Edgar Francisco Storrs (1857 - 1921)

Born 31 May 1857 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Frances (Gilbert) Storrs — married 26 Jun 1882 in Coventry, CT

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 1921 at age 64 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Edgar was born in Mansfield, Connecticut.

He appears in Census records for Mansfield, CT in 1860 along with his grandfateher, parents and siblings.:

Name Edgar F Storrs

Event Type Census

Event Date 1860

Event Place Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

Gender Male

Age 3

Edgar F Storrs M 3 Connecticut^[1]

1860 Census for the Storrs Family

In the 1870 Census he is 13 years old, still living with his parents, but with a servant listed and a man listed as insane.^[2]

1870 Census for the Storrs Family

His first wife was Mary Gurley. She died soon after they were married.

He married Annie in Coventry, Connecticut, on June 26, 1882.

In addition to their biological children, Ada May and Gilbert, Edgar and Annie raised Mary (Storrs) Gaudreau as their own child.

His granddaughter Rebecca (Bartlett) Nally wrote:

Edgar Storrs was born and lived in the same house all his life except for a few years he spent in Colorado. He was married before he married Annie Gilbert. His first wife died very young of tuberculosis. He had contracted the disease too. The pure mountain air was recommended as a cure for T.B. Actually there was no cure. I don't know how long he was gone but he came home. He ran a farm and had a hobby of taxidermy. ... I really don't remember him. I was only four when he died. We lived in Northern Vermont and he in Conn. They always said what a kind person he was.

Edgar had a separate bedroom, isolated from the rest of the house. (He kept the windows opened wide.) He always put Norman Rockwell's pictures around the room at top of walls.

1921 Edgar Francisco Storrs passed away on 17 July 1921. He is buried at Hillside Cemetery, Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA ;^[3]

The old Storrs house was located near the Spring Hill Baptist Church which the family attended. When Edgar died in 1921 he was buried in the church cemetery.^{[4] [5]} Note: The cemetery is now referred to as Hillside cemetery. The town offices are across the road. The main campus of the University of Connecticut is a couple of miles north. The area around the UCONN campus is called "Storrs" after Augustus Storrs who donated the land.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch ([1] : 30 December 2015), Edgar F Storrs in entry for Jesse Crane, 1860.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN7G-515 : 17 October 2014), Edgar Storrs in household of Albert Storrs, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 25, family 235, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,614.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68069581/edgar-francisco-storrs : accessed 10 February 2022), memorial page for Edgar Francisco Storrs (31 May 1857–17 Jul 1921), Find A Grave: Memorial #68069581, citing Hillside Cemetery, Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by John Beckstein (contributor 46939506) .
4. ↑ "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F72G-ZQG : 3 December 2014), Edgar F Storrs, 1921; citing , reference 00682; FHL microfilm 3,343.
5. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 68069581, Edgar Francisco Storrs, Hillside Cemetery, Spring Hill, Tolland County, Connecticut, USA.[2]

• Storrs, Charles: The Storrs Family Genealogical and other Memoranda, p.360, Privately Printed, New York, 1886.[3]

• Research by Rebecca (Bartlett) Nally.

• This family has listings in the Kingsbury Genealogy and the Strong Genealogy.

• http://www.hale-collection.com/807-10-spring-hill-cemetery.htm