When Jesse Parnell Edwards was born on 16 February 1815, in Wells Valley, Bedford, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Edwards Sr, was 38 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Wright, was 39. He married Abrilla Stevens in 1835. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Jerome, Union, Ohio, United States in 1880. He died on 16 August 1882, in Licking, Ohio, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Forest Grove Cemetery, Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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