James W. Edwards
James W.
Edwards
was buried in Edwards-Stanfield-Turnipseed Family Cemetery, Henry Co, GA.
Research
Notes:
This
compiler (?) has been unable to locate the deed in which James Whitsell Edwards
purchased Land Lot 228 in which the Edwards Graveyard is located, but he was in
possession of Land Lot 221, where his home still stands on Little Road, prior
to 1850, and it is likely that he had the graveyard tract at the same time.
Major Ponder was living in this neighborhood, and adjacent to the J. W. Edwards
property, by 1858 when Richard Henderson purchased his final home in Land Lots
229, 252 and 253, as the Henderson deed makes reference to Ponder's fence.
(Henry
County Deeds, Book 0, page 743-745, dated 27 Nov. 1858. Henderson had purchased
land in Lot 229 in 1834, but the above deed refers to him in 1858 as being of
Spalding County, indicating that after his second marriage in 1847, to Rebecca
Porter, he had moved from his Henry County land. The reference in his 1858 will
to his Holliday Place was to his home in Spalding County, as it was not until
six months later that he moved into the Mt. Pleasant community, where he died
in 1868. He made a codicil to his will in 1861 changing his bequest of the
Holliday Place.)
On 31
March 1860, James W. Edwards sold to Major Ponder a tract of110 acres, being
the south part of Land Lot 228 including the graveyard, but no reference was
made to it since the land was considered to be in the same family and Mrs.
Ponder was already buried in the yard. (Henry County Deeds, Book P, page 157.)
It was customary to make deeds only when a land purchase was fully paid for,
hence it is possible that Ponder had been in possession of this land for some
time prior to 1860.
James
married Sallie Unknown. Sallie
was born on 2 Nov 1809 and died on 26 Aug 1899, at age 89.