William C. Edwards
William C. Edwards, Retired Farmer.
Mr. Edwards was born in the State of New Jersey May 26, 1803. When he had attained the age of two years, or in 1805, his parents, Uzal and Mary Edwards, came to Ohio and located in Butler County, where young Edwards grew to manhood on a farm. On the 14th of April, 1831, he married Miss Nancy Hall, then of Butler County, Ohio, but a native of Fayette County, Pa., where she was born May 29, 1809, and was brought to Butler County, O., by her parents, Hugh H. and Nancy Butler Hall, in 1811. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards settled on a farm in Butler County, remained until May, 1866, when they came to Shelby County, purchased and moved on the farm in Loramie Township, on which they are now living. They reared a family of seven children, viz., Benjamin H., Angeline, Oscar F., Harriet H., Julius J., Bryant H., and Wilber J. Angeline, Harriet H., and Bryant H. live in Loramie Township, this county; Benjamin H. resides in his native county; Oscar F. in Montgomery. County, Ohio; Julius J. in Hamilton County, Ohio, and Wilber J. lives in Darke County, Ohio. Mr. Edwards filled the office of justice of the peace in Butler County six years.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883