| Mary Lou's
Father
SARAH EDWARDS (1863-1962)
AND HER BROTHERS
Si's Mother and Uncles
Family History
Sarah Edwards as a small girl
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At age98
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L:
Si, I want to ask you about some family history. I have a
picture here that looks like your mother and two of her brothers,
that was taken in Cincinnati You say they did live in Cincinnati.
Si: Yes. The father was a tailor in Cincinnati
L: And you were telling me about one of her brothers. Mary
Lou says that the brother on the right looks like her great-uncle
John. What do you know about him, Si?
Si: Well, he became a school teacher, and he organized the..
Venedocia was a Welsh town, and there were some English people
coming into the suburbs, and he organized a church for those
people. First it was a Sunday school class, or a Sunday school,
and then later he gave a sermon each Sunday.
L: In English, Mary Lou says.
Si: Yes. With the iron-clad Welshmen, they kind of disliked
the English activities coming in to that Welsh community.
More on this.
L: You say that you had an uncle Tom.
Si: Yes, he was a doctor in Cuba City, Wisconsin, which was
a mining town. He was the youngest of the four brothers that
Mother had.
L: Then, he is probably not on this picture. You were saying
that he died young of cancer.
Si: Yes. I don't know what age. I know that his son was very
young, and his wife was a milliner in Cuba City, Catholic,
while Tom was a Mason, and had the high degree.
L: There are two other brothers, who were they? You said she
had four brothers.
Si: Let's just wait just a minute, here, let's get this straight.
You haven't John, have you?
L: Yes, we have him.
Si: He's the school teacher?
L: Right.
Si: And let me get this... The one in Chicago was...
ML (Mary Lou) That was Dave.
Si: Oh, Dave was in Chicago with, was it Marshall Field?
L: What did he do?
Si: In the book, in the office.
L: And then there was a fourth brother.
ML: Uncle Reese.
Si: Uncle Reese. He was the Presbyterian missionary that went
to China. His wife's name was Eunice. Her father was one of
the preachers in the Welsh community around Venedocia. You
see, they had a circle around Venedocia, churches about every
four miles, and a pastor would take care of two or three of
those each Sunday.
L: Now, what happened to him, the missionary in China. Did
he stay there all his life, or did he come back?
Si: He came back with, I have forgotten what the disorder
was. Some disease that he had taken, they had given him certain
medicines to relieve, and in the meantime, some medicine had
been discovered that would cure what was wrong with him if
he hadn't had this other treatment. With the treatment that
they had given him previously, it would just be poison.
L: Do you know what disease that was?
ML: Malaria. I understood that he had malaria, and it was
of the brain.
L: Yes, there is a very severe form of malaria that does affect
the brain.
ML: That's what I heard.
L: Did he die from it? He probably did.
ML: Yes, he was in a nursing home the last two years of his
life. And another thing, Aunt Eunice,
when she came back, was ill too. She had sprue.
Si: Eunice was a daughter of one of the Presbyterian
ministers of that time.
Reese and Eunice had two daughters and a son. The son died
about the time he would enter college, and the two girls graduated
from Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, a Presbyterian college.
L: You say one became a nurse and the other became a librarian.
Si: They both died about the same time with cancer.
Si's
sister, Alma Evans Williams
From
Venedocia
website listing
Williams,
Edward W. 1893-1977 Vet Flagstaff WWI
Mary Alma (Evans) 1894-1988
Si's
niece, Ruth Williams Evans
L:
Here's a picture of Ruth. Who is Ruth? Ruth was your sister's
daughter, right?
Si: Yes.
L: And her name was...
Si: <inaudible>
L: She's not married, is she?
ML: Yes
Si: Yes, she's still living.
ML: She married...
Si: Ed Williams
ML: That's her father. She's the one who married David Hugh.
Si: Wait a minute. Oh yes.
L: Was that his last name? Or was it David Hugh Evans?
Si: David Hugh Evans.
L: But he was no relative.
Si: No. He was a grandson of the Evans who got the land around
there from the English government to settle, to develop a
settlement.
ML: He's the one you called Squire Evans.
Si: Squire was the man who founded it, founded Venedocia.
They gave him a big area to a man by the name of Jones, I've
forgotten his given name, and this Squire Evans, he was called
Squire, but his name was, oh, what was it? I don't remember.
By golly, I've got a paper at home, I believe, that gives
the history. Just a newspaper on Venedocia and how it was
founded. I think that I still have it, if I haven't lost it.
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