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John Edger Sr.

Birth	:	22 Apr 1811 Carlisle, City of Carlisle, Cumbria, England
Death	:	21 Oct 1905 Henry County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.9319305, -91.5121613
Description	:	Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa, Chicago, 1888, page 555 John Edger, a farmer and breeder of fine horses, residing on section 8, New London Township, Henry County, Iowa, and a resident of Henry County for forty years, is a native of England, and was born in Cumberland, April 22, 1811. His parents were William and Mary (Wilson) Edger, also natives of Cumberland, England. Our subject was reared on a farm and was apprenticed to the shoemaking trade, at which he worked for ten years. He was married in his native parish, March 1, 1835, to Miss... Read More	Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa, Chicago, 1888, page 555 John Edger, a farmer and breeder of fine horses, residing on section 8, New London Township, Henry County, Iowa, and a resident of Henry County for forty years, is a native of England, and was born in Cumberland, April 22, 1811. His parents were William and Mary (Wilson) Edger, also natives of Cumberland, England. Our subject was reared on a farm and was apprenticed to the shoemaking trade, at which he worked for ten years. He was married in his native parish, March 1, 1835, to Miss Ann Arnison, daughter of George Arnison, a prominent collier of that country. Mrs. Edger was born in Cumberland. Five children were the result of their union, the three eldest born in England, and the two youngest in America. Mr. Edger emigrated from England to America with his family in 1841, and located in Hancock County, Illinois, where he engaged in farming until the fall of 1847, when he removed to Henry County, Iowa, and entered eighty acres of land in New London Township, and pre-empted another eighty acres. He subsequently bought at private sale, until he now has 290 acres of valuable prairie land. He has carried on farming and stock-raising extensively, and has done much to improve the breed of horses in this region by the introduction of some full-blood Cleveland Bay stock, and some half-blood Clydesdale horses. For the past twenty-five years he has been keeping blooded horses. He has now a very fine specimen of the former stock in his barns, and two had some four-year-old colts of the latter. He was the first to introduce thoroughbred Durham cattle into the township. Mr. Edger is an enthusiastic horseman, and is of the firm opinion that the Cleveland Bay is the best everyday horse for the farmer's use. Mr. and Mrs. Edger's children were named respectively: George, William, John, Joseph and Thomas. George was born in Cumberland, England, March 1, 1836, married Mary Spearman, and died September 16, 1862; William, born in Cumberland, June 15, 1838, married Ann Walker, and resides in New London Township; John, also born in Cumberland, October 22, 1840, was a soldier of Company K, 25th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and died in Jacksonville, Indiana, July 14, 1864, of disease contracted in the army; Joseph, born in Hancock County, Illinois, July 30, 1843, was also a soldier of the late war, serving in Company K, 25th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, was wounded at Vicksburg May 22, 1863, and died four days later of his wounds; Thomas, born October 17, 1846, married Sarah Housen (sic: Houseman), and was accidentally killed by a falling ax, June 23, 1886, leaving a wife and eight children, five boys and three girls; his widow resides on a farm in New London Township. Mrs. Edger died January 6, 1880, at the homestead in New London Township. Mr. Edger was again married, in March 1881, to Mrs. Vashti Brewer, a native of Wabash County (sic: Wayne County), Indiana, and a daughter of Samuel Walker. She had one child by her former marriage, a daughter, Mary [Brewer], now the wife of Frank Hand, a resident of Baltimore Township. Mr. and Mrs. Edger are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Edger is a Greenbacker in politics, and has held various local offices. Three times he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of New London Township. His post-office address is Mt. Pleasant. Find A Grave contributor DW Brumm

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John Edger Sr.'s memorial is located at: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Henry County, USA.
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John Edger Sr. death on 21 Oct 1905 in Henry County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 40.9319305
Longitude: -91.5121613

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Ann Arnison Edger

(1803 - 1880)

Children

(1836 - 1862)

(1840 - 1864)

(1843 - 1863)

(1846 - 1886)

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