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- !CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1015/1020
Cary Edwards 30 Farmer $- Marion
Martha 45
Frances 4 f
John 2;
!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC Marion Twp # 1345 C.J. (f) EDWARDS, 14 (1845/46) born SC;
!CENSUS:1870;
!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 185-189
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Carey Edwards, the oldest son, married Miss Martha Mace, 5th March, 1845-the writer was at the wedding; four children are the fruits of said marriage, two sons, John and James, and two daughters, Melvina and Jane -the latter is dead, died in the Asylum. Carey Edwards still survives, an old man, and lives with his son, John; his Wife has been dead many years. James married a Miss Davis, in Wahee; he has a family of four children. Melvina is an old maid, enjoying the sweets of single blessedness. John married his cousin, a daughter of Solomon Bryant, and lives on the homestead of his mother. Elizabeth married John Thompson, of Britton's Neck. Thompson is dead; of his family little is known. Nancy married Asa Pruitt, and removed West many years ago. Mary married, first. Ebb. Smith ; he went into the war and was killed or died of disease has never returned; his widow married George Lane, and between the two husbands raised a considerable family, who are now among our citizens ; the writer knows but little of them. ;
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