I was born at Independence, Ks., in 1913. My parents were Mr. and Mrs. Payton and
  Anna (Robinson) Edwards. There were 8 children; Mary, Alfred, Preston, Robert, William,
  Jeremiah, Lena, and Martha. We also had two half-sisters; Opal Lonian and Dorothy May
  Green. We all got our education in the Independence Schools. Mother's folks were from
  Jackson, Tennessee. Their names were Dillard P. and Jennie Robinson (Patterson).
     My father's grandparents were in Independence and when Great-Grandma Cabbell passed
  on, my father wanted me to see this part of the country, so I came west with his parents,
  Allen and Mary Frances Edwards, during the summer of 1931. I stayed with them and helped
  Aunt Bertha Wickliffe with her laundry and other work.
     I soon went to work for Mrs. Alice MacGregor's mother, Mrs. Comora Martin, in her
  home. From there I went to Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Bertoglio's. Then I went to Mrs. Belle
  Jewell's.
     I went home for a summer visit in 1942, and Harold (Jack) Carter was inducted into 
  the service. After he came home, he drove over to Independence, and we got married on
  September 15, 19442, in my Uncle LeRoy's home. We stayed there that night and came on 
  into Wichita where we stayed the night, then went to Halstead and on to Medicine Lodge.
     He left for camp, and I stayed on and worked for Mrs. Jewell. He had a furlough on
  April 15, 1943, for two weeks, and returned to service. He was released on August 1, 
  1943.
     We looked at several places to live, but my Uncle Bill Edwards was going to move,
  so we rented his place. He finally decided to sell and move to California. Jack bought
  the place and began to work ever so hard and put in long hours to farm and improve the
  place.
     We have no children, but Jack has one daughter, Amanda Evalee, by a former marriage.
  Her mother passed away, and his father and step-mother raised her.
     I continued to my work until retirement, and now enjoy my Ladies Bible Class and
  special classes recently, the study of 'Philosophy of Christian Womanhood' (atr The
  Methodist Church). I am a member of First Baptist Church in Medicine Lodge, and Medicine
  Lodge EHU, which I attend regularly.
     In past times several of the Edwards family have lived in Medicine Lodge: Uncle Earl
  will be remembered by many, as well as Uncle Bill. I am the only one of my family still
  living here.
        
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 122 
     Submitted by: Mary (Edwards) Carter