 During this time, the Edmondson family officially resided in Nashville as his mother, Jane, was the last to leave the Compton Plantation.By age 39, his wages at Women's Hospital allowed him to buy a modest home and spacious lot in Edgehill, a segregated neighborhood in Nashville's Vanderbilt-Belmont area.Edmondson never married and he shared the home with his mother and sister, as well as, occasionally, other siblings, nieces, and nephews.