The Well-Traveled Edminston Family

What caught my attention with Adelia Richmond's family was the fact that her daughter, Estella Edminston, was born in Michigan.

Adelia Richmond and John A. Edminston were married November 10, 1850. Adelia was enumerated with her mother and siblings in Washtenaw Co., Michigan, in 1850:

1850 MI Washtenaw, Scio
Richmond, Louisa, 43, NY
", Andrew, 21, NY
", Adelia, 18, MI
", Morris, 16, MI
", Eliza, 15, MI
", Harris, 13, MI
", Lemuel, 9, MI
", Mary, 6, MI

John may have lived as a boarder with several other unrelated individuals in Wayne County, Michigan, in 1850. The John Edminston living there in 1850 was a 21 year old carpenter who was born in Ohio.

The J.B. Richmond book entry indicated that the family was in New York for Samuel Edminston's birth in 1852; in Michigan for Estella's birth in 1854, and in Indiana for Eliza's birth in 1862. Daughter Cora wasn't in the J.B. Richmond book; she was born in Michigan in 1864.

1860 MI Washtenaw, Scio Twp.
Edmiston, John, 30, carpenter, b. OH
", Adelia, 28, MI
", Samuel, 7, NY
", Estella, 5, MI

By 1870 the Edminston/Edmiston family was in Bushnell, McDonough, Illinois:

Edmiston, J. A., 47, photographer, b. OH
", Adelia, 39, MI
", Sam'l, 19, NY
", Estella, 16, MI
", Belle, 13, IN
", Cora, 6, MI

1880 Census IL Fulton, Canton
John A. EDMONDSON Self M W 51 OH Photographer OH OH
Adelia EDMONDSON Wife M W 48 MI Keeping House MA NY
Sammuel A. EDMONDSON Son S W 28 NY Photographer OH MI
Cora EDMONDSON Dau S 14 MI Attends School --- ---

Illinois Marriages online:
COYKENDALL, JOHN F EDMISTON, E BELLE 1879-09-30 FULTON
KEYES, CLARENCE E EDMISTON, CORA E 1893-10-24 COOK
WALKER, ARTHUR EDMISTON, ESTELLA MAY 1880-05-28 FULTON
EDMISTON, SAMUEL ANDERSON LANDAUER, CLARA JANETT 1883-10-31 FULTON

Adelia (Richmond) Edminston was living with her son, Samuel A. and his family in 1910 in Cook Co., Illinois. The census indicated that Adelia had 4 children; 2 of her children were still living in 1910. Samuel's children were born in Arkansas according to this census. A birth record online for Samuel's grandson (son of his daughter, Vera (Edmiston) Donaldson) listed Vera's birthplace as Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

This well-researched Rootsweb WorldConnect database for this Edminston family led me to Adelia (Richmond) Edmiston who was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Estella & Arthur Walker, in Cass Co., Iowa, when the 1900 census was taken. Adelia had 4 children with 3 children living in 1900. In 1910 Arthur Walker was a widower, so Estella was one of Adelia's children who had died prior to the 1910 census.

Adelia (Richmond) Edmiston's daughter, Eliza Belle, who married John F. Coykendall, was still living in 1910 in Illinois with her husband and daughters Edith (born ca 1890 in Nebraska) and Alice (born ca 1902 in Illinois). Son Charles Edmiston Coykendall was born 3 Aug 1884 in Cook Co., Illinois. Charles married Mable Rush and had a son b. 12 Feb 1911, who was named after his father.

Cora Edmiston, who married Clarence Keyes, must have been the child who died before the 1900 census was taken.

There is a death record extract, from Moberly, Randolph, MO, for Mr. J. A. Edmiston.
The above-mentioned Rootsweb site stated that an Adelia Edmiston died 19 April 1918, in Cook Co., Illinois.