Early Edwards Genealogy From 1895 Shows Edwards Heirs Influence
I recently found scans of a book called Historic Sketches of the Edwards and Todd Families and Their Descendants 1523-1895 . Originally printed in 1895 and updated several times afterward, the book was authored by Georgie Hortense Edwards, a descendant of Haden Edwards (1716-1803). The book was published the same year as C. W. Chancellor's Leaves from the Chancellor--Fitzgerald--Cooper--Edwards Tree and between them represent the earliest texts I've ever been able to find on the Edwards family of Westmoreland County, Virginia. Georgie Edwards wrote that she had traced her Edwards ancestry back to Richard Edwards, who was born in 1523 and, she claims, "great grandfather of Haden." On page one she already makes reference to "Edwards Hall" (red flag), the immigrant brothers myth (red flag number two), and claims that "Benjamin, son of William Edwards, married Ann Harrison, daughter of William Henry Harrison's great grandfather." This is an inte