Thomas Edgington
Edgington lived on Main Street, south, between First and Second Streets. Edgington was born in Virginia; that portion now is West Virginia, in the pan-handle country. There his brother, Jesse Edgington, a bachelor, lived, flourished and died, a man of property, energy and accomplishment. Thomas Edgington, having not been reared to law, did not cut much of a figure in its practice, not for the reason that he was not intelligent, but for the reason that he was indolent. Among the men of the past he was known as the very personification of indolence. He was nearly six feet tall, spare, with fair elocutionary gifts, but indisposed to exert himself. I remember him when I was a lad and my father was a merchant, and a very careful, tasty one about his goods and wares and store furniture and furnishings, and he dreaded the presence of Tom. Edgington, who, unbidden, would appropriate the counter whereon to stretch his lazy bones. I remember that when informed that he was "persona non grata", Edgington would get off the perch but take no offense. He left quite a large family. One of his daughters, not many years ago, Martha by name, removed hence to Texas, and I think is still living. The one thing lacking in Thomas Edgington was industry; that lacking, his professional life was a failure.
From Richland Shield & Banner: December 8, 1894, Vol. LXXVII, No. 30