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Phillip Rhinehart Edwards

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Phillip Rhinehart Edwards

Birth
New Matamoras, Washington County, Ohio, USA
Death
14 Aug 1942 (aged 71)
Middleport, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Cheshire Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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P. R. Edwards
Succumbs To Long Illness


MIDDLEPORT - Funeral services for Phil Edwards, age 71, who died at his home on Fourth Ave., last night, will be held Sunday at two o'clock at the Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home, the Rev. H. A. Rothrock, Pastor of the Heath Methodist Church, officiating.

Mr. Edwards, who was retired from the New York Central shops at Hobson, several years ago, had been in ill health for more than a year. For the past three weeks, he has been bedfast.

Surviving are his wife, Ida Edwards, four sons, Virgil of Columbus, Donley of Corning, Herbert of Gallipolis, Pvt. Charles Edwards of Camp Lee, Virginia; and daughter, Mrs. Edwin Coates, Pomeroy; several grandchildren, two brothers, Stephen of Wellesly, Kansas; Frank of Leon, W. Va., and a sister.

Friends may call at the home from six o'clock this evening until noon tomorrow, when the body will be taken to the funeral home for the last rites. Interment will be made at the Cheshire Cemetery [Gravel Hill].

Meigs County Newspaper
August 15, 1942.

contributed by Sandy L. Milliron

P. R. Edwards
Succumbs To Long Illness


MIDDLEPORT - Funeral services for Phil Edwards, age 71, who died at his home on Fourth Ave., last night, will be held Sunday at two o'clock at the Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home, the Rev. H. A. Rothrock, Pastor of the Heath Methodist Church, officiating.

Mr. Edwards, who was retired from the New York Central shops at Hobson, several years ago, had been in ill health for more than a year. For the past three weeks, he has been bedfast.

Surviving are his wife, Ida Edwards, four sons, Virgil of Columbus, Donley of Corning, Herbert of Gallipolis, Pvt. Charles Edwards of Camp Lee, Virginia; and daughter, Mrs. Edwin Coates, Pomeroy; several grandchildren, two brothers, Stephen of Wellesly, Kansas; Frank of Leon, W. Va., and a sister.

Friends may call at the home from six o'clock this evening until noon tomorrow, when the body will be taken to the funeral home for the last rites. Interment will be made at the Cheshire Cemetery [Gravel Hill].

Meigs County Newspaper
August 15, 1942.

contributed by Sandy L. Milliron

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