Mary or “May” Begley Buckman, Edna's mother, was a temperance activist active with the Religious Society of Friends and other organizations.

Edna was in the ninth generation of Buckmans in America whose ancestors immigrated to Philadelphia with William Penn on the ship Welcome in 1682.

[7] On June 8, 1904 Edna May Buckman married Wilmer Rhamstine Kearns (1882–1972) in a Quaker ceremony at Echo Dale.

Remson, donated an old wagon called the “Spirit of 1776” to the New York State Woman Suffrage Association.

The wagon's presentation ceremony was held in July 1913, an event that was covered by the city's newspapers, including the New York Times.

[12] Wilmer Kearns marched in the men's divisions of New York City and Washington, DC Votes for Women parades.

Edna Kearns served as Congressional representative for Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party on Long Island during the campaigns for the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth amendment.

Edna's second daughter's birth date was also the birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the famous New York State women's rights activist and author of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments.

In 1932, Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot appointed Edna Buckman Kearns to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Mothers’ Assistance Fund of Montgomery County.