Telitha was the daughter of William Nutterville Edwards and secondwife S arah Jane Hester. Her father was Indian and possibly hermother as wel l.
William b 2/21/1828 AR, d 12/24/1907 Tombstone, Cochise, AZ, was s/oJo seph Stanton Edwards (Indian name Quana Bell Edhaw) and Susannah EVau ghn.
William married:
1) Martha Rice abt 1847 TX
2) Sarah Jane Hester (b 1834 MS, d 9/12/1936 Bitter Creek, Grant Co,NM o r Duncan, Greenlee Co, AZ, buried Sheldon, AZ) aft 1860,Stevenville, E rath Co, TX
In 1870 the family was in Erath Co, TX, by 1880 they had moved toKinne y Co. In 1900 he and daughter Renia Carter were both widowed andliving t ogether in Tonto Rye, Grapevine & Pleasant Valley, Gila Co,AZ. (Why wa s William a widower if Sarah didn't die until 1936?)
1930 Dist 21, Grant Co, NM Hester Edwards, 85, b MS, living withdaugh ter Mamie & Robert Glespie.
A granddaughter said: "Just an interesting tidbit as a very youngchil d she (my mother) remembered "Grandma Edwards & Grandma Powell"she alw ays stated they were indian, mom remembered a picnic she wentto when s he was very young and they, the Grandmas sat on the groundand were abl e to get up and down without any problem at all and momstated they wer e very old."
