Captain Francis Livingston Edmondson (1903-1991) was born in McDonough, Georgia, to Reverend Robert Andrew Edmondson (1874-1960) and Sallie Myrick (1877-1966). Edmondson attended Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating in 1920 with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy. He enlisted in the Naval Reserves in 1937, married Vermel Newton Calhoun (1907-1964) in 1940 and had a daughter, Dorothy Susan (1940-1991). Edmondson served as Assistant Director of State Parks for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in Atlanta before entering active duty in 1942 as Operational Training Officer with operational command COMEASTSEAFRON (Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier). From 1944 to 1945 Edmondson served aboard the U.S.S. Prairie destroyer as First Lieutenant and Damage Control Officer before being relieved from active duty in 1945. After working as Navy Public Relations Officer with the Office of Naval Research, Edmondson became an Executive Officer with the U.S.S. Delta AR-9 stationed offshore from Hong Kong in 1955, before retiring in 1961 at the rank of Captain.

Elizabeth Pinkston Edmondson (1920-2012) was born in Chalybeate, Georgia, to Harold Robert Pinkston (1896- ) and Audry Mitchell Pinkston (1902- ). Edmondson was a charter member of the Flower Arrangers' Club of Georgia and an honorary member of the Johnson Estates Garden Club. She was an active gardener and flower show judge, frequently judging flower show competitions and performing as guest lecturer at garden club events. Edmondson was a member of numerous other garden clubs such as the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of America, the North Georgia Council of Flower Show Judges, and the Landscape Design Critics' Council of Georgia. Edmondson also served as historian for Cyclorama Restoration, Inc. and was an Auxiliary member of the Egleston Children's Hospital. She was involved in many other organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Civil War Round Table Atlanta, Inc., the National League of American Pen Women, and the Atlanta Woman's Club. Captain Francis L. Edmondson remarried Elizabeth Pinkston and together they retired to the College Park and Brookhaven neighborhoods to pursue mutual interests in Civil War history and restoring the Atlanta Cyclorama.