The Edmunds family history recorded here traces the line from John Edmunds, born in Virginia in 1710, whose will was probated in Amherst County, Virginia, in 1764, to his son James, born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, who died in 1826 in Barren, Kentucky, where his will was also probated. James and his wife Sarah Lavender were the parents of Alexander, born in Virginia in 1763, who came to South Carolina in 1790 with his wife Lydia Calhoun; Alexander died in Edgefield in 1823, and Lydia died in 1797. They were the parents of Samuel Calhoun Edmunds, born in 1793 and died in 1859 near McCormick, and Lydia, born in 1796 and died in 1847. Samuel Calhoun Edmunds married Polly Bussey, and their children were Sarah Lavender, James Alexander, and Agnes; his second marriage was to Henrietta R. Harris, and their children were Frederick Harris, Margaret Ann, John Francis, Henry Clay, Emma, Samuel, Whitefield, and Betty. Samuel and Whitefield were killed in Virginia during the Civil War. The family record continues through the marriages and children of Samuel Calhoun Edmunds' descendants, including the families of Sarah L.E. Rogers, James A. Edmunds, Frederick H. Edmunds, John F. Edmunds, and Emma E. Edmunds Walker, and notes that John and Peter Rogers also died in the Civil War.