Cyrus Yale Edgell b. June 9, 1882 d. January 5, 1957

 

 

Cyrus Yale Edgell's parents were Dr. Ananius Waitman Edgell and Flora Adams. Cyrus was the second of ten children (six boys and four girls).

Cyrus Yale Edgell & Sylvia Jane South Edgell

November 26, 1910 Cyrus married Sylvia Jane South (b. June 24, 1887).

                  

      Sylvia Jane Age 4                        Sylvia Jane, Age 18 (1891)

              

LEFT: Parents of Sylvia Jane: Samual South Jr. And Sarah Jane (Tweed) South

RIGHT: Sylvia Jane's mother, stepdad George Young and stepbrother R.W. Bob Young

Cyrus left West Virginia and traveled to Akron, Ohio on July 4, 1903. He was employed in the rubber works in Akron.

Cyrus was told wrongly by his doctor that he had six months to live and needed to move to a higher climate. Cyrus moved the family to Colorado in 1923
 
 

L-R Harold, Beryl, Cyrus, Forest, Helen Sylvia at Tuckaway Ranch

in Divide, Colorado, 1924.

Cyrus and Sylvia in 1924 (Forest is on the porch)

                                                 

Cyrus, Forest and Beryl, 1926                                                                               Cyrus and Sylvia in 1946

                                                    

LEFT: Cyrus, Sylvia, Forest and Lynn Edgell in 1948.

RIGHT: Four generation photo: L-R: Sarah South Young, Sylvia South Edgell, Helen Edgell Riker and daughter Nellie Jane Riker.

Cyrus was in the grocery business until retirement in 1953. He died of coronary artery occlusion on January 5, 1957. Sylvia lived in Denver until her death in 1974

Edgell Geneology                                                                                              

 

Line of Sylvia Jane Edgell

 Lendwig Bricken                                                                            

 born: Holland, Germany  1754

 

 The Calverts are reputed to have had  ownership of the Baltimore Railroad

 Great, Great, Great Grandparents

 of Sylvia Jane South Edgell

 
 


                          

                

married

 Elizabeth Calvert

 born:  Maryland, USA

 
 

 

 


         son

 

 

 


         married

 Mary Koonsman

 
 

 

 


            daughter

 

 

 


            married

 William Hogue

 born 1810

 
 

 

 

 


                  daughter

 

 

 


                  married

 Samual South, Senior

 born 1831,  Baltimore, Maryland

 
 

 

 


                        son

 

 

 


 Parents

 of Sylvia Jane South Edgell

 
           

 


                            married

 Sarah Jane Tweed

born 1863, Howard (Knox Cty) Ohio

 

 Sylvia’s dad,  Samual South Jr. Died in 1887 when Sylvia was three years old.  Sarah remarried George Young and they had four children:

Blanche: b 2/7/1894 (married Walter Boyer and they had three children; Marion, Lillian, Gerald)

Evelyn:  b 9/2/1896  (suicide age 42)

Lorraine:  b 1/12/1901   d  8/30/1969

Robert Young:  b  12/21/1906

 
 

 

 


                          daughter

 Sylvia Jane South

 born June 24, 1887

 
 

 

 

 


                                married

 Cyrus Yale Edgell

 
 

 

 


Line of Cyrus Yale Edgell                                                     Second born of A.W. Edgell

 A.W. and Flora lived in Rhone, W. Virginia.  They had six boys and four girls.  Two of their sons

are remembered here:  Cyrus Yale and Ora Klyde.  Rumor:  related to Sir Walter

Raleigh.   See Notes under Waitman

 

 Dr.  Waitman Ananius Edgell

b

 

 died 10/12/1905 Rhone W. Virginia

 
 

 

 


                                                           

     

 

          married

 Flora Adams

 b May 23, 1862

 Rhone W. Virginia

 
 

 


      

 The first born of A.W. and Flora,  Ora attended Medical College in St. Louis Missouri,  graduated in 1902.  Married Hester Lorney, 10/27//1900.  Two sons,

Holden Hearst (b  8/21/1902)

Preston Dwight (b  3/7/1904)

A.W. remarried on 2/2/1924 to Sue Adams.

One son, James Klyde (b 1/13/1926)

Ora died 5/8/1945 at his son’s in Washington.

 

 
 

 

 


          son

 Ora Klyde Edgell

 b  June 9, 1880

 
 

 

 


                                                           

        son

 Cyrus Yale Edgell

 b  June 9, 1882  d 1/5/1957

 of coronary artery occlusion

 

 
 


        

        

 Cyrus left W. Virginia and traveled to Akron, Ohio on July 4, 1903.  He was employed in the rubber works in Akron.

Cyrus was told by a doctor he had six months to live and moved the family to Colorado in 1923.  He was in the grocery business until retirement in 1953.

 

 
 


        married  11/26/1910

 Sylvia Jane South

 born June 24, 1887

 
 

 

 

 

 

 


          Offsprings

 

 

 

 

 

 


m.  8/3/1936                   m. 12/22/1935                 m..  3/18/1942                m. 10/30/1938

 Alese Priest

b 2/13/1915

d. 1988

 

 

 

 William Frederick Riker

b.     4/18/1913

Loveland, Co.

 

 Esther Copeland

September 1916

Norton Kansas

 

 Lucille Irene Deves

 b 9/27/1920

 divorced 1945

 
 

 

 

 


   Best Friend                     daughter                             daughter

Ruth Burns

b 12/26/1910

Kansas City, Kansas

 

 Lois Sylvia Edgell

4/18/1943

Goodland, Kansas

 

 

 Nellie Jane Riker

b.     1/31/1939

c.      Loveland, Co

 

 

 Lola Bell  Rankin

 
                                                                                                                                 10/13/1951                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

 

 Three sons:

Carroll Lynn Edgell

Steven Loy Edgell

Robert Lee Edgell

 

 
 

 

 


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