Ed was the second of four children of Alford Augustus Thacher and Susan Baker and was the first born after Alford's return from the California gold fields in 1855 and purchase of 200 acres in Southern WI the same year. Ed took over the family farm and ran it until his second (of 5) sons: Louis, Harry, Charlie, Glenn, and George. Harry, bought out his 4 brother's shares of Ed's estate. Ed was a crop and dairy farmer, a strong Presbyterian, and an Odd Fellow most of his life. He has four lines to John Howland and Elizabeth Tilly of the Mayflower through Alford and one line through his mother to Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower. SEF married his childhood sweetheart and childhood next door neighbor across the WI-IL border, Susan Baker Tappen, who was his mother's half-sister's daughter, making them half-cousins. Susan B. Tappen with her family traveled by wagon train to Delphos, KS in 1871. Ed kept track of her and traveled there to marry her in Concordia, KS in 1886.
Ed was the second of four children of Alford Augustus Thacher and Susan Baker and was the first born after Alford's return from the California gold fields in 1855 and purchase of 200 acres in Southern WI the same year. Ed took over the family farm and ran it until his second (of 5) sons: Louis, Harry, Charlie, Glenn, and George. Harry, bought out his 4 brother's shares of Ed's estate. Ed was a crop and dairy farmer, a strong Presbyterian, and an Odd Fellow most of his life. He has four lines to John Howland and Elizabeth Tilly of the Mayflower through Alford and one line through his mother to Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower. SEF married his childhood sweetheart and childhood next door neighbor across the WI-IL border, Susan Baker Tappen, who was his mother's half-sister's daughter, making them half-cousins. Susan B. Tappen with her family traveled by wagon train to Delphos, KS in 1871. Ed kept track of her and traveled there to marry her in Concordia, KS in 1886.
