Sixth Generation

48. Wager EDMONDS was born in 1825 in Aurelian Springs, Halifax Cty, NC. He died after 1900 at the age of 75 in Enfield, NC. In the 1900 census, he was living with his son Thomas. Wager Edmonds and his family were slaves on the farm of Benjamin Edmunds (died 1857) and later his son, physician and farmer Benjamin C. Edmunds (d 1875). In 1830 there were 149 slaves on the Edmunds property; in 1840 there were 126 of whom 65 were "employed in agriculture". According to the slave schedule associated with the 1850 US Census, there were 101 slaves on the farm; unfortunately, the schedule does not give names of the individual slaves, only their sex and age. Therefore that document is of little value in researching family history. In 1860, bachelor Benjamin, Jr. lived on the farm in Bucharia Township in Halifax County with 26-year-old Jesse Rhoa who was the farm's "Overseer". The slave schedule for the farm in 1860 could not be found, but the value of Edmunds' "Personal Estate" (excluding real estate) was $16,870 which would include the slaves. After the Civil War and freedom in 1870, the value of Edmunds estate was down to $960; but Wager and his family continued to work for Edmunds as "farm hands". By 1880 they had relocated to Faucett Township near who is likely his brother, Nelson Edmonds.

49. Esther "Easter" EDMONDS was born about 1830 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC. In the 1880 census she is identified as a Mulatto.

Children were:

	i.	Lucy EDMONDS was born in 1845 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC.
	ii.	Harriet EDMONDS was born in 1850 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC.
	iii.	Wade EDMONDS was born in 1851 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC.
	iv.	Sarah "Sally" EDMONDS was born in 1854 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC.
	v.	Causey Ann EDMONDS was born in January 1857 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC. She married twice, first Isham Daniels in 1877 and Richard Hawkins in 1896. Note that Richard Hawkins' first wife was Malviney Bowzer.
	vi.	Susan EDMONDS was born in November 1859 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC. She died in 1941 at the age of 82. She married a man named Plummer Alston.
	vii.	George Washington EDMONDS was born in February 1862 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC. He died in 1943 at the age of 81. He married a woman named Harriett Faulcon.
	viii.	Mary EDMONDS was born in 1866 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC.
	ix.	Peter EDMONDS was born in 1868 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC.
	x.	Daniel EDMONDS was born in January 1869 in Bucharia Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC. He died 29 Feb 1935 in Faucett Twsp, Halifax Cty, NC. He married a woman named Temperance "Tempie" Sykes. There were probably no children of this marriage. The 1930 census identifies an 11 year-old boy named Ellis Farba as their "adopted son".
24	xi.	Thomas EDMONDS.

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