Bond County IL Archives Obituaries.....Edmunds, Joe October 5, 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Thomilson eunicepeabody1@aol.com January 6, 2012, 6:08 pm Greenville Advocate Joe Edmunds, colored, for the past forty years the most familiar figure on the streets of Greenville died October 5, 1923 in a room at the rear of the Thomas House sample room. Joe came to Bond county in 1865 or 1866 with Dr. Bailey, who came to Wisetown and practiced there for many years. He brought Joe from the south and at that time he was probobly twelve to fifteen years of age. For a time he was called Joe Bailey, but when he came to Greenville was known by his proper name, Edmunds. During the early part of his life he was "just a colored boy" on a plantation having been born in Alabama of slave parentage, and it was during the Civil War that he became seperated from his family and was broght north on the Mississippi river and later to Bond County. Burial was at Montrose Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/bond/obits/e/edmunds543gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb