Jones Co., TX - Obituaries - Jacob Thomas Edge *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** Jacob Thomas Edge Jacob Thomas Edge, 77, resident of Stamford since 1915 died at the home of a son, Ben T. Edge, Sunday, 28 December 1936. Funeral service held at the home of a daughter, Mrs. A.E. Rutherford with Rev. H.S. Hinson officiating. The body was conveyed to Rising Star where burial was made near the grave of Mr. Edge's second wife, who died in 1911. Mr. Edge was born in Georgia, 9 September 1859. He moved to Texas in 1875 and was married to Miss Mattie Carter in Williamson county in 1878. One child was born, the present Mrs. W.E. Stevens of Seymour. After the death of his wife in 1883, he was married to Miss Fannie Joiner of Lee county in 1886. Children of the second marriage are Mrs. A.E. Rutherford and Mrs. M.T. Simpson and Ben T. Edge of Stamford; Mrs. W.A. Gufford of Brownfield, and W.M. Edge of Fort Worth; 12 grand; 4 great. Barrrow Funeral Home records Stamford, Texas