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Bessie May Tooley Edwards direct line

1.  Salmon Tooley was born in 1732 and died in 1789.  He married Mary Unknown.  She was born in 1733 and died Unknown.

I only have 1 child for them:  Amos Tooley

2.  Amos Tooley was born in 1753 in Connecticut and died in 1814.  He married Hepzibah Field in 1773.  She was born 7 Dec 1757 and died in 1774.  

I only have 1 child for them:  Amos F. Tooley

3.  Amos F. Tooley was born in 1775 in Connecticut and died 18 Mar 1849 in Connecticut.  He married Ruth Johnson 9 Nov 1797.  She was born in 1778 and died 16 Aug 1828 in Connecticut.

They are both buried in Summer Hill Cemetery, Madison, New Haven, Connecticut.

They had 4 known children:  Jerusha Tooley Stevens, Jessie Tooley, Russell Tooley, Harvey Tooley

4.  Harvey Tooley was born in 1808 and died 3 Mar 1864.  He married Lucinda Roberts 5 Aug 1832.  She was born Abt. 1810 in Connecticut and died in 1880 in Kendall, Illinois.

Civil War Company I, 36th Infantry Regiment Illinois

He is buried in Doud Cemetery, Oswego, Kendall, Illinois

They had 7 children: Frederick Tooley, George H. Tooley, Sara Tooley Tooley, Julia Tooley Whitley, Warren Tooley, Laura Tooley Smith, Mary Tooley Harwood

5.  Frederick Tooley was born 29 Oct 1833 and died 4 Aug 1899 in Quincy, Illinois.  He married Flora Holdridge Apr 1868 in Geneva, Illinois.  She was born Abt. 1847 and died Unknown.

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He is buried in Sunset Cemetery, Quincy, Adams, Illinois

They had 7 children: Nellie Tooley Scrafford, Edgar C. Tooley, Alice Tooley Drake Rankin, Lucille Tooley Hunger, William Tooley, Franklin Tooley, Emerson Tooley

6.  Franklin O. Tooley was born 21 Sep 1880 in Plano, Illinois and died 12 Oct 1950.  He married Edith Brown 2 Oct 1909 in New York.  She was born 24 Dec 1890 in New York and died 5 Feb 1940 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.

They had 12 children: Walter Tooley, Grace Tooley Pauley, Bessie Tooley Edwards, Flora Tooley Spriet, Charles Tooley, Louise Tooley Roach, Doris Tooley Fruland, Glen Tooley, Franklin E. Tooley, Loretta Tooley Bee, Clifford Tooley, Alice Tooley Cox

7.  Bessie May Tooley was born 14 Aug 1912 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois and died 14 Mar 1985 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.  She married Harry Albert Edwards 20 Sep 1930.  He was born 20 Apr 1907 in Batavia, Kane, Illinois and died 21 May 2003 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois.

They had 16 children, 2 died in infancy: Shirley Maxine Edwards (dec), Richard Arthur Edwards (dec), Roy Lee Edwards (dec), Sue Edwards Wilson, Harry Albert Edwards Jr., Robert David Edwards (dec), Bradley Allen Edwards (dec), James Edwin Edwards (dec), Kathleen Joy Edwards (dec), Thomas Eugene Edwards (dec), Sharon Kay Edwards Stigall, George Bruce Edwards (dec), Joseph Dean Edwards (dec), Mary Edwards Campbell, Jonathon Drew Edwards, Timothy Scott Edwards