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Submitted: 1/25/19 • Approved: 1/27/19 • Last Updated: 1/30/19 • R816976-G0-S3
Oct 26, 1861 King City, Missouri
Jul 30, 1955 Saint Joseph, Missouri
Son of Walter S. Edson and Sarah Clemmons Edson
Husband of Emma Jane Reddick Edson
Tri-County News (King City, MO), Friday, August 5, 1955; pg. 1
Rites Here Tuesday For J.A. Edson, 93
Native Gentry Countian Had Lived Here Most of His Life
Services for Jabes Anterson Edson, 93, who died Saturday in a St. Joseph hospital, were held Tuesday afternoon at the Christian church, conducted by the Rev. Russell Evans, pastor of the Island City Christian church (sic), and burial was in the King City cemetery (sic).
Mr. Edson had been in failing health a year or more, but his condition had not been considered critical until a few weeks ago. In his ninety-third year he planted and tended a crop of watermelons and a crop of popcorn, but became ill in midsummer last year and was unable to harvest them. During the winter of 1953-54 he cut hedge on his farm northwest of King City. Though small of stature he always had been a worker, and up to the final stage of his illness he enjoyed an active life.
Voted for Cleveland
The Tri-County News carried an interesting story on Mr. Edson about a year ago. At that time he told that he voted for Grover Cleveland for president "the first time" in 1884 and that he had been voting the democratic ticket at every opportunity ever since.
Mr. Edson was born in Gentry county (sic) near Island City Oct. 26, 1961, a son of Walter Scott Edson, who was a Confederate soldier in the Civil war, and who had come to Northwest Missouri from Southern Illinois.. When Jabes was 3 years old his mother got a pass through the lines to visit her husband in a Confederate army camp in Arkansas. There she contracted "the fever" and died a few days later at the army post. The little boy was escorted back to Missouri to the home of an aunt, Mrs. Lyman White, mother of John White of Whitesville, and she took care of him until he was 7 years old and his father had remarried.
Homesteaded in Kansas
In 1884 Mr. Edson bought a Kansas land claim relinquishment and traveled by team and covered wagon to Norton, Kas. He finished out the homestead residence on the section and sold out five years later and returned to Missouri by wagon. After that he lived fourteen years in northwestern Iowa and six years in southeast Missouri. The rest of his life was spent in Gentry county (sic), Mo., near King City.
Mr. Edson was 40 years old when he married Miss Emma Reddick on Dec. 17, 1901. They were the parents of one child, Marie, now Mrs. Lester Law, with whom he had made his home since the death of Mrs. Edson in 1928. Mr. Edson was the last survivor of his father's family, having been preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters. In early life Mr. Edson joined the Methodist church. Later he transferred his membership to the King City Christian church (sic), where he remained a faithful and loyal member. His only survivors other than the daughter are several nieces and nephews.
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