Emily Amanda West

John Smith Edmiston, my grandfather, was born March 3,

1841 in Washington County and died April of 1915. He is buried

in the Prairie Grove Cemetery. He married Emily E. A. West in

1873, and she died in 1884. She is also buried in Prairie Grove.

John Smith Edmiston later married Nina Davis Dunlap. She was

born in 1860, died in 1950 and is buried in Prairie Grove.

The children of John Smith Edmiston and Emily E. A. West

were James Thomas Edmiston, born March 22, 1875 and died

February, 1932. He was married to Alice Gannaway in

November of 1905. Two daughters were born to them: Mamie

and Jewell. Mamie Edmiston was born September, 1906 at Rhea,

Washington County. Jewell was born at Rhea, Washington

County in March of 1909.

Mamie Edmiston married Delford Earnest Rieff, born October,

1909. They have one son, James Clinton Rieff born

December 26, 1939. He married Susan Moore of Springdale,

born December 7, 1941. They have two daughters, Leslie Lynn

and Barbara Leigh.

Jewell Edmiston married Ralph Wilson in 1938. They live in

Hulbert, Oklahoma. They have one daughter, Sue Ann Wilson,

born March, 1939. She married Jim Brixey of Tahlequah,

Oklahoma, and they have two sons, James Timothy and Thomas

Ray. They also have one daughter, Vanessa.

There are many other Edmiston's in Washington County. All

who spell their names Edmiston are related.

Another son of John Smith Edmiston was Samuel Ran.kin,

who married Edna Mayfield and they have one son,

S. R. Edmiston. He married Jimmie Nichols,.and they have four

children: Barbara, Sybil, Phillip and Sammie, Jr. They all live in

Memphis, Tennessee.

John Smith Edmiston had two daughters by Emily

E. A. West. They were Anne Lee, born in Washington County in

1879. She married Harry Williams and went to Virginia to live.

They had one son, Ralph Williams, who married Mary. They

have two children, George Williams and Mary Williams. Ralph

Williams presently lives in New York.

Another daughter of John Smith Edmiston was La Una born

in 1883. She married Frank Allen, and they had four children.

They were Delmas Allen, deceased, Vera Allen, married to Jim

Ford in 1934 with two daughters, Margaret and Mary, who are

both married; Lucille Allen, married to William Cabaness, with

no children; Geraldine Allen, married to Marion Hill, both

deceased, with no children.

John Smith Edmiston married Nina Davis Dunlap after the

death of his first wife. They had two sons, Watson Irvin who

married Pearl Wilson. They had one daughter, Maureen, who

married Lester Cline. They have two children, Leslie and Lance.

John Davis Edmiston, born in 1891 lived in Washington

County and died in 1956. He married Elizabeth Patterson in

1915. They had two children. Mary Elizabeth, born in 1917 and

married to Edward Mclheren. They have one daughter, Melissa.

John Davis, Jr. (called Jack) married Helen Tidwell. They have

two children, John Davis and Joan Hadley. Joan Hadley married

someone named Hess.

By: Mamie Edmiston Rieff