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Kermit Elijah EdensPassed
December 20, 1913 – August 26, 1978
Family
- Parent: William Sherman Edens
- Parent: Frances Jane Louthan Edens
- Spouse: Hazel Rebecca Hopkins Edens
- Married: August 1, 1935, Sneedville, Hancock County, Tennessee
- Child: Jewell Annette Ramsey
- Child: Lois Jean Suter
- Child: Loretta Kay Owens
- Child: Lowell Thomas Edens
- Child: Barry Marshall Edens
- Child: Boyce Bailey Edens
- Child: Leslie Darrell Edens Sr.
- Child: Alma Nadine Suter
- Child: Anita Carol Westrick
- Child: Barbara Lynn Woods
Brothers and sisters
Details
- Born: December 20, 1913, Hancock County, Tennessee
- Died: August 1978, Claiborne County, Tennessee
- Buried: Louthan Cemetery, Hancock County, Tennessee
What we know
Married Hazel on August 1, 1935 (Hancock County marriage license).
The mule collar story: a vintage newspaper strip, “Brothers-in-Law In Shooting Affray,” tells of Kermit, 31, wounded by a shotgun blast fired by his brother-in-law and next-door neighbor R. L. “Bob” Combs, 55, in the Beech Grove community of Jonesville, over a dispute about a mule collar. Kermit was treated at Lee General Hospital; Combs was arrested and released under bond.
The shooting: Combs was arrested by Sheriff J. W. Newman and Deputy J. S. Doyle, given a preliminary trial, and released under bond; the strip notes Combs was a shell-shocked World War I veteran.
Caution: a different Kermit Edens (husband of Glessie Harris Edens, of New Tazewell, Tennessee) exists — do not merge the two.
In a family photo from about 1941–42, Kermit stands behind Aunt Bonnie.
The mule-collar shooter, R. L. “Bob” Combs, was Della's husband — Kermit's brother-in-law.