The following obituary appeared in The Winchester Journal on December 21, 1881 on page 2
column 4.
DIED.
EDWARDS-Henry Edwards was born in Gilford [sic] county, North Carolina, March 2, 1795.
Married to Polly Hamilton, October 18, 1815; moved to Wayne county, Indiana, in the fall
of 1821, removed to Randolph county in the Spring of 1831; died at the residence of his
son, Hamilton Edwards, two miles and a half south of this place, November 4, 1881, aged
eighty-six years and two days. When Mr. Edwards moved to Randolph county, the county was
in its infancy. There were but few houses in Winchester, and the surrounding country was
a wilderness. He erected a log hut in the woods near where he died, and commenced the
struggles of a pioneer life, he lived to see the country cleared of her great forests and
the fields covered with golden grain, and presenting a fair prospect of becoming one of
the finest and wealthiest counties in the State. He was highly respected as a neighbor
and a pioneer citizen by all who knew him, as the long column that followed his remains to
its last res!
ting place, fully attested. He was the father of eleven children. His aged wife and
seven of his children still survive him and mourn his death. They were all present at the
funeral. The services were conducted by the Rev. N. T. Butts, at White River Friends'
Church, November 5, 1881.
N. T. B.