Dear Chan, I wish I had something to tell you other than the fact that I enjoyed reading your very lucid and well-organized description of your problem. I've tried to keep an eye out for your people for these many years, but they remain elusive. I don't even have suggestions for you. I can say that I would be very surprised to have a burial from a Catholic church of a non-Catholic. My impression is that they fussier about this than other denominations. I also note that you seem to have no records from land deeds. Of course that may well be because they didn't own property -- country folks would ordinarly have land, but it's different for city folks. So, all I can really do is to hope someone has something for you this time. All the best, Howard CEdmondson wrote: > John F. EDMONDSON c1808-1863, ?Md to Ohio to St. Louis, house carpenter, on > 1840, 1850, 1860 census; exempt from military service in 1863; not related > to Wm Edmondson, the tailor, who was born in England; first known child > born 1835 in Ohio; next child appears to have been born in St. Louis, but > there very well could have been travel back and forth on the river highway. > He married. Rebecca (unknown) before 1840 census and probably before 1835, > maybe in Ohio where child was born. > > Now one year there is one Albert H. Edmondson, brick layer, in St. Louis; > maybe the same Albert H. Edmondson who was a bricklayer in Cincinnati in > the 1840s. This Albert H. Edmondson married. in 1833 in Hamilton, Butler > Co., Ohio in 1833. He died in Santa Fe, NM in 1881 and was buried in > Richmond, Ind., the family hqrs. He was in New Orleans, La. and in CSA > service, but switched sides and was the captain of a river boat on the > Mississippi. When Boanerges R. Edmondson d. of violent convulsions in 1866 > in St. Louis, Mo., the Mo. Rep. said "Cincinnati and New Orleans papers > please copy." That's the only way I'm attempting to tie these two men > together. I wonder who was expected to read the obit/death notice in > Cincinnati and/or New Orleans. (The papers do not appear to have printed > the death notices as I can't find them.) > > There are gaps in the known births of this family. There's no every two or > three years pattern. There were miscarriages or deaths, or something, but > they do appear to be in descending order with wide gaps between births, the > first known being born in 1835 and the last known being born in 1857, a > span of twenty-two years. > > Rebecca unknown Edmondson was b. c1810 in Va or Ky and was a sick nurse on > the 1870 census. In 1870 she was with her "first" son Charles Edward > Edmondson, b. 1835, Ohio. Her last and only daughter Emma Edmondson, b. > c1857 in ?St. Louis, Mo., appears on one census and one only. There are > two other records in Emma--she was in the St. Louis Female Hospital for six > weeks before she died of TB in 1884. There is a St. Louis death record for > her. She was buried in the potter's field and six weeks before being > removed to Bellfountaine Cem. in the grave with her mother. Where is Emma > on the 1870 and 1880 U.S. census? She resided on Gamble St. in St. Louis > on her hospital entry, but I don't know who the head of household was on > Gamble Street. Emma had a niece named for her in Texas about 1900, so we > knew that she existed for many years before we found a record of her on the > 1860 St. Louis census index/census. > > Son Richard H. Edmondson was on the 1840 and 1850 St. Louis, Mo., census. > He drowned in Lyndall's Pond at age ?14. > > Sons Charles Edward and Boanerges R. Edmondson joined the all Cherokee > Mounted Volunteers under Cherokee General Stand Watie IN OKLAHOMA in 1861, > both as privates. Charles E. was promoted to Capt of Ordnance by 1865; and > Boanerges (a bibical name) R. was Acting Sgt Mjr in the same Cherokee unit. > Charles' CSA packet states that he was "shot through the thigh" in > Aberdeen, Miss., but I can't find his unit fighting in that area; so I > think the hospital report was filed in the wrong packet. It's strange that > these two brothers enlisted in the Cherokee nation where they were possibly > the only short, blond haired, light skinned, blue eyed men in service, but > they did. Their promotions were possibly related to their city education. > They wrote well. Both made the trip home. > > Now, there's another B.R. Edmondson, who was arrested on the streets of St. > Louis, Mo., during the War, for swearing at a Yankee guard of prisoners. > Could be same guy on leave. He did make it home; died; and was buried from > a Catholic cathedral. Are non-catholics buried from catholic catholic > cathedrals w/o being recorded as baptized? > > Charles Edward Edmondson, b. 1835, Ohio, has not been found since the 1870 > census in St. Louis, Mo, with his mother, R. Edmondson, sick nurse, aged > 60. He is not the Charles Edmondson who married Jennie Cooke, from > Ireland, c1873. I've looked all over the 1880 Soundex for several states, > and he's not on any of them rearing children. Maybe he's an old bachelor > off somewhere who appears as a laborer after 1900 in the St. Louis city > directory. > > There was a son named Edward Edmondson on the 1850 census, aged 11. But > that could be a mistake and actually could have been Edwin Fair Edmondson, > b. 1848. St. Louis, Mo., who is left off the 1850 census, but does show on > the 1860 census, but is married in Texas on the 1870 census, as well on > 1880, 1900, and 1910 census in Waco, Texas, enumerated as Edward Edwinson, > b. United States. Father and mother born United States; very informative. > > Hey, researchers, I'm looking for a John F. EDMONDSON, b. c1808, no later > than 1809. I haven't found any John F. Edmondson the correct age; the ones > that I've found and others have pointed out to me are mostly younger men. > Rebecca (unknown) EDMONDSON was born in 1810, according to death > certificate, and he always shows up as two years older than she. He has no > death certificate; he just disappears from records I've searched after > 1863--military exemptions, city directories, and 1870 census. > > Edwin Fair EDMONDSON is in St. Louis, Mo. in the household with his mother > in 1868. Next he married in June 1870 Marilla HOWELL, five years his > elder, the daug of a JP in southern Smith Co., Texas. They had two sons by > Dec 31, 1872, Samuel William EDMONDSON and Charles Monte (named for his > brother and her brother). They belonged to the Methodist Church (the > HOWELLs were Baptists) and those records reveal that Marilla HOWELL > Edmondson d. in 1876. Three months later Edwin Fair EDMONDSON married. his > first wf's elder sister, twice widowed Mariah Caroline HOWELL Alexander > King. They had a daughter Cora Lee EDMONDSON, b. 1877, southern Smith > County, Texas. There are many descendants of the three children of Edwin > Fair EDMONDSON, who d. 1911, in Waco, Texas, a cook for many years; and he > was buried in De Leon, Comanche Co., Texas, where his two sons were reared > by the Howell family (a village). > > Any help appreciated. Thank you for reading. > Chan > J. 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