Ann and George Edwards had 4 children:
1. George F Edwards 1857
2. Herbert Edwards 1859-1930
3. Franklin Edwards 1861-1939
4. Susan Elizabeth (Edwards) Arntz 1865-1911
Ann was baptized on September 20, 1835 at Staplehurst Church. Ann and George (and several members of Ann's family) left London on the steamer Palestine and arrived in the port of New York on May 12, 1857. According to the biographical sketch of their son George, "George Edwards and Anne Haysmer were both born in England, where they were reared and married, and, three years after their marriage came to America, their only child dying on the voyage across the ocean. Upon arriving in this country , they came direct to Bushnell Township, Montcalm County, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, George Edwards enlisted in the Army, dying while in service." They are listed in the 1860 census of Bushnell Twp., and the 1870 census lists only Ann and the children, as George had died of typhoid fever during the Civil War. He had served in Co. D, 9th Michigan Infantry. Ann's second husband, Seth, had immigrated to the U.S. in 1872 and his occopation was listed as a mason in the 1900 census of Bushnell Twp. Ann is listed as having 4 children with all still living in 1900.
George Edwards was born 1830 in "the town of Rye" England and died May 27, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Ann and George Edwards had 4 children:
1. George F Edwards 1857
2. Herbert Edwards 1859-1930
3. Franklin Edwards 1861-1939
4. Susan Elizabeth (Edwards) Arntz 1865-1911
Ann was baptized on September 20, 1835 at Staplehurst Church. Ann and George (and several members of Ann's family) left London on the steamer Palestine and arrived in the port of New York on May 12, 1857. According to the biographical sketch of their son George, "George Edwards and Anne Haysmer were both born in England, where they were reared and married, and, three years after their marriage came to America, their only child dying on the voyage across the ocean. Upon arriving in this country , they came direct to Bushnell Township, Montcalm County, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, George Edwards enlisted in the Army, dying while in service." They are listed in the 1860 census of Bushnell Twp., and the 1870 census lists only Ann and the children, as George had died of typhoid fever during the Civil War. He had served in Co. D, 9th Michigan Infantry. Ann's second husband, Seth, had immigrated to the U.S. in 1872 and his occopation was listed as a mason in the 1900 census of Bushnell Twp. Ann is listed as having 4 children with all still living in 1900.
George Edwards was born 1830 in "the town of Rye" England and died May 27, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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