When Jessie Agbert Edwards was born on 13 December 1849, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States, his father, David Edwards, was 37 and his mother, Mary Polly Smith, was 27. He married Martha Ann Pruett on 23 April 1876, in Delta, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Francis Township, Greer, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 1, Cass, Texas, United States in 1910. He died on 1 February 1923, in Live Oak, Sutter, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Live Oak, Sutter, California, United States.
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Live Oak Cemetery LOCATION 4900 Olive Ave Live Oak, Sutter County, California, 95953 USA PHONE 530-695-3343 MEMORIALS 3,812 added (91% photographed)
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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