When William Elery Edwards was born on 23 January 1930, in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, his father, George Elery Edwards, was 37 and his mother, Hazel Naomi Geyer, was 33. He lived in Muskingum, Washington, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Perry Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 28 February 2005, in Perry, Ohio, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Williams Cemetery, Falls Township, Muskingum, Ohio, 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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