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Robert Henry Edmonds

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Robert Henry Edmonds

Birth
Blount County, Tennessee, USA
Death
1 Oct 1954 (aged 83)
Barstow, San Bernardino County, California, USA
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Barstow, San Bernardino County, California, USA Add to Map
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Bob was the second of eleven children born to George W. Edmonds and Susannah Gibbs (1849-1902). He left the mountains of East Tennessee for Texas c1891. He married Jessie Sorrow 14 Dec 1897 in Hunt county, Texas. They had four children, one son and two daughters surviving to adulthood. Jessie contracted tuberculosis and her doctor advised the family to move to West Texas because of her illness. She died 8 Oct 1907 just outside Quanah (place of burial unknown). Bob met Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Thrasher at her father's Quanah blacksmith shop, where Bob had gone to have a plow sharpened. They married 8 Feb 1908. Bob was a sharecropper in Hardeman and Cottle counties. In the early 1940s, he and Lizzie followed their children to southern California, where he obtained a job as a laborer and walked about six miles to and from the job every day--until he was laid off when his employer found out how old he was. Bob was taught to read shape note music and play the violin in church at an early age and was able to quote scripture and verse to win an argument. There were many family stories of his run-ins with jack rabbits, diamondback rattlers, wild horses and stubborn mules.
Bob was the second of eleven children born to George W. Edmonds and Susannah Gibbs (1849-1902). He left the mountains of East Tennessee for Texas c1891. He married Jessie Sorrow 14 Dec 1897 in Hunt county, Texas. They had four children, one son and two daughters surviving to adulthood. Jessie contracted tuberculosis and her doctor advised the family to move to West Texas because of her illness. She died 8 Oct 1907 just outside Quanah (place of burial unknown). Bob met Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Thrasher at her father's Quanah blacksmith shop, where Bob had gone to have a plow sharpened. They married 8 Feb 1908. Bob was a sharecropper in Hardeman and Cottle counties. In the early 1940s, he and Lizzie followed their children to southern California, where he obtained a job as a laborer and walked about six miles to and from the job every day--until he was laid off when his employer found out how old he was. Bob was taught to read shape note music and play the violin in church at an early age and was able to quote scripture and verse to win an argument. There were many family stories of his run-ins with jack rabbits, diamondback rattlers, wild horses and stubborn mules.

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