The Third Child of John Joseph O'Toole and Hannah Morrissey: Edwin Columbus

The Gravestone of Edwin Columbus O'Toole

Grandpa, Walter Hilger, & George Shubert

The Bowery Boys

Grandpa O'Toole 80th BD 8-24-73

The Doughboys

Grandpa O'Toole 2nd from left

Grandpa O'Toole

Grandma & Grandpa O'Toole circa 1920

The Cook County Marriage Certificate for Edwin Colombus O'Toole & Margaret Walsh

The 1920 Chicago Census

The Draft Registration Card for Edwin Columbus O'Toole

The 1910 Chicago Census

The 1900 Chicago Census

The Cook County Birth Certificate of Edwin Columbus O'Toole

Edwin Columbus was born on 24 Aug 1893 in Chicago, Illinois. He is the third child born to John Joseph O'Toole and Hannah Morrissey and the second boy. He was named Columbus because the Columbia Exposition was in Chicago at the time of his birth.

He met and married Margaret Walsh on 30 Nov 1922 at St. Brendan's Church, Chicago, Illinois. Together, they had 2 children: Margaret Mary and Joan Catherine.

Margaret Walsh was born about 1898 in Chicago, Illinois and died 30 May 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. She was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.

Edwin died on 30 Jan 1975 and was buried on 1 Feb 1975 at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois. His obituary states:

Edwin C. (Ted) O'Toole, retired secretary of the Chicago Journeyman Plumber's Union, Local No. 130 U.A.; beloved husband of Margaret Donovan O'Toole; devoted father of Margaret (William) Karr, and Joan (James) McGann; dear grandfather of 16; loving brother of Loretta Pitcher, and Hannah Hudgens, the late John, Harold, Francis, and Lawrence and Mary Johnson. Funeral Saturday, 9:15 a.m. from the Sheehy Funeral Home, 10727 S. Pulaski Rd., to St. Walter Church. Mass 10 a.m. Interment Mt. Olivet Cemetery. ST 3-7700 or 857-7878.