By 1852 he had moved on to Bloomington, Muscatine, Iowa, where he worked as a sawyer. The records of the school cryptically list his home as Greenfield (Indiana? New York?). 1850 Indiana CensusĮdmond makes his first official appearance at age 20 in the 1850 census when he was living with Rufus Patch, Superintendent of Lagrange Collegiate Institute, East Lima, Lagrange County, Indiana, and attending school there. As we learned more about, him some in family started referring to him as the “horse thief” because he always seemed to be on the run. And this was in the days before computers and the internet. However, my father was determined to discover Edmond’s parents and in the process learned a lot about Edmond. There was no birth certificate or any record of his parents. We found out that his parents’ identities were a mystery, maybe even to some of his own children from whom he was estranged. The parents of my g-g-grandfather, Edmond J. After my grandmother died in 1971, we discovered an old family tree with a dead end.
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