Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 27 March 2005

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JOHN EDWARDS, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born on the farm where he now resides, Jan. 24, 1811; is a son of Nathaniel and Mary (Hadley) Edwards, natives of North Carolina; the grandfather, Joshua Hadley, was a native of North Carolina, and lived and died there; he was the father of sixteen children, fourteen of whom grew to maturity, married and settled in life, most of them in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa; but all are now deceased. Nathaniel Edwards was raised and grew to manhood in his native State, residing there till December, 1804, when he, with his family, emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County, on the place where John now lives; here he commenced right in the woods to make a home and a farm, and here he lived and labored for sixty-one years—over threescore years—when, on March 2, 1865, he departed this life, aged nearly 91 years; his wife died March 27,1853; aged 77 years; they had ten children; seven now survive—Joshua, Mary, John, Sarah, David, Jonathan and Hadley. Our subject, from infancy, grew to manhood on the old home farm; was married, Nov. 13, 1856, to Charlotte, daughter of William and Anna McBryant; by this union they had seven children; six now survive—Mary, born March 10, 1859; Anna, born Jan. 23, 1861; Elwood, born Jan. 1, 1863; Lydia, born May 13, 1865; Athelia and Evalena (twins), born Jan. 31, 1868. Mr. Edwards located upon the old home place, where he has continued to the present time, having made a continued residence here from his birth, a period of seventy years, and the farm has remained in the Edwards family since its first occupation in 1804, when it was all in the woods—a period of seventy-seven years.