Edward Bomar was born in Essex County, Virginia, on Feb. 11, 1767. He emigrated to South Carolina in 1796 and settled on the waters of the North Tyger River, six miles west of Spartanburg Court House. His first wife was Mary Wood, who died in 1833; his second was Mary Treadway, who died in 1857. He died on Apr. 30, 1855, after a long and useful life. He was a charter member and for many years a deacon of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, remembered as a man of prayer, modest and reserved but firm in his convictions.