Edson Trickett
(March 22, 1862-January 8, 1950)

Edson, the son of Coleman and Sarah (Steele) Trickett, married Rebecca Alice Hartzell on October 15, 1882, in Masontown, West Virginia.

Among the couple's 14 children was my grandfather, William Joseph Trickett.

Rebecca Alice was a writer of poems and stories, some of which were published. She always remembered everyone's birthday and was personally proud of the fact that she even sent some of her great-grandchildren cards and gifts.

Picture: The Edson Trickett family (c. 1918). Edson is the 3rd from left in the front row. His wife, Rebecca Alice Hartzell Trickett, is 3rd from the right. 2nd from left is Ira Trickett. William Joseph Trickett (my grandfather) is 2nd from right in the front row. Standing back row center is Earl Trickett, who died on July 3, 1999, three months after his 101st birthday.

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Joyce Marie

Birth Year Events (1862)

Births

Amos Alonzo Stagg
Charles Evans Hughes
Claude Debussy
Connie Mack
Frank N. Doubleday
O. Henry
Marcel Proust

Deaths

Henry David Thoreau
John Tyler
Martin Van Buren

Military Battles

Monitor & Merrimack
Vicksburg
Bull Run
Chickasaw Bluffs
Harper's Ferry
Yorktown
Shiloh

Ordnance

Gatling Gun Patented

Government Events

Dept. of Agriculture Created
Denver Mint Established
Bureau of Printing & Engraving Established

Perspective (1862-1884)

1865
Civil War ends
Abraham Lincoln assassinated
Lister begins antiseptic surgery
Lewis Carroll published Alice in Wonderland

1867
Canada formed
U.S. buys Alaska
Strauss publishes Blue Danube

1868
Typewriter keyboard patented
Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women
Cincinnati Redstockings founded
U.S. Grant elected president of U.S.
Memorial Day established
Rand McNally founded

1869
Suez Canal opens
Periodic Table of Elements published
Transcontintental Railway completed

1870
Franco-Prussian War

1871
Darwin, Descent of Man
Chicago Fire
Stanley meets Livingstone

1872
Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

1873
John Henry dies in WV
U.S. establishes gold standard
Lee DeForest born
First Public School Kindergarten, St. Louis, MO
Panic of 1873
Colt Peacemaker

1874
Harper's Weekly publishes first Republican elephant (Nast)
Dakota gold discovered

1875
First running of the Kentucky Derby

1876
Adventures of Tom Sawyer becomes best seller
Baseball's National League founded
Bell patents the telephone
U.S. Centennial
Custer killed at Little Big Horn
Sioux surrender

1877
Edison patents phonograph
Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake
Cornelius Vanderbilt dies
Brigham Young dies

1879
First telephone line between Boston and Lowell, MA
Frank Woolworth establishes five-and-dime in Lancaster, PA

1880
Sarah Bernhardt makes U.S. stage debut
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamozov

1881
Clara Barton founds the Red Cross
U.S. President Garfield assassinated
Richard Sears wins first USLTA  championship

1882
Robert Koch isolates tuberculosis bacillus
Jesse James killed
Edison, first commercial lights in NY

1883
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ladies' Home Jounal
Krakatoa erupts

1884
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn