In 1968, Evelyn G. Edmunds and her husband, John, obtained 15 head of Angus cattle and began raising the business breed in Clover, S.C. Evelyn also joined the American Angus Association that year, as well as the South Carolina Angus Association where she served as a director, secretary and voting delegate. She was instrumental in the formation and organization of the South Carolina Junior Angus Association in 1968 and served as an advisor for 19 years. When John passed away in 1978, she assumed sole management of Circle E Farm and became active in cattle and farm groups during a time when only men served in such organizations. She quickly gained the respect of her male peers and was the first woman to hold leadership positions in the South Carolina Cattleman’s Association as well as the South Carolina Farm Bureau. It is hard to find an Angus breeder in South Carolina who has not been influenced in some way by Evelyn Edmunds over the years.