When Emmett Lee Edwards was born on 8 April 1911, in Chilton, Alabama, United States, his father, Elbert Edmond Edwards, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Cleckler, was 38. He married Mary Ophelia Billingsley in 1929, in Chilton, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Kincheon, Chilton, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He died on 18 April 2003, in Clanton, Chilton, Alabama, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Troy State Golf Course, Pike, Alabama, 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.
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Possible Related NamesI have been told that my greatgandfather Emmett had one grandparent that was full blooded Creek Native American, making his father 50% and Emmet 25%. When I look up his father it says race white, I fi …
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