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Joseph Isaac Edgerton, son of Augustus and Fannie M. (Godwin) Edgerton.

born:	December 4, 1884; Harrison, Vigo Co., IN. (WWI DRC)
died:	March 23, 1953; Hot Springs, Garland Co., AR. (OB Terre Haute Tribune 3/24/1953)
buried:	Roselawn Memorial Park; Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN. (OB Terre Haute Tribune 3/24/1953)

married:

July 26, 1909; Vigo Co, IN.

Jessie A. Carbon

born:	~1889; Kentucky.
died:	December 9, 1966; Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN. (OB Terre Haute Tribune 12/10/1966)
buried:	Roselawn Memorial Park; Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN. (OB Terre Haute Tribune 12/10/1966)

Children:

Melvin Joseph, b. January 31, 1914; Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN.
Samuel Wilson, b. January 21, 1917; Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN.

The following biography of Joseph Isaac Edgerton is excerpted from The History of Indiana from its Exploration to 1922 (Logan Esarey, Ph.D.; Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Historical Publishing Co.; 1922; pp. 260-261):

“Joseph I. Edgerton, well-known furniture merchant of Terre Haute, and one of the progressive business men of the city, was born December 4, 1884 near St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Vigo county, Indiana, the son of August and Fannie (Godwin) Edgerton, the former born in 1856 near St. Mary-of-the-Woods, and the latter in 1859 in Sullivan county, Indiana. They were married in 1882, and are old and honored agriculturists of Vigo county. The paternal grandfather of Joseph I. Edgerton, John Dalton Edgerton, came to Terre Haute in an early day from Edgerton, Wisconsin, where he worked in the wagon works; while Mr. Edgerton's maternal grandfather came to Sullivan county in the early 'fifties and was a farmer. Mr. Edgerton was educated at St. Mary-of-the-Woods, and worked in the automobile business at Clinton until 1915. He had long thought that he would like the furniture business, and in 1915 he came to Terre Haute to engage in that line. In this undertaking he has been eminently successful. Mr. Edgerton has never held public office, but takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of Terre Haute, and can be counted upon to further any worthy movement. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On July 26, 1909, he married Jessie A. Carbon, and they have two adopted children, Melvin Joseph Edgerton, aged eight years, and Samuel Wilson Edgerton, aged five. Mr. Edgerton’s great-grandmother, Mary Thralls, the wife of Jacob Thralls, deeded the land to Mother Theodore, of the Sisters of Providence, on which to establish the great convent and college of St. Mary-of-the-Woods.”