Posted on: Hancock Co. Il Obituaries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/HancockObits?read=191 Surname: Edgar, Teckemeier ------------------------- The Carthage Republican Carthage, Illinois Wednesday March 22, 1939 Page 3 Column 6 DEATH OF WILLIAM EDGAR William Edgar, son of John and Elizabeth Edgar, former residents here, died at his farm home near Conesville, Iowa, Sunday evening, March 19, the end coming suddenly from a heart attack. He was about 45 years old, Mr. Edgar was unmarried. His father is deceased and his mother made her home with him on the farm. The Edgar family, long time residents in this county, left Carthage, where they had made their home, about seven years ago, and took up farming in Iowa. Surviving beside the mother are a brother Arda and a foster sister Eloise. The mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Edgar, was a half-sister of William Teckemeier and Miss Kate Teckemeier. The body will be brought to Moss Ridge cemetery this Wednesday afternoon, and interment rites will take place at 2:30 o'clock. Friends are advised that the casket will be opened before the service. A clergyman and pallbearers from Conesville will accompany the family here. Link: Bryant Genealogy URL: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bryant>