When Jewell Lavern Edwards was born on 27 June 1915, in Caney, Atoka, Oklahoma, United States, her father, Herschel Elry Edwards, was 21 and her mother, Laura Hix, was 16. She married John Frederick Kay on 9 February 1934, in Bryan, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Grayson, Texas, United States in 1940 and Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States for about 1 years. She died on 1 April 1996, in Grayson, Texas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Cedarlawn Memorial Park, Sherman, Grayson, Texas, United States.
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.
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