TALIAFERRO COUNTY, GA - BIOS Edwards, Salley ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Terri Saturday Salley was the sister of our forefather Etheldred Edwards. Etheldred, Salley, Julia Ogletree Edwards and son William Cosby Dorsey Edwards all attended the Crawfordville Baptist Church. In Salley’s will, there was mention only of slaves and personal property, as “sundry bedding clothes”, but in the 1849 division of her estate, land in Wilkinson County, Georgia, proceeds were to be divided equally between the two brothers -Thomas and Etheldred. Value of these nine slaves in 1849 was $3,200. There were two adults, Everett age 40 and Chloe between 35 and 40 years; and their seven children. Thomas drew: (1) Chloe the mother; (2) Stephen age 13; (3) Martha age 8 and a deaf mute; (4) Dolly age 3; and (5) Eli age 2. Etheldred drew: (1) Everett the father; (2) James age 11; (3) Catherine age 6 and (4) Olivia age four. James, age 11, had been a particular cause for contention. According to Etheldred, James had already "been taken away to Alabama" presumably by Thomas' sons, John and Benjamin, who were in Talladega County, Alabama, by 1849. A specific term of the settlement was that if James were drawn by Etheldred and the brothers could not agree to a trade in relation to him, "he is to be delivered to said Etheldred Edwards by the first of January next unless he should die before that time." There is a family tradition in the Edwards family that Etheldred was stern and forbidding and something of a character. This image probably grew out of the suit between the two brothers over this estate of their sister Salley. Terri Kimbrel Saturday