Burial plot location was provided by FindAGrave contributor and cemetery employee Angela Cyphers.
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Edith Dean appears in the 1910 United States Federal Census for Makanda Township, Jackson County, Illinois. She was born in Illinois, as were the other listed members of the family. Her parents have been married for about 13 years, and her mother has had 4 children, 3 of whom are living. Her father is a Farmer. Here are the members of the 1910 household;
Isaac W. Dean, 37
Lissie Dean, 36
Delbert Dean, 12
Aaron Dean, 8
Edith Dean, 3
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Edith May Blessing died at age 85 on Friday, September 25, 1992, at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro.
She was born in Jackson County, Illinois on May 27, 1907, the daughter of Isaac and Lizzie Cochran Dean.
She married Loyd C. Blessing in Murphysboro on May 26, 1923.
She is survived by one son, Aaron L. Blessing of Murphysboro; two daughters, Mary Baros of De Soto and Esther Reid of Bradenton, Florida; one brother, Curtis Dean of Spring Lake, North Carolina; one sister, Mary Elizabeth Jackson of Carbondale; two sisters-in-law, Ethel Dean of Anna and Genevieve Dean of Chicago; eleven grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren; and six great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, three brothers and an infant sister.
Obituary excerpts are from the Southern Illinoisan, Saturday, September 26, 1992, page 9A.
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Burial plot location was provided by FindAGrave contributor and cemetery employee Angela Cyphers.
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Edith Dean appears in the 1910 United States Federal Census for Makanda Township, Jackson County, Illinois. She was born in Illinois, as were the other listed members of the family. Her parents have been married for about 13 years, and her mother has had 4 children, 3 of whom are living. Her father is a Farmer. Here are the members of the 1910 household;
Isaac W. Dean, 37
Lissie Dean, 36
Delbert Dean, 12
Aaron Dean, 8
Edith Dean, 3
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Edith May Blessing died at age 85 on Friday, September 25, 1992, at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro.
She was born in Jackson County, Illinois on May 27, 1907, the daughter of Isaac and Lizzie Cochran Dean.
She married Loyd C. Blessing in Murphysboro on May 26, 1923.
She is survived by one son, Aaron L. Blessing of Murphysboro; two daughters, Mary Baros of De Soto and Esther Reid of Bradenton, Florida; one brother, Curtis Dean of Spring Lake, North Carolina; one sister, Mary Elizabeth Jackson of Carbondale; two sisters-in-law, Ethel Dean of Anna and Genevieve Dean of Chicago; eleven grandchildren; seventeen great grandchildren; and six great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, three brothers and an infant sister.
Obituary excerpts are from the Southern Illinoisan, Saturday, September 26, 1992, page 9A.
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