On 25 October 1890, at Maquoketa, Jackson CO. IA, nineteen years old, Irish-Welshman, Henry Theodore Edwards, united in the holy bonds of matrimony with his almost sixteen-year old English cousin, Lydia Belle Clark. Lic. Reg. 25 Oct. 1890, #174, pg. 145, Jackson Co. IA.
Full name of Groom: Henry I Edwards, Resident: Township of Farmers Creek, occupation: Farmer, Age Next Birthday: 20, Race/Color; White, Place of Birth: Farmers Creek, Father's Name: John Edwards, Mother's Maiden Name: Mary Conley, No. Groom's marriage: First, Full Name Bride: Lydia Belle Clark, Maiden-Name-if a widow: Place of Resident: Butler Township; Age Next Birthday; 16, Race/Color: White, Father's Name: George E. Clark, Mother Maiden Name: Mary L Sade, No. Bride's marriage: First, married Maquoketa, Iowa, 25 October 1890, Witnesses: John Edwards and George Clark, married by D.F. House, J.P.,
Lydia also wrote in her family Bible that the marriage was witnessed by her parents, George Edwin, and Mary L.(Sade) Clark. Their marriage endured nearly sixty-three years and spanned the continent from Iowa's farmlands to Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip, to Washington's fertile fields

Henry Edwards Dies: Henry Edwards, 82, of Edgewood, died Saturday morning at a local nursing home. A native of Iron Hill, Iowa, he came to Puyallup in 1910 from Oklahoma. He was a retired railroad employee and member of the Christian Church. Surviving are his wife, Lydia. three sons, Harmon of Yakima, Harley of Lake Killer, George of Tacoma, six daus; Mrs. Myrtle Crawford, Mrs Hazel Schreiner, and Mrs. Effie Griffiths of Edgewood, Mrs. Gertrude Caple, Mrs. Verna Ward, both of Fife, and Mrs. Ethel Bailey of Bremerton, 24 grandchildren, and 27 great grandchildren, two brothers, Harmon of Iowa, and Richard of Nebraska, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Gralund and Mrs. Martha Wendell, both of Iowa. Funeral services will held Monday at 1 p.m. in the Wrigley and Clements Chapel, the Rev. Weymouth McGrew officiating, and with burial in Sumner Cemetery." Puyallup Valley Newspaper. Henry's4 will was dated 18 Jan. 1939, and filed 06 Jan 1954, in the Pierce Co. Courthouse, Tacoma, WA Heirs listed were Lydia B. Edwards, wife, daus; Myrtle Crawford, Gertrude Caple, Hazel Schriner, Ethel Bailey, Effie Swayze, Verna Cook, sons Harmon Edwards, Harley Edwards, George Clason.