A Passing.

In her life, Edesse had borne ten children, seven of whom lived to adulthood. The last child was born when she was 44 years old. She survived two husbands. She had lived in two countries, and learned to speak two languages. At time when a person's life expectancy was about 48 years old, she lived to 86.

She had to adapt to a number of changes over the course of her life for the world was becoming a smaller space. Trains first came into use around the time of her birth in 1829; the US Transcontinental Railway was completed in 1869. Men had been using Morse Code since 1861 to transmit messages across the US. But it would take more time before radios were available in homes. Automobiles had started to appear on the roadways by the end of the 19th Century, but horse-drawn carriages were the dominate form of tranportation. Electricity was being developed but few homes in 1915 had installed the knob and tube wiring to light up, instead relying on gas.

Death came to Edesse on November 24, 1915. Granddaughter Dessie Odenbrett McCampbell signed the death certificate. This time, automobiles transported the grieving family from St. Sylvester Cathoic Church after the celebration of high mass, to Bohemian National Cemetery where she joined Odilon.