ONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: J. C. EDWARDS. -  Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 

J. C. EDWARDS

J. C. Edwards, a prominent planter of Smith county, is a native of Polk 
county, N.C.  He removed to Wilkinson county, Ga. in 1855, where in the 
same year he was married to Miss Mattie M. Blow, a daugher of George W. 
and Elizabeth Blow, a leading family of that state.  In 1858 he removed 
from Georgia to Texas and settled in Smith county near the place of his 
present residence.  As a farmer he has prospered and reared a family of 
children, whom he has given the best advantages of an education, and 
are among the leading people of East Texas.  He has nine children 
living:  David M., Robert Lee, Henry Grady, Joe Jackson, Mrs. Annie 
Toncray, Mrs. Laura Guinn, Misses Mattie, Louisa, and Ella Izora.  His 
children being well educated, they occupy a position among the leading 
people in business and social affairs of life.  In 1862 Mr. Edwards 
enlisted in Capt. Jonathan Lewter's Company, 15th Texas Infantry and 
served in the Trans Mississippi army in Walker's famous division.  
While a Confederate soldier, he was known for his gallantry and the 
performance of duty along the lines that made the old North State so 
famous and glorious in the Confederate army.  As a soldier he performed 
his whole duty, and he will leave behind him the legacy that his 
posterity can claim, an honest man, a true Confederate and a prominent 
citizen, being a gentleman of the old South.