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J. EDMUND PECK, P.O. Spartansburg, was born in Bloomfield Township, Crawford Co., Penn., July 27, 1848; son of Joseph and Martha (Hawkins) Peck, natives, the former of Pelham, Madison Co., N.Y., the latter of Rhode Island. They were married in New York, and resided there twenty years before coming to this county, where they located on fifty acres of land in Bloomfield Township, the birthplace of our subject. After living there about seven years they moved to Sparta Township, where Mr. Peck died February 4, 1883, aged eighty years, and his wife March 10, 1864, aged fifty- nine. They were members of the Baptist Church. Of their ten children six are now living. Our subject was married, October 17, 1869, to Sarah E., daughter of John and Sarah (Blakeslee) Davis, who were natives of Pennsylvania. After their marriage, they located in Sparta Township on a farm of fifty acres of improved land, where they have since resided. They have an adopted daughter— Mabel Cole. Mr. Peck is one of the prosperous young farmers of Sparta Township, taking great interest in all educational affairs. In politics he is a stanch Republican.
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