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- !CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1016/1021
David S. Edwards 50 Farmer $2500 Marion
Martha 45
Andrew 23
Elizabeth 21
Richard 19
David 17
Martha 14
Ann 13
Robert 11
Mary 9
William 7
Alice 4;
CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC Marion Twp # 1186 William EDWARDS, 17 (1842/43) born
SC;
CENSUS:1870 Marion Co, SC Reeves Twp # 149 William EDWARDS, 27 (1842/43) born
SC;
CENSUS:1880;
!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
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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.
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Of the sons of David Edwards, only three survive, to wit: Cary, David W. Edwards, of Mullins, and William.
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William Edwards married Miss Nancy Owens, of the Fork. William Edwards, like two of his sisters above mentioned, is afflicted with lunacy, and has been in the Asylum two or three times, but is now at home; he has a family. ;
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