Biographical Sketch of James P. Edwards, Greene County, Missouri, 
Wilson Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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His parents were William B. and Mary (Ratliff) Edwards, and James P. 
was born in Newton County, Mo., November 10, 1840.  When he was quite
a child his father came with his family to Greene county, and located
in Wilson township, on Wilson creek.  James was reared on the farm, 
and acquired his education in the schools of the county.  In 1862, he
enlisted to aid the Union cause of the civil war, under Col. Jones in
the Enrolled Missouri Militia and served for nine months.  He then en-
listed in the regular U. S. army, joining the 16th Mo. cavalry under
command of Col. McMahan, and served thus till the war closed.  He was
in the fight at Springfield when Marmaduke attacked the place in 1863
and a number of other fights and skirmishes.  After the war, he took 
a government contract to furnish the Cherokee Indians with meal, dur-
ing the famine that fell upon them.  He then returned to his farm, and
has made farming and stock trading his chief vocation ever since.  Mr.
Edwards was married September 16, 1866, to Miss Sarah F. O'Neal, of 
Greene county.  They have had seven children, five of whom still sur-
vive.  The children's names are: James C., William R., Mary E., Harry
A., Annie Belle, Fidelio J., and Tillie May.  Mr. Edwards owns 110 
acres of the best land on Kickapoo prairie.  He has been a citizen of 
this county from early childhood, and is a successful farmer and a 
fine business man generally.

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