Family: Thomas Owen Edwards / Minnie A. Benkelman (F3171)

• Father | Male Thomas Owen Edwards

  
  

  Born	14 Oct 1869	Wisconsin
  Died	4 Apr 1963	Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin
  Buried
  Married	17 Aug 1892  [1, 2]	Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin  [1, 2]
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  Mother | Female Minnie A. Benkelman

  
  

  Born	28 Aug 1866	Lima Center, Rock County, Wisconsin
  Died	Feb 1901	Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin
  Buried
  Father	Johannes "John" Benkelman | F5022 Group Sheet
  Mother	Sarah Jane Keech | F5022 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Pearl Alida Edwards

  
  

  Born	24 Aug 1893	Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin
  Died	Sep 1967	Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
  Buried		Moundville Methodist Church, Moundville, Marquette County, Wisconsin
  Spouse	Robert Henry Scholes | F2608
  Married	24 Dec 1913	Columbia County, Wisconsin

  
  

  Child 2 | Female Sarah Hazel Edwards

  
  

  Born	18 Sep 1895	Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin
  Died	4 Aug 1961	Dodgeville, Iowa County, Wisconsin
  Buried
  Spouse	Floyd Russel Bentley | F2605
  Married	7 Jul 1919	Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan

  
  

• Photos

  Benkelman, Minnie with husband Thomas Owen Edwards and their daughters Minnie Benkelman and husband, Thomas Owen Edwards, with their daughters, Pearl and Hazel, Baraboo, Wisconsin ca 1896. Minnie was a daughter of Sarah Jane Keech and Johannes Benkelmann, one of ten Benkelmann siblings who immigrated from Germany to the US in the 1850s.

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Could this marriage have actually been in 1882? Lorraine Smith Benkelman cites a letter written from Portage, Wisconsin, on August 13, 1882, from Minnie to her cousin G. A. Striffler. She announced she was to be married on August 17. It is more likely that Lorraine mistranscribed the year of the letter, as Minnie was only 15 in 1882. Married by Lyman B. Webb, Methodist elder, witnesses Chas. Mathison & Cor a Benkleman "Minnie A. Benkleman" v4 p 0145 on 17 Aug 1892 in Lewiston, Columbia County, Wisconsin Henderson, Harold (hhsh@earthlink.net) "Ancestor Exchange!" Version 2009-05-20 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hendersonscholes BonnieMargaret Jacobs writes that Thomas Edwards was "of Baraboo" and that after their marriage the young couple lived in that town, where Thomas worked as a contractor-carpenter. Minnie died of consumption when her daughters were still young, and as a result they were carried for by relatives of their fathers in Baraboo during remainder of their childhood. They later moved back to Portage, where they were married.

  
  

• Sources

  [S667] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project, (The WorldConnect Project is a set of tools, which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their genealogy with other researchers. The program used to day has a genealogy of its own. RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November 10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project continues to grow, and as of January 2004 had more than 312 million records. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunications. It is a file format developed by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). It provides a flexible and uniform format for exchanging computerized genealogical data, and allows you to share files with other researchers who may not use the same genealogy program.), Henderson, Harold (hhsh@earthlink.net) "Ancestor Exchange!" Versin 2009-05-20 ; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hendersonscholes (Reliability: 3). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 108, ca 1890 (Reliability: 3).