Two groups of Edwards families had settlements that might have lent their names to the Edwards Spring. William B. Edwards, son of John and father of James, had a farm in the Wilson Creek valley southwest of Springfield at the time the Civil War erupted. William B. Edwards also had lands south of Springfield, extended south of Nixa to the old Riverdale mill on the Finley. His financial involvement in the mill lasted until at least the last 1870s. This Edwards family is documented sketchily in some of the early histories of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, and as I recall, they came to Springfield c. 1840 from the area west of Davidson Co. (Nashville), TN. The Rev. James W. Edwards (1807-1893) owned, at one time, hundreds of acres directly south of Springfield extending into and including much of the city of Nixa. He was involved by the early 1870s in taking over control of the Riverdale Mill and sold off much of his northern Christian Co. holdings for the more valuable mill property. He ended up in considerable tax trouble with the state and county, and although he was able to buy his property back from auction once at cents on the dollar, he later lost the mill holdings. His brother, William Carroll Edwards (1818-1901?), owned land north and west of Nixa, too; his estate seemed to remain stable during these years. The Rev. Edwards also owned several city lots in Ozark, which he lost in the tax troubles. He was married before 1830 in Maury Co., TN to Martha "Patsy" Kenamore, who died after early 1865, and later to Susan Emily Sink, daughter of David Sink of Franklin Co., VA/Michigan/and finally Nixa, the owner of Davie's Jerk. William Carroll Edwards married Ursula Kenamore, Patsy's sister who died young in Maury TN, and then Narcissa Johnson, the cousin of the Kenamore sisters. This second family of Edwardses, the Kenamore and the Johnsons (descendants of Revolutionary War vet Abner Johnson and Nancy Brackett of Amelia VA) all lives in Maury TN before migrating to Christian Co., MO in 1852 and 1854. Randy McConnell