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About Edna Earl Inman
- Census: wife, 36, IN IN IN - 1910 - Jackson Twp, Greene County, IN
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Jack Inman by SmartCopy: Nov 2 2015, 7:12:15 UTC
Edna Earl EDINGTON was born on 25 Jul 1877 in Greene County, Indiana to Francis M. Edington and Theodocia Hannah Miller. Edna died 18 Apr 1976. Edna's father, Francis (Frank) Edington was born April 15, 1850 in Lawrence County, Indiana, son of George Washington (Jack) Edington and Mary Mansfield. Docia's parents were Alfred N. Miller and Nancy Hudgens Loveall.
Edna first married Charles Porter in 1896. Edna's first child, Ada LaVera Porter, was born August 14, 1897 and a little brother, Fred Porter followed on January 8, 1899. Unfortunately, little Fred contracted measles and died in May of 1899. Edna divorced Charles Porter in 1900. Edna met Randall Inman who was a widower and the father of Evan E. Inman. Edna and Randall were married on 5 May 1903 in Bloomfield, Indiana.
Randall and Edna started housekeeping in a small frame house in Owensburg and spent nearly all their 62 years of marriage in the small bustling town of Owensburg, Indiana raising Evan and Ada and the rest of the children who arrived to bless their union; Randall Russell, Wayne, Mary Jane, Anna Catherine, James Marshall and Jack. They lost one daughter, Jill who was a twin to Jack.
Grandpa Inman told me that he had $700 when he began housekeeping and that amount bought everything he needed...the house and all the furnishings. When you think about it, $700 was a whole lot of money for the time. There were only about 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads in the whole United States. The average worker made between 18 and 22 cents per hour and earned between $200 and $400 per year. Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee was fifteen cents a pound. Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
They raised their family in a time far removed from our busy world of ringing telephones, radios and television. I think it was the 1950's when their children were already gone before electricity finally made it's way to Owensburg. Grandma Edna baked every day on her old wood burning range in the kitchen; her biscuits were cut with a coffee can, boy they sure filled you up. One of my Dad's chores as a boy was to clean out the large wood box beside the kitchen stove in the spring. He said there was always a couple of inches of salt in the bottom of the box because Grandma measured salt in her hand when cooking all winter long and just threw the extra salt into the wood box. Cast iron stoves which burned wood (and later coal) heated the home in the winter and kerosene lamps were lit in the evening against the night, when the feather beds kept the kids warm. Randall earned his living by running a Feed store and Poultry house on main street in the town of Owensburg. He also had a large vegetable garden, a cow or two and, of course, you needed a horse to get around, either by horseback or wagon.
As I traced the lineage of my grandmother Edna Edington Inman, I was astounded to find that there were nine of her ancestors who were patriots of the Revolutionary War. Two ancestors fought in the War of 1812; her great grandfather, Jacob Mansfield was also in the Black Hawk War and her grandfather, Alfred Miller, was in the Civil War. What a heritage!
More photos and online database available at The Inman Compendium. 55033* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 19 2019, 6:33:17 UTC
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Edna Earl Inman's Timeline
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July 25, 1877
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Greene County, Indiana, USA
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| 1904 |
August 7, 1904
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Greene,indiana
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1907
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Greene County, Indiana
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December 6, 1908
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| 1912 |
December 23, 1912
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Greene County, Indiana, United States
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| 1918 |
December 6, 1918
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Greene, Indiana
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December 6, 1918
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Owensburg, Jackson Twp., Greene Co., IN
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