ROANE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA 
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@aol.com
November 28, 1999
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DYE: Of Reedy. The Dye family, of main Reedy in Wirt County, but near the Reedy District
boundary, was a prominent family, trading and neighboring at “Three Forks” for twenty-five
years—1875-1895—of the sons are remembered Dusossoway, Dennis J. and George, yet here.
Dennis J. married twice, first Julia A. McClung, 1875. After her death he married Mary Duke on
February 16, 1890, his age 34, her’s 27. George A. Dye, 23, married Maggie Wyatt, 19, on
December 11, 1884. EDWARDS: Of Walton and Spencer. Isaac Edwards, first of the name
here, was prominent as a miller and business man of Walton for some ten or fifteen years
following the close of the Civil War. He served in that war as a Confederate volunteer, under
Captain James S. Gandee. Isaac Edwards was born in Caroll County, Virginia, March 27, 1831,
and came with his parents to Kanawha County in his early manhood. Iii Raleigh County, W. Va.,
he united in marriage with Emily Jarrell. She was born in Kanawha County, May 22, 1836, the
daughter of Madison and Susan (Toney) Jarrell. The children born of this marriage were:
Mandeville, September 11, 1853, died within a year; Arminta, May 12, 1855, married George
W. Hundley, December 9, 1876; Mathew P. was born September 25, 1857; John L., December
22, 1859; Charles M., March 9, 1863; Giles, March 15, 1865, married Bertha Petty, daugh­ter
of William and Melissa (Goff) Petty of Reedyville, this county; William S. was born August 28,
1867. Cues Edwards, of the foregoing family, settled in the Town of Spencer, about the year
1908; and was one of the three promoters and builders of the Spencer “roller process’ fiouning
mill. His name and achievements are mentioned in the chapter of this book, “History of the
Town of Spencer. Giles Edwards and Bertha Petty were married on Christmas day, 1893, and to
them were born one daughter and two sons. Their names: Irma, who married a gentleman in
Kanawha County; the sons: Harley D. and Dewitt, young men, yet single. John L. Edwards
married Matilda E. Lowe, December 3, 1879. Mathew T. married Hannah G. Hunt, July 13,
1880. 

Source:
History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 515-516