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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 Martha EDWARDS, 49 (1810/11) born SC;
!CENSUS:1870;
!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co, SC Kirby # 237 Martha EDWARDS, 70 (1809/10) born SC, father born SC, mother born SC;
!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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