When Horace Edwards was born on 28 August 1899, in Cass, Texas, United States, his father, William Edwards, was 32 and his mother, Emma Elizabeth Haywood, was 22. He died on 9 August 1900, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Floyd Valley Church Cemetery, Cass, Texas, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
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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