Contra Costa-Inyo County CA Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Mary (Pugh) May 18, 1905 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Steve Harrison raleighwood@juno.com January 4, 2010, 6:10 am San Francisco Call, May 19, 1905 San Francisco Call, May 19, 1905 (Sunday), Page 14, Column 6. “AGED PIONEER WOMAN DIES AT CROCKETT “CROCKETT, May 18. Mrs. Mary Edwards, a pioneer of 1850, died here to-day. She, with her husband, Thomas Edwards, formed the town of Independence, the present county seat of Inyo County, and also this place. Mrs. Edwards leaves a host of friends. She is survived by five sons, her husband having died in 1883. Mrs. Edwards was in her eighty-sixth year. She was born in Wales on July 3, 1819.” END AND San Francisco Call, May 19, 1905 (Friday), Page 14, Column 3. “DIED. EDWARDS. At Crockett, Cal., May 18, 1905, Mrs. Mary Pugh Edwards, widow of the late Thomas Edwards, and mother of Hugh P., John, Thomas, David, Edward and the late Susan J. Edwards, a native of Llanbrynmair, North Wales, aged 85 years 10 months and 15 days. (Stanislaus County papers please copy.) Funeral from Odd Fellows' Hall, Crockett, Sunday, May 21, at 9:30 a. m., thence to Martinez [for burial in the Alhambra cemetery].” END [Same death notice appears in the May 20 issue.] Additional Comments: Note that there is an obituary and a death notice above. She was buried in the Edwards family plot in Alhambra Cemetery, Martinez. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/contracosta/obits/e/edwards4124gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb