Shirley Grim gives Edith’s birth date as February 3, 1893.337

Following is a remembrance of Edith Grim Tidd written by her granddaughter, Penny Blakesly, and sent to me by Fred V. Schultz:
“Even though I know little about the first years of her life, or the first years of her marriage to my Grandfather, I can tell you she was a hardworking, loving and a caretaker.  My first memories are of her home in Sistersville, W.Va., which was located on a hillside above the train depot, of which my Grandfather was station master.  It was a two story home, with a bathtub but no indoor privy that I remember, strange as that may seem.  She cooked on a wood burning stove even though the home had electric and gas, as I remember it being heated by gas burning stoves.  During the depression, I'm told that she helped to keep the family going by cooking for the people who worked for the railroad and often times sold lunches to the passengers.  I know that there were several gardens kept to raise food for the family and to sell. 
After my Grandfather suffered a heart attack and was forced to retire from the B&O, they sold the house in Sistersville and moved to the old homestead in Clarington, Ohio which was located off Sunfish creek, and was referred to as FishPot.  It was a large 2 story house with only electric being used for light.  There were porches across the front at both levels, the first floor consisted of a parlor (which contained their bed also), and the kitchen the stove was once again a huge cast iron wood burner, and the whole of the house was heated with by a pot bellied stove in the parlor.  The second story contained two rooms also the front bedroom which had two full sized beds, and was used for drying beans, onions, etc. as it was well heated and dry, the back bedroom also contained 2 beds but was seldom used for anything but storage of clothing.   Water was drawn from a well located outside the kitchen.  Oh, how good that water tasted ice cold even in the summer, but the pulling of buckets each morning in order to fill the cistern on the stove was a pain, dishes were washed in a dishpan after every meal and bath's were taken in a washtub.  Life wasn't easy that's for sure, but I think she was very contented with it.
The farm as we always referred to it, produced all their food needs as Grandpa kept hotbeds with vegetable seedlings to be sold in the spring for planting by farms in the area, he also had 3 or 4 (depending on the season) large fields that he planted in corn, popcorn, cane, beans and other staple crops, (some of the results were traded for goods at the local store.) and of course there was the kitchen garden which Grandma tended.  Each year there was a large store of food canned and stored in the root cellar along with sour kraut, pickles, cider and apples for the winters use.
It seems that each year when the Ohio River flooded that the backwaters would flood the farm's lower fields making it impossible to reach the house by the road, so the only way in or out was to go up over the hill, and through the woods, hence each year there would be a week or two when, except for the phone, there was no way to reach my Grandparents.
After Grandpa died, Grandma made a visit to Fla. to visit and stay with our family for a short time, she returned to the farm and it was at this time that her children decided that she needed a new stove and a propane gas tank and new stove were installed, but other than that she continued to live a Spartan life.”