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Ellen [Nellie] Anna Edwards (b. March 17, 1848, d. May 28, 1930)

Great Grandmother 'Nellie' Edwards around 1865

Ellen [Nellie] Anna Edwards was born March 17, 1848 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, and died May 28, 1930 in Hutchinson, Reno Co., KS. She married William Gibbons Pearson on July 03, 1866 in New York City, New York, Baptist Church, son of Gibbons Pearson and Jane Wilson.

Notes for Ellen [Nellie] Anna Edwards:
"Ellen's father died before her birth. She was brought by her mother to New York City when a babe." [Source: a letter from Al Pearson to his sister Jane Pearson, November, 1940]

"Mrs. Pearson, who before her marriage was Ellen Edwards, was born in Canada and located in New York City when a small girl, her parents, Matthew and Jane (Mc Lean) Edwards, moving to the city at that time." ['History of Reno County Kansas" , p. 151, by Sherian Ploughe, 1917, B.F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, IN]

Name: Ellen Edwards
Age in 1860: 13
Birthplace: New Brunswick
Home in 1860: New York Ward 16 District 4, New York, New York
Gender: Female
Post Office: New York
Roll: M653_806
Page: 15
Year: 1860
Head of Household: Jane Edwards

The 1900 U.S. Census of Medford Township, Reno County, Kansas records that Ellen Anna Edwards immigrated to the U.S. in 1850.

In the 1920 U.S. census of Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas residing in the home of Ellen Pearson were her son, James Pearson, his wife Bertha and her grandson, Eugene Pearson.

More About Ellen [Nellie] Anna Edwards:
Burial: Unknown, Eastside Cemetery, Hutchinson, Kansas.
Immigration: 1850, New Brunswick, Canada to New York City.
Religion: Methodist Episcopal Church.

More About Ellen [Nellie] Anna Edwards and William Gibbons Pearson:
Marriage: July 03, 1866, New York City, New York, Baptist Church.

Children of Ellen [Nellie] Anna Edwards and William Gibbons Pearson are:

+Alexander Pearson, b. June 02, 1867, Brooklyn, New York, d. November 12, 1950, Los Angeles, California.
Ellen [Ella] Pearson, b. November 02, 1869, Brooklyn, New York, d. November 27, 1889, Reno County, Kansas.
Thomas Burnside Pearson, b. December 04, 1872, Brooklyn, New York, d. August 1965.
+William [Will] Gibbons Pearson, Jr., b. May 14, 1876, Brooklyn, New York, d. December 05, 1967, Kansas City, Missouri.
+James [Jim] Lincoln Pearson, b. August 15, 1878, Medford Township, Reno County, Kansas, d. May 14, 1946, Sterling, Reno County, Kansas.
Jane [Jennie] Wilson Pearson, b. October 12, 1880, Medford Township, Reno County, Kansas, d. August 28, 1966, Newton, Harvey Co., Kansas.
+Mary 'Mae' Elizabeth Pearson, b. March 22, 1883, Medford Township, Reno County, Kansas, d. June 22, 1973, Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas.
Sarah [Sadie] Mason Pearson, b. October 11, 1885, Medford Township, Reno County, Kansas, d. February 12, 1909, Reno County, Kansas.