When John Edwards was born on 4 May 1805, in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, John Edwards, was 40 and his mother, Jane Lodwick, was 36. He married Ann Jones on 5 March 1830, in Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 11 May 1877, in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States.
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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.
Possible Related Names(From page 357 - 359 of the Lorenzo Wilson Robbins Family History book written by LaRhea Hawkins Robbins; Taken from: A BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES WESLEY HUBBARD, Compiled by his daughter, Sarah Gwenn …
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