Brief Life History of Lewis N.
When Lewis N. Edwards was born in 1862, in Missouri, United States, his father, Joseph Edwards, was 44 and his mother, Frances Emaline Hohstadt, was 29. He married Mary Gertrude Rathbun on 25 December 1884, in Scotland, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Little Prairie Township, Pemiscot, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 7 March 1937, in Greeley, Weld, Colorado, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Brighton, Adams, Colorado, United States.
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- Lewis N Edwards, "United States Census, 1920"
- Lewis Edwards, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Lewis N Edwards, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863 · Colorado War
The Colorado War was a conflict between the United States and an alliance among the Kiowa, Araphaho, Cheyenne, and Comache nations of the Native American. The war was over the Eastern Plains of the Colorado Territory and resulted in the removal of the tribes.
1869
Historical Boundaries: 1869, Weld, Colorado Territory, United States 1876: Weld, Colorado, United States
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
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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