Edna Francena Jerrett

Edna Francena Magee

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• Birth: Nov 5 1878 - Oregon, United States
• Death: Jan 1 1958 - Sacramento, California, United States
• Parents: James Bernard Magee, Sarah Elizabeth Magee (born Geiger)
• Husband: Hermann Daniel Jerrett
• Children: Eduene D Didion (born Jerrett), Gloria Berger (born Jerrett)

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From “Where I Was From” By Joan Didion, Sept. 28, 2003. First chapter, excerpted in The New York Times

Edna Magee Jerrett. She is Nancy Hardin Cornwall's great-granddaughter, she will in time be my grandmother. She is Black Irish, English, Welsh, possibly (this is uncertain) a fraction Jewish through her grandfather William Geiger, who liked to claim as an ancestor a German rabbi but was himself a Presbyterian missionary in the Sandwich Islands and along the Pacific coast; possibly (this is still more uncertain) a lesser fraction Indian, from some frontier somewhere, or maybe, because her skin darkens in the sun as she was told not to let it, she just likes to say that.

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References

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCK-4QZ : 21 December 2021), Edna Magee in household of James Magee, Empire, Coos, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV2D-XPL : accessed 24 December 2021), Edna T Jerrett in household of Herman D Jerrett, Georgetown, El Dorado, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 20, sheet 1B, family 30, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 74; FHL microfilm 1,374,087
• "California Birth Index, 1905-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VL53-1ZL : 27 November 2014), Magee in entry for Eduene D Jerrett, 30 May 1910; citing San Francisco, California, United States, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.
• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH4T-7DG : 31 January 2021), Edna F Jarrett in entry for Herman D Jarrett, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC63-P15 : accessed 23 December 2021), Edna F Jerrett in household of Herman D Jerrett, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 95, sheet 8B, line 73, family 199, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 187; FHL microfilm 2,339,922.
• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPWF-846 : 26 November 2014), Edna F Jerrett, 01 Jan 1958; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
• ”Former Resident Dies.” < link >
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/K2FV-ZG4
• https://ethnicelebs.com/joan-didion notes:
  • Joan Didion was the daughter of Eduene (Jerrett) and Frank Reese Didion.FamilySearch
    • Joan’s maternal grandfather was Hermann/Herman Daniel Jerrett (the son of Daniel Jerrett and Clarinda Ellen “Clara” Farnsworth). Hermann was born in California. Daniel was the son of Robert Jerrett and Diadama Worden. Clarinda was the daughter of Seba Calvin Farnsworth and Hulda Shaw.
    • Joan’s maternal grandmother was Edna F. Magee (the daughter of James Bernard Magee and Sarah Elizabeth Geiger). Edna was born in Oregon. James was Irish. Sarah was the daughter of William Geiger, Jr. and Elizabeth Cornwall.