When Virginia Ellen Edwards was born on 9 July 1916, in Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States, her father, Milton Edgar Edwards, was 21 and her mother, Marie Deren Martin, was 21. She married Maxie Leon Hilligoss on 14 September 1940, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 22 May 2003, in Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86.
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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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