This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/271.284.287.2 Message Board Post: This is a second message in response to the Query of 12 Sep 2002, and this response questions the marriage(s) of Sarah Edmonson, sister to Mary Ann Edmonson...my records of my great-great Aunt Sarah (Edmonson) Freshette show that she married a tugboat Captain by the name of Frank Freshette, had one son (who died at the age of 27 in 1920), and was buried along with her husband in the Freshette family Plot in Forest Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minnesota. John Nobel Jenkins whoe died in 1920 and Mary Ann (Edmonson) Jenkins who died in 1923 were also buried in the "Freshette" Plot, the in-laws of Sarah, and the cemetery records indicate Sarah is Mary Ann's sister. Is it possible Sarah Edmonson was married twice? Frank, Sarah's husband, was a well-known Captain of the tugboat "Ella G Stone", and under Frank's direction (according to family stories) the tug attempted to rescue crewman from the ship "Metaafa" when it sank in Lake Supserior, just outside the Duluth canal...a severe 1! 905 storm. I can't confirm this, but my Gramma Emma (Jenkins) Gardner, Sarah's niece, remembers being taken to the peer by Aunt Sarah to watch the failed rescue mission. Ice on the lake prevented the tug from reaching the ship, and Gramma Emma said she always remembered the storm and screams coming from that ship. Frank died in Dec of 1911at the age of 44, and Sarah died in 1941 at the age of 78 following a long ilness....records reflect Sarah came to the United States at the age of 17 (from Canada) and settled with her family (parents being George and Mary Rice Edmonson) near Sparta WI, later moving to Duluth where she lived for 50 years. Her death record reflects her birthplace as the Province of Quebec, Canada. Also, her obituary reflects she had a brother named William Edmonson of Portland OR and several nephews and nieces in Duluth, Portland (OR), and Wisconsin at the time of her death. I am curious as to the marriage record of Henry Starkey and Sarah Edmonson, ch! ildren, and the date of death of Henry. Barbara