BURIAL: Records of Fairmount Cemetery. Lot No. 33, Block No. 2, Grave no. 3
BIRTH: EDG008. Middle name
DEATH: EDG007
EDG009: "When a boy of 16 he left his home in Rahway, New Jersey for a new home in Indiana. After reaching years of manhood he went into business in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. There he was converted and joined the church in the winter of 1848. In March of 1850 he married Sarah Eliza Tilton. Eight children were born to them. In the fall of 1892 Mr. Edgar left Illinois to make his home in Colorado. The following spring his wife and unmarried children followed him." Note the date 1892 may be an error, since it is contradicted by a trio of newspaper obituaries. The correct year is probably 1882. The children who stayed in Mt. Carmel were evidently Wilhelmina (married to John Habberton), Eliza Manning (married to Robert Casey), and Agnes, Willie and John Alfred, all deceased and presumably buried in Mt. Carmel. The children who moved to Denver were Jessie, William Matthias, and Aleck.
EDG010: "He has lived in Denver about ten years, the rest of the time in Mt. Carmel, Ill., and Evansville, Ind., to which latter place he went as a clerk in 1844. He was in a prosperous business in Mt. Carmel for over thirty years, when he was nearly killed at the time of the fearful cyclone of 1877 by being buried for several hours under his brick store and heavy stock of goods, which fell upon him and several others. His oldest son, Alfred, eighteen years of age, was killed outright, with several others, at that time. From that shock Mr. Edgar never fully recovered. He leaves a widow, two sons and three daughters to mourn his loss. Mr. Edgar was an active member of the Methodist church from his early manhood, and a very popular superintendent of a large Sabbath school for many years...."
EDG011: "...Alexander C. Edgar, a former well known hardware merchant of Denver...family residence, 1520 Detroit...in 1882 came to Colorado...for a year in Boulder and removed to Denver..."