When Mariah Lindsey Edwards was born on 3 November 1824, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Lindsey Edwards, was 19 and her mother, Sarah J. Marsh, was 23. She married James Herington Patterson in 1843, in Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Sugarloaf Township, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States in 1860 and Hartford, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 January 1885, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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