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EDWARDS, P. G. farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 19, P.O. Roodhouse. Mr. Edwards was born on the old farm homestead of his father, Isham Edwards, in 1841; growing to manhood on the farm. He received a common school education in the village of Wilmington, his first teacher being Price Lovelace. Before attaining his majority the war coming on he enlisted in Co. E. 59th Infantry at St. Louis, Mo.; engaged in numerous skirmishes; he was honorably discharged in 1862, and returned to Greene County. In his twenty-third year he was married to Miss Nancy Jones, a daughter of William Jones, who settled in Scott County when his closest neighbor was a man by the name of Bunch who lived near Allen’s old mill in this county. Mr. Edwards from boyhood gave evidence of no ordinary energy and rose rapidly in a vocation that had been his from boyhood, in the purchase and sale of lands; he once owned over a thousand acres; he is now the possessor of 220 acres of rich farming land, and has succeeded by sheer force of will and honesty of purpose; he is, although generous, a good financier. Manufactures his own brick for the purpose of building, at some future day, a handsome farm residence. Of ten children born of the marriage five are living, Sarah C., Thos. W., Daisy A., Lewis, and Mary E.