my tractor. I said to
Barbara, "It would be better if we were to work out instead of working the
farm with long hours and nothing to show for it." So in the spring of
1960 April, at Easter holidays, Donovan and I went out to Vanderhoof, B.C.
looking for work. We found work in a planer mill, Parks Brothers Lumber
Company Incorporated, where I worked until 1968.

Then we moved out to Vancover Island for a year with the Nootka Mission
where we worked with the native people and lumberjacks. I worked with Dr.
McLean at his mission hospital. I worked as a handiman or maintenance
man. Dr. McLean was a man who was a go go man, and I was one who took my
time and tried to do a good job. So we clashed a little but I enjoyed the
work.

I used to fly out to camp and villages and go from house to house, telling
people Dr. McLean was set up at a certain place and many times I had
opportunities to testify of my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ my Saviour.

Then in the fall of 1969 I came back home to Vanderhoof and started
carpentering with Toby Millard. Then that winter I went to work in the
bush with Corney Giesbrecht as a buckerman on the landing. This job I
thoroughly enjoyed and worked all winter and then the next summer. The
next fall I went to work for a sawmill but it was a long way from home,
over icy roads. When I got a chance to come back to Vanderhoof again, I
went to work with a planer mill but this one burned down and before it was
built up again, they transferred us to another small planer mill. This
boss I did not get along with because of his shady deals, so I got a job
back with Toby Millard and carpentered for three or four more years. Then
work slowed down so I went back to the planer mill and worked until I was
71 years old, grading lumber again.

In 1984 or 1985, started building a log house after hours. I put in 3 1/2
to 4 hours every day on Saturdays and holidays for five years. I started
out, we had about $1800 in the bank. Then in the September I was 65, I
got my old age pension so was able to keep on the building. I built the
whole house by myself. I needed some help putting up the rafters and part
of the metal. I did my own electrical wiring and plumbing. Tim helped
me whenever he had time but on the whole I built it most of it. Barbara
and I moved in about 1986 or the spring of 1987 into our new home. Oh,
the joy it was to have much room. It was 32' X 44' with a full upstairs
and partial basement for furnace and wood room.

Barbara was getting bad with arthritis by this time so we bought
mechanized power wheel chair. And finally in the fall of 1987, I believe,
or thereabouts, she went to hospital in Prince George. She wanted them to
give her a new hip, but they wouldn't. So in the next fall, 1988 I
believe it was, she wanted to go to Grande Prairie, where she heard they
did the job. So we had her moved to Grande Prairie where they did the job
in about three weeks after she was here. So I spent that winter between
Grande Prairie and Vanderhoof.

So in the early winter, some people wanted our place, in Vanderhoof, so we
sold and I moved out here.

Then, my youngest son, Victor, and family, bought a large acreage, raw
land, and asked me if I would help them build a house. I could live with
them, so that is what I did. This house is the same size as our
Vanderhoof house, only it is frame. It's double 2" X 4" walls on the
outside frame . I did a lot or work on it but also I missed a lot of time
because of surgery and sickness but I think I can say did 50 percent of
the building or more maybe. Now I have the master bedroom of the house
and live with Vic and Sandy, his wife, and four grandchildren.

I am still quite active and have a shop 28 X 40 feet long where I can
spend a lot of my time doing things on my wood lathe and many other tools
and enjoy every bit of it.

My children's names are Donovan, killed in an auto accident, Charlotte in
Washington, U.S.A., Alexander, Valley View, Alberta, Eileen, Vernon, B.C.,
Thelma, Terrace, B.C., Anne, Beaverlodge, Alberta, Tim, Vanderhoof, B.C.
and Victor, Grande Prairie, Alberta.

I could tell you many other stories but they will have to wait until next
time. I am still active and love to hunt a little but my eyes aren't as
good as they used to be but when I get my eyes on game, I can still give
them a tough time.

I am a member of Grace Bible Fellowship, Evangelical Free affiliated. I
am also a committee member for the Shantymen Christian Association. I am
also a committee member of the Bear Lake Bible Camp. I love my Saviour,
my precious Saviour, He died on Calvary's cross for me, but now He is
risen, gone back to heaven, some day He's coming back for me. I praise
His name.

Barbara has gone to meet the Lord, Jan. 5, 1994, about ten minutes to two
and was buried in the Bridgeview Cemetery a week later and now I am come
to the end of my story and I hope that this will give you an idea of my
life story. May God Bless You all, Thank you.

Well, Norma and Les, I hope this will help. There is some tape so I will
try to give you some news. Vic works on the City of Grande Prairie buses,
he is a bus driver. He has about six horses here and he has fixed up a
sleigh and goes sleigh riding and things like that. He is quite active,
him and his wife are quite active, Sandy, is quite active in the Alliance
church here, the children attend Sunday School. Today, Vic is working,
and Sandy and the kids are away at her mothers place for supper so I am on
my own.

Ann is lives at Beaverlodge, and she has five children and she does some
sub teaching, she has her teacher's certificate and she is sub teaching
some times. Dennis has had trouble finding a job but he does look after
the home . He looks after the cooking and just about everything in the
house when Anne is not around.

Alex and his family are living in Valley View. But Alex himself is out in
the bush running a faller buncher. He gets home about once every two
weeks or there abouts and otherwise he is working steady. Alex likes to
run big machinery. This Faller Buncher is quite a big machine and he
likes it and seems to be doing okay.

The weather here has been very cold for about a week and now we have more
snow again. We have about 3 or 4 inches last night and we have about 3
feet or more at the present time. We like to go ski-dooing some times,
Vic has a couple of ski-doos here but most of all he likes his horses. He
likes to ride horse back, he goes up into the mountains in the summertime,
for a week, and just rides and then in the wintertime he's got a sleigh
that he uses for sleigh rides and then in the summer time he takes people
riding with a rubber tired machine, wagon. I don't seem to be able to keep
up with my thoughts here so we'll call it just about quits. I hope this
is going to be good for you and that all these things will help. I know
there are other stories you would like me to tell but right off hand I
don't seem to be up on storytelling so I think I will close for now. I am
78 years old, I will be 79 this September. I trust you all that this will
help in the writing of the history of the Edey family so may God bless
you richly and may the Lord lead and direct you in every way, we pray, in
Jesus name.

Edey, Morley Mose Watson (I84562)

1517

[Edey.FTW]

This is the story of the Alexander Mose Edey family. This is written by Morley Edey

It was in March of 1892 that a girl, baby daughter, was born into the Watson family, a
large family of about 12 or 13. She was of the younger ones who lived in Ireland. Shortly
after she was born, about 2 years old, her parents died leaving her orphaned. She was
raised in an orphanage. At the age of 16 she was to set sail on the Titanic for Canada,
where a sister-in-law had moved after losing her first husband, and married again to one
named George Kilgore. She had intended to visit and then go back to Ireland. But for some
reason her passage was cancelled, so she took a small boat which took two weeks to come
across to Canada. She later heard that the Titanic had sunk. Her name was Fanny
Watson.

Now in the year of 1892 a baby boy was born to the Mose Edey family, the first born,
Alexander Mose. He grew up and attended school only in the winter months as he had to
help his parents with the farm work. While yet a young man his mother took very sick. His
father got specialists to help her. It took thousands of dollars but of no avail and she
passed away.

Meanwhile, Fanny was working for a Scottish couple named Jack MacCrae. She had been
warned not to have anything to do with the Edeys so she tried to avoid them and her
mistress told her that was not right. "The Edey's are a fine people and respectable, you
should get to know them." One day Alex Edey came over to visit the MacCraes and they
asked him in for dinner. That was the start of a courtship and finally marriage of my
mother and dad, on Dec. 3, 1914.

My mother was Anglican and believed she was saved at her confirmation. My dad was
Presbyterian and I am told took a stand for the Lord at an early age but because they had
no fellowship, did not grow in the Lord.

Then in Sept. 22, 1915, I Morley Edey, was born. This is where my life started.

My mother had a high respect for God and the Bible but did not know how to pass on the
good news of salvation. She did implant in our lives the respect for God and His Word, the
Bible. We lived too far away from Sunday School to attend until 1925 or 1926. We left
our home and moved to a place near our Grandpa and near a small school. There the
Salvation Army had Sunday School and church service. WE enjoyed the Sunday School and
I remember and I got a book from my Sunday School teacher for, I believe, good
attendance. All the while, I believed God and prayed to Him. But never really knew Him.

Then in the spring of 1928, in a hurry, my uncle John and Dad moved to the Peace River
Country to the town of Spirit River.

There we went to the United Church of Canada where I learned the Ten Commandments
and the Apostles Creed which I soon forgot.

Then in 1931 we moved to the homestead in the Bridgeview area, just one and one half
miles south of the peak of White Mountain. We were there twelve days when a forest fire
came and burned everything we owned. My mother was home alone when it came up with
one toddler and a baby in her arms. She went to a neighbours for help. This was at the
beginning of the 1930 depression. We had to start from scratch.

Dad and we boys used to work at the saw mill just two miles from our home and finally we
started and got established again. Dad used to work out whenever possible and we boys
used to work in the harvest field for extra or only money of any amount. In these years
before radio, we boys and my sister Agnes, used to play the violins, guitar, banjo, uke and
we finally started to play for dances and sometimes made a few dollars that way.

We often trapped a little for spending money from the time we were sixteen years old, we
boys hunted for our meat supply. We helped in this way.

There was no incentive for a young person in those days, nothing but lots of time and
nothing to show for it. I took up a homestead when I became of age but never had any
ambition to develop it.

I was glad to get your letter and Questionair. I think that is the best way to jog our
memory. If you sent me one I don't remember it but I will try to answer them one by one.
We were a very priveleged family. We had Parents who even before they made their last
commitment to the Lord were People of High standard. I think I can truthfully say Mom
was the keel and rudder of the Family ship. I used to hear many conversations while Mum
and Dad were in their bedroom. That I wasn't supposed to hear. Dad loved to read and of
course he read something on evolution one time and made mention to Mum. How could we
be sure there was a God & that evolution could be true. Mum came right back with "Dad
How could you ever believe such a thing."

Dad was always a hard working person and always very energetic. We'd go visiting
relatives on a Sunday and he'd end up play 'anti-I-over' or ball or horse shoes with us kids.
Dad while in Manitoba was not always well. He would take sick with high fever quite
suddenly. He used to drive the school van with a team of horses. One day he took sick I
was very young. Probably 7 years old and didn't know how to drive. He tied the horses
lines on the front of the box and lay down on the floor of the sleigh (winter time) and they
went home on their own. His fever would get so high he would go delirious. He would say
all kinds of crazy things that made no sense at all.

When He & Mother were married they went into debt to buy a farm & build a house. It
was right begining of the 1st world war. He had a very hard time making his mortgage
Payment. There was a hired man working for the neighbors. Who used to come to our
house to visit as a friend and made out he was a friend. But He went & bought our home
right out from under us. This hurt Dad very much when a professing friend pulled such a
dirty trick. But I believe God was at work. He quickly rented a place near GrandDads
place less than 1/2 a mile. He & Grand Dad worked together farming. Dad used to cut oak
Posts and hauled wood for sale as well as a few cattle & pigs. I should have told you
something more about Mother & Dad when they were married 1st they wanted to have a
Christian home. Dad apparently made a stand for the Lord when He was a Young Man &
Mother was confirmed in the Anglican (Church of England) when she was quite young. They
didn't want to have cards (games) in their home. But their family were quite worldly and
soon had them involved in worldly games, etc. My Dad was born & raised in the Wellwood
area untill he move to the Peace River Country. In the winter of 1928. Dad & Uncle John
went together sometime in that winter then Mum & us kids came April 28, 1928. I
remember Dad left a horse for Mum to sell so she could buy our tickets to Spirit River,
Alberta. I remember her having a very hard time trying to get some one who would buy it
but when she did She got right on the train with us 6 little kids. Kathleen was only about
4 or 5 months old I believe. So she had her hands full. we packed a big lunch to last I
think 3 or 4 days worth. But in Edmonton she took us all to a restraunt. When we got to
Spirit River it had snowed the day before about 12 - 16 in. And it was mud to the axels
for 2 1/2 miles to the place Dad had rented. When we got there Uncle John & another
fellow were living their & they moved out that afternoon. What mud what a reception.
Dad got a Job with the next door neighbor. His Bosse's name was Jim McGillvary. I
should have said Something about My Mother before now. You'll have to forgive my
disjointedness of tho't. My Mother was the 2nd. youngest of a family I think of 12
children very large family. I'm not sure of how many. Her Father died when she was
quite young her mother died a year or so later. She was raised in an ophanage which she
didn't make public. She love her Matron appently she was a fine woman of high Christian
Principals of the Anglican Church. They learned many skills of house keeping & knitting.
She could knitt very fast and didn't have to watch her needles. When she became 16 Her
sister-in-law who had imigrated to Canada after her husband died (Mum's Brother). She
married again to My Dad's Uncle George Kilgore. Mother was going to Canada to this
Sister-in-law for a visit. She book a passage on the Titanic but for some reason (God's
hand) her passage was cancelled and booked on a smaller ship. It took her 2 weeks to
cross on it. They also encountered ice bergs. When she arrived at Geo. Kilgore after a
while she got a job working as a house keeper for a family in the Wellwood area where
My Dads parents live. I believe their Names where Jack?? or Dave?? Mackey? I'm not
sure if this is the right spelling of their name. Mackey's were good friend to the Edey
family. Now there was a fued bettween Grandad & Geo. Kilgore. Grandad was married to
Kilgores sister. Kilgore caried a grudge most of his life. And wouldn't even go to my
Grandmother's funeral. But my Mother was warned not to have anything to do with the
Edey family. But Mrs. Mackay soon put her wise to this and one day Dad came to visit the
Mackay's and Mum didn't want to meet him. But Mrs. Mackay told her what a fine family
they were and soon there was a couple pretty friendly and finaly marrage Mother came
from Ireland in 1912 and in 1914 Dec 3 I believe the were married & I arrived in 1915
Sept. 22.

Now we are in Spirit River in the fall of 1928 we moved to a house 1/2 mile south of Spirit
river. Dads new Boss Is now a Bachlor named Mark A. Roycroft a very well to do man. He
used to go to Hiwai nearly every winter & Dad look after his horses & place etc. In the
mean time Dad had homesteaded in the Bridgeview area. And used to go out whenever he
had some spare time and Built a small log cabin. The 1st 2 summers or maybe 3 He work all
summer with Mark A. Then the 30's came along and one spring Mark A told Dad he
couldn't keep him on steady anymore. He advised Dad to go to his Homestead and come
back when Mark A had work which would be harvest time. Which Dad did. We moved out
to the homestead I believe April 28 I believe 1931 and on the 12th. of May we burned out.

There was about 6" of snow on the ground. Clare had a toothache and Dad figured it would
be safe to take him to the Dr & have it pulled when he got home everything was gone. I
Believe this was the Protecting hand of God on Him again. If Dad had been at home he
may have died in that fire. We stayed at the neighbors that night the next day we went
to a house near where our old house was it had one ply of ship lap on it & it had dried out
and the wind and cold air came thru every crack and it snowed again that night & we were
all cold but lived thru it. Dad said if he had some place to go he would have left but he had
no place to go. One of our 1st visitors was a cantancorous old Batchelor who drove in with
his team & Buggy and he had gathered some money & a list of things such as chickes &
clothes and many of our needs were temporarily supplied many neighbours far & near came
& helped us build a house which still stands. But in bad need of repair. We've had to
change & repair roofs since then. Mr. George Pring gave us lumber we could work off later.
Which we did & worked there for lumber as wages then traded to lumber for Horses
cows pigs and almost anything we needed. My 1st. cow Dad told me I could go & make my
own deal. I went in fear & trembling to Esher where I made the deal. Later Dad traded
me a young heifer for this cow that is where I got started my herd. I had also along with
Mother homesteaded. But there was no goal to work for and I didn't get very far proving
mine up then One spring We had a picnic at Burnt River (school picninc I believe). the
Chairman of the Board ask Mr. Pring to bring in a Bible School student who were working
in the Spirit River area to come out and have a service at the Picnic. Which they did and
after that a P.B.I. student. A little Irishman by the name of Wilfred Watson who worked
at a dairy farm in Spirit River. Many a day he walked 12 miles there abouts on Sunday to
hold services in our school. Then when he was to go back to school he got some one from
PRBI to take over the services in our school the next spring they brought a big tent to
the district and held evangelistic messages for 2 wk which lasted 2 months. Now, Before I
go into this part of our story we work in the Mill for Mr. Pring and could by many things
even Pork or whole pig we'd buy for $5.00 worth of lumber. We use to hunt for our meat
moose & Dear and sometimes bear meat if we were real hungary. When Clare and I
became of age to hunt on our own we kept the place in meat summer & winter. Mother
canned the meat in summer in winter we froze it. we used to salt it away too sometime;
we let very little of it go to waist. We used to trap for weasels & coyotes to buy shells.
and sometimes clothes. We always brought our wage home to Mum & Dad untill we left
home or went to Bible school. The only spending money we had would be a couple of dollars
from weasel hides. And that we tried to buy everyone of the family a small gift for
Christmas. One day we were looking at our traps. Agnes wanted to come with me for the
walk. On the way we seen these big track in the snow I said it must be some ones horse
wandering around but as I walked in his steps I said to Agnes this horse sure steps short
as it had snowed during the night & partly covered the track so we couldn't see clearly the
imprint but where we came back home we walked along a fence and the track went right
thru the fence & never broke it Then it come to me It's a bear I told Agnes I went
home told Clare & we both took after it with only One rifle. Now this was Sunday we
never, never hunted on Sunday. But Grandad Edey had just come up from Man. and he said
he'd like to have a Bear steak. And Uncle John said Alex boys are the only place you will
get it for you. Of course me & Clare where those boys. so we were bent on getting this
for Grandad Sunday or No Sunday So the hunt was on We had a good Dog with us the
best hunting dog we ever had. He stayed within our sight at all times & never left us
unless we told him too. Now this area there were only black bear and we were quite green
about the fact that this was only a big black Bear we followed his tracts untill we jumped
him & of course we set the Dog on him to tree him but the dog made a few excited barks &
came back to us. he left and we went to get help & more guns we found Dad & Reg at
Frank Brownlees & he gave us his gun & we went back & tried to chase him out of about 5
or 6 acres of heavy willows so we could see him to shoot him but he had different ideas
It went around & around this bush and us trying to get him to leave. We were just about
played out & I had just told Clare that I had to quit when all of a sudden the bush came
alive with a hair raising roar like a male bull & the old bear up on its hind feet coming
toward us & parting the brush with it fore Paws. He was about 12 ft. from us and we both
started shooting. I had six shells in my gun Clare had 7 in his because he was in the lead
with a loaded gun. I shot all my six and said to Clare I'm empty. he said I have one left.
I'll hold him off till you reload. I didn't know I was rattled untill I tried to put the shells
in my rifle. I didn't know which end to put them in at, but finally made it then Clare shot
him behind the ear & finished him off. When that old Bear was 12 ft and coming the tho't
went thru my mind if that bear make one more jump would I end up in Heaven or Hell I
didn't know. We estimated he weighed while alive at around 1000 lbs. He had many bullet
hole (old ones) in him. When we skinned him out we found 11 bullet holes and lead down
both sides of his teeth so all 13 shots must have found there mark. We were big heros for
some time to come. When my Dad & Reg came to where we downed the bear Dad said
That's a Grizzly After we had it out our trapper freind told us it was a grizzly. Now that
winter While PRBI students came to the school to hold services Agnes was the 1st to
accept the Lord then it was I believe Reg & Mum. I'm not sure of the rest but I know
within the year each member had accepted Christ as Saviour & Lord.

The following information is taken from the book, "Memories and Moments" about Willowvale, White
Mountain & Bridgeview.

I do not know the date of publication but I believe it could be in the early 1980's. Apparently this
information was submitted by Clarence Edey.

Alex Edey was born in Wellwood, Manitoba, in 1891, and lived there until his move to the Peace River
area in 1928. Fanny Edey (Watson) was born in Middleton, County Cork, Ireland, in 1891 and came to
Canada in 1912. She tried to get passage on the Titanic but was not able to, so her coming was put off
until August of that year. She came to Wellwood with the intention of going back to Ireland in a year's
time. However, in the meantime, she met Alex and things turned out differently. There were married on
December 2, 1914, making their home in the Wellwood district for the next 14 years.

The family grew to six, Morley, Clarence, Agnes, Reg, George and Kathleen. Then Alex and his brother
John came to the Spirit River district with their families and a box car of settler's effects. Alex arrived in
Spirit River on Tuesday, April 3. Bob Inglis was on the same train but they didn't know each other at that
time. John came a few days later with the box car of effects.

Fanny and children arrived on Tuesday, April 24. There were two trains that came into Spirit River each
week - Tuesdays and Fridays.

We lived in Spirit River until 1931, when we moved to the homestead. The years that followed brought
many exciting times, some pleasant and some not so pleasant, such as fire two weeks after arriving on
May 12. Making roads, clearing the first pieces of land for gardens and crops for feed and the logging
and mill work. Trying to make ends meet in the 1930's was not easy for the parent with a large family.

Hunting and trapping was a part of our life when we came to the homestead, so it had its exciting times
too. In November 1938 was no exception when a grizzly bear came into the district, walking in a foot of
snow, and causing a little excitement for brother Morley and I. We had Dad and Reg on the road east of
the Martin home hoping to chase Mr. Bear out across the road but that didn't work. So after a couple of
hours standing, Dad and Reg became cold and were about to go home when we suggested to them to go up
a little field of Martin's just behind their buildings and we would try and chase him that way. So after a
little more tracking Mr. Bear, he decided he had gone far enough. He sat down twice and tried to make
up his mind as what to do, then the third time he decided to do the chasing. The bush was thick alders
and willows so he came charging on his hind legs and breaking brush with his fore legs. Mouth wide
open and white teeth showing, he was about 12 feet away from us. We fired and he fell to the ground
making a very loud bellowing noise. he did not stay down long, so on his feet again, although very dazed,
he stood up and took 9 more shots through the shoulders and from the chest to the tail end. Then
weakened, he started to stagger back against a clump of willows and with a shot in the neck sank to the
ground where another shot was placed to the head. We had two 32 Winchester Special rifles.

He was hung up at our farm for a month with the insides taken out. We had him weighed on McArthurs'
platform scale and he weighed 595 lbs. The hide was tanned and given to mother.

FIRE

Then there was the fire two weeks after we had arrived on the homestead. It was a nice warm spring
morning on May 12, 1931, very clear with a few curls of smoke coming up in a distance from land
clearing.

Dad and I left for Spirit River to get my tooth pulled as it ached all night. Little did we know when we
left home that morning that it would not be there when we returned. When we arrived in Spirit River
around noon, the sky became very smokey, sometimes covering the sun. There were fires between Spirit
River and White Mountain.

Mother, with two small children at home, decided to lie down with them after dinner, but before she did,
she went out and saw the country becoming very smokey. So she decided to take the children and go to
the neighbour's, who were the Brownlees, just a mile down the road. (They had more clearing around
their house.) So, taking Francis, who was one year old, in her arms, and Kathleen, who was three years
old, she headed down the trail, which was just that, with dense bush on both sides. Mother gave Kathleen
a ball and by throwing it ahead of her and getting her to chase it kept her moving. After arriving at Mrs.
Brownlees, she asked if there were any men around as she had left a horse in the barn which she was
unable to turn loose. Mrs. Brownlee was nervous, too, and said there wasn't anyone around. Mother met
the other children coming home from school and Morley, who was 15 years old, was not with them. So
she sent one of them back for him and his cousin Walter Varnals, who later homesteaded the quarter the
school was on. When they arrived at our farmstead, shortly after 4 PM, everything was on fire. The barn
was burned with the horse inside, and a sow with 9 little ones, was in a log enclosure behind the barn.
The sow managed to get out of the pen but her lungs were so burned that she had to be killed. Four little
pigs were saved with two of them having very badly burnt feet. Hens and turkeys were also burned with
the exception of five hens and one turkey. One cow was loose so she managed to go ahead of the fire and
escape injury.

Dad and I came through all the timber south of McArthurs. We had a disc trailing behind our wagon
which started to squeal, so thinking it was lacking grease, Dad took an oil can and ran back to squirt some
oil on the bearing but just found a root stuck in the disc. While we were stopped we could hear the roar of
the fire west of us. Had we been a few minutes later we wouldn't have made it through. Mother met us at
the corner of our road and told us not to go up to the farmstead as everything was on fire and burnt up.

Mrs. McGovern also had two small children, Lillian and Alex, and she came through two or more miles
of winding trail, which was alive with wild life, till she got to McArthurs. Mr. McGovern stayed to fight
fire at Pring's Sawmill along with several other men. They would have been overcome by heat and smoke
except for a hole dug in the sawdust pile.

The day after the fire Mr. Pring stopped by to chat with Dad and he said he hadn't seen any sign of his
cow. After he left and walked a couple hundred yards up the road, dad heard a bell. The cow had almost
made it out but was overtaken.

The frame house that Jolleys had built across from our farmstead was where our family were to move into
but it too was on fire. Ed Deener happened to pass by and noticed so he took his smock off, dipped it in
the creek and managed to put it out. Then again that evening Dad, Jim Jolley and Walter Varnals went to
check on the fire and found it had started burning again, so they poured water on it and spent the night
there.

After the fire, came the job of rebuilding and getting started again. People were very good, Mrs. Jolley
sent out dishes for us to use and much clothing and other needs were met by neighbours, even to
supplying many chickens. Mr. Pring supplied lumber to help build a new home, which would be worked
out later in regards to payment.

The landscape looked pretty bleak, everything black, the green spruce was a mass of standing black
stumps and stripped trees.

A new house had to be built so a work bee was organized to help with the building which served as the
family home for many years and which still stands today. The roof had been changed some from the
original one.

Bill Moss was a young bachelor at that time and he also lost his little house.

Since these past events, Dad - Alex Edey - passed away in Grade Prairie on August 5, 1972, at the age of
81 years and Mom - Fanny Edey - now 91 years old, resides in the Auxiliary Hospital in Grande Prairie.

The other members of our family are:

Morley - married Barbara Bresnahan - live in Vanderhoof, B.C. and had 8 children - Donovan(killed in a
car accident), Charlotte, Alexander, Eileen, Thelma, Timothy, Ann and Victor.

Clarence - married Lena Brummond - live in Grande Prairie, Alta, and have 5 children - Catherine,
Margaret, Gordon, Darlene and James.

Agnes - married Hieni Germann - live in Nashville, Tenn. have 6 children, Priscilla, Heini-Peter, Calvin,
Luke, Samuel and Daniel.

Reg - married Jean McKenzie - live in Regina, Sask., have 5 children - Norma, Allen, Stewart, Kenneth
and Gwendolyn.

George - lives in Grande Prairie

Kathleen - married Albert Hannah, - live in Halfmoon Bay, B.C. - have 4 children - Lorne, Audrey,
Rodney and Florence.

Francis - married Emma Weme - live in Creston, B.C.

Roy - married Judith Botsford - live in Grande Prairie, Alta, have 3 children - Kerry, Wanda and Douglas.

Additional notes by Clarence Edey, received Sept. 8, 1995

BLACKSMITHING IN BRIDGEVIEW

In the early years on the homestead, things like plows, wagons, sleighs, whippletrees and chains, etc.,
wore out, broke, and needed repair. Alex Edey was the answer to many of these problems. He brought
with him, to the homestead, a blacksmith outfit, forge and anvil, which was used to repair and help the
neighbourhood keep their machinery going. On one occasion, when a casting on a breaking plow broke
and had to be ordered, it took several days to come. Alex was asked if he could make a piece to help them
keep going until the part arrived, which he did. The new part was never used as the piece he made was
much stronger and stood up to the stumps better.

Many mornings in the hot weather, if you passed by the Edey's at four-thirty or five A.M., you would have
heard the sound of the hammer on the anvil pounding out shears for some neighbour.

Blacksmithing was a livelihood for the family also, money was not always received but butter, eggs,
lumber, meat or other items were given in trade. It was a place where his six sons found a retreat on a
rainy day and also learned from watching and helping Dad. Many happy memories are still in their
minds as they remember turning the blower and watching the iron heat in the fire. Then to see the red hot
iron shaped into some useful item on the anvil under the weight of the hammer and the know how of the
one doing it.

Written by Clarence Edey (I believe - {note by Kathleen Hannah}) for submission in "Memories and
Moments of White Mountain, Willowvale, Bridgeview".

Edey, Alexander Moses (I84561)

1518

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WHO WAS WD. EDEY? BY J.H. Edey, AGS #1300

When I started searching my family background in the summer of 1980 all I
knew about the Edey family was the fact that my grandfather had come from
Carleton County, Ontario, and settled in Manitoba in the 1880's. On our
way to Eastern Canada my wife, Iris, and I visited aunts and uncles in
Manitoba and were given an address of their cousin in Carleton Place,
Ontario. When we visited this cousin later we found that much research
had been done by various members of the Edey family and others in the
Ottawa area. We were able to get the books: "What Men They Were!" by S.
Wyman MacKechnie and "The Wrights" by Patrick M.O. Evans. We learned that
my great great grandfather, Moses Edey, had come from Randolph, Vermont,
in 1805 and had settled in Aylmer, Quebec, about 8 miles upriver from
Hull. His widowed mother, his sister Jane, and his brother Samuel
followed the next year. This information gave us a wonderful start and I
began to do further research.

Through correspondence with relatives in Ontario who had visited Vermont
we learned that the births of the three Edeys mentioned were registered in
the Vital Records of Vermont as follows:

Jane Edey born in Randolph, June 11, 1780 Moses Edey born in Newbury,
September 18, 1781 Samuel Edey born in Randolph, May 18, 1786

The name of the father was given as Wd. Edey.

The problem now was to find who was Wd. Edey. What kind of a man was he
who had a child in Randolph one year, another in Newbury the next year and
a third in Randolph five years later? Why all the moving around? What did
Wd. stand for? The Ontario cousins suggested that Wd. could be an
abbreviation for Willard. I searched the microfiche at the LDS
Genealogical Library in Edmonton and sure enough, there were the three
names with birth dates and places as above and the father's name - WD
EDEY. I found several Willard Eddys on the microfiche and in the 1790
Census of the United States. There was also a Ward Eddey but none of them
seemed to be right.

In June, 1983, I sent to the LDS Genealogical Department in Salt Lake City
for photocopies of the three records. On all three copies the space for
Full Name of Father was written in as Wd. Edey. Spaces for Maiden Name of
Mother, Mother's Birthplace, Mother's Residence, Father's Birthplace, and
Father's Occupation had been left blank. Each of the photoduplicates had
a separate statement as follows: "Town of Randolph. I hereby certify that
the facts set forth on the reverse side of this card are matters of record
in this office." with the signature "E.F. Briggs, Town Clerk". No dates
for this signature were given. This indicated that E.F. Briggs had copied
from another source.

We were in Vermont in September, 1983. In the Vital Records Office in
Montpelier I found the cards and confirmed that the photocopies were exact
duplicates. In the Vermont Historical Library I searched for two days for
some record of a Wd. Edey without success but I did learn some history of
Randolph. There had been an Indian raid on Randolph on October 16, 1780.
One man was killed and the other men present were taken captive to Canada
where they were kept for two years. Some men escaped because they
happened to be absent at the time. Among these was a Mr. Eddy. The women
and children were left homeless and had to find shelter in other towns.
This could account for the fact that Moses Edey was born in Newbury. Since
he was born eleven months after the raid his father was not one of the
captives. The settlers of Randolph had applied for the incorporation of
the town a few months before the raid and one of the signatures on the
application is Thomas Eddy. However, because of the raid and the absence
of the settlers, incorporation was not completed and a council was not
elected until 1783.

I also discovered the E.F. Briggs had been Town Clerk of Randolph from
1910 to 1921. Evidently he had completed the cards during this period.
Then I found in the Randolph Town Office what I believe is the source
which E.F. Briggs had used. It is "Vol. A. of Births, Deaths, Marriages
1766 - 1868 for the Town of Randolph" - The Index listed the name "Edey -
Widdow" and referred to page 74. I had page 74 duplicated and the entries
are shown here. (J.H. Edey has shown copies of this information in his
article.)

When I asked a clerk in the Randolph Town Office what she thought Wd.
stood for she immediately said "Widow". I believe she is right and I am
continuing my research on that assumption. If this assumption is correct,
then E.F. Briggs (or someone in his office) made an error when he filled
in the Full Name of Father as Wd. Edey and any records copied from these
cards are in error.

We did not have time to continue our research in Vermont. I think that
the three entries were all made at the same time. Perhaps minutes of
Randolph Town Council would have some information about the time the
records were started. Evidently they were recorded before the Edey family
moved to Canada in 1805-6.

The question "Who Was Wd. Edey?" remains unanswered at present. I am
writing this article with the idea that someone else may find any record
of the first name or maiden name of the Widow Edey who came to Canada with
her three children. The book Vermont's First Settlers" by Jay M.Holbrook
(p. 31) shows a Thomas Eddy had a Land grant in Randolph on June 29, 1781.
I could find no record of the family in the 1790 Census of Randolph or
Vermont.

"The Vermont Historical Gazetter Volume 2" by Hemenway in considering who
was the first child born in Randolph suggests this may have been "Jane
Eddy, daughter of a certain widow Eddy who moved into town a short time
before the proprietors voted to give the first woman that settled in
Middlesex, 100 acres of land. The records show Mrs. Eddy had one child
previously, and one after, born elsewhere. It does not appear she
received the 100 acres." (p. 1042). This write quotes from older
manuscripts.

Ruth Story (Devereux) Eddy in her article "The Eddy Pioneers and Settlers
in Vermont" in The Eddy Family Association Bulletin Vol. VII, No. I, date
October 29, 1927, writes, "In 1780 in Randolph there was a widow Edey with
two sons, Moses and Samuel, and a daughter, Jane. She moved there just
before the proprietors voted to give the first woman who settled in
Middlesex Co. 100 acres of land. I could not find whether she ever
received the land. The children bear regular Eddy names. They must
belong somewhere on the Eddy tree, probably on the Obadiah of Middleboro
branch, but as yet I cannot connect them." The same author wrote a book
"The Eddy Family in America" which was published in 1930. On page 169 she
gives the name of Jane, Moses, and Samuel Edey and suggests their father
may have been Othniel Eddy, the son of Joel Eddy of Ashford, Connecticut.

Jonathon Carpenter lists the residents of Randolph near the end of his
diary. He usually gives both the first and last names but he has written
one surname without a first name. It appears that he wrote "Edy" and then
changed the "y" to a 'd' or and 'e' and added a 'y' at the end. This name
could be "Eddy", "Edey" or "Edgy". This list seems to have been completed
about 1783.

When Ontario relatives were in Vermont in September they found records of
the two brothers in the Probate Records. I obtained Microfilm No. 6888
Probate Records of the District of Randolph 1792 - 1850 from the LDS
Genealogical Department in Salt Lake City and found the following
information on pages 74 and 79:

Samuel Edey, A Minor -- At a Probate court holden at Williamstown in for
the District of Randolph in the first Day of December Anno Domini 1802
Jonathon Frist Esq. Judge -- Samuel Edey a Minor residing in Randolph in
said District personally appeared and made choice of John Eavens of said
Randolph to be his lawfull guardian. At the said Court the said John
appeared & accepted of said trust of Guardian to said Minor who together
with William Ramzey of said Randolph became bound in the sum of five
hundred dollars as surety for the faithfull discharge of said Trust --
whereupon a Letter of Guardianship issued to the said John Eavens. Attest
Jonathon Frist Judge of Probate.

Moses Edey, A Minor -- At a Court of Probate holden at Randolph in and for
the District of Randolph on the 21st day of March Anno Domini 1798. --
Personally appeared Moses Eddy a minor residing in Randolph & made choice
of Edward Evans of said Randolph for his lawful guardian. -- Likewise
appeared said Edward Evans and with Joseph Carpenter of said Randolph
became bound in the sum of four hundred Dollars as security for his
faithgul discharge of said trust -- whereupon a Letter of Guardianship was
granted to said edward Evan. Attest David Storrs Register.

I wonder if there is any significance to the fact that these choices of
guardians were made almost five years apart and at times when the brothers
were about seventeen and a half years old.

I hope others will find this information useful for further research. Here
are my suggestions for continuing research. Somewhere in the Ottawa area
there should be some information about the Widow Edey, the mother of Jane,
Moses and Samuel. This could be in a family Bible, other family papers,
church records, cemetery records, or other sources. In Vermont, there may
be clues in the Randolph Town Council minutes or other town records,
church records, land records or cemetery records. I spent an hour with
Wes and Miriam Herwig, curators of the Randolph Historical Society, and
they suggested extensive records in the Baker Library at Dartmouth College
in Hanover, New Hampshire, could be helpful. If they can be found, the
manuscripts quoted by Hemenway in the Vermont Historical Gazeteer may give
some leads. If the parents of the three Edeys who came to Canada with
their mother in 1805-6 can be identified, it may be possible to trace
their ancestry back for another two or three centuries.

Received from J.H. Edey (the following)

Information on the EDEY Family.

.......There is a gravestone in Bellevue Cemetery near Hull, Quebec, which
has the inscription "In Memory of Mary, Wife of Luther Edey, died 23 Nov.
1842, aged 86 years." I believe that this Mary could only be the mother
of the three Edeys who came to Hull from Randolph in 1805-6.

Evens\Evans, Mary (Polly) (I84272)

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1901 Alberta Census

EDDY Emma 33 Cowley
EDDY James 22 Cowley
EDDY Wallace 38 Cowley

Eddy, Wallace (I18397)

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NameMary Eddy Schlesinger Efa #26696 NewspaperNew York Times Date:January 2002 SCHLESINGER-Mary Eddy. A service to celebrate her life will be held at 1 PM, January 26, 2002, at The Congregational Church, Main Street/Route 44, Salisbury, CT. During the service, family and friends will be invited to share their memories. Please join the Schlesinger family after the service in the parish hall.

Eddy, Mary (I59075)

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Genealogy and Ecclesiastical History of Farmington, Connecticut

"REBECCA EDDY," to church Aug. 5th, 1821, daughter of Charles, and No. (270,) born Oct. 3d, 1799, bap. Nov. 17th, 1799. Rebecca Bass married June 28th, 1825, Albert Norton, of Kensington, son of Roger, and Hannah (Rice,) of Wallingford, his wife. She was received to Kensington church, Dec., 1826, by letter from New Britain. She died Aug. 31st, 1828, aged 29, at Kensington. She was by trade a tailoress, and learned of Polly Judd, who married Jesse Eddy. She was the second wife of Capt. Albert Norton, his first being, Lucy, daughter of John Lee; she died April 25th, 1824, when he married, second, as above. Mr. Norton married, third, March 25th, 1829, Ruth, daughter of Cyprian Hart and his wife, Lucy (Hooker.)

Eddy, Rebecca Bass (I09344)

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Family: Wood, Gail / Eddy, Pauline O. (F04474)

1523

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"St. Marys Oracle" -- St. Marys, WV
12 Dec 1985

WILFRED EDDY
4 Dec 1985

Wilfred "Mike" Eddy, 74, of Wheeling, died last Wednesday at home. He was a
retired US mail contractor and a Methodist.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth Reed Eddy; three sons, William of Seattle,
WA, Fred Eugene of Birmingham, AL, and Robert of Harrisburg, PA; a brother,
Glen of Harrisville; a sister, Ann Cochran of New Jersey; and nine
grandchildren.

Services were conducted at 10:30am Saturday at Park View Memorial Garde
Chapel, Wheeling. The Kepner Funeral Home of Wheeling was in charge of
arrangements.

Eddy, Wilfred (I76043)

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"The Parkersburg Sentinel" -- Parkersburg, WV
5 Nov 1993

NELLIE I. JONES EDDY
4 Nov 1993

Nellie I. Jones Eddy, 73, of Miamisburg, OH, died Thursday at Kettering
Memorial Hospital, Kettering, OH, following a sudden illness.

Mrs. Eddy was a member of the Church of Christ. She was born in Hebron,
Pleasants County, a daughter of the late L. Oliver and Zula Lamp Jones.

She is survived by two daughters, Beverly Ann Clark of Grand Junction, CO,
and Linda Eddy of Miamisburg, OH; one son, Michael Eddy of Springboro, OH;
three grandchildren; two sisters, Virgie Backus and Betty Morey, both of
Parkersburg; one brother W. Sam Jones, of Miamisburg; and several nieces
and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Hollie A. Eddy; and her twin
brother, Norvel E. Jones.

The funeral will be at 10am Saturday at Gebhart and Schmidt-Parramore
Funeral Home, Miamisburg, OH. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.

Jones, Nellie (I76121)

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"The Parkersburg Sentinel" -- Parkersburg, WV
9 Feb 1990

LILLIAN MAE EDDY
8 Feb 1990

Lillian Mae Eddy, 69, of Belmont, died Thursday at St. Joseph's Hospital.

She was born in Jacksonburg, Wetzel County, a daughter of the late Thom
and Mollie Yost Cain. She was a 1939 graduate of St. Marys High School. He
was a Protestant and a beautician.

She is survived by her husband, Ralph R. Eddy; one son, Lawrence Cai
Alma; two sisters, Arlie Davis of Foley, AL, and Evelyn Layman of
Reynoldsville, WV; two grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Effeil Spencer; three
brothers and two sisters.

The funeral will be 2pm Sunday at the Ruttencutter Funeral Home in St.
Marys. Burial will be in Beechwood Cemetery, Alma.

Cain, Lillian Mae (I79570)

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1784SOLOMON EDEY appeared in the 1784 Census (lower precient eastern shore) as having 7 white males and 12 black males.

Edey, Solomon (I61795)

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1901 Alberta Census

EDDY Fred F 30 Livngst
EDDY Margette 26 Livngst
EDDY Myrtle 02 Livngst

Eddy, Fred F. (I53678)

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1901 Alberta Census
EDDY Bayse C 22 PnchCrk

Eddy, Bayse C. (I53677)

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1901 Alberta Census
EDDY James 22 Cowley

Eddy, James (I18607)

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EDDY, Norris (father) b Nov 22, 1821 d. Nov 10, 1902
EDDY, Lucy M. (mother) b. Apr 12, 1831 d. Nov 2, 1896
EDDY, Anna M. (d. N. and L. M.) b. May 3, 1861 d. Jun 15, 1895
EDDY, Elenora E. (d. N. and L. M.) d. Sep 9, 1870 ae 12 yr 4 mo 3 da

Eddy, Norris Washington (I01960)

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Genealogical Abstracts from the Mount Carmel Ledger, Northumberland County

Eddy, Mellie Miss ch/o Mrs. Wm. Kiefer, Jr.
Eddy, Millie lived in Shamokin on Dec 28, 1894
Eddy, Peter lived in Shamokin on May 25, 1894
Eddy, Peter f/o Mrs. William Keifer Jr. of Mt. Carmel
Eddy, Peter Mrs. is spending the week with her daughter Mrs.
Wm. Kiefer Jr., Mar 16, 1894

Eddy, Peter (I76180)

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Genealogical Records of Descendants of John and Anthony Emery

Of Newbury, Mass.

1590-1890.

Compiled By
Rev. Rufus Emery.

"Fidelis Et Suavis."

Emery Cleave
Salem, Mas
1890.

767 STEPHEN7 EMERY (Daniel,6 Daniel,5 Zachariah,4 Zachariah,3
James,2 Anthony1), son of Capt. Daniel and his second wife, Hannah
(Bates) Emery; married Sally Eddy of Wales, N. Y.

Children:

1915 i IRENE.8
1916 ii JULIA.
1917 iii DANIEL.
1918 iv CYNTHIA.
1919 v SOPHIA, m., 1865, David Huntington of Marengo, Ill.
1920 vi FRANKLIN.
1921 vii STEPHEN.

Emery, Stephen (I22682)

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Genealogy of Captain John Locke of NH

A history and genealogy of the descendants of Captain John Locke of Portsmouth and Rye, New Hampshire and his descendants. There is also mention of Nathaniel Locke of Portsmouth and a short account of the history of the Lockes in England.

7991 MINNIE L. JONES (adopted), b. Worcester, Mass., Feb. 18, 187
HARRISON P. EDDY, June 1, 1892, b. Millbury, Mass., Apl. 29, 1870.
Graduated from Worcester Polytec. 1891, was Supt. of City Sewer
Had: 7992 WILLARD T., b. March 11, 1893; 7993 HARRISON P
Feb. 17, 1895; 7994 RANDOLPH L., b. Dec. 15, 1898; 7994a CHARLOTTE
F., b. July 4, 1903.

Eddy, Harrison Prescott (I49081)

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http: /newspaperabstracts.com/IA/Clarke/1908/FEB.html
County Letters
Leslie.
-Mr. & Mrs. PRIEST have moved in the house vacated by Mr. BIBEY. Shelby EDDY is moving to Weldon & A.M. SAFFEIL is moving on the EDDY farm. Frak JOHNSON is moving on the TURNAHAN farm & John JOHNSON's nephew from illinois is moving on the JOHNSON farm. Harry SAFFEL is moving on Mrs. HALL's farm.
-Smith POLLOCK had a tumor removed at the Methodist Hospital in Des Moines. He is doing well.

Eddy, Shelby Moody (I49943)

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http: /www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/vitalsdr.html
Francis Marion Eddy
date of death: Mar 22, 1906
county of death: Hamilton
City of death: Cincinnati
Hospital: City Branch Hospital
Res: 1026 W. 6th St.
Married
Cause of death: Phthisis (TB)
Burial: Wesleyan Cemetery
State of Birth: OH
Cert #134-1906-722

Eddy, Francis Marion (I02004)

1536

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Eddy, J.J. (I06543)

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Margaret Jane Watson

Margaret Jane Redman Watson, daughter of George C. and Carrie Ann Smith Redman, was born Feb. 6, 1905, at home south of Van Wert. and died March 3, 2002, at the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola. She was 97.

She married Clyde Wesley Watson on Feb. 6, 1924, in Van Wert. They became the parents of two children, Lowell James and Lois Louise. She lived on their farm south of Van Wert her entire married life. She moved to Casual Living in Osceola in January of 1999.

She was a member of the Van Wert United Methodist Church and was very active in United Methodist Women. Not only has her family enjoyed her cooking, but she shared it with many others.

She helped serve many meals at the church and also at the Humeston Sale Barn.

She worked at the Van Wert School in the kitchen, Hanaco and the Red Rooster at Weldon Corner.

When she wasn

Redman, Margaret Jane (I18714)

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Marriage Index: MA, 1633-1850
Married: Apr 19, 1833 in: Sturbridge, Worchester Co., MA
Gender: F This record can be found at: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0757003.
Spouse name: Taylor, David

Family: Taylor, David / Eddy, Betsey (F07132)

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Marriage Index: New Jersey, 1680-1900
Married: Mar. 24, 1808 in: Morris, NJ
Gender: F Source: County Clerk Records Film number: 1314453 - 1314454
Spouse name: Fairchild, Enos Spouse gender: M

Family: Fairchild, Enos / Eddy, Elizabeth (F01307)

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McCulloughZilpha Eddy Custer 1841191973-291/2-3-4Mother

Zilpha Marie Eddy (I14195)

1541

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Of the four members of the Eddy family, only one, the father, survived. In mid-December 1846, William Eddy set off to seek help, leaving his wife and two small children behind; when he returned three months later with a relief party, all three were dead.

William Henry Eddy
A carriage-maker from Belleville, Illinois.
Age: [28]
Survived

Parents: Nathan Eddy and ?

b. abt 1816 in Providence, RI

m1. abt 1841 to Eleanor Priscilla

Eddy, William H. (I02873)

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On Apr. 3, 1645, John was apprenticed by Samuel and Elizabeth Eddy to Francis Goulder and his wife Katherine of Hobbes Hole, Plymouth, or as it was sometimes called, Wellingsley. They were near neighbors. John must have finished this apprenticeship in which he learned the trade of a blacksmith in 1658. In the records of Edgartown, Marthas Vineyard, under date of Dec. 28, 1659 is the following record.

The Town (then called Great Harbour) voted to pay the charge of the Smiths Transportation hither if he desires, this is John Edy of Plymouth. (Edgartown Records, I, 133.) On Oct. 22, 1660, he was the owner of one of the shares of land which was given him by the town (Edgartown Rec. I, p. 147). On May 1, 1663 it was voted that John Edy, having remained three years in town should have a lot of 10 acres and a commonage with two acres of meadow - the meadow lies about the pond at Miles Brook (Dukes Co. Deeds, VI, 115).

From these records it would seem that John went to Great Harbour in the spring or summer of 1660, and remained there from the time of his arrival. In the Plymouth Colony Rec. (Vol. 11, p. 37) is a deed dated August 27, 1660, in which

"Aron Knapp of Taunton within the government of New Plymouth, husbandman sold to John Eedey of Hymn, blacksmith, ten acres of land, bee it more or less Scittuate and lying Neare unto the land of Nicholas White in the plantation of Taunton aforsaid hounded by the land of John Eddway, Carpenter on the Northwest side: by the Comons on the southeast side and the Mill River on the end of it. At the end of this deed after the signature and the names of the witnesses is the statement "I John Eedey doe by these presents make over this my deed to Daniell Makenny of Taunton."

Thus it is probable that soon after the date of this deed Aug. 1660 and before Oct. 22, 1660 John went to Marthas Vineyard and became the blacksmith of this new settlement. John Doggett, his wife's father, had purchased land in Martha's Vineyard, and one of her brothers was there. It seems likely that this was another inducement for the young man to go to the Island. The records of Edgartown show that he became one of its prominent men and took an active part in its life.

He bought of John Dogget a plot of six acres for a homestead lot. The exact location of this has not been ascertained, but it is supposed to have been on the "Line" (Sup. Judicial Court Files 4974 also Edgartown Rec., 1, 4, 7). In 1662 he was chosen constable and became a member of the train band. During the period of dissatisfaction with the government of Mayhew, he, together with Thomas Dogget and a few others would not sign the paper showing disapproval (Banks Hist. of Marthas Vineyard, Vol. I).

On Jan. 29, 1663, the neck or land called Quanomica was divided and John Eddy, the following year, came into possession of one of the twenty-five shares.

The following account is taken from "The History of Marthas Vineyard" by Col. Charles E. Banks. He has made an exhaustive study of all the early families on the Island, and is an authority on all matters pertaining to the early history of the place.

This lot was one of the five and twenty, just south of the cemetery on Tower Hill, having a frontage of 142 rods on the harbor. As proprietor he participated in all the divisions of land during his residence in Edgartown, and in 1667 was granted one sixth of the West Chop Neck by Governor Mayhew (Dukes Co. Deeds 1, 239). At this time the project for the purchase of Takemmy was under consideration, and he entered into negotiations with the three partners for admission as a proprietor in the proposed new settlement. Accordingly he offered his lands at Holmes Hole as an exchange for this right, as is shown by the following document:

Eddy, John (I25491)

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Samuel Jr. [int. omits Jr.] and Lucy Stiles, Apr. 5, 1797. [Sarn[u]el Jr., C.R.]

Family: Eddy, Samuel / Stiles, Lucy (F01470)

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The RI Historical Cemeteries Transcription Project Index
Yeaw-Howard-Phillips Lot Scituate; Darby Rd ->15 ft. E of tele. po
Yeaw, Amy (Eddy) 1776c - 22 Jun 1854

Eddy, Amy (I01947)

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THOMAS HORTON

THE HISTORY AND SOME LINES OF THE POSTERITY OF
THOMAS HORTON, IMMIGRANT, AND ONE OF THE
FOUNDERS OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS.,
1636.
Page 483

Thomas Horton was the son of Joseph, born 1602.

Thomas Horton, who had married in England, Mary Eddy, came to America in the ship Mary and John, 1632-33.

They sojourned at Windsor, Connecticut, two or three years, where their first son, Jeremiah, was born. They were educated people, the report says. Their signatures are still to be seen in the "Pyncheon Papers" that have to do with the land purchase from the Indians.

Thomas Horton was one of the founders of Springfield, Mass., was witness and signer of the Indian Deed, was town officer and proprietor. His lands are minutely described in History of Springfield, Mass., by Mason Green, p. 45: A map is shown, minor matters of record in the same show that Thomas Horton was party to a trivial suit at law with one Mirick. Another entry shows that his levy for ministerial support was

Horton, Thomas (I21862)

1546

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New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV page 2077

John C., son of Captain Charles and Deborah (Cadman) Jenckes, was born September 26, 1776, on the Island of RI, and by act of the RI legislature was permitted to adopt a middle name, Charles. His home was in Providence. He married (first) Sarah Snow, and (second) Fanny Smith, daughter of James and Phebe (Wardwell) Smith, of Dighton, MA. By his first marriage there were ten children born, seven of whom died in infancy, the others being: 1. Susan, born March 12, 1803; married Lloyd Shaw, and removed to Illinois. 2. Eliza, born December 12, 1806; married Joseph V. Snow. 3. Amey Ann, born June 25, 1816; married Pardon M. Hale. Of the ten children born to the second marriage, the following three survived childhood: 1. Sarah Snow, born April 18, 1822, died August 14, 1900, unmarried. 2. Charles William, born August 10, 1826, died April 26, 1909; he married Ella Tingley, and they had children: William Cadman, born March 2, 1854, died in infancy; Frederick Tingley, born July 12, 1856, married Emily Houghton; Charles William, Jr., born September 18, 1858, died March 29, 1883; Emma Louise, born October 22, 1864, unmarried; and Ella Maud, born March 18, 1868, unmarried. 3. John Jay, mentioned further on

Jencks, John C. (I18232)

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New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV page 1781

Albert G. Eddy, son of Amasa (2) Eddy, was born in Glocester, RI, March 27, 1807, died October 31, 1876. He lived in Providence and in Glocester, RI. He started the liquor firm of Albert G. Eddy & Company, in Providence. He married (first) Olive Arnold, who died the same year. He married (second) Sarah A. Peckham. He married (third) Widow Eunice Brotherton. Children: James F., born December 12, 1826; Augustus F., August 17, 1833, in Glocester; Joseph G., December 23, 1834; Albert O., March 10, 1836; Miranda B., April 13, 1837; Solomon A., November 8, 1838, died June 13, 1850; Jedediah S., July 14, 1840, died August 8, 1853; Jesse Potter, mentioned below; Helen Josephene, July 9, 1847, died December 7, 1848.

Eddy, Albert G. (I06959)

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Record of the Descendants of James Ensign and His Wife Sarah Elson

Author: Martha Eunice Ensign Nelson

A record of 12 generations of descendants from James Ensign and Sarah Elson (married 1611).

509. AMOS ELIJAH ENSIGN7 (Elijah6, Isaac5, Datus4, David3, David2,
James1)

B. 5 Dec. 1839, Westfield, Hampden, Mass.; s. of
Elijah and Fidelia Kagwin Ensign; d. 7 May 1892,
Westfield, Hampden, Mass.; md. 8 May 1862, LOIS ADELAIDE EDD
23 June 1841, Springfield, Pennsylvania.

Source: C. S. E.

953. WILLIAM HOLLAND ENSIGN8 (Amos7, Elijah6, Isaac5, Datus4, David3,
David2, James1)

B. 2 Dec. 1872, Westfield, Hampden, Mass.;
s. of Amos Elijah and Lois Adelaide Eddy Ensign;
md. CATHERINE FREED, b. abt. 1875.

Source: E. E. N.

Children (ENSIGN): All born in Little River, Mass.

i. Richard, b. 1895
ii. Helena, b. 1897
iii. William, b. 1900

In 1912, William was county Commissioner, Hampden Co., Mass.

Eddy, Lois Adelaide (I79879)

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Rude, Susannah
Married: Jul 5, 1749 in: Plainfield, Windham, CT
Spouse name: Harris, Nathan

Family: Harris, Nathan / Rude, Susanna (F12576)

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Eddy, Albert
Comments: The gender of Albert Eddy is male.
Spouse: Antoinette Sterling
Marriage Date: Feb 25, 1855
The following source has been recorded for this marriage: FREEMAN'S JOURNAL 1855-03-02
The following additional information has been recorded for this marriage: BOTH LIVE AT WARREN

Family: Eddy, Albert / Sterling, Antoinette (F30057)

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