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coming alarmed, aroused the neighborhood the next day, and they started out in search of him, and found him with his friends of the previous night on his way home. So delighted were they to find him that they bore him on their shoulders to his own home and family. ELIAS EDWARDS, a prosperous and well-to-do farmer of Black Lick township, Cambria county, this State, is a son of Lewis L. and Mrs. Anna Davis (nee James) Edwards, and was born in Cambria township, this county, October 11, 1844.     He was reared upon a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits, together with lumbering all his life. In 1870 he bought a farm, covering one hundred and fifty acres, and he has added to it by purchase, until he now owns five hundred acres, situated in Black Lick township, one hundred of which is cleared and under a good state of cultivation; the remainder is covered with first-class timber.     Near the close of the late Civil War, on February 25, 1865, Mr. Edwards enlisted in the Federal army at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in Company H, One Hundred and Ninety-second regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, and served until August 25, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.     He is a member of John M. Jones Post, No. 556 G. A. R., at Ebensburg, and is a republican in politics. His marriage with Eliza J. Davis, a daughter of the late Thomas Davis, of Black Lick township, was celebrated October 19, 1870. To this marriage seven children have been born: Elizabeth and Rowland are both deceased; Clark, Ebenezer, Thomas, Stanley and May are at home with their parents.

JOHN L. EDWARDS, ex-postmaster of Belsano, Cambria county, and a leading business man of near that place, is a son of Lewis L. and Mary Davis (nee James) Edwards, and was born in Cambria township, this county, September 18, 1846.     He was reared upon a farm and educated in the public schools. In 1868, he located upon a farm near Nicktown, this county, and cultivated that farm three and one-half years. Subsequent to this he followed blacksmithing eight years at Belsano, and then located upon a farm near Belsano in Black Lick township, and has resided there since, engaged in agricultural pursuits, lumbering, etc. He is an extensive land-owner, owning in all four hundred acres of improved land and six hundred acres of timber land, all underlaid with coal and minerals. He also owns seven acres in the village of Belsano, which is well improved, having a good house and other buildings upon it. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has been steward and trustee eighteen years. Politically he is a republican, and served as postmaster of Belsano, from 1871 to 1879. He has also been assessor and auditor of his township.     Fraternally, he is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 512, F. and A. M.; Belsano Council, No. 182, Jr. O. U. A. M., which latter lodge he served as treasurer in 1894-'95-'96.     March 26, 1866, he married Eliza J., a daughter of Edward Thomas, by whom he has seven children: Walter, on the old homestead; William, in California; Minnie B., the wife of Frank Amond, of Vintondale; Morton, a teacher in the public schools of Black Lick township; Vinton, Oscar and Bertha at home.

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