Edey, Senior Moses (Senior)

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• Reference Number: 84881

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

Dated April 22, 1857

Moses Edey of Aylmer Circuit

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

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

Moses married Chamberlain, Senior Elizabeth (Sr.) in 1805. Elizabeth was born on 7 Jul 1790; died in 1829 in Aylmer, Quebec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84880

Edmund married WYMAN, Hannah in 1833. Hannah was born in 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84884

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edmonton 30.12.1983

Elizabeth married TAYLOR, James Finlayson in 1842 in Chaudiere Lake. James was born in 1796; died in 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84808

Moses married Chamberlain, Elizabeth on 26 Mar 1845 in Hull, Quebec. Elizabeth was born in 1826; died on 2 Sep 1902. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84885

Family/Spouse: BURKE, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born in 1823; died in 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84886

Nelson married TAYLOR, Margaret on 10 Mar 1853. Margaret (daughter of TAYLOR, James Finlayson) was born in 1832; died in 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84887

Family/Spouse: WYMAN, Mary. Mary was born in 1821; died in 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84888

Harriat married SYMMES, Thomas R. in 1840. Thomas was born in 1814; died in 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84889

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

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

Dated Feb. 7,1849

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

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

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

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

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

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• Reference Number: 84890

Delormy married ANDREWS, Eliza in 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84891

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• Reference Number: 84894

Henry married FORBES, Mary in 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84895

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• Reference Number: 84896

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• Reference Number: 84897

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• Reference Number: 84898

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• Reference Number: 84811

Family/Spouse: KEYES, Nellie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84812

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• Reference Number: 84814

Family/Spouse: EVOY, Henry. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84810

Family/Spouse: Edey, Rosana (Rose). Rosana (daughter of EDEY, Elliott and BURKE, Elizabeth) was born in 1852; died in 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84671

Moses married Kilgore, Jessie Rebecca on 8 Oct 1890. Jessie was born on 1 Mar 1863 in Huntley Twnshp, Carleton Co., Ont.; died on 23 Sep 1913 in Wellwood, Manitoba; was buried in Wellwood, Manitoba. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84813

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Hiram Edey

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

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

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

Hiram and Lyda had two children, neither married;

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

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

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

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

Family/Spouse: BASSETT, Elizabeth (Lyda). Elizabeth was born on 29 Aug 1875 in Eastman's Springs, Gloucester Twnshp; died on 4 Nov 1960 in Ottawa; was buried in Pincrest Cemetery, Ottawa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84815

Emma married COX, Joseph in 1896. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84939

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• Reference Number: 84934

Family/Spouse: EDEY, Amelia Luema. Amelia (daughter of EDEY, Nelson and TAYLOR, Margaret) was born in 1859; died in 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84935

Family/Spouse: EDEY, James. James (son of EDEY, Nelson and TAYLOR, Margaret) was born in 1856; died in 1936. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84816

Family/Spouse: Edey, Cyprian. Cyprian (son of Edey, Junior Moses (Juniour) and Chamberlain, Elizabeth) was born in 1848; died in 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84936

Family/Spouse: BELCHER, Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born in 1862; died in 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84940

Family/Spouse: MINION, Annie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84942

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• Reference Number: 84941

Family/Spouse: MCMILLAN, Joseph. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84943

Family/Spouse: LEACH, Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85136

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• Reference Number: 84948

Family/Spouse: EDEY, Emily. Emily (daughter of EDEY, Elliott and BURKE, Elizabeth) was born in 1850; died in 1926. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84944

Family/Spouse: EDEY, Moses Dominic. Moses (son of EDEY, Elliott and BURKE, Elizabeth) was born in 1848; died in 1933. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85137

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• Reference Number: 85138

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• Reference Number: 85139

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• Reference Number: 85140

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• Reference Number: 83906

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• Reference Number: 83907

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• Reference Number: 83908

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• Reference Number: 83909

Family/Spouse: Sloan, J. Frederick. J. was born in 1874; died in 1957. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83910

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• Reference Number: 83915

Family/Spouse: LOUGH, Jane. Jane died in 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83917

Family/Spouse: WALKER, Matilda. Matilda was born in 1857; died in 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83918

Susanna married MCKECHNIE, William in 1880. William was born in 1845; died in 1929. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83919

Family/Spouse: MOHR, Edgerton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83920

Family/Spouse: Edey, Luther Aylmer. Luther (son of Edey, Luther and Maxwell, Mary A.) was born in 1854; died in 1916. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 75636
• Birth: Sep 1845

Notes:

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

Family/Spouse: Whillens, Mary. Mary (daughter of Whillens, Thomas and Anderson, Mary) was born on 11 Jul 1851 in OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84184

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• Reference Number: 84186

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84188

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• Reference Number: 84189

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84190

Family/Spouse: FENTON, John. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84185

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• Reference Number: 84187

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• Reference Number: 84191

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• Reference Number: 84192

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• Reference Number: 84213

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• Reference Number: 84214

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• Reference Number: 84215

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• Reference Number: 84216

Family/Spouse: ADAMS, Margaret. Margaret was born in 1863; died in 1952. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84217

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• Reference Number: 84218

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• Reference Number: 84219

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• Reference Number: 84220

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• Reference Number: 84221

Family/Spouse: CHECKLEY, Edwin. Edwin was born in 1880; died in 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84222

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• Reference Number: 84900

Minerva married RIVINGTON, Robert in 1883. Robert was born in 1849; died in 1923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84901

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• Reference Number: 84902

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• Reference Number: 84903

Family/Spouse: MCNABB, Eliza. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84905

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• Reference Number: 84906

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• Reference Number: 84907

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• Reference Number: 84837

Family/Spouse: ROBINSON, May. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84845

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• Reference Number: 84817

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• Reference Number: 84818

Family/Spouse: WATSON, Annie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84561

Notes:

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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".

Alexander married Watson, Fanny on 3 Dec 1914 in Wellwood, Manitoba. Fanny was born on 20 Mar 1891 in Ballycranna, Co. Cork, Ireland; died on 27 Sep 1983 in Grande Prairie, Alberta; was buried in Bridgeview, Alberta. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84673

Notes:

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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.

John married Jones, Ethel Elizabeth on 28 Oct 1914. Ethel was born on 15 Jun 1890; died on 11 Mar 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84674

Annie married Wright, Russell on 21 Mar 1917. Russell was born on 14 Nov 1895; died on 24 Oct 1970. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84675

Harry married Watson, Elsie Elizabeth on 17 Aug 1953 in Neepawa, Manitoba. Elizabeth was born on 2 Jul 1902; died on 28 Oct 1990 in Neepawa, Manitoba. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84676

Elizabeth married Jones, Jack Jack Albert Edward on 1 Dec 1920. Jack was born on 19 Jun 1894; died on 9 Sep 1977. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84677

Notes:

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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

Rebecca married Halliday, John Edward (Jack) on 7 Apr 1926 in Brandon, Manitoba. John was born on 3 Nov 1903. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84843

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• Reference Number: 84842

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• Reference Number: 84847

Wilbert married MILLIGAN, Willa in 1896. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84849

Family/Spouse: REID, Harold. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84848

Family/Spouse: GRAHAM, William. William was born in 1896. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84945

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• Reference Number: 84946

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• Reference Number: 84947

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• Reference Number: 84950

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• Reference Number: 84951

Family/Spouse: LONSDALE, Wesley. Wesley was born in 1883; died in 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84952

Family/Spouse: JAY, Charlie. Charlie was born in 1883; died in 1956. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84953

Family/Spouse: MCDONALD, Dorothy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84954

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• Reference Number: 84955

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• Reference Number: 84956

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• Reference Number: 85002

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• Reference Number: 85003

Family/Spouse: SIMMONS, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85004

Family/Spouse: WHITE, Lancelot. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85059

Family/Spouse: JOHNSON, Pearl. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85060

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• Reference Number: 85083

Family/Spouse: MATTISON, Ruth. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85084

Family/Spouse: MCCONNELL, Wilfred. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85082

Family/Spouse: ROUTLIFFE, Irene. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 85103

Family/Spouse: LAFRANCHISE, Fred. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

M.M. married HALL, A.E. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

G.E. married THOMPSON, E. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83926

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• Reference Number: 83928

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• Reference Number: 83929

Family/Spouse: FRASER, Vera. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83922

Family/Spouse: HAWKSHAW, Miriam. Miriam was born in 1880; died in 1928. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83923

Family/Spouse: HALL, George. George was born in 1867; died in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83924

Nelson married HAY, Mary Emily in 1904. Mary was born in 1883; died in 1924. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 83925

Family/Spouse: DOCTOR, Ena. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84094

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• Reference Number: 84101

Family/Spouse: MCDOWELL, Dr. S.E.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 84093

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• Reference Number: 84095

Notes:

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

The return address is shown as Wyman, Quebec.

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

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

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

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

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

So much for the family history as I know it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May God bless and keep you and your dear ones -

Yours in His Service -

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Family/Spouse: PRITCHARD, W.Fred. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: CAMPBELL, William D.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: LEACH, Reverend James. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: OSBORNE, Daisy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: PRITCHARD, Jennie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: MCINTYRE, Anita. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Wyman married MEREDITH, Cora in 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: MURRAY, Jessie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: CREELMAN, Irvine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: HALFORD, George. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: CAMERON, Daniel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: ARMSTRONG, Doctor Robert Milton. Robert was born in 1879; died in 1960. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: BEERS, Daniel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: GRAHAM, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: ADDISON, Charles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: BRADLEY, Lauretta. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: SPARKS, Robert. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: WATTS, Jean. Jean was born in 1913; died in 1976. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: DALLISON, Daisy M. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: MORRIS, Helen J.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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