On January 1, 1831 he married Lillis Ballou who would bear him seven children.
He first saw the Prophet Joseph. Smith at a conference held in January, 1832 and went to Missouri as a member of Zion's Camp in 1834, In 1835 he was ordained a Seventy and called to the First Quorum of the Seventy.
According to family records after leaving Nauvoo, at age 41, Edson married 25 year old Louisa Walker as a plural wife. They were married somewhere between Nauvoo and Winter Quarters on May 10, 1847 and sealed by Brigham Young in the recorders office at Winter Quarters on January 14th, 1848. This was the second marriage for Louisa. She had three daughters from her previous marriage, two of whom had died.
Louisa and Edson's first child was born at Winter Quarters. The child died a few months after it was born. Edson and his two families moved to Ferrisville, Iowa where Louisa gave birth to her second child.(Later in Utah when the persecutions of the Mormons over the practice of polygamy became intense, Edson took Louisa to Annabella to live with some of her married children and he spent the rest of his life living with his first wife Lillis. He went occasionally to Annabella to visit Louisa).
After the expulsion of the saints from Nauvoo, he joined the trek west and came to the "Valley" in 1852, settling in Provo.
He filled a mission to Las Vegas in 1855, and another mission to the White Mountains in 1858.
He was one of the missionaries in 1861 to St. George, Utah, where he resided until his last sickness. He died... in Provo, Utah. (Adapted from LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, compiled and edited by Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4: 687. Additional family information was provided by Jeff Roberts.)
On January 1, 1831 he married Lillis Ballou who would bear him seven children.
He first saw the Prophet Joseph. Smith at a conference held in January, 1832 and went to Missouri as a member of Zion's Camp in 1834, In 1835 he was ordained a Seventy and called to the First Quorum of the Seventy.
According to family records after leaving Nauvoo, at age 41, Edson married 25 year old Louisa Walker as a plural wife. They were married somewhere between Nauvoo and Winter Quarters on May 10, 1847 and sealed by Brigham Young in the recorders office at Winter Quarters on January 14th, 1848. This was the second marriage for Louisa. She had three daughters from her previous marriage, two of whom had died.
Louisa and Edson's first child was born at Winter Quarters. The child died a few months after it was born. Edson and his two families moved to Ferrisville, Iowa where Louisa gave birth to her second child.(Later in Utah when the persecutions of the Mormons over the practice of polygamy became intense, Edson took Louisa to Annabella to live with some of her married children and he spent the rest of his life living with his first wife Lillis. He went occasionally to Annabella to visit Louisa).
After the expulsion of the saints from Nauvoo, he joined the trek west and came to the "Valley" in 1852, settling in Provo.
He filled a mission to Las Vegas in 1855, and another mission to the White Mountains in 1858.
He was one of the missionaries in 1861 to St. George, Utah, where he resided until his last sickness. He died... in Provo, Utah. (Adapted from LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, compiled and edited by Andrew Jenson, Vol. 4: 687. Additional family information was provided by Jeff Roberts.)
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Danielson Buran Barney
1831–1922
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Olney Ammon Barney
1833–1834
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Alice Malena Barney Wilkins
1835–1916
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Eliza Arabell Barney Wilkins
1837–1906
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Joseph Seth Barney
1845–1939
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Partha Ann Barney Hunt
1850–1928
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Lillus Louisa "Lilly" Barney Keyes
1852–1917
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Royal Hyrum Barney
1854–1925
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Rosetta Martha Barney Davis
1859–1932
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Ellen Urselene Barney Thurston Wilson
1862–1951
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