Guest At Wedding of Lincoln Dies - Died, at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 18, 1909, at the residence, 801 North Fifth street, Mrs. Helen K. Edwards, aged 89 years, 4 months and 4 days. The funeral services will be held at the residence at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Helen Kissam Dodge was born in Kaskaskia, Ill., Nov. 14, 1819. She was the daughter of Henry S. Dodge and Jane Dey Varrick of New York City. When she was quite young the family returned to New York, residing in Brooklyn Heights. Her father engaged in the practice of law but died in about two years. Mrs. Edwards received her education in young ladies' schools in New York and New Haven, to which city the family removed while her three brothers were students in Yale college. It was there she made the acquaintance of Benjamin S. Edwards, son of Ninian Edwards, governor of the territory and one of the first governors of the state of Illinois.
Benjamin S. Edwards was one of the first graduates of Yale college from this state. They were married August 13, 1839, and came to Springfield the following winter, arriving January 4, 1840. While their house was being prepared for occupancy, they were welcomed into the home of Ninian Edwards, brother of B. S. Edwards, by Miss Mary Todd and a life-long intimacy dated from their first meeting. Mrs. Edwards was the last of the adult witnesses of the wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. On the occasion of the recent centennial, Robert T. Lincoln spent an hour with Mrs. Edwards reviewing the scenes and experiences of earlier days.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards lived for about two years on the southwest corner of Fourth and Monroe streets, but near the close of 1842 they removed to the home in a beautiful grove of walnut trees on North Fifth street, where Mrs. Edwards has lived continuously for sixty-seven years. Judge Edwards died in 1886. The house was built in 1883 by James Hogan, but since has been enlarged. The place originally consisted of fourteen acres, several of which still resist the encroachments of the city and remain as an attractive park.
The religious life of Mrs. Edwards ran in her early womanhood when she became connected with the old Dutch Reformed church on Broadway, New York. On removing to Springfield she united with the Second Presbyterian church, and in 1861 transferred her membership to First Presbyterian church. Among a wide circle of friends she is remembered as one who exemplified to an unusual degree the sweetness, the kindness, the courtesy and the consideration of a consistent christian life.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. M. B. Condell and Mrs. B.H. Ferguson of this city and Mrs. James H. Raymond of Evanston. IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 3-19-1909
Helen Kissam Dodge was born in Kaskaskia, Ill., Nov. 14, 1819. She was the daughter of Henry S. Dodge and Jane Dey Varrick of New York City. When she was quite young the family returned to New York, residing in Brooklyn Heights. Her father engaged in the practice of law but died in about two years. Mrs. Edwards received her education in young ladies' schools in New York and New Haven, to which city the family removed while her three brothers were students in Yale college. It was there she made the acquaintance of Benjamin S. Edwards, son of Ninian Edwards, governor of the territory and one of the first governors of the state of Illinois.
Benjamin S. Edwards was one of the first graduates of Yale college from this state. They were married August 13, 1839, and came to Springfield the following winter, arriving January 4, 1840. While their house was being prepared for occupancy, they were welcomed into the home of Ninian Edwards, brother of B. S. Edwards, by Miss Mary Todd and a life-long intimacy dated from their first meeting. Mrs. Edwards was the last of the adult witnesses of the wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. On the occasion of the recent centennial, Robert T. Lincoln spent an hour with Mrs. Edwards reviewing the scenes and experiences of earlier days.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards lived for about two years on the southwest corner of Fourth and Monroe streets, but near the close of 1842 they removed to the home in a beautiful grove of walnut trees on North Fifth street, where Mrs. Edwards has lived continuously for sixty-seven years. Judge Edwards died in 1886. The house was built in 1883 by James Hogan, but since has been enlarged. The place originally consisted of fourteen acres, several of which still resist the encroachments of the city and remain as an attractive park.
The religious life of Mrs. Edwards ran in her early womanhood when she became connected with the old Dutch Reformed church on Broadway, New York. On removing to Springfield she united with the Second Presbyterian church, and in 1861 transferred her membership to First Presbyterian church. Among a wide circle of friends she is remembered as one who exemplified to an unusual degree the sweetness, the kindness, the courtesy and the consideration of a consistent christian life.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. M. B. Condell and Mrs. B.H. Ferguson of this city and Mrs. James H. Raymond of Evanston. IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 3-19-1909
Guest At Wedding of Lincoln Dies - Died, at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 18, 1909, at the residence, 801 North Fifth street, Mrs. Helen K. Edwards, aged 89 years, 4 months and 4 days. The funeral services will be held at the residence at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Helen Kissam Dodge was born in Kaskaskia, Ill., Nov. 14, 1819. She was the daughter of Henry S. Dodge and Jane Dey Varrick of New York City. When she was quite young the family returned to New York, residing in Brooklyn Heights. Her father engaged in the practice of law but died in about two years. Mrs. Edwards received her education in young ladies' schools in New York and New Haven, to which city the family removed while her three brothers were students in Yale college. It was there she made the acquaintance of Benjamin S. Edwards, son of Ninian Edwards, governor of the territory and one of the first governors of the state of Illinois.
Benjamin S. Edwards was one of the first graduates of Yale college from this state. They were married August 13, 1839, and came to Springfield the following winter, arriving January 4, 1840. While their house was being prepared for occupancy, they were welcomed into the home of Ninian Edwards, brother of B. S. Edwards, by Miss Mary Todd and a life-long intimacy dated from their first meeting. Mrs. Edwards was the last of the adult witnesses of the wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. On the occasion of the recent centennial, Robert T. Lincoln spent an hour with Mrs. Edwards reviewing the scenes and experiences of earlier days.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards lived for about two years on the southwest corner of Fourth and Monroe streets, but near the close of 1842 they removed to the home in a beautiful grove of walnut trees on North Fifth street, where Mrs. Edwards has lived continuously for sixty-seven years. Judge Edwards died in 1886. The house was built in 1883 by James Hogan, but since has been enlarged. The place originally consisted of fourteen acres, several of which still resist the encroachments of the city and remain as an attractive park.
The religious life of Mrs. Edwards ran in her early womanhood when she became connected with the old Dutch Reformed church on Broadway, New York. On removing to Springfield she united with the Second Presbyterian church, and in 1861 transferred her membership to First Presbyterian church. Among a wide circle of friends she is remembered as one who exemplified to an unusual degree the sweetness, the kindness, the courtesy and the consideration of a consistent christian life.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. M. B. Condell and Mrs. B.H. Ferguson of this city and Mrs. James H. Raymond of Evanston. IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 3-19-1909
Helen Kissam Dodge was born in Kaskaskia, Ill., Nov. 14, 1819. She was the daughter of Henry S. Dodge and Jane Dey Varrick of New York City. When she was quite young the family returned to New York, residing in Brooklyn Heights. Her father engaged in the practice of law but died in about two years. Mrs. Edwards received her education in young ladies' schools in New York and New Haven, to which city the family removed while her three brothers were students in Yale college. It was there she made the acquaintance of Benjamin S. Edwards, son of Ninian Edwards, governor of the territory and one of the first governors of the state of Illinois.
Benjamin S. Edwards was one of the first graduates of Yale college from this state. They were married August 13, 1839, and came to Springfield the following winter, arriving January 4, 1840. While their house was being prepared for occupancy, they were welcomed into the home of Ninian Edwards, brother of B. S. Edwards, by Miss Mary Todd and a life-long intimacy dated from their first meeting. Mrs. Edwards was the last of the adult witnesses of the wedding of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. On the occasion of the recent centennial, Robert T. Lincoln spent an hour with Mrs. Edwards reviewing the scenes and experiences of earlier days.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards lived for about two years on the southwest corner of Fourth and Monroe streets, but near the close of 1842 they removed to the home in a beautiful grove of walnut trees on North Fifth street, where Mrs. Edwards has lived continuously for sixty-seven years. Judge Edwards died in 1886. The house was built in 1883 by James Hogan, but since has been enlarged. The place originally consisted of fourteen acres, several of which still resist the encroachments of the city and remain as an attractive park.
The religious life of Mrs. Edwards ran in her early womanhood when she became connected with the old Dutch Reformed church on Broadway, New York. On removing to Springfield she united with the Second Presbyterian church, and in 1861 transferred her membership to First Presbyterian church. Among a wide circle of friends she is remembered as one who exemplified to an unusual degree the sweetness, the kindness, the courtesy and the consideration of a consistent christian life.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. M. B. Condell and Mrs. B.H. Ferguson of this city and Mrs. James H. Raymond of Evanston. IL State Journal, Springfield, IL 3-19-1909
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