Horse Ears Eddy!

In my last post, I wondered if there was a connection with Edna Eddy's uncle Theodore Eddy and Mark Twain. Twain (nee Samuel Clemmons) and Theodore were both born the same year; they both grew up in Hannbal Missouri (at the time, circa 1860, population 1100).

Wow, the wonders of Google. Twain wrote of Theodore Eddy in his autobiography. Funny passage! He talks about how Theodore could "work his ears like a horse".

I know a descendent who has ears "like a horse" but I won't say who it is!!

A little about the Eddy family...

Edna Imogene Eddy was born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1877. She married John Young Hooper in 1902; my grandmother, Alice Hooper, was born in 1904. Alice was an only child and my mother, Edna's only granddaughter, has no memory of her.

I recently obtained Edna's death certificate and learned that she died on New Year's day in 1942 at the Highland Park (Chicago area) home of her daughter, Alice. She evidently had traveled from her home in Chicago on December 31st. She saw a doctor on the 31st, and died the next day.

Like everyone else on this side of the family, we have no family information on this line. No family pictures, no stories, no nothing! Dates & places in this post have come from census and other records.

I also learned that Edna's father Edward was born in Hannbal in 1846. Edward's older brother Theodore (did they call him Teddy Eddy?), born in 1836, was the same age as Samuel L. Clemens who also lived in Hannbal. The 1850 census shows 1060 people living in Hannbal. My bet is that the Eddy family was acquainted with one of the most important American writers!