Robert Bryant Edwards

Male13 January 1939–13 March 2014

Brief Life History of Robert Bryant

Robert Bryant Edwards was born on 13 January 1939, in Gadsden, Etowah, Alabama, United States. He died on 13 March 2014, in his hometown, at the age of 75.

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    World Events (3)

    1941

    Age 2

    Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

    1941 · The Four Freedoms

    Age 2

    President Roosevelt spoke in front of Congress and gave a speech on what Freedoms everyone should be granted. First being the Freedom of Speech. Second, the freedom of Religion, Third, The Freedom from Want, and Fourth, the Freedom from Fear. Being a big deal, FDR didn't just say that all people should have these freedoms because Americans already expected these freedoms.

    1941 · Awaking the Sleeping Giant

    Age 2

    After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States repealed the Neutrality Acts of 1937 and declared war both on the Empire of Japan and on Germany. Thus entering into World War II with the Allied Forces.

    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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