Edwards Genealogy of Colonial Virginia

Virgil Anson Lewis Here is another Edwards Heirs mystery solved. The Edwards Heirs Association newsletter claimed that Arthur Edwards, who married Jane Withrow and was buried in Mason County, West Virginia in 1820, was a son of Thomas Nathaniel Edwards Jr. But his actual parentage appears to have already been established by a competent historian using original records quite a while back. They were Hugh and Elizabeth Edwards of Augusta County, Virginia. Per information from his Findagrave memorial : Arthur, a Revolutionary War soldier, was in the battle of "Guilford Courthouse" under General Gates. In 1783, he bought land in the Shenandoah Valley, in Augusta Co, VA. Five years later, he moved to Greenbrier County and joined the settlers in and near Cook's Fort (now Monroe, Co, WV). Isaac, son of Arthur and Jane (Withrow) Edwards, was 10 years old when the family came to Cook's Fort. At that time, there were five children. The rest of the 12, (four boys and eight ...