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 (neé 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,
