21 November 2017

Pearl Davis Graham Edwards v Orestes Paine Edwards, filed in Wms Co, OH Common Pleas Court, 25 January 1902

Pearl Davis Graham Edwards v Orestes Paine Edwards, filed in Wms Co, OH Common Pleas Court, 25 January 1902

By Pamela Pattison Lash

Bryan Democrat (Bryan, OH), 30 January 1902 p11 c3 – notice of intend to divorce; Pearl said Orestes was guilty of extreme cruelty as he would tell false stories of a vile nature about her and called her names; in October 1901 he deserted her.

The couple was married in Adrian, Lenawee Co, MI on 29 October 1900. 

Orestes Paine Edwards (12 January 1876, Superior Twp, Wms Co, OH – 13 December 1930, Montpelier, Wms Co, OH); son of Hezekiah Edwards and Caroline Kline; buried Riverside Cem, Montpelier, Wms Co, OH

He was married three times:
1.       Unknown
2.       2. Pearl Davis Graham
3.       Mary smith (1881 – 1930), 25 September 1904 Wms Co, OH; d/o Oney Smith and Caroline McDonald

He had son Paul from marriage to Mary

Pearl Davis (September 1878, Riga, Lenawee Co, MI – 14 March 1948, Hillsdale Co, MI); d/o Jacob Davis and Catherine Jane Housen; buried Frontier Cem, Hillsdale Co, MI

She was married three times
1.       Lee Graham, 15 November 1897, Wms Co, OH
2.       Orestes Paine Edwards
3.       3. Alfred C Moore, 4 May 1903, Wms Co, OH

She had sons George Earl Graham and Harold Moore

Other sources:
Lenawee Co, MI Marriages
Superior Twp, Wms Co, OH Cemeteries p154-155
1880 Riga, Lenawee Co, MI – Pearley E Davis 1 MI w/parents
1880 Superior Twp, Wms Co, OH – Orestes 4 OH with parents
1900 Bridgewater Twp, Wms Co, OH – Pearl Graham, servant, widow with 2 yr old son, George
1910 Pulaski Twp, Wms Co, OH – Orestes 34 OH/ Mary 28 OH – he says he was married only once
1910 Superior Twp, Wms Co, OH – Chester Moore 29 OH/Pearl 31 MI
Wms Co, OH Marriages V9 p79
1918 WWI US Draft – Orestes of Bryan, OH was a farmer and the county surveyor
1920 Hillsdale Co, MI – Chester Moore 39 OH/ Pearl 40 MI
Orestes Edwards, Death Certificate, Wms Co, OH
Orestes Edwards obit – undated

Pearl Moore, Death Certificate, Hillsdale Co, MI

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