Solomon Edwards was born ca. 1820 in Ohio the son of Jacob & Mary (Porter) Edwards. He married Mary Ellen Parks December 4, 1845 in Muskingum Co., Ohio. In 1847 he purchased 40 acres from Elijah & Mary Porter in Bartholomew County, Indiana for $150. He purchased an additional 15 acres for $40 in January 1848. He and Mary appeared on the 1850 census in Ohio Township in Bartholomew Co., IN. They sold 40 acres to William Coy another immigrant from Ohio we're related to. Solomon sold land in Nov. 1853 to his brother Joseph and moved his family to Illinois, probably Clay County. By 1858 the family was living in Knox County, Missouri. They returned to Clay County, Illinois before 1870 where they appear in the Oskaloosa Township census. Solomon is listed as a farmer with personal property amounting to $1100. Ten years later Solomon and Mary are living in Sheridan Township, Ottawa County, Kansas. Solomon was still living in 1885. He died sometime before 1900 in either Kansas or Nebraska. Mary Ellen died in Delphos, Kansas in 1908 and is buried in the Delphos Cemetery. No tombstone for Solomon Edwards has been found.
Children:
child born 1846 died before 1850
child born ca. 1847 died before 1850
child born after 1846
Andrew J. Edwards born 1847 in Ohio, living in Clay Co., IL in 1870
Mary Ellen born 1849 in Indiana, living in Clay Co., IL in 1870
Umbrindia born 1850 in Indiana, living in Clay Co., IL in 1870
Laura Ann born Mar. 10, 1851 in Indiana. She married John Colclasure in Clay County, IL in 1872 and they had six children.
Mildred E. born 1854 in Illinois, living in Clay Co., IL in 1870, she married Edward Gorman.
Thomas born 1858 in Knox County, MO
James W. born 1864 in Missouri, living in Clay Co., IL in 1870 and Ottawa Co., KS in 1880
Virginia A. born May 1866 in Missouri called Jennie. She married Jesse Meacham in either Kansas or Nebraska in 1895 and they had at least two children. They were living in Nuckolls Co., NE in 1900. Nuckolls County is just north of Ottawa County, Kansas.
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