Marriage: Freeman Joy - 11 Oct 1893 - Boston Ma

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Edith was born on the Patten, Maine farm of Harrison E. Hall and his second wife Lucinda M. Sibley Hall on October 6, 1869. When she was born, she joined seven half-siblings (from Harrison's first wife). Edith's mother Lucinda would have one more child, Charles, eight years later (Edith's only full sibling).

Patten was a small community, and it's fair to say that the families knew one another. The son of one of the other farmers, Freeman Joy, was three years older than Edith. At some point, Freeman married, had a son (in Maine), moved to Boston, and had a daughter there, all in the space of just a few years. Then his wife died.

Edith traveled to Boston and married Freeman, who was a blacksmith. When they married on October 11, 1893, she became step mother of four-year-old Walter and two-year-old Florence (she would have no children of her own). In the 1900 Census, the four of them were living in Boston; Edith was working as a dress maker.

(Sometime in the 1890s, Edith's half brother Bion Hall and his wife moved to East Bridgewater, MA, not far from Boston. In 1905 her father died in Patten, and her mother and brother Charles Hall also moved to East Bridgewater. So they were all relatively close together.)

By the 1910 Census, Freeman, Edith, and Florence had moved to Orleans, MA on Cape Cod (not quite as close to East Bridgewater, but still within visiting distance). Freeman was still blacksmithing; Edith was not employed.

Edith died in Boston on August 1, 1915. According to her death certificate, the couple had been living in Wills Creek, Montana. We do not know when or why they went to Montana. In fact, we only know about Montana, because that is the address Freeman used on Edith's death certificate. Presumably they returned to Boston to deal with Edith's cancer. The death certificate also says that her body would be removed to Patten, Maine. We have no further information about Freeman after Edith's death.