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J. S. EDMISTON was born in Washington County, Va., in 1815, and was one of a large family of children of G. W. C. and Elizabeth (Steward) Edmiston, natives of Virginia, born in 1785 and 1791, and died in 1847 and 1839, respectively. They were married in the “Old Dominion,” and immigrated to Tennessee in 1817, where they led the lives of farmers. J. S. Edmiston was educated in the schools near his home, and when about twenty-three years old purchased 140 acres of land near Swan Creek, where he remained four years, and then disposed of his property and bought out the heirs to the old home place, where he located and has since resided. He owns 450 acres of good land, well improved. He is a Democrat, and during the late war was strenuously opposed to secession. Previous to that conflict he was a Whig. He is also a Mason. His grandfather, William Edmiston, was a Virginian, and was a captain in the Revolutionary war. Two of his brothers were killed at the battle of King’s Mountain. December 13, 1852, our subject married Margaret E., daughter of Russell T. and Eliza (Forsythe) Harreld, of Kentucky. Mrs. Edmiston was born January 16, 1833, and has borne seven children: William C., John H., Clara, Mary E., Catherine T., Robert R. and Thomas S. Our subject and wife are members of the Old Presbyterian Church, of Petersburg, Tenn.