"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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JOSEPH H. EDWARDS is the son of HENRY J. and HANNAH (DAVIS) EDWARDS, natives
of Virginia and North Carolina respectively; was born in Grayson County,
Va., May 4, 1833, and was brought by his parents to Indiana in 1837. They
settled first in Wayne County, where they lived about twelve years, and
where the mother died. The family afterward removed to Randolph County,
where the father is living at this writing. Joseph H. was married in
Hendricks County, November 24, 1855, to SARAH JANE MILLS, who has borne him
seven children--LUCINDA A., ASENATH D., MARTHA A., LUNA J., EFFIE M., LOTTIE
C. and an infant deceased, not named. Mr. Edwards was reared upon a farm,
and sent to the neighborhood schools when a boy, where he learned something
of the elementary studies. In the spring of 1856, he came into Morgan
County, lived a few years at Mooresville, and removed to his farm where he
has since resided. He was taken seriously ill in July, 1882, and has never
fully recovered. He has sold his farm property with a view to removing into
Mooresville, where he will make his future home. Mr. Edwards is a self-made
man. His mother died when he was but thirteen years of age, and his father
turned him at once upon the world. He worked four years for one man at $50
per year, and two years after at something of an increase. Thus he began
life, and slowly but surely he has crept up. He has given each of his
children $2,000, and reserved to himself a handsome competency. Both he and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having come into that
organization from the Society of Friends.
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