Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:
(1) I'm not related to this person. But I'm interested in all Edwards in Eastern NC/SC to some extent.
(2) This person is an aunt/uncle of my uncle Ben Franklin Meggs.


!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/edwards/


!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 58
Richard Edwards age 45+ (bef 1775)
220001-11010-0, slaves=2200-3000
Analysis (who each person might be)
1m 45+ (bef 1775)... Richard L. Edwards (c1775)
2m 10-15 (1804/1810) Solomon Edwards (1800/10) son
.................... Richard Edwards (1803) son
2m 0-9 (1810/1820).. Samuel Edwards (1813) son
.................... Henry Edwards (c1815) son
1f 26-44 (1775/1794) Elizabeth Owens Edwards (1780/84) wife
1f 10-15 (1804/1810) daughter?
1f 0-9 (1810/1820).. daughter?
7 slaves;

!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist., SC pg 17
Richard L. Edwards age 50-59 (1770/80)
10011001-0000101, slaves=301000-020000
Analysis (who each person might be)
1m 50-59 (1770/1780) Richard L. Edwards (c1775)
1m 20-29 (1800/1810) Solomon Edwards (1800/10) son
1m 15-19 (1810/1815) Henry Edwards (c1815) son
1m 0-4 (1825/1830).. grandson?
1f 40-49 (1780/1790) Elizabeth Owens Edwards (1780/84) wife
1f 20-29 (1800/1810) daughter?
6 slaves;

!WITNESS-DEED:24 Apr 1832 Marion Dist., SC Book O page 160
Richard Edwards to Elizabeth Edwards for $235 Negro boy Evan.
S: Richard Edwards
W: Elisha Manning, Henry Edwards, Archibald Carmichael, JP;

!WITNESS-DEED:24 Apr 1832 Marion Dist., SC Book O page 161
Richard Edwards to Elisha Manning for $110 Negro girl Becky.
S: Richard Edwards
W: Henry Edwards, Elizabeth (X) Edwards, Archibald Carmichael, JP;

!DEED:24 Apr 1832 Marion Dist., SC Book O page 162
Richard Edwards to Henry Edwards Negro girl Eve
S: Richard Edwards
W: Elisha Manning, Elizabeth (x) Edwards, Archibald Carmichael, JP;

!NAMED: 5 Nov 1833 Marion Dist, SC Estate of Solomon EDWARDS, deceased in Henry EDWARDS vs Mary EDWARDS, widow of Solomon EDWARDS;

!NAMED-DEED:27 Dec 1836 Marion Co., SC Book Q page 245
Solomon Owens, Elias Pitman, Goldsbury Grainger, John Altman, Henry Edwards, Nathan Gerrald, Benjamin Munnerlyn, Samuel Gerrald, Thomas Stephens, and James Gerrald are held and firmly bound unto Levi Gerrald, adm of Samuel Gerrald decd in sum of $7650 ...
Samuel Gerrald late of Horry Dist died intestate seized of considerable real and personal estate ...
widow (not named) ...
children of last marriage ... (suggests they are under 21) ...;

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist., SC pg 135
Henry Edwards age 20-29 (1810/20)
10001-20001;

!DEED:22 Aug 1840 Marion Co., SC Book R page 376
Henry Edwards of Marion to Samuel Edwards for $700, 550a Ns Buck Swamp ... all the plantation I now live on ...
S: Henry Edwards
W: David S. Edwards, Richard Edwards
Dower renounced by Prudence (X) Edwards wife of Henry Edwards 26 Sep 1840;

!DEED:14 Jan 1843 Marion Co., SC Book S page 189
Henry Edwards of Marion Dist for L & A to my son Levi Edwards and my dau Margaret Edwards and my dau Sarah Edwards have given them all that tract of land where I now live ...
S: Henry Edwards
W: David S. Edwards, Carey Edwards;

!CENSUS:1850 * NOT in Marion Dist, SC;


!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist., SC Marion, Floydsville PO # 1187/1175
Henry Edwards 45 Farm Laborer $-/- SC
Robt 21
Sarah 16
G. W. 1 m;


!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Reeves Twp # 90 Henry EDWARDS, 60 (1809/10) born SC, residing with David MARTIN, 22 and Sarah MARTIN, 44 (his niece);

!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co, SC Reaves Twp # 326 Henry EDWARDS, 65 (1814/15) born SC, father born SC, mother born SC, residing with Theophilus CAMPBELL, 41 and Emmaline (HUGGINS) CAMPBELL, 38, listed as "Uncle";

!DEATH:Diary of Rev. Simeon Campbell ...
Killed by Lightning Rev David S. Edwards died Aug -- 1863.
Martha his wife died July 8th, 1869.
Rev Richard Edwards died Oct 29th 1869,
Nancy his wife died Nov 23th, 1875.
L.M. Edwards died March 30th, 1900.
Henry Edwards Brother to David and Richard died Dec 8th 1862.;


!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 185-189

Edwards.—The Edwards family, on Buck Swamp, is another family of some note. Tradition informs us that Richard Edwards came to South Carolina from Virginia soon after the Revolutionary War; that he was originally from England,, or rather his ancestors ; that during the Revolution he was shot in the head and his skull was fractured ; that the fracture was trepanned with gold, and from that fact was generally called "Gold-headed Richard or Dick Edwards." We are not informed who his wife was ; he raised a family of sons and perhaps daughters, the daughters are unknown; his sons were Richard, David, Samuel and Henry—who became stocks for families, more or less numerous, now in the county they settled on Buck Swamp. Their father, "Gold-headed Dick," lived to a great age, and was a man of some means.
...
Another son of "Gold-headed Dick," named Henry, the youngest, married a Miss Gerald, and had one son, Levi, who lives in the Gapway neighborhood. Henry Edwards' habits were not good; he drank excessively, never did much in life, and, no doubt, was a source of much trouble to his relations. ;

!NOTES:I don't know for sure that Levi and Prudence are brother and sister, but her orphaned son Levi was living with Levi Gerald in 1860;

!CENSUS:1820;

!CENSUS:1830;

!NAMED-DEED:27 Dec 1836 Marion Co., SC Book Q page 245
Solomon Owens, Elias Pitman, Goldsbury Grainger, John Altman, Henry Edwards, Nathan Gerrald, Benjamin Munnerlyn, Samuel Gerrald, Thomas Stephens, and James Gerrald are held and firmly bound unto Levi Gerrald, adm of Samuel Gerrald decd in sum of $7650 ...
Samuel Gerrald late of Horry Dist died intestate seized of considerable real and personal estate ...
widow (not named) ...
children of last marriage ... (suggests they are under 21) ...;

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 135 w/Henry EDWARDS age 20-29 (1810/20);

!DEED:22 Aug 1840 Marion Co., SC Book R page 376
Henry Edwards of Marion to Samuel Edwards for $700, 550a Ns Buck Swamp ... all the plantation I now live on ...
S: Henry Edwards
W: David S. Edwards, Richard Edwards
Dower renounced by Prudence (X) Edwards wife of Henry Edwards 26 Sep 1840;


!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 185-189
...
Another son of "Gold-headed Dick," named Henry, the youngest, married a Miss Gerald, and had one son, Levi, who lives in the Gapway neighborhood. Henry Edwards' habits were not good; he drank excessively, never did much in life, and, no doubt, was a source of much trouble to his relations.

!DEED:14 Jan 1843 Marion Co., SC Book S page 189
Henry Edwards of Marion Dist for L & A to my son Levi Edwards and my dau Margaret Edwards and my dau Sarah Edwards have given them all that tract of land where I now live ...
S: Henry Edwards
W: David S. Edwards, Carey Edwards;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 913/918
Richard Edwards 47 Farmer $3000 Marion
Ann 47
Ann 11
Margaret 13;

!DEED:14 Jan 1843 Marion Co., SC Book S page 189
Henry Edwards of Marion Dist for L & A to my son Levi Edwards and my dau Margaret Edwards and my dau Sarah Edwards have given them all that tract of land where I now live ...
S: Henry Edwards
W: David S. Edwards, Carey Edwards;

!CENSUS:1850 Horry Dist., SC # 555/555
John A. Clark 36 Farm $3000 SC
Elizh J. 20
Allis 2
Sarah Edwards 10 *
Susan? Owens? 16
* Not 100% certain this is same person, but Sarah's uncle Richard Edwards was married into the Owens family (Elizabeth Clark is a daughter of Solomon Owens, Richrd Edward's brother-in-law);