EDWARDS, Felix Granville

  General Notes:

Felix Granville Edwards came to Green County, Arkansas prior to the beginning of the Civil War. He enlisted April 17, 1862, Oak Bluff, Arkansas, signed in by Sgt.Hagled-Pvt. Company L of Arkansas Inf.
Company muster roll--Hart's Reg., Arkansas Inf. Company A. 2/28/1863, Gainesville, AR. by Capt. Allen. Last paid by Capt. Bliss 2/28/1863.
Company Muster Roll July/August 1863, Corporal Company A., Rogan's Reg. AR Inf. Last paid 4/30/1863.
Wounded at Helena, AR July 4, 1863. Absent on account of wounds. Company Muster on 1/2/1864. Absent because of wounds. Reported in August 1863.
Casualty list of Hart's Reg. of 3rd Brigade, Price's Div. Ar Inf. at the battle of Helena July 4, 1863. F. G. Edwards on list of wounded. Slightly wounded in back while standing alongside of his captain who was mounted on a horse, shot in the head and killed.

Edwards Notes---Writer Unknown
James Edwards has copies of his Civil War military reccords

Felix "Capp" and Rebecca Edwards owned land this side of the old Simmons Place. When the Butlet County Railroad went through, it made a curve around part of the Edwards place where a tiny plot lay, called "Beckys Cut" or "Tango Cut" which was cut off from the Edwards place.
Nellie Hopkins remembers people were buried there, but no stones. Mrs. Jess (Rachel) Edwards said there was one grave she knew about. Rachel said it was Rachel's baby and that it was marked with a stone.
Jeff Edwards (son of Felix) owned the land after Capp and his wife died. She(Nellie Hopkins) said that there were 5 graves on the old Simmons Place, now owned by Frank Faulks (Farr Cemetery or Bruce Cemetery)-----no one remembers for sure. A small family plot, later to be called Bruce Cemetery when Tellie Bruce owned the land.
Alma Neeley Johnson grew up in the area and knew the railroad curve as "Tango Cut." The railroad cut between the house aand the little cemetery. Two still born children were buried here on land owned by John and Aunt Cam Rogers. It was not Becky's land, but some it was called "Becky's Cut."
One child was from Capp and one from Anne Edwards Johnson, a grandchild of Capp.

The Latta School was in the area. The students walked the shorter distance by railroad track (on Joe Latta's land). The Bruce Cemetery and hill could be reached at back of Ezekiel Davis' house.
Note: This information from several individuals that have differnt opinions about the cemetery and railroad cut, but they all do agree that there was an old cemetery on the site.

Note: Venie Edwards Bradford told her grandson James E. Haywood during a conservation in the laate 1960's that she reckoned that her grandparents Luke and wife were buried on the hill above the railroad track. James remembers seein some old headstones on the hill above the railroad tracks in the late 1920' or early 1930's. He remembers attending pie socials and other events at the old Latta School House. The road had to pass the Old Simmons Farm to get to the Latta School.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Fact 2: Farmer.

• Fact 2: Civil War, 5Th Ark. Regiment.

• Notes about name. Ancestry.com gives his full name as "Felix Granvil Grundy Edwards"

Felix married Sarah Jane DAVIS, daughter of Ahab H. DAVIS and Mary A. Elizabeth SEITZ, about 1868 in Green County, Arkansas. (Sarah Jane DAVIS was born on 1 May 1849 in Tennessee, died on 30 Oct 1874 in Clay County, Arkansas and was buried on 2 Nov 1874 in Old Piggott Cemetery.)

Felix also married Rebecca LARGENT on 20 Apr 1879 in Clay County, Arkansas. (Rebecca LARGENT was born in Mar 1861 in Illinois, died on 17 Mar 1936 in Clay County, Arkansas and was buried on 20 Mar 1936 in Old Piggott Cemetery.)