Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Edwards Jr., Thomas August 19, 1851 - November 26, 1943
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Source: History of Contra Costa County (1926)
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“THOMAS EDWARDS.  The two survivors of the Edwards family, that was the first 
to settle in what is now the town of Crockett, are Thomas and David, two 
brothers, who are still making Crockett their home and the scene of their 
activities. The family consisted of six boys and one girl. Thomas was born at 
Knight's Ferry on August 19, 1851, and was educated in the schools of the State 
and was associated with his father in the settlement of Crockett. This has been 
his home since boyhood and he has been interested in every phase of its growth 
and progress. The old Edwards home is built on an Indian mound fronting the bay 
and this was an ideal location for a home. This mound has yielded many relics 
and skeletons of the Indians of the country surrounding. "They have gone, they 
have vanished and cold is their clay; For the steel of the white man has swept 
them away."
 
Thomas Edwards was married in Crockett on April 20, 1892, to Annie Ashby, and 
they have had the following children: Edith E., now Mrs. A. G. Dyer of Crockett 
and the mother of a daughter, Violet; Stanley P., who married Lucy Chapin and 
has a daughter, Patricia; Thomas A., employed in the sugar refinery; Arnold B., 
valuation engineer at the C. & H.; and Grace Crockett, attending the State 
Teachers' College in San Jose.
 
Mr. Edwards was graduated from the grammar school in Martinez in 1867, and from 
the Pacific Business College in San Francisco in 1873. He has lived in Crockett 
all his adult life. He was one of the organizers of the Congregational Church 
in 1884, and served as postmaster from 1905 to 1915, during which time the 
parcel post and Postal Savings Bank went into effect. He is a member of 
Crockett Lodge No. 329, I. O. O. F., and a member and Past Master of Carquinez 
Lodge No. 337, F. & A. M. For twenty-five years he has represented the American 
Railways Express Company, and for twenty years has handled the news agency for 
the San Francisco papers. He is highly respected by all who know him, and has 
had the best interests of Crockett at heart at all times.” END

Additional Comments:
History of Contra Costa County, California.  Los Angeles: Historic Record 
Company, 1926.  Pages 452-453.


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