When Ellender Ellen Edwards was born in 1830, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Allen Edwards, was 34 and her mother, Hannah Mills, was 30. She married Henderson Smith on 1 March 1849, in Clay, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Big Creek, Clay, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died in Clay, Kentucky, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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