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==Season 6==
 
==Season 6==
Mr Edwards makes a guest appearance on the 8th episode of this season in the episode called "The Return of Mr Edwards" in which Mr Edwards is hurt by a falling tree and
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Mr Edwards makes a guest appearance on the 8th episode of this season in the episode called "[[Episode 608: The Return of Mr. Edwards|The Return of Mr. Edwards]]" in which Mr Edwards is hurt by a falling tree and
   
*SPOILER* attempts to kill himself.
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<nowiki>*SPOILER*</nowiki> attempts to kill himself.
   
 
==Season 8==
 
==Season 8==

Revision as of 14:52, 23 September 2010

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Isaiah Edwards
Personal Information
Sex/Gender: Male
Job/Career: Miller, Miner, etc.
Series Information
Played by: Victor French

Isaiah Edwards (also known as "Mr. Edwards") is a mountain man who first met the Ingalls family while they were living on the open prairies of Kansas. He helped them build their house and taught Laura, whom he always had a special bond with, how to spit, much to the displeasure of Caroline. When they had to leave Kansas, they gave Isaiah their livestock that they couldn't take with them to Plum Creek, Walnut Grove.

Once they were settled in Walnut Grove, Charles was picking up some merchandise for Nels Oleson when he found Isaiah drunk in a saloon. After convincing him to come to Walnut Grove, Isaiah stayed with them for a little while but eventually got his place there. During this time, he met Grace Snider, who he would later marry. Prior to meeting Grace and the Ingalls, a disease killed both his wife and daughter, he later told this to Caroline.

This led him to become an alcoholic, an addiction that would haunt him several times throughout his life.

Right after marrying Grace, the two adopted John Jr., Alicia, and Carl Sanderson, the three children of Julia Sanderson. The five shared many happy and tragic times. The Edwards family once moved to gold country with the Ingalls, but left after watching the neighboring families be destroyed by greed.

The Edwards family left Walnut Grove after gold country, and Isaiah later owned a wealthy logging empire. One day, when Alicia brought him lunch, she was nearly crushed by a falling log; Isaiah saved her but his legs were crushed.

He soon gave up on life, and Grace wrote the Ingalls for help. Charles and Laura came to visit him, but still didn't bring him out of his depression: Charles had to save him for suicide on two separate occasions. In order to snap him out of it, Charles pretended to have a injury from a gun accident and Isaiah has to go for help.

Soon after this, Mr. Edwards was back to his normal self.

Pilot Movie

Edwards and Laura

Mr. Edwards teaches Laura how to spit.

The Ingalls family first met Mr. Edwards when they settled in Kansas and Edwards was their closest neighbour, he also helped them build their house. Edwards helped Charles build their house and formed a close bond with Laura and taught her how to spit (much to the horror of Caroline who didn't trust him.)

Laura and Mr

A teary Edwards farewells Laura after the Ingalls are forced to leave Kansas.

Edwards later risked his life by delivering Christmas presents to the Ingalls during a blizzard with nothing but his long-johns on. This made Caroline trust and respect him. When the Ingalls are forced by the government to leave Kansas a teary Edwards was forced to say goodbye to a deeply upset Laura while Charles and Caroline thanked him and gave him a few of their unneeded possessions (such as a cow).

Season 1

Edwards reunites.

Mr. Edwards reunites with the Ingalls family at their new home.

While Charles was in Mankato picking up things for Mr. Oleson he bumped into a drunken Edwards in a saloon. After sobering him up Charles convinced him to come to Walnut Grove and visit the family. Edwards then promised Laura that he would stay in Walnut Grove and Charles helped him get a job at Hanson's Mill and Edwards lived with the family for a while.

Caroline tried to set him and widow Grace Snider up together however he was able to charm her all by himself. A major problem in him and Grace's relationship however was that Edwards didn't believe in God. Caroline found out this is because he was deeply depressed because he thought God let his wife and child die of Smallpox. However he came to ignore this and went to Church with Grace.

Edwards and Charles

Mr. Edwards searches for Laura with Charles after she runs away.

A while later Mr. Edwards took care of Mary, Laura and Carrie when Caroline went with Charles to Mankato. Edwards told the children many tall tales and fed them the most oddest of foods (such as a rattlesnake stew).

Sick Edwards

Charles tends to Edwards after he is struck with typhus.

Season 2

Mr. Edwards marries Grace.

Mr Edwards marries Grace.

Mountain Fever

Mr. Edwards has had two encounters with Mountain Fever, the first time it wiped out his wife and daughter. The second time his daughter lived with the help of Laura Ingalls (she thought she caught it after having spots on her. It turned out to be poison ivy).

A possibility of how Edwards' brought this to Alicia could be because he drank out of the same bottle that belonged a man with the fever. Edwards' never found out about this, the man offered Edwards' a drink after seeing the only other thing in the area was coffee.

Edwards and John Jr.

Mr Edwards buys John. Jr a rifle in an attempt to bond with him.

Shocked Edwards

Edwards is shocked after Charles tells him of the damage done to their farm.

Season 3

Season 6

Mr Edwards makes a guest appearance on the 8th episode of this season in the episode called "The Return of Mr. Edwards" in which Mr Edwards is hurt by a falling tree and

*SPOILER* attempts to kill himself.

Season 8

Season 9

Season 10

Edwards- The Last Farewell

Edwards seconds before blowing up part of Walnut Grove.