David EDSON b. Sept 1859 in MO died Feb 12, 1942 in Salmon, Lemhi Co , Idaho married Nira PRATT had a child Elizabeth. I may have a few pictures related to this family, I copied some photos from an Edson album that belonged to my grand uncle Kenneth Edson. Would like to contact any relatives of the above named people to verify who these pictures are of.

I just replied a different way to you and hope you got that message. Robert David Moodie (my husband) is the grandson of David Edson and Nira Pratt. The couple in fact had 2 girls, Margaret (Dave Mom b.5/31/1921 d.1/7/2007 Salmon,ID) and Elizabeth Hutchinson, who is the younger sister and lives on the Edson ranch here in Salmon, ID. Please contact us here (I am Helen Skidmore (Moodie as of 5/1/2010) and my email is hskidwroe@hotmail.com.

I have some pictures from the Edson album of unknown family taken from Moscow, Idaho, Chebanse, Ill., some from Salem, McMinnville and Portland Oregon, Parkville and Boonville, MO and a handfull of small tintypes in paper frames that I copied that had no identifying information on them. I have found out a couple of the pictures names. When I wrote trying to find a date for the pictures to Idaho I was told that the photographer was in business from 1884 to 1908 so that will give you an estimate on the year(s) range those were taken.
Edson family, Sarah Messner, Eva Haller, Audley Edson are some of the names I have come up with.

Thanks for your reply. Dave and I will probably go to his aunts house in the next couple of days and ask her if she recognizes the people. Unfortunately, she has poor vision now so we can only hope she can fill in the blanks.
Would you please contact me with your phone number and tell me more about the photos of David Edson in particular. We have not seen those pics yet. My phone is 208-756-2136.

Hi Marsha,

Dave and I spent a couple hours with Elizabeth yesterday. Her vision is so poor she could hardly see the pictures I copied that you sent. Unfortunately she did not recognize anyone of the first three you sent. Elizabeth's given name was actually Sarah Elizabeth Edson but father, David did not like the name Sarah, thus everyone has known her as Elizabeth. Anyway, I deciphered my notes from our visit enough to send you a couple of stories hopefully tomorrow or Friday as I have friends dinner tonight and sorority sisters job tomorrow afternoon. However, Dave did find a couple of pictures in his mothers box and I think I now know who they are of. As I said prior I have a new scanner so I'll try to scan them here and email them. Learned I can not fax without a landline. (Just gave that up two weeks ago) Anyway we will need to go through Margaret Moodies bucket of pictures to see if there are any more. Elizabeth said her sister (Margaret) got all the old pictures and since her father David Edson died when she was 17 she did not know much. She did say that David did not like his father much and so he went to Calif. at 18 yrs old to work on the railroad as a tie hack. Later he went to Oregon and worked logging in the timbers. Both Margaret and Elizabeth said their father was quite lean and tall, 6' 2"(Elizabeth) or 6' 4"(Margaret).

There is more to David's story but I must get ready for the evening dinner.

Hopefully my scans will work. First picture is of "A.J. (Albert) Edson, wife and daughter Nadine" per inscription on back. Elizabeth said Albert lived in the Pahsimeroi, ID. The second picture handwriting on back states "James Edson, (?) Dave please let us know as asoon as you get these pictures. Himmie is returning home from a visit to his old home. (signed?) Nettie Edson and Dave is written on bottom. Elizabeth thought Jim lived in Montana.

Hopefully, these will help some for now. Elizabeth did seem a little confused at times and a little tried but was very happy to share what she knew.

I hope this works. Good luck for now, I'll write later.

Helen

I have those two pictures in my Edson Album!!!! The one with the man from J Hogg McMinneville Or only says on the back "Mary", thinking it was sent to Mary Edson, daughter of Sidney and Margaret Nixon Edson. The other of the couple with the little girl had nothing written on the back. This is great-we are a match.

Hi,
I just openned the Ancestry file at Dave's house to see you did get the pics. Hurray! I was pretty sure we were a good match for family. Anyway, I didn't think my old Ancestry account even worked at my house yesterday as it hadn't been renewed for more than 10 years and it wanted a renewal to send the message. Surprised me today to see you did get this message. So instead of fighting with my computer at my house I'll look through what was Margaret's photo bucket until my meeting today at 1 p.m. Yes, we still have two houses, that's what happens when you get married in your 60's and my house is paid for.
I'll write later.
Helen