ELISHA EDGE

 

     Elisha Edge, a prominent old resident of Stockton, is a native of Warren County, Tenn., where he was born in 1817.  His father, Henry Edge, was born in Maryland, in 1781, and when a young man went to Kentucky, where he met and married Miss Hannah Stockstill, who was born in North Carolina, in 1793, and afterward moved to Tennessee, and in 1837 to Dade County, Mo.  He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a hard working tiller of the soil all his life.  He died in Dade County, Mo., in 1867, preceded by his wife in 1863.  They were the parents of thirteen children, Elisha being the sixth of the family.  He remained with his parents until twenty-one years of age, and on the 30^th of January, 1839, was married to Miss Harriet Denby, who was born in Warren County, Mo., in 1820. Sophronia, wife of Charles Mitchell; Abigail, the deceased wife of Samuel Killingsworth; Eliza, wife of Giles Holman; Mary, wife of B. L. Cornwell; Henry; Susan, wife of Henry Hudson; Benjamin L., and Thomas, are the children born to their union.  Mr. Edge came with his father to Missouri, and, in 1841, located in Cedar County, settling in 1866 where he now lives.  On first coming to this State, he was obliged to go thirty miles to mill.  He is one of the oldest residents of the county, and is the owner of 240 acres of fertile land.  He supports the principles of the Democratic party, and during the Rebellion served six months in the Stockton Grays, and afterward in Company D, Col. McDonald’s Arkansas Regiment of Cavalry, participation in the battles of Wilson’s Creek, Prairie Grove, Helena, and numerous skirmishes.

From the History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889, p. 733-734

 

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