Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
NameAmy Gertrude EDMUNDS
Birth12 Oct 1878, Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada4235,4337
Death13 Mar 1951, Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada4296,4402,4337
Memoage 72, died of old age and senility, hypertension
Burial14 Mar 1951, Sacramento Cemetery4337
OccupationTeacher
EducationBA University of Nevada; MA Columbia University
FatherFrank Marion EDMUNDS (1845-1906)
MotherGertrude BARRON (1846-1925)
Never married
Census notes for Amy Gertrude EDMUNDS
1880 Nevada, Storey County, Virginia City, E.D. 46, page 2B (taken 7 Jun 1880)
78 South Howard St., dwelling 19, family 22
Edmunds, Frank M., white, male, age 35, head, married, engineer, born New Hampshire, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Gertrude, white, female, age 32, wife, married, keeping house, born New Hampshire, father born Massachusetts, mother born New Hampshire
————-, Cora, white, female, age 4, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Alice, white, female, age 2, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Amie, white, female, age 1, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire

1900 Montana, Silver Bow County, Silver Bow Township, Butte City, second ward, E.D. 102, sheet 4B (taken 4 Jun 1900)
314 West Copper, dwelling 63, family 82
Edmonds, Frank M., head, white, male, Feb 1845, age 55, married for 26 years, born New Hampshire, parents born New Hampshire, engineer
————, Gertrude, wife, white, female, Dec 1857, age 52, married for 26 years, mother of 3 children, 3 living, born New Hampshire, father born Massachusetts, mother born New Hampshire
————, Amy, daughter, white, female, Nov 1878, age 21, single, born Montana, parents born New Hampshire, school teacher

1910 Montana, Silver Bow County, Butte City, ward 4, E.D. 98, sheet 6B (taken 23 Apr 1910)
no dwelling or family numbers on this page - need to look up lodger dwelling
Edmonds, Amy, lodger, female, white, age 31, single, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire, public school teacher
————, Gertrude, lodger, female, white, age 60, widow, mother of 3 children, 3 living, born New Hampshire, father born Massachusetts, mother born New Hampshire
Obituary notes for Amy Gertrude EDMUNDS
Reno Evening Gazette, 13 March 1951 p. 13
Amy G. Edmunds Dies in Vegas

Amy G. Edmunds, Virginia City native and long time school teacher, died this morning in Las Vegas where she was visiting her sister, Mrs. Marion E. Cahlan.

Miss Edmunds was born in Virginia City in 1878 and graduated from University of Nevada in 1897. She went to Columbia university in New York to obtain her master’s degree and spent most of her life teaching in Butte, Mont. and in the vocational high school in Minneapolis, Minn.

Since her retirement in 1946 she had made her home in Reno and was active in the YWCA and the American Association of University Women.

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Cahlan and Mrs. Alice Sauer of Franktown; four nieces, Mrs. Gertrude Leary of San Francisco, Mrs. Jean Fry of Reno, Mrs. Myra Ratay of Lexington, Mass., and Mrs. Alice Lohse of Reno and two nephews, A.E. and John Cahlan of Las Vegas.

Funeral services and cremation will be held in Sacramento.
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