>From EDWARDS List -----Original Message----- From: Tebear0001@aol.com <Tebear0001@aol.com> To: EDWARDS-L@rootsweb.com <EDWARDS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 3:57 PM Subject: [EDWARDS-L] Papers >I have a document that I found in an old box of stuff that I hadn't looked in >for 20 years. I appears to be the last page of a sworn statement prepared for >signature, witness and Notary. I don't remember where this came from and it >is not my EDWARDS. Below is the text of this document. > >"(Great Great Grandfather) Thomas Edwards, born in Wales, October 14, 1690, >married Elizabeth Downing March 12, 1714. Their children's names and date of >birth: Robert, born February 24, 1716; Joshua, born March 12, 1718; William, >born April 9, 1720; Thomas, born July 7, 1723; Leonard, born May,1725; John, >born 1727; Jacob, born 1729; Martha, born1731. > >(Great-GrandFather) John Edwards son of Thomas, born in Scotland in 1727, had >7 sons; John, Owen, Thomas, Joshua, William, Samuel and Arthur. > >(GrandFather) Arthur Edwards, son of John, was born September 17, 1786 on >Manhattan Island or King's Province and died at Osceola, Iowa, April 28, 1866; >Freelove, Arthur's wife, died at Osceola, Iowa in 1869 Age 71 years. They >were the parents of 11 children; Joshua, Owen, Catherine, William, John, >Nancy, Thomas, Able, Polly, Isaac and Elizabeth. > >(Father) William Edwards, son of Arthur and Freelove Edwards was born January >30, 1814 near Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, and died at Grand River, Iowa May 8, >1898, and was the father of 18 children; Catherine, born May 27, 1835; James, >born April 22, 1836, Levina, born September 26, 1837; William born June 8, >1839; Elizabeth born July 10, 1840; Elijah born August 23, 1841; Matilda born >October 12, 1846; Arthur born April 24, 1849; Dennis born October 23, 1853; >David born April 17, 1856; Sarah born November 29, 1859; Rebecca born January >26, 1863; Samuel born April 15, 1865; Julia born April 15, 1865(twin?); Andrew >born March 11, 1867; Isaac born June 26, 1869; Mary born October 23, 1871; >Ellen born October 23, 1871(twin?). > >This is to certify that the above genealogy is correct to the best of my >knowledge and belief and has been obtained from what I believe to be reliable >sources. > .>_________________________ > > STATE OF_____________) > ) SS > ______________COUNTY ) > Subscribed and sworn to before me a Notary Public >within and for said County by_________________________________________this >_____________day of________1925. > > _____ >______________________ > >Notary Public." > >I only have one(1) copy of this document. Please contact my E-mail for >instructions how to obtain this copy. >Thank you, > >Ted Edwards >Tebear0001@aol.com > >