Thomas Sheridan EDMONDS Richard Martin SHREWSBERRY Arra Bell HALL Mini tree diagram

Bertha Peggy EDMONDS5,6,1,4,2,7,3

24th Apr 18991,2,3 - 19th Mar 19924,3

Life History

24th Apr 1899

Born in Madison County, North Carolina.1,2,3

1960

Married Richard Martin SHREWSBERRY in Raleigh County, West Virginia.7

Husband died 27 Dec 1962 (reported on SS Death Index as Jan 1963)

27th Dec 1962

Death of Richard Martin SHREWSBERRY in Beckley, Raleigh, West Virginia.3,8,6,9

19th Mar 1992

Died in Daniels, Raleigh, West Virginia.4,3

after 19th Mar 1992

Buried.4

Notes

  • North Carolina, Birth and Death Indexes, 1800-2000
    Volume 15, Page 104
    Bertha Edmonds
    White Female
    Delayed Birth Record
    Birth 24 Apr 1899 Madison County
    Parents Tom Edmonds, Arra Hall

    One genealogy reports her full name as Bertha Peggy Edmonds.  I have not seen documentation of the middle name.

    Bertha does not appear in the 1910 census with her father.  She must have been living with some relatives after her mother died.  One genealogy takes this as a sign she had died before the 1910 census.  Others produce the 1920-1940 censuses for Bertha Shelton, wife of Stanley Shelton, in Anderson County, South Carolina,  and Gaston County, North Carolina, as documentation for Bertha Edmonds.  I have not been able to find evidence to confirm this identification. It would be good to find a marriage record to match.

    Apparently Bertha did not marry until late in life.  The only marriage record I have found is of her marriage in West Virginia to Richard Martin Shrewsberry in 1960.  This appears to be Richard's second marriage, in regard to previous records and a memorial on Find a Grave reporting his wife as Viola Cooper.  No reference is made in other genealogies I have found to Bertha as a wife.  Viola's memorial on find a Grave indicates she died in 1956.  Richard married Bertha in 1960.

    West Virginia, Marriages Index, 1785-1971
    Richard Martin Shrewsberry
    Spouse's Name Bertha Edmonds
    Marriage 1960 Raleigh County, West Virginia

    An item in the newspaper by Bertha Peggy Shrewsberry upon the death of her husband in 1969, providing my first clue to her husband's name.  They were living in Beckley, West Virginia, at that time.

    "Cards of Thanks
    "I desire to express to my kind neighbors and thoughtful friends my heartfelt thanks for their many expressions of sympathy during the death [sic] of my beloved husband, Richard Martin Shrewsberry.  I especially wish to thank Dr Paul Vaughn, the staff of the Raleigh General Hospital, the postal workers, the Rose and Queensberry Funeral Home and those who sent flowers, food, or helped in any way.
    "Wife:  Bertha "Peggy" Shrewsberry"
    --  Raleigh Register, Beckley, West Virginia, Friday afternoon, January 4, 1963, p 16

    Her husband's memorial on Find a Grave, with a photo of his gravestone, reports his date of death was 27 December 1962.  His SS records report death in January 1963, which is apparently when it was reported.  Funeral and burial might have been after the first of the year 1963.  We know from Bertha's note of thanks in the newspaper that it was before 4 January 1963.

    Suzy Crews has commented to provide her aunt's death information, and also provides obituary information on Bertha's father.

    Death of Bertha Peggy Edmonds Shrewsberry

    "My Aunt Bertha Peggy Edmonds Shrewsberry died on March 19, 1992 in a nursing home in Daniels, Raleigh Co. West Virginia. This obituary appeared in the Post-Herald and Register, Beckley, West Virginia on December 5, 1965 Funeral services for Thomas S. Edmonds, 95, father of Mrs. Bertha Shrewsberry, Beaver, will be held today at 2:30 p. m. in the Holcombe Funeral Home, Mars Hill, NC., with burial in the Calvary Baptist [appears to be Mars Hill Baptist] Church Cemetery, at Mars Hill. Edmonds was a retired farmer. Additional survivors include his wife, Mrs. Pansy Hall Edmonds; six other daughters; five sons; 49 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren."
    --  Suzy Edmonds Crews, Note on this genealogy on Ancestry, 1 November 2013

    U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
    Bertha H. Shrewsberry
    Born 24 Apr 1899
    Died 19 Mar 1992
    SSN 235-68-1187 issued West Virginia (1960)

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