General Notes

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WILLIAM EDWARDS WAS KNOWN AS A "STEAM" OR "HERB" DOCTOR. HE
WOULD GO ABOUT THE COUNTY SIDE TREATING SICK PEOPLE WITH HIS "TEAS"
THAT WERE "BREWED" FROM HERBS. HE DIED ONE NIGHT DURING A SEVERE SNOW AND
ICE STORM- A FREEZING NIGHT. RESIDENTS IN THE AREA SAY THAT THE CHIMNEY
FELL OFF THE HOUSE THE NIGHT WILLIAM DIED AND THAT THOSE WHO WERE SITTING
UP WITH HIS CORPSE, PUT OUT THE FIRE IN THE FIEPLACE - AND BUILT A FIRE
OUTSIDE TO KEEP WARM. WHEN HE WAS BURIED , IT WAS STILL SO COLD THAT
FIRES HAD TO BE BUILT ON TOP OF THE GROUND TO THAW OUT THE GROUND BEFORE
THE GRAVE COULD BE DUG. THER WERE NO WOMEN AT THE FUNERAL BECAUSE OF THE
EXTREMELY COLD WEATHER. A RESIDENT- A MR. HAGAN OF THE SAME COMMUNITY WHO
HAD A CHILD BORN THE SAME NIGHT OF WILLIAM EDWARDS'S DEATH, NAMED HIS
CHILD, WILLIE SNOW HAGAN. THE CRAWFORD HAYES LIVED IN THIS HOUSE AT A
LATER DATE. CRAWFORD HAYES WAS THE SON OF SULA HURLEY AND OSCAR HAYES:
GRANDSON OF JOSEPHINE EDWARDS AND JAMES CLINTON HURLEY: GREAT
GRANDSON OF WILLIAM EDWARDS.