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Surnames: EDINGTON, HALE, HOLLEY, HUFFMAN, LEWIS, MEURER, MOORE, WAKEFIELD
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 1, 1920, Volume
XLIV, Number 20, Page 1, Column 5, “DEATH’S HARVEST—EDINGTON.” [Transcribed 30 Dec 2001
from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.]
{Leroy} W. EDINGTON, son of Thomas and Ursula {E. MOORE,} EDINGTON, was born in Coshocton
County, Ohio, January 20, 1851, and departed this life March 8, 1920, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Will WAKEFIELD, at Linton.
He was married to Mary A. HALE near Effingham, Illinois, in October 1876. To this union
were born nine children, seven of whom survive him. The wife and mother and two children
preceded him to that spirit world.
The surviving children are: Mrs. Ora WAKEFIELD, Mrs. Eva HUFFMAN, Mrs. Verna MEURER, Mrs.
Bonnie HOLLY, Thomas and Rufus EDINGTON, of Linton, and Mrs. Nellie LEWIS, of Bloomfield.
There are also sixteen grandchildren, and not one feels the loss more than Cecil, who was
reared in the home of his grandfather after the death of his mother until twelve years of
age.
Mr. EDINGTON united with the Christian church at Koleen under the teachings of Isaiah
FIELDS when a young man and continued in that faith until the end.
To more fully explain his useful and devoted life, following is a letter from an absent
brother:
“The time has come when some of us has said our last good bye. Little did I think on
October 26, 1919, when I grasped his hand in loving goodbye that it would be the last time
on this side of the Great Beyond. I loved him as a brother and father, for such he had
been to me in deed and in truth. Since he has gone to join the immortals, let us who are
here to mourn the loss of one so dear to us, extend the broad mantle of charity over all
his weaknesses, whatever they many have been, and not withhold from his dear memory, the
praises his virtues may have claimed. Perfection on earth has never been attained.
While I was not permitted to be with you in your dark hours of distress, no one mourns his
demise more than I, yet we grieve not as those who have not hope, for I have abiding faith
in his noble and honorable life gaining for him a seat in the house not made with hands to
gladly clasp hands with our own dear father and mother. He has gone from his labors. May
he rest in peace.” A. M.
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Link to the marriage record of his Parents, Thomas and Ursula E. (MOORE) EDINGTON:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/Igi/old_individual_record.asp?reci...
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NOTES—RLJ: 1880 US CENSUS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, 7 June 1880, Page 184C, Dwelling 63,
Family 63, Lines 25—27: EDINGTON, Leroy (m, 27, Head, Farmer, IN, IN, OH), Mary E. (f, 22,
Wife, Keeping house, IN, IN, OH), Ora (f, 2, dau, IN, IN, IN), Thomas W. (m, 7/12 Nov,
son, IN, IN, IN); Dwelling 64, Family 64, Lines 29-32: EDINGTON, U. E. (f, 46, Head,
widow, Keeping House, IN, NW, OH), Alvus (f, 22, dau, at home, IN, NW, OH), Elijer W. (m,
19, farm labor, IN, OH, OH), Thomas L. (m, 17, son, Farm labor, IN, OH, OH)