Harriet Elizabeth Edwards

Brief Life History of Harriet Elizabeth

When Harriet Elizabeth Edwards was born on 3 March 1881, in Denton, Texas, United States, her father, Fernando Cortez Edwards, was 32 and her mother, Mary Emily Bradford, was 28. She had at least 2 sons with Leonadus Joel Roberts. She lived in Justice Precinct 7, Eastland, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 20 March 1943, in Rising Star, Eastland, Texas, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rising Star, Eastland, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Leonadus Joel Roberts
1878–1970
Harriet Elizabeth Edwards
1881–1943
Cortes Herald Roberts
1901–1907
Harry Eugene Roberts
1906–1994

Sources (5)

  • Hattie Edwards in household of Emma Edwards, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Hattie Roberts, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
  • Harriet E Edwards in entry for Harry E Roberts, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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