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Sydney Danforth Edwards



Father: Mother:

Bryce McLellan Edwards
Miranda Frost
Birth Date: Birth Location: Death Date: Death Location:
9/30/1843 Otisfield ME 12/14/1901 Oxford ME

Married:

Name: Marriage Date: Marriage Location: Father: Mother:
Annie Files Wardwell 11/24/1872 Oxford ME Edgar F Wardwell Ruby F _____
Birth Date: Birth Location: Death Date: Death Location:
8/27/1852 Otisfield ME

Child(ren):

Name: Birth Date: Birth Location: Death Date: Death Location:
Edna Lenora Edwards 12/17/1875 Oxford ME

Sidney Leroy Edwards 2/21/1878 Oxford ME
Ralph Elwin Edwards 5/5/1885 Oxford ME

Comments:

Family located: Oxford ME
Occupation: Hardware Merchant

Sydney D. Edwards enlisted in Civil War, Jan., 1862, in Co. I, 5th. Me. Regt. Inf.; was discharged; re-enlisted Nov., 1863 in Co. B. 30th. Me. Regt. Inf. being mustered into service Dec. 28; was transferred to Co. C, of same Regt. 1864; and was finally discharged Aug. 5, 1865. He participated in Red River Expedition.

He was for several years member of Board of Selectmen of Oxford, and also Supt. of Schools of the same town. He was Trial Justice for over fourteen years.

Member of AF&AM of Maine; and T. A. Roberts Post, GAR of Maine.

Other Info:

Census:

1880 Oxford (Oxford) ME
Edwards Sidney    36    Huckster    ME    ME    ME
_____ Anna    26    Keeping house    ME    ME    ME
_____ L???a    5    ME    ME    ME
_____ Sidney Jr    2    ME    ME    ME

Military:

Residence: Otisfield, Maine
Occupation:
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 08 January 1862 at the age of 18; Enlisted in Company I, 5th Infantry Regiment Maine on 08 January 1862; Received a disability discharge on 28 May 1862
Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine. (MERoster) Published in 1861-1866 by Stevens & Sayward

Residence: Otisfield, Maine
Occupation:
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, 30th Infantry Regiment Maine on 18 December 1863; Enlisted as a Private on 28 December 1863 at the age of 20; Transfered on 01 January 1865; Mustered out on 20 August 1865 in Savanah, GA
Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine. (MERoster) Published in 1861-1866 by Stevens & Sayward

Online:

For more information about the ancestors of Annie Files Wardwell, see this section of Samuel Wardwell of Andover, hanged for witchcraft in 1692.