found: Boles vs. Edwards. Petition and affidavit from Hon. John Edwards, 1872.
found: Biog. dir. of the U.S. Cong. online, viewed Sept. 4, 2008(Edwards, John, a Representative from Ark.; b. Oct. 24, 1805; d. Apr. 8, 1894)
found: Boles, Thomas. Brief of Thomas Boles, in the case of Boles vs. Edwards, Arkansas, 1871?.
found: Washington post, April 10, 1894:page 2, "Died" (EDWARDS--On Sunday, April 8, 1894, at 4 o'clock p.m., Gen. John Edwards, in the seventy-eighth year of his age)
found: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas web site, viewed August 22, 2022:"John Edwards (1815-1894)" (John Edwards; born October 24, 1815, Louisville, Kentucky; died April 8, 1894, Washington, D.C.; lawyer; served in the state legislatures of Indiana and Iowa; joined the Union army at the onset of the U.S. Civil War, ultimately promoted to brigadier general; United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, August 1866- May 1869; initially declared winner of 1870 election to U.S. House of Representatives from the Third District of Arkansas, he served until the election results were overturned in February 1872; practiced law in Washington, D.C., until his death)
