Many thanks and much love to my cousin, Carolyn, daughter of Madeline Sharpe Rubins, and her husband Bruce for providing these and many other photos.  These are the only family photos that we have of our beloved Grandmother, Edna, and they have just come to light as Carolyn rummaged through her mother's files in search of photos.  Jeanne and Madeline called Edna's mother Grandmama.  I now have these pictures of Edna on my desk and say, "Good morning, Grandmama", every day to my Grandmother.

Edna Josephine Hemingway was born and raised in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York.  Her Hemingway roots in America date back into the 1630's, when her 4th Great Grandfather, Ralph Hemingway, landed in Roxbury, MA, as an indentured servant, in what is considered an early American settlement.  Click here to view Edna's Family Tree Pedigree from Ancestry.com.

 

Note that in the Hamm/McKain/Hemingway Family Tree in Ancestry.com, Edna's family Tree descends many more generations to before 1,000 AD and encompasses many family branches on the Tree.   Much has been written and documented about the Hemingway's on America.  In addition to Ancestry.com, another excellent Source of knowledge on the Hemingway ancestry, (aka Hemenway or Heminway), is on-line here.

 

Edna attended the Academic High School in Auburn.  Click here to read Edna's Auburn NY Academic High School Senior publication, The Silhouette.  It is evident that Edna excelled in High School, achieving Honor Roll status, participating in plays and debates, and co-publishing The Silhouette.  It was in The Silhouette that  Edna's middle name and her intended College, the NY State Normal College in Albany, later named The University of Albany, were discovered.  Perhaps those college plans were changed, for In 1904, 2-years after High School, as the Auburn City Directory listed Edna as a Teacher in that city.  Other documents revealed that Edna taught for 3-years at Auburn's Fulton Street School.

 

Edna and John Sharpe were married on August 11, 1908.  The 1910 Federal Census listed them as married, ages 34 and 24, and living in Sterling, Cayuga County, New York.  John was an ordained Presbyterian minister, having received his DD Degree from the Auburn Theological Seminary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By 1913, John, Edna, and 3-year old daughter, Madeline Sharpe, had moved to Cleveland Ohio, where Jeanne Hemingway Sharpe was born on December 7, 1913.

 

The greatest tragedy presented on this Website is the death of Edna Hemingway Sharpe.  After giving birth to Jeanne, Edna  developed a Peritonitis infection and died on January 5, 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edna, at age 28 , was buried on January 8, 1914 at the Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York

Plot: Evening Dell Lot 20 Grave 4

 

Other Hemingways and Dangerfields Buried at Fort Hill Cemetery include:

Hemingway Edwin S 51 1/28/08 Evening Dell 20 1

Hemingway Lydia J 73 5/8/31 Evening Dell 20 2

Hemingway Ruth M 19 11/29/02 Evening Dell 20 3

Hemingway Marilla M 87 3/12/17 Evening Dell 20 5

Hemingway Abraham L 64 7/10/28 Evening Dell 20 6

Hemingway Ida M 66 7/11/31 Evening Dell 20 7

Hemingway Baby  0 6/11/16 Evening Dell 20

Hemingway Roy W 61 7/10/42 Hillcrest 24 3

Hemingway Mary B 73 11/13/57 Hillcrest 24 4

Hemingway Lucy T NO AGE 1/12/87 Hillcrest 24 6

Hemingway David S 84 9/17/98 Hillcrest 24 8

 

Dangerfield Sarah H 76 4/20/17 Glen Alpine 30 2

Dangerfield Francis S 59 1/5/00 Glen Alpine 30 3

Dangerfield Lydia S 64 11/22/1870 Glen Alpine 30 7

Dangerfield Robert W 22 11/22/1870 Glen Alpine 30 8

Dangerfield George R 91 9/14/03 Glen Alpine 30 9