When Alexander P. Edwards was born in 1856, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Bryson A. Edwards, was 51 and his mother, Nancy Ann, was 42. He married Sarah Ann Horton on 12 August 1875, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pipers Gap, Carroll, Virginia, United States in 1880.
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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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