Brief Life History of Lester Dykes
When Lester Dykes Edwards was born on 4 November 1894, in Lumpkin, Georgia, United States, his father, Robert Taylor Edwards, was 45 and his mother, Martha Ann Chattain, was 43. He married Gussie Bell on 20 August 1913, in Gordon, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Murphy, Colquitt, Georgia, United States in 1950 and Colquitt, Georgia, United States in 1970. He died on 19 July 1970, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Moultrie, Colquitt, Georgia, United States.
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- Lester D, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lester Dykes Edwards - Published information: birth-name: Lester Dykes Edwards
- Dykes Edwards, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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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