Census of 1900 - Edward M. Chrestman, Van Zandt County, age 28, born September 1872 in Texas, school teacher, spouse Flora.
Census of 1910 - Edward M. Chrestman, Van Zandt County, age 37, publisher/newspaper, spouse Flora.
Census of 1940 - Edward M. Christman, Van Zandt County, age 67, farmer/farm, spouse Flora.
FamilySearch . 19401900
Edward M. Chrestman, birth date 9/21/1872, death date 1/21/1963 in Terrell, Kaufman County, farmer/farming.
FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Edward M. Chrestman (1872-1963), burial in Sand Flat Cemetery, Grand Saline, Van Zandt County, same cemetery as Flora Chrestman.
Find a Grave .
Mayor Edward M. Chrestman, Grand Saline, born 9/21/1872 "four miles southeast of Grand Saline in Van Zandt County," marriage to Flora Simpson 12/24/1893. "Personalities of the Past," published about 1905, 10/16/1969, p. 8.
Death notice for Flora Chrestman, "Mrs F. Chrestman Rites Held at Sand Flat Saturday," 5/18/1961, p. 2. Survived by "her husband, Edd M. Chrestman, of Grand Saline, a former member of the Texas state legislature and former editor of the Grand Saline Sun."
Grand Saline Sun .
33rd Legislature (1913) - E.M. Chrestman, postoffice Grand Saline, nativity Texas, age 40 (born circa 1873), publisher, Democrat.
Texas Legislative Manual .