Here is the second part of the article my mother, Edna Liggin, wrote on James Edmunds in 1962-63. Maradee Liggin Cryer Did James Edmunds come over to Union parish first then return to Georgia for his family? Perhaps, but in 1849, he was already here busy working on a road. The old police records show a road was commissioned to be reviewed and appointed for this job were Allen Carr, M.W. Laurence, James Edmunds, George W. Moore, W.B. Bailey, M.C. Heard, B. Tubbs and F.M. Linden. The road was to commence at the Farmerville crossing at the Cornie bridge and go by way of the plantations of Solomon, Feazel and James Edmunds to the Claiborne line to the most direct course to Homer, La. The next year. 1850, James bought land once more, this time quite a bit from J.G. Fuller, and for it he paid $2600. (possibly taking care of the gold reputedly buried) The next year he paid William Hopkins one hundred dollars in cash for land, and the same year bought more land from W.C. Heard. A land transfer deed in April of that year with Jesse Fuller was witnessed by J.B. Tubb and Elijah Tabor. Again in 1851 he paid J.G. Fuller $1500 for land, then before the year was up acquired yet 160 acres more from John C. Knott. He was shortly thereafter involved in land deeds with W.A. Milner, Thomas Pearson and James Sutton. In the year 1850 as James was getting settled in a new land with his family, one of the callers the family had was the census taker, a comparatively new innovation in the life of the American family. This one recorded James Edmunds born in Georgia and having $700 worth of real estate was 39, and his wife Ann was 37. The oldest daughter, Catherine was 17; Mary was 15; Susan 12. There were two little boys, James, 8 and Thomas, 3. Was Martha already married to John knott? It is presumed that yet to be born are Nanny, Penniah, and Matilda. records are not found of all the marriages of the Edmunds girls but there is that of one in 1852. Mary Edmunds was married to George W. Tabor, son of Elijah and Susan Tabor, December 4, 1852 with Jesse Tubb performing the ceremony. That same day were married a couple from up Meridian way near Oakland. These two were John B. Robinson and Frances Bilberry. They were later to come to Shiloh and from then until the present day the family John E. Robinson were to occupy the house built in the 1850s by George Tabors father, Elijah. These were the only two families ever to won the house still standing today, the threads of their lives first crossing December 4, 1852. By Edna Liggin