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Robert Henry Edmonds

3 Apr 1871 – 1 Oct 1954

Birth	3 Apr 1871
Death	1 Oct 1954
Cemetery	Mountain View Memorial Park Barstow , San Bernardino County , California , USA
Added by	Mitzi Fay on 04 Jan 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34859922

Gravesite details

Interred October 5, 1954.

Bio

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.

Inscription

The Lord Is My Sheperd

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Family

Parents

• George Washington "G.W." Edmonds 1849–1903

Spouse

• Mary Elizabeth Thrasher Edmonds 1884–1981

Siblings

• Lilly L Edmonds Kirby 1867–1904
• James Calvin Edmonds 1872–1938
• Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Edmonds Lowe 1875–1917
• Flora Belle Edmonds Bookout 1878–1958
• George Wiley Edmonds 1880–1950
• William Lee Edmonds 1882–1937
• John Thomas "Tack" Edmonds 1884–1943
• Clemmie L. Edmonds Atkins 1887–1948

Children

• George William Edmonds 1900–1967
• Johnnie Mae Edmonds Gilmore 1902–1966
• Alice Gertrude Edmonds Jolly 1904–1994
• Perry Thrasher Edmonds 1908–1960
• Estelle Lucille Edmonds Mathews 1912–1994
• Jack Moody Edmonds 1914–1974
• Jack Moody Edmonds 1914–1974
• Mildred Maxine Edmonds Dyar 1917–2004
• Merle Edmonds 1922–1979
• Earl Edmonds 1922–2016

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