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1820 Census[1]
Fairfield, South Carolina
Household of Vincent A. Edwards
Category | Number | Name(s) |
---|---|---|
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: | 3 | William, James |
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 18: | 1 | |
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: | 2 | |
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: | 2 | Vincent |
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: | 1 | Martha |
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: | 1 | Francis |
Will of Vincent A. Edwards[2]
Written: 2 November 1824
Proved: 13 November 1824
Recorded: 12 August 1825
Fairfield, South Carolina, United States
Debt to Ethrildred Thompson. Legatees were four unamed children.
Executors: James B. Pickett, Joseph MSC Garlick & Ethrildred Thompson.
Witnesses: D. Kerr, Nathaniel Barnett & Tilmian Barnett.
Probate
1825
Fairfield, South Carolina
The probate file details the goods & sale of the estate. By 1834, there was $1,295 to be distributed but no distribution is in the paperwork. Gustavus Edwards wrote the court twice asking for the disposition as he was guardian of one of the sons of Vincent (William). There is no reply in the probate files. The children are named in the files as Martha, William, James & Mary.
Guardian appointed in estate of Vincent A. Edwards
12 August 1825
Fairfield, South Carolina, United States
Miles Farrer appointed as guardian of William Edwards, James Edwards, Martha Edwards & Mary Edwards, minor children of Vincent A. Edwards, dec'd.
Frame 15-1825 #2 -
Petition for Guardianship
Filed 15 June 1825
Miles Farrar appointed guardian of William Edwards, James Edwards, Martha Edwards and Mary Edwards, all under 14. Their father, Vincent A. Edwards and mother were deceased. Miles Farrar was an uncle.
EQUITY COURT DECREES -1825
FILM NO.JR.4702 - FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S. C.
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES BOX - FA73
Frame 255 - 1826 #10
Petition for Guardianship
Filed 13 June 13 1826
James Westbrooks appointed guardian of William Edwards, James Edwards, Martha Edwards and Mary Edwards, all under14, children of Doctor Vincent A. Edwards, deceased
EQUITY COURT DECREES -1826
FILM NO.JR.4703 - FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S. C.
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES BOX - FA74
Frame 101- 1847#8
Bill for Injunction and Relief
Filed 24 February 1846
Edward Lewis
vs.
J. B. Gilmer and others
William Lewis, Sr. died in 1841
Edward Lewis-son
James B. Gilmer and James B. Pickett moved to Louisiana.
Vincent Edwards-deceased
William W. Edwards-son
James B. Edwards-son
Martha Edwards-daughter-married David A. Lee
Mary C. Edwards-daughter-married Thomas C. Pugh-lived in Georgia
EQUITY COURT DECREES -1847
ILM NO.JR.4712 - FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S. C.
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES BOX - FA85
Frame 179-1850 #6
Bill for Discovery and Account
Filed 6 August 1847
Wm. W. Edwards
vs.
J. B. Gilmer
Vincent Edwards-died on November 2,1840
William W. Edwards-son
James B. Edwards-son
Martha A. E. Edwards-daughter-married David R. Lee
Mary C. Edwards-daughter-married Thomas C. Pugh-living in Virginia
James R. Gilmer was living in Louisiana, married James P. Pickett's widow.
EQUITY COURT DECREES -1850
FILM NO.JR.4714 - FAIRFIELD COUNTY, S. C.
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES BOX - FA87
Fairfield County Equity Court Records, 1807 - 1870 http://fairfieldgenealogysociety.org/Members_Only/PDF/Books/Fairfield%20County%20Equity%20Court%20Records%201807-1870.pdf
Thomas Edwards died intestate and his estate was the subject of two separate Chancery Court Cases in Amherst, Virginia.
The first was filed by Elizabeth Edwards as the widow of Thomas Edwards against the administrator of the Thomas Edwards estate - Gustavus A. Edwards.
The second case was filed by Gustavus A. Edwards against the other heirs of Thomas Edwards.[3] That case is:
Gustavus A. Edwards versus
William Jones and Lucy his wife
John M. Edwards
James B. Edwards
William W. Edwards, James B. Edwards, Martha Edwards and Mary Edwards (the last four children and heirs at law of Vincent Edwards deceased)
the children of Elizabeth Walker deceased formerly Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Ann Fretwell an infant under the age of twenty one years by James Fretwell her guardian
Caroline J. Edwards
James Beck & Minerva his wife
Nancy Edwards a person of unsound mind
Thomas Edwards kept a journal in which he recorded gift of property made to his children. This journal is one of the exhibits in the Chancery court case of Gustavus Edwards versus Jones et al (This is the court case in which Gustavus sued the rest of the heirs to Thomas Edwards claiming he had a deal with Thomas Edwards to inherit the land.)[4]
Place: Amherst, Virginia
1 Negro girl named Lealy when you married W. Jones - $400
1 Gray Mare - $100
1 Featherbed and furniture - $40
1 Cow - $15
1 Negro girl named Fellis when you left me - $400
1 Sorril Horse - $100
1 Negro named Stephany(?) when you became of age - $400
1 Horse - $100
1 Sorrel Horse when you left me - $100
1 Negro Named George when you went to S Carolina - $400 / one horse - $100
1 Negro Girl Named Jude when you married James S. Walker
$400
1 featherbed and furniture - $40
1 Sorril mare - $100
1 Milk cow - $15
1 Horse: bay- $100(Later entries have been crossed out and a note added from "Higginbotham Deposition")
1 Negro Named Parkes when you left me - $400
1 Sorrel Horse - $100
1 featherbed and furniture - $40
300# Pork when you left me - $15
one horse given to you - $100
One Negro Boy Stephen given to you - $400
The Edwards Heirs was an organization of Edwards who all tried to prove descendancy from the Robert Edwards who held the land where Trinity Church in New York is now located. Many families sent copies of letters and bible records to support their claim. There were three separate published claims from the family of Thomas Edwards.
Published in Volume 1, #10 issue (October 1925) as sent by Nola P. Cooke[5]
......Thomas Edwards was the son of Joseph Edwards, and Thomas Edwards settled and married three times in Amherst County, Virginia, eight miles from the city of Lynchburg, Va., and raised six sons and six daughters, of whom all are dead but two, Caroline and Minerva.
The sons of Thomas Edwards were:
Dr. William Edwards, who died without issue
John M. Edwards, married Mary S. Rucker, of whom Elizabeth Burnet is a granddaughter.
James B. Edwards went to St. Louis, from where we had no tidings.
Barnette Edwards died without issue.
Dr. Vincent A. Edwards died in South Carolina leaving four children, one of whom is James B. Edwards, of Lynchburg (now deceased).
Dr. Gustavus A. Edwards resided in Lynchburg, Va., and died in 1865, leaving four boys and four girls, all of who lived in Lynchburg, Va., except John Edwards, who lived in Tennessee, now dead, and his brother Joseph Edwards, who died in St. Louis.
The names of the daughters of Thomas Edwards are:
Lucy, who married a Jones and moved to Ohio;
Rhodea married and lived in Lynchburg, Va., and died leaving one daughter.
Caroline married and lived in Lynchburg;
Elizabeth married James Smith Walker, died and left eight living children. James B. Edwards married one of them, Elizabeth, her daughter. Vincent Barnette Walker is a son of Elizabeth and James Smith Walker, and married Louisa J. Kendall, of Paris, Tenn.
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