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Below is a family biography included in The History of Cedar County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Elisha Edge, a prominent old resident of Stockton, is a native of Warren County, Tenn., where he was born in 1817. His father, Henry Edge, was born in Maryland, in 1781, and when a young man went to Kentucky, where he met and married Miss Hannah Stockstill, who was born in North Carolina, in 1793, and afterward moved to Tennessee, and in 1837 to Dade County, Mo. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a hard working tiller of the soil all his life. He died in Dade County, Mo., in 1867, preceded by his wife in 1863. They were the parents of thirteen children, Elisha being the sixth of the family. He remained with his parents until twenty-one years of age, and on the 30th of January, 1839, was married to Miss Harriet Denby, who was born in Warren County, Mo., in 1820. Sophronia, wife of Charles Mitchell; Abigail, the deceased wife of Samuel Killingsworth; Eliza, wife of Giles Holman; Mary, wife of B. L. Cornwell; Henry; Susan, wife of Henry Hudson; Benjamin L., and Thomas, are the children born to their union. Mr. Edge came with his father to Missouri, and, in 1841, located in Cedar County, settling in 1866 where he now lives. On first coming to this State, he was obliged to go thirty miles to mill. He is one of the oldest residents of the county, and is the owner of 240 acres of fertile land. He supports the principles of the Democratic party, and during the Rebellion served six months in the Stockton Grays, and afterward in Company D, Col. McDonald’s Arkansas Regiment of Cavalry, participating in the battles of Wilson’s Creek, Prairie Grove, Helena, and numerous skirmishes.

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This family biography is one of 92 biographies included in The History of Cedar County, Missouri published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Cedar County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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