Anne Templeton Brevard

The EDISTONS of Washington County, Arkansas, descend from David or from Moses James. Both men were born in North Carolina and lived for a time in Tennessee, where some of their children was born. Where they lived in Tennessee is suggested by the fact because John Ish came from Tennessee to Clark County, Arkansas, to marry Cynthia Edmiston. Evidently, he must have known here family in Tennessee. It is a well-established fact that the Ish family lived on the Holston river about eight miles from Tennessee. (Territorial Papers of the U.S., Vol. 4, pages 306, 307, 461).

Early Edmistons in Washington County, Arkansas, acknowledged the kinship of the two branches of the family but the exact degree is unknow at present. The Family but the exact degree is unknow at present. The Family Record which follows is numbered on the supposition that EDMISTON (given name unknown), was the father of David (2) and Moses James (3).

DAVID EDMISTON was born about. 1760, in North Carolina. He died before 1830, in Clark County, Arkansas. He had married in North Carolina or Tennessee, Anne Brevard, (daughter of Zebulon and Ann (Templeton) Brevard), born 6 Jan 1766, in North Carolina, and died after Jan 1846, (when she sold land in Washington Co, Ark.), but. before the 1850 census was taken. The time-weathered sandstone vault serves as her resting place, was the first grave located in Edmiston Cemetery and is at the center of the plot.

In 1818 David took his family and moved from Tennessee to Clark Co, Ark. After 1830 but before 1840 (family tradition says 1835), his widow and several of the children moved from Clark County to Washington County, doubtless because relatives were already living in Washington County.