Washington County, Arkansas
EDMISTON, James Madison (died 1864) was born November in Washington County, Arkansas, the son of David Crawford and Rebekah Thornton Edmiston. He was educated in the country schools and was a Democrat. He served with Company B, 34th Arkansas Infantry. In 1861 he married Mary Seay, daughter of Obediah and Emily Dyer Seay. They had one child, Mrs. Lorena Edmiston Pyeatt. [1911 Arkansas Confederate Census]
THE EDMISTON’S OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS
BY ALLAN S. HUMPHREYS
(16) JAMES MADISON 4 EDMISTON, (David Crawford,.3 etc.), was born 7 Nov. 1838; died June 1863, in military service, in Hempsted Co., Ark. Where he is buried. He married Mary (Seay) Edmiston, married secondly 13 June 1877 to William B. Fudge, and moved to California.