When Benjamin Edwards was born on 5 January 1833, in Boyle, Kentucky, United States, his father, Mastin Edwards, was 28 and his mother, Jane Whitehouse, was 21. He married Sarah Elizabeth Overstreet on 11 April 1859, in Boyle, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 2, Boyle, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 7 June 1888, in Boyle, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 55.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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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