Edith Marie (McCollum) Selby

(Back L-R): Wilton E. Christopher, Al Orfalea
(Front L-R): Eileen Selby-Orfalea,
Edith McCollum, Yvonne Selby-Christopher

Edith Marie McCollum was born on 31 Aug 1902 in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio. She is the middle child of six children born to Harry and Margaret (nee Jones) McCollum. On 26 Oct 1918, at the age of 16 years old, she married Bartley Selby in Covington, Kenton, Kentucky. They settled in Cambridge, Ohio and on 3 Apr 1919, their first daughter, Marjorie Eileen Selby was born. Two years later, their second child, Shirley Yvonne Selby was born on 20 Aug 1921. Bartley worked as a gatherer for the Cambridge Glass Company. Bartley and Edith divorced in 1925.

A year later, on 15 Feb 1926, Edith married Alonzo Deloss 'Don' Snow. They divorced and Edith next married Bernard Malloy Brush on 8 July 1929. Edith again divorced and remarried her first husband on 6 Jun 1931 in St. Mary's, Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

At some point in the mid-1930s, Edith moved back to Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. During the 1930s, when men dominated the business industry, she became an entrepreneur of her own restaurant in Cleveland. Not only did Edith own her own diner, but she did so as a single mother of two teenage girls.

By the 1950s, Edith had moved to Columbus, Franklin, Ohio to live closer to her daughter, Yvonne, and her family.  She met and married Robert Julius Duford on 24 July 1950. During the 1950s, Edith started another restaurant called "Bob and Dick's Sandwich Shop" named after her two grandson's by her daughter, Yvonne. The Sandwich shop was located on 2109 Neil Avenue in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio.