Marty and Karla Grant

!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist., SC pg 58
S. David Edwards age 16-25 (1794/1804)
100100-00100-0, slaves=0000-0000
Analysis (who each person might be)
1m 16-25 (1794/1804) David L. S. Edwards (1800)
1m 0-9 (1810/1820).. Carey Edwards (c1820) son
1f 16-25 (1794/1804) Martha Rogers Edwards (c1805) wife;

!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist., SC pg 17
David Edwards age 20-29 (1800/10)
11001-21001, slaves=000000-000000
Analysis (who each person might be)
1m 20-29 (1800/1810) David Samuel L. Edwards (1800)
1m 5-9 (1820/1825).. Carey Edwards (c1820) son
1m 0-4 (1825/1830).. Andrew Edwards (1827) son
1f 20-29 (1800/1810) Martha Rogers Edwards (c1805) wife
1f 5-9 (1820/1825).. Harriet Edwards (1822) daughter
2f 0-4 (1825/1830).. Sarah Edwards (c1827) daughter
.................... Elizabeth Edwards (c1829) daughter;

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist., SC pg 135
D. S. Edwards age 30-39 (1800/10)
121101-210101;
1m 30-39 (1800/1810) David Samuel L. Edwards (1800)
1m 15-19 (1820/1825) Carey Edwards (c1820) son
1m 10-14 (1825/1830) Andrew Edwards (1827) son
2m 5-9 (1830/1835).. Richard Edwards (1831) son
.................... David W. Edwards (1833) son
1m 0-4 (1835/1840).. Robert Edwards (c1839) son
1f 30-39 (1800/1810) Martha Rogers Edwards (c1805) wife
1f 15-19 (1820/1825) Sarah Edwards (c1827) daughter
1f 5-9 (1830/1835).. Elizabeth Edwards (c1829) daughter
2f 0-4 (1835/1840).. Martha Edwards (1835) daughter
.................... Nancy Ann Edwards (c1837) daughter;

!WITNESS-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 # 1015/1020
Cary Edwards 30 Farmer $- Marion
Martha 45
Frances 4 f
John 2;

!CENSUS:1860 Horry Dist., SC # 504/504
Carey Edwards 39 Farmer $60/1300 SC
Sarah 23
Elizabeth 2
John B. Hardee 16 Labourer;

!CENSUS:1870 Marion Co., SC Le Gett, Mullins PO # 40/40
Carey Edwards 49 Farmer $-/- SC
Jane E. 27 Keeping House
Carey Thomas Edwards 3 m
Manelus 1 m;

!CENSUS:1880 Marion Co., SC Reeves # 540/540
Carey Edwards 50 M Farmer SC-SC-SC
Hannah 45 wife
Tom 14 son;

!MARRIAGE:From "The Pee Dee Index" - "Genealogical Abstracts from Marion, South Carolina Newspapers 1858-1886" Abstracted by Gloria Calhoun, Pee Dee Chapter SCGS, Marion, SC 1999;

!CENSUS:1900;

!DEATH:13 Apr 1903 from Diary of Rev. Simeon Campbell: Cary EDWARDS died April 13, 1903, 85;


!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
...
Rev. David Edwards, second son of "Gold-headed Dick," a capital man, married into the extensive family of the Rogers his wife was a sister of "Captain Tarleton" and of Dew Rogers, both of them before spoken of herein ; by his marriage he had and raised fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters; the sons were Carey, Andrew, David, Richard, Robert and William; the daughters were Harriet, Elizabeth, Sallie, Martha, Nancy, Alice, Emaline and Mary. Of the sons, Andrew, Richard and Robert are dead ; of the daughters, Sallie, Martha, Alice and Emaline are dead ; the dead ones, however, all married and left families.
...
Of the sons of David Edwards, only three survive, to wit: Cary, David W. Edwards, of Mullins, and William.
...
Carey Edwards, the oldest son, married Miss Martha Mace, 5th March, 1845—the writer was at the wedding; four children are the fruits of said marriage, two sons, John and James, and two daughters, Melvina and Jane ???the latter is dead, died in the Asylum. Carey Edwards still survives, an old man, and lives with his son, John; his Wife has been dead many years. James married a Miss Davis, in Wahee; he has a family of four children. Melvina is an old maid, enjoying the sweets of single blessedness. John married his cousin, a daughter of Solomon Bryant, and lives on the homestead of his mother. Elizabeth married John Thompson, of Britton's Neck. Thompson is dead; of his family little is known. Nancy married Asa Pruitt, and removed West many years ago. Mary married, first. Ebb. Smith ; he went into the war and was killed or died of disease has never returned; his widow married George Lane, and between the two husbands raised a considerable family, who are now among our citizens ; the writer knows but little of them. ;

!MARRIAGE:From "The Pee Dee Index" - "Genealogical Abstracts from Marion, South Carolina Newspapers 1858-1886" Abstracted by Gloria Calhoun, Pee Dee Chapter SCGS, Marion, SC 1999;