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EDMONDS, ROBERT F., farmer; residence, Payson; was born in Iredell county, N. C., Sept. 2, 1818. His father, John Edmonds, was born in Ireland, and came with his mother to America, and settled in that State, when a child. He married for his second wife, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, of Virginia, and bore him the subject of this sketch. When he was 10 years old his parents removed to Tennessee, where they lived from 1828 to 1831, when they came to Adams county, July 3, of that year; they landed in Payson township. Mr. E. was married to Caroline J. Chapman, March 4, 1841, and settled in Sec. 18. Mrs. E. was born in Franklin county, Ohio, April 6, 1825. In March, 1852, they removed to the village, and in 1867, he engaged in the grocery business. Four years later he added a stock of general merchandise, and continued till February, 1875. He received the appointment of Postmaster, July l, 1861. He resigned in 1865; since then he has conducted his farm, and is breeding thoroughbred short-horn cattle. They have had thirteen children, nine living: Susan E., Mrs. Sarah J. Douley, Charles W., George A., Mrs. Catharine Crawford, Emily, Ettie, Robert F., and Stella. Mr. E. owns 344 acres farming land in Payson township, and eighty in Fall Creek, worth $55 per acre, and twenty-one acres out-lots, and nine lots in the village, with a fine dwelling and store.