Edythe Kathryn Lundberg

"She, Edythe Kathryn Lundberg, was a very pretty woman, tall, blond hair and was so good....You asked me if I knew anything about your mother's folks,  All I know is she had a brother and they lived in St. Paul, where your father met her--she was working for some paper there.  She was a teacher before going to work there.  She was a wonderful person."

(From letters written to Ross Denham by Bertha Crumley, Charles' sister.)

Edythe's life had been one of difficulty.  She was the second of six children  and had lost her father at the age of nine in a tragic suicide death.  By the time she married Charles her three sisters and her mother had died of tuberculosis.   Her remaining family consisted of a younger brother, Peter and older sister, Mathilda.   (There is evidence a seventh child in the family had possibly died at childbirth.)  Edythe was refined and well-educated for her time and place.

Edythe was the first teacher hired by the Clay Corner School.