Prudence Gerald

1820 - Aft 1842  (> 23 years)

• Name	Prudence Gerald
  Birth	1810/1820	Horry Dist, SC
  Gender	Female
  _UID	A81C898DD2DAD4118AC4444553540000E9C7
  Death	Aft 1842	Marion Dist, SC
  Person ID	I13668	Marty and Karla Grant
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2012

  
  

  Father	Samuel Gerald   d. Bef 1836, Horry Dist, SC
  Marriage	Horry Dist, SC
  Family ID	F5381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Edwards,   b. 1814/1815, Marion Dist, SC d. 8 Dec 1882, Marion Co, SC (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1836	Marion Dist, SC
  Children	1. Margaret Edwards,   b. 1836/1837, Marion Dist, SC d. Aft 1850, Marion Dist, SC (Age > 14 years)   2. Sarah Edwards,   b. 1839/1840, Marion Dist, SC d. Aft 1850, Horry Dist, SC (Age > 11 years)   3. Levi Henry Edwards,   b. 3 Apr 1842, Marion Dist, SC d. 25 Jun 1918, Marion Co, SC (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F4394	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  !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.