The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
NameCAPTAIN Francis Edgeworth "Edge" EVE ®3327, ®3686
Birth15 Aug 1844, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA ®3327
Death10 May 1908, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA ®3327
Burial1908, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA ®3327
MemoMagnolia Cemetery
FlagsCivil War Service, Jefferson County, Georgia
Misc. Notes
At the outbreak of the Civil War, though not yet 17 years old, he went to Virginia as acting third lieutenant in the 5th Regiment of the North Carolina Infantry; returning to Georgia in October 1861, he failed in his effort to secure a lieutenancy, and on 1 May 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Richmond Hussars (Cavalry Company A, Cobb’s Legion of Georgia Volunteers). On 10 February 1863, he was elected captain of the Richmond Dragoons (Cavalry Company K, Cobb’s Legion of Georgia Volunteers), also known as Captain Eve’s Company of Cavalry. By November 1864 he was Captain of Cavalry Company K, Phillip’s Legion of Georgia Volunteers. According to his sister, Eva Berrien Eve, he was "the merriest young captain in Virginia” whose ‘happy, gleesome letters” were "written in the offhand nonchalant spirit of a gay boy cavalier.” After the War he married and settled on his large plantation ten miles southwest of Augusta. In 1877 he became junior partner of his brother-in-law, Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in the law firm of Jones & Eve.
®3327 Capt. Edge Eve was the last living male member of his branch of the family. He had no children though he had been married twice.
Research
In the family bible of John A. Casey, he is listed as born in Fountain Grove. Is this a plantation name?Was he born in 1848?
Spouses
Death20 Jan 1894, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA ®3327
Misc. Notes
She was Edge's first wife and was from Columbia County.
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Family ID1493
Marriage20 Nov 1866, Columbia County, Georgia, USA ®3327
BirthApr 1856, Georgia, USA ®3327
Misc. Notes
She was Edge's second wife and the widow of Thomas H. Ewing, of Tennessee.
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Family ID1498
Marriage12 May 1897 ®3327