Edwards

Miner’s First Name:   Merthyn
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Miner’s Last Name:   Edwards
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Birth Place of Miner:   Glen Lyon, PA
Miner’s Country:   USA
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Miner Information:
His parents, David and Martha Edwards, emigrated to America from Mountain Ash, Wales, in the late 1880's. They lived in Glen Lyon, St. Clair, and then finally Nanticoke, PA. Merthyn married Irene Thompson of Shickshinny, where he also mined. He had five children. When there wasn't any work for him in the mines, he took a job building the railroads in Oneida, New York.

Place & Manner of Miner’s Death:   His death was listed as leukemia, but his wife claimed it was black lung.
Died:   8/29/1964
Birth Date:   07/28/1892

Married:   Yes
Place Miner Was Married:   Shickshinny, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Wife’s Name:   Irene
Wife’s Middle Name:   Kathryn
Wife’s Last Name:   Thompson
Birth Place of Wife:   Shickshinny, PA
Wife’s Country:   USA
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Place & Manner of Wife’s Death:   A patient in Elizabethtown's Masonic Homes, my grandmother died of old age. She would have been 104 years old. She was mentally and physically sound until her 96th birthday. After that she moved in with her daughter, Charlotte Zaludek, and her husband Dan in Kensington, Maryland. While in the Masonic Homes she was being treated for dementia.
Died:   8/12/1998
Birth Date:   1893-11-22

Number of Children:   5

Child Name 1:   James
Child’s Middle Name:   Thompson
Child’s Last Name:   Edwards
Birth Date:   5/2/1918

Child Name 2:   Merthyn
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Child’s Last Name:   Edwards
Birth Date:   4/18/1928

Child Name 3:   Charlotte
Child’s Middle Name:   Claire
Child’s Last Name:   Edwards
Birth Date:   1/21/1930

Child Name 4:   Irene
Child’s Middle Name:   Marilyn
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Author’s Name:   Priscilla
Author’s Middle Name:   Davis
Author’s Last Name:   Farrell
Relationship to Miner:   Granddaughter