Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-06-27

Parsons, Esq.,-One of the "old settlers
who still resides there, at an advanced age,
enjoying the respect and affection of every
body who knows him, (and who does not
know himl)-with characteristic prompt
tude and kindness of heart, made haste to
go to his relief
After Mr. Edwards death, Mr.. Parsons
started Immediately for Warren with his
remains, and on his journey home. in the
woods between Newburgh and Aurora, he
met Mrs. Edwards, in the evening, with
her family physician, the late DR.. John W.
Seeley of Rowland, on their way to HV-
ron to take charge of Mr. Edwards. Mrs
Edwards, who was a woman of rare ac
eomplishments and uncommon excellence,
bore the sudden death of her husband and
the shock of that melancholy meeting in the
wildcrness-the gloom of which was deep
ened by the shadows of night--with great
fortitude and resignation.
His remains were buried in the old
I graveyard on the banks of the Mahoning
river, in the village of Warren, without a
monument to mark his last resting-place.
I Mr.. Edwards left 4 widow and three sons
to mourn his loss. Two of these sons died
in early life; the other, William J. Ed
wards, Esq, is now living at Youngstown,
Mahoning county. A short time after the
death of Mr.. Edwards, his widow married
the late Robert Montgomery, Esq, of Colts
vile, who died few years ago. She still
survives as the widowof Mr. Montgomery.
I The social and professional standing of
Mr.. Edwards was all that the most am
bilious and aspiring could desire, and his
prospects of future distinction and useful
ness in public and private life, were bright
and fattcring in the highest degree. But
his sudden and premature death, while in
the full vigor of carly manhood, blasted
them all, and were severely felt and sin
cerely lamcnted by his immediate friends
and neighbors, and shed a sadness and
gloom over the whole country.
Mr.. Edwards was a man of fine appear
ance, and in stature about six feet in hight,
stoutly built, of forid complexion and
commanding presence. He was not flip
pant, and perhaps it may be said, was not
an easy and fluent speaker, and therefore
not distinguished as an advocate: but his
fine legal attaiBments, his candor honora-
bic bearing, and undoubted integrity, won
the confidence and respect of his profess
siOnal brethren, of the court, and of the iu-
ry, and he was eminently a successful law
yer. With the members of the bar gener-
ally, he was a great favorite; but among
certain class of men who have infested the
ranks of the profession in all times, Mr..
Edwards was not favorite. The dishon-
orable and dishonest men who in his time
had crawled into the profession, as the SER
Pent into the Garden of Eden, and for
purposes not less criminal, he despised and
contemned. They received no countenance
or support at his hands; he lent them no
aid or comfort. He looked upon them,
whatever their pretcntions or claims to re-
spectability, as moral lepers and Stunned
them as he would the pestilence.
1t would be no less creditablc to the le-
gal profession than fortunate, if his exam
pie was more generally followed. /
1t is now nearly fifty years since the
death of Mr.. Edwards, and most of those
who were his contemporaries and associates
have gone down to the grave, and those
who remain are in advanced life, and i'm
pressiOns of him have faded from the mind. (
But if what is here said shall serve in any
degree to perpetuate the memory of an
lonored and respected member of the legal
profession, who was equally an ornament
If social and professional life, the labor of
materials for this brief and i'm |
perfect sketch, will be amply rewarded.