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John Thomas “Tom” Edman

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John Thomas “Tom” Edman

Birth
Osage City, Osage County, Kansas, USA
Death
12 Dec 1970 (aged 79)
Seneca, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Neuchatel, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA
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CENTRALIA---Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hayes Funeral Home here for John Thomas "Tom" Edman, 79, Centralia, who died Saturday in a Seneca rest home. He had been admitted to a Seneca hospital in October after he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was married to Ruth Summerville August 1, 1926. She survives.

Other survivors include eight daughters, Mrs. Beulah Gatson, Monroe City, Missouri; Mrs. Golda Dillman, 834 Plass, and Mrs. Gladys Schlarman, 1208 Oakland, both in Topeka, Mrs. Opal Noland, Hoyt, Mrs. Viola Tims, Centralia, Mrs. Valorie Brown, Wichita, Mrs. Florence Ascheman, Blue Rapids, and Mrs. Peggy Eisenbarth, Seneca; three sons, Andrew Edman, Onaga, Elton Edman, Omaha, Nebraska, and William Edman, Lawrence; a sister, Mrs. Wilma Talley, Corning; a brother, Orville Edman, Corning; and 22 grandchildren.

Burial will be in Neuchatel Cemetery north of Onaga.

Tom was the son of William Douglas Edman (1862 - 1930) and Lenora Bell Hobbs Edman (1866 - 1944).

The farm he worked was known as the “Old Diggings”, sometimes referred to as in Pottawatomie County, Kansas - north of Onaga, but the property is actually about two miles north of the county line in Nemaha County, Kansas. All of his children were born on the farm at that location except Peggy (Edman) Eisenbarth. The "Old Diggings" was around GPS Coordinates 39.587445, -96.179301, about a two miles from a church, school, and cemetery known as Neuchatel, KS. The cabin was moved to the Rock Creek Valley Historical Society, in Westmoreland, KS. The two story cabin was restored and is on display as the Hettie Summerville Cabin. Hettie was Tom Edman's mother in law.

CENTRALIA---Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hayes Funeral Home here for John Thomas "Tom" Edman, 79, Centralia, who died Saturday in a Seneca rest home. He had been admitted to a Seneca hospital in October after he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was married to Ruth Summerville August 1, 1926. She survives.

Other survivors include eight daughters, Mrs. Beulah Gatson, Monroe City, Missouri; Mrs. Golda Dillman, 834 Plass, and Mrs. Gladys Schlarman, 1208 Oakland, both in Topeka, Mrs. Opal Noland, Hoyt, Mrs. Viola Tims, Centralia, Mrs. Valorie Brown, Wichita, Mrs. Florence Ascheman, Blue Rapids, and Mrs. Peggy Eisenbarth, Seneca; three sons, Andrew Edman, Onaga, Elton Edman, Omaha, Nebraska, and William Edman, Lawrence; a sister, Mrs. Wilma Talley, Corning; a brother, Orville Edman, Corning; and 22 grandchildren.

Burial will be in Neuchatel Cemetery north of Onaga.

Tom was the son of William Douglas Edman (1862 - 1930) and Lenora Bell Hobbs Edman (1866 - 1944).

The farm he worked was known as the “Old Diggings”, sometimes referred to as in Pottawatomie County, Kansas - north of Onaga, but the property is actually about two miles north of the county line in Nemaha County, Kansas. All of his children were born on the farm at that location except Peggy (Edman) Eisenbarth. The "Old Diggings" was around GPS Coordinates 39.587445, -96.179301, about a two miles from a church, school, and cemetery known as Neuchatel, KS. The cabin was moved to the Rock Creek Valley Historical Society, in Westmoreland, KS. The two story cabin was restored and is on display as the Hettie Summerville Cabin. Hettie was Tom Edman's mother in law.

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  • Maintained by: T Haynes
  • Originally Created by: KU
  • Added: Sep 13, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41934204/john_thomas-edman: accessed ), memorial page for John Thomas “Tom” Edman (15 Sep 1891–12 Dec 1970), Find a Grave Memorial ID 41934204, citing Neuchatel Cemetery, Neuchatel, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by T Haynes (contributor 48509312).