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James Calvin Edwards
Birth: Mar. 20, 1863
New Matamoras
Washington County
Ohio, USA
Death: Mar. 19, 1940
Leon
Mason County
West Virginia, USA
James Calvin's choice from the division of his father's estate was thirty-five acres of land, located on Plants Run at the headwaters of Ten Mile Creek, where he built a house. On June 11, 1882, he married Amanda Jane Meadows, who was born November 15, 1861, at Hinton, Summers County, West Virginia. At this time, she was residing with her parents, Parris and Sina Woodrum Meadows of Mason County, West Virginia. Several of James and Amanda's children were born at this homestead, but several years later, it was completely destroyed by fire.
Once again, James began to clear another site, located on Plants Run and King's Branch, on the left fork of Ten Mile Creek. He built a large ten room wooden frame house, a large drive-thru barn, a grainery, tool shed, milkhouse, underground cellar with a storage room above, a chickenhouse, and the outhouse. Throughout the years, he acquired and traded for more land, for a total of one hundred sixty acres, much of it being cleared for farming. They had ten children, all of whom were born in the general area of Ten Mile Creek. Two sons, Cecil and Carl, served in the United States Army during World War I.
James was not only a farmer, he worked for several years as a steamshovel operator on the construction of the first river locks on the Kanawha River and the building of the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad to Charleston, eastward toward Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. The family attended Harvey Chapel Christian Adventist Church, where for many years, he taught a Sunday School Class.-Noble F. Connor.
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Parents:
Charles McIntyre Edwards (1825 - 1882)
Sarah Hooper Edwards (1828 - 1915)
Spouse:
Amanda Jane Meadows Edwards (1861 - 1943)
Children:
Arazina Belle Edwards (1883 - 1902)*
Norman Alamander Edwards (1884 - 1961)*
Parris William Edwards (1886 - 1957)*
Cecil Early Edwards (1889 - 1946)*
Cora M Edwards Morgan (1891 - 1979)*
Carl Otho Edwards (1893 - 1955)*
Bertha Charlotte Edwards Plants (1896 - 1978)*
Osia Iris Edwards Riffle (1898 - 1993)*
Ray Edwards (1901 - 1962)*
Harvey Roy Edwards (1901 - 1915)*
Siblings:
Ulysses Pue Edwards (1843 - 1929)**
Squire Riggs Edwards (1852 - 1916)**
Mary Margaret Edwards Rice (1856 - 1909)*
Woodberry Green Edwards (1860 - 1934)*
Harriet Ellen Edwards Crookham (1861 - 1940)*
James Calvin Edwards (1863 - 1940)
John Edwards (1864 - 1879)*
Stephen Hooper Edwards (1865 - 1953)*
Julia Edwards (1866 - 1879)*
Francis Martin Edwards (1867 - 1947)*
Phillip Rhinehart Edwards (1871 - 1942)*
Arminta Jane Edwards Thomas (1874 - 1943)*
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Burial:
Yauger Church Cemetery
Mason County
West Virginia, USA
Maintained by: sedwards
Originally Created by: Bud
Record added: Sep 06, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 58244494
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West Virginia Pioneers
1863 - 1940 (76 years)
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