Edith was lively and outgoing and the first Emerson child to marry. She was married on October 3rd, 1865, at the Emerson home to William Hathaway Forbes, on his return from the Civil War.  Residing in Milton, Massachusetts, Edith and William had eight children. After Edith started her new life with her husband, Emerson missed his daughter and began to make his daily comments on his loss: 

There are several very agreeable circumstances about that child’s going away, but there is one sad one and that is that she is gone…Yes she was an idle minx, but she has gone and she troubles me.