Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

CLEMENT R. EDWARDS, a native of Salem County, N. J., was born January 3,
1820, to Samuel and Rachel (Groff) Edwards, who had a family of six
children.  Samuel Edwards was born in Salem County, N. J.; he was a miller,
a member of the sect of Quakers, and died in 1825.  His parents, Reeco and
--- (Guest) Edwards, were natives of New Jersey, and of Welsh descent.  Mr.
Edward's mother was born April 6, 1793, and is still living; she is a
daughter of John and Mary (Reeves) Groff, natives respectively of New York
and New Jersey, and of Dutch and Welsh descent; her father was born about
1745; was a carpenter in early life, and later a miller, and acquired
considerable property.  Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are members of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church; he is a member of the Masonic fraternity.  After
Samuel's death his widow married David String, now spelled Strang, and two
years later, in 1830, they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Clement, being
very apt, worked at anything he could find to do.  At the age of nineteen
he took up portrait painting, which he has followed successfully nearly
ever since, and in which he has become very proficient.  In 1843 he went to
New Jersey, where he resided two years; then moved to Maryland, and in
March, 1847, enlisted in the First Maryland Regiment, of which Joseph E.
Johnston was lieutenant-colonel, and participated in all its engagements;
was wounded in the battle of Molino-del-Rey, and in July, 1848, was
discharged as a sergeant; he then went to Cincinnati and engaged at his
profession, and in 1857 came to Bowling Green and continued it.  For the
past fourteen years he has been engaged in fruit culture, having twenty-one
acres immediately southwest of Bowling Green, set with apples and grapes;
he also owns 100 acres seven miles out of the city, containing a vineyard
of twenty-one acres.  His first wife was Sarah Booth, of Indiana, who was
born in London, England; she was a daughter of William Booth, and died in
1856, a member of the Baptist Church; and in June of that year Mr. Edwards
married Margaret Lewis, of Warren County, a daughter of William R. and Jane
(Thomson) Lewis.  Her parents were born respectively in Madison and Butler
Counties, and were of Welsh and Scotch extraction.

Edwards Groff Guest Reeves String Strang Johnston Booth Lewis
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Salem-NJ NY OH MD IN England Madison-KY Butler-KY

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