The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Franklin Township, pages 603-604
Edmund Stringer was born in Bullitt County, Ky., Nov. 28, 1825. His parents, Thomas and Mary Stringer, came from that county to Indiana with their family of nine children, and settled in Hendricks County. The first year they lived near Stilesville, and then entered eighty acres of Government land in Adams Township, Morgan County, where they passed the rest of their lives. The father died June 17, 1847, aged eighty years and the mother Jan. 3, 1854, aged seventy years. Of a family of nine children, five, Mrs. Susan Gentry, Mrs. Sylvia Clark, James, Lewis and Asa are deceased. The living are-- Reuben, Edmund, Richard and Mrs. Minerva Hults. Edmund Stringer remained on the homestead till after the death of his parents, and succeeded them in its ownership, making it his home till 1869. He then lived two years on his father-in-law's farm, and in 1872 bought the farm where he now lives, on section 34, Franklin Township. His home contains seventy-nine acres of valuable land, and he also retains the old homestead in Morgan County. Mr. Stringer was married Oct. 3, 1858, to Mary Ellen Snoddy, a native of Hendricks County, born in this Township May 26, 1833, daughter of James and Rachel Snoddy. They have two children--Eberle and Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Stringer are members of the Christian Church. In politics he is a Democrat.