Robert Lucian Edwards was born July 14, 1870 in Hartford, Lyon County, Kansas. He died on March 13, 1957, in Emporia, Kansas.
Parents: James Wilson Edwards and Hannah Elizabeth Fleming.
He married Florence Bell Smith on October 5, 1893 in Emporia, Kansas by a Judge.
Children:
1. Eugene Orlin Edwards: born October 20, 1894 in Hartford, Kansas; died August 1, 1957 in Emporia, Kansas. Married Nellie Elizabeth Jones on May 20, 1914.
2. Lula Ethel Edwards: born June 26, 1896 in Hartford, Kansas; died December 4, 1956 in Emporia, Kansas. Married Evan Shelby Baker.
3. Marion Harold "Jim" Edwards: born March 11, 1899 in Hartford, Kansas; died April 24, 1971 in Westphalia, Anderson County, Kansas. Married Nellie Inez Theobald on December 25, 1921 in Strawn, Coffey County, Kansas.
4. Robert Maurice "Cap" Edwards: born February 10, 1903 in Hartford, Kansas; died March 2, 1981. Never married.
5. Bernard Harley Edwards: born May 20, 1907 in Hartford, Kansas; died November 29, 1984 in Topeka, Kansas. Married Isabell Love on May 11, 1933 in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.
6. Lola E. Edwards: died as an infant on December 5, 1912.
7. Eulalia Imogene Edwards: born September 2, 1913 in Hartford, Kansas; died March 8, 2001 at the Vintage Manor in Emporia, Kansas. Married Gomer Hodges on July 4, 1929, in Coffey County, Kansas.
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