MR. HUGH R. EDWARDS, MANKATO, BLUE EARTH COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
Born at Dolgelly, Merionethshire, Wales, in 1810.Married Miss Elizabeth Evans, at Dolgelly, in 1840 and the two came to the United States soon after their marriage and located in Remsen, N. Y.
In the spring of 1847 they moved to Racine, Wis., and thence in the following year to Emmet, Wisconsin. In June, 1855, they came to Judson, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, where Mr. Edwards died, August 27, 1872.
He was honest, industrious and religious. He was a deacon of the Congregational Church at Kmmet, Wisconsin, and with the Welsh Wesleyan Church at South Bend.
His children are: Hugh H. Kdwards, John Edwards and Daniel Edwards, of Judson, Minn., and Mrs. Margaret Roberts, deceased.
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MR. HUGH R. EDWARDS, MANKATO, BLUE EARTH COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
During the year 1840 Hugh and Elizabeth, (Evans) Edwards, cames from Wales to the United States and settled at Remsen, Oneida county, New York, where they lived for seven years. Thence they sought a home in the frontier regions of Wisconsin and in 1858 accompanied a party of fifteen families to Minnesota, where they settled in Blue Earth county and took up a claim from a government.The experiences incident to existence in a sparsely settled region fell to their lot. Privations and hardships came to them as to all pioneers, but they possessed the sturdy physical and mental attributes that enabled them to overcome obstacles and surmount difficulties.
The father died in Blue Earth county, August 21st, 1870, and was survived for twenty years by the mother, who also passed her last days in this county.