Edwards, Marion J. (Baxter)

Marion J. Baxter Edwards
Feb. 22, 1848-Jan. 8, 1929


Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, January 9, 1929, page 4, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library

DEATH CLOSES LONG LIFE OF INVALIDISM

Mrs. Marion Edwards Dies at Broadway Home Tuesday Afternoon

 

Mrs. Marion J. Baxter Edwards died on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at her home, 516 Broadway, after many years of invalidism.

The funeral services will be held on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home. Rev. G.W. Simon, pastor of the Presbyterian church will officiate. Burial will be made in the family lot in Silver Brook cemetery.

Mrs. Edwards was born on Feb. 22, 1848 in Sycamore, N.Y., a daughter of Bentley and Mary Baxter. She came to Michigan with her parents when she was seven years of age, the family having settled in Sumnerville where she grew to womanhood.  She was married to William Edwards on January 1, 1868. They moved to Missouri where they lived for eight years and then returned to Michigan  to the old Lewis Edwards farm where they lived for three years, afterward buying a farm near the Michigan Central railroad terminal where they spent most of their married life. In 1906, they moved to Niles where they lived until their deaths.  Mr. Edwards died in 1916.

Although an invalid for thirteen years, she was of a cheerful and kindly disposition under the care of her daughter, Clara, during these years.

She was a member of the Niles Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, for twenty-four years and also was a member of the Presbyterian church.

She leaves to mourn her loss, two sons and three daughters, Frank B. Edwards, Dowagiac; Geo N. Edwards, Niles; Ella Leach, Manton, Mich.; Addie Burkett of Benton Harbor, and Clara Jewell of Niles.  Also two brothers, Judge Chas. Baxter, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Judge George N. Baxter, of Washington, D.C.


Niles Daily Star, Friday, January 11, 1929, page 4, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library

FUNERAL OF MRS. EDWARDS

Funeral services were held this afternoon at the home, 516 Broadway, for Mrs. Marion Baxter Edwards. Rev. G.W. Simon, pastor, of the Presbyterian church of which Mrs. Edwards had been a member for many years, officiated. Richard Gray sang. Burial was made in the family lot in Silver Brook cemetery.  Mr. and Mrs. John Burkett, of Benton Harbor, and Mrs. Boyd Gardner, of Rochester, Minn., were among those from out of the city  who attended the services. Mrs. Burkett is a daughter, and Mrs. Gardner, a niece of Mrs. Edwards.