ALVIN ROGER EDWARDS
(16April 1899-3 July 1958)

Transcribed from Hickman Courier
July 1958

   "Humpy" Edwards Well -Loved & Well-Read Courier Writer 
Dies July 3 Following Fall From Roof of West Hickman Restaurant.
   A.R. "Humpy' Edwards, whose homespun writings appeared regularly 
in The ickman Courier since 1944, died July 3 of injuries sustained 
in a fall. The accident occurred while he was working on the roof of 
his restaurant, "Humpy's Pig Stand.
   A rural mail carrier for seventeen years, Edwards began writing 
his popular weekly column about people, the weather and the former 
residents which he called the "far-away ones," fourteen years ago. 
It was first called "Rambling Round On Route Two" and later "Home 
Town Musings" when his health forced him to curtail his mail-carrying 
activity somewhat.
   Funeral services where held Friday, July 4 at West Hickman Baptist 
Church. Bro. Joe Harris and Bro. Joe Franklin officiated. Burial 
followed in City Cemetery.
   The restaurant owner, mail carrier and news paper columnist was 
born April 16, 1899 near Sylvia, Tenn. He went to work for the 
Hickman Post Office in 1941.
   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rossie Edwards; a son, R.A. 
Edwards; and two daughters, Miss Betty Edwards and Mrs. Philip 
Choate-all of Hickman. Other survivors are six grandchildren. 
Friends and relatives from Tennessee, Michigan and neighboring 
towns Kentucky attended funeral services of the large, good-humored 
writer whose folksy writing attracted readers of the Courier in 
many states.

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Transcribed Union City Daily Messenger
July 3, 1958

Alvin Edwards Dies of Injuries

   Alvin R. Edwards, a restaurant owner and substitute mail carrier 
of Hickman, died about 12:15 this afternoon in Obion County General 
Hospital. He was 59.
   Funeral arrangements, under the direction of Barrett Funeral Home 
of Hickman where incomplete.
   Mr. Edwards was admitted to the hospital last Tuesday after he 
fell from a ladder while he was working on the building housing his 
restaurant. He suffered injury to his rib cage.
   Mr. Edwards was born and reared in Dickson county, Tenn., but had 
lived in Hickman since 1919. In 1921, he was married to the former 
Miss Rossie Rambo of Hurricane Mills.
   He was the operator of Edwards Place in Hickman and carried mail 
on routes two and three from the Hickman post office. He was a Baptist.
   He leaves his wife; a son R.A. Edwards, in the U.S. Navy stationed at

Norfolk, Va.; two daughters, Mrs. Bethel Choate of near Hickman and Miss
Betty Edwards who makes her home with her parents; three brothers, Elmer
Edwards and Emmett Edwards, both of Nashville, and Dan Edwards of Sylvia,
Tenn., and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Hill of Nashville and Miss Suli Edwards
of Louisville, Ky.