Wade & Webb Family History

John T. Edwards1853–1910

Alabama · Eclectic

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Sources
  4. Notes

Birth

  1. 4 Dec 1853 Alabama 1, 3

Marriages

  1. 22 Mar 1869 Nancy Ann Willingham, at Tallapoosa, Alabama 2, 3
  2. 25 Mar 1869 Nancy Ann Willingham, at Tallapoosa,Alabama 2

Death and burial

  1. 1910 Burial: Eclectic, Elmore, Alabama
  2. 25 Mar 1910 Death: place not recorded 8

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 22 Mar 1869
Nancy Ann Willingham 1838–1900
Children
Robert Vehulan Edwards 1873–1956
James Deara Edwards 1869–1938
Crawford Eulious Edwards 1876–1958

Line of descent Webb line

  1. John T. Edwards
  2. Husband of Nancy Ann Willingham
  3. Martha Holland Willingham
  4. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  5. Lila Walden, daughter
  6. Hilda Webb, daughter
  7. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Husband of 2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

John T. Edwards, whose Find a Grave memorial gives his name as John Thomas Edwards, was born in Alabama on 4 December 1853, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for the date.1 In March 1869 he married Nancy A. Kimbrough, born Nancy Ann Willingham, the widow of Asbury Morgan Kimbrough, in Tallapoosa County, Alabama; the indexes give the marriage as 22 March and as 25 March 1869, and the tree carries both dates.2 Inference The tree's birth date would make him fifteen at the marriage, and Nancy, born in 1838, fifteen years older; so young a groom is unlikely, and the birth date, which has no source, is probably wrong; his age in the censuses of 1880 and 1900 would test it.3 The federal census of 1880 recorded John T. Edwards with Nancy in his household, at Chana Hatchee in Elmore County, Alabama, by the tree's placing.4 The tree names three sons: James Deara (born 1869), Robert Vehulan (1873) and Crawford Eulious (1876).5 He was named as J. T. Edwards in the marriage record of his son J. D. Edwards and Lula Harris on 1 December 1889.6 In 1900 the census found John Edwards in Precinct 15, Eclectic, Elmore County, with Nancy, who died that October.7 He died on 25 March 1910 and was buried at Eclectic, according to the tree, which gives no place of death.8 The Alabama death records of his sons James D. Edwards Sr., in 1938, and Robert Vehulan Edwards, in 1956, name him as father.9

Sources

Every FamilySearch record attached to John T. Edwards.

  1. 22 Mar 1869Jno T Edwards, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  2. 1869John T Edwards, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 25 Mar 1869John T Edwards, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 25 Mar 1869John T Edwards, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  5. 25 March 1869John T. Edwards, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  6. 1880John T Edwards, "United States Census, 1880"
  7. 01 Dec 1889J. T. Edwards, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  8. 1 Dec 1889J. T. Edwards, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  9. 1900John Edwards, "United States, Census, 1900"
  10. 1938J T Edwards, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  11. 1956John Edwards, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  12. John Thomas Edwards, "Find a Grave Index"
  13. 22 Mar 1869Nancy A Kimbrough, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94H4-P6R: birth 4 Dec 1853, Alabama, no source attached "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, John Thomas Edwards. Record: John Thomas Edwards, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  2. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Jno T Edwards and Nancy A Kimbrough, 22 Mar 1869. Record: Jno T Edwards and Nancy A Kimbrough, 22 Mar 1869 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, John T Edwards and Nancy A Kimbrough, 25 Mar 1869. Record: John T Edwards and Nancy A Kimbrough, 25 Mar 1869 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, John T. Edwards, 25 March 1869. Record: John T. Edwards, 25 March 1869 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94H4-P6R: marriage 22 Mar 1869, Tallapoosa, Alabama, and 25 Mar 1869, Tallapoosa FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LW62-MFZ (their page): widow of Asbury Morgan Kimbrough back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94H4-P6R: birth 4 Dec 1853, no source attached FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LW62-MFZ (their page): birth 1 May 1838 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Jno T Edwards and Nancy A Kimbrough, 22 Mar 1869. Record: 22 Mar 1869 back to the text
  4. "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, John T. Edwards, 1880. Record: John T. Edwards, 1880 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Nancy A. Edwards in entry for John T. Edwards, 1880. Record: Nancy A. Edwards in entry for John T. Edwards, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LW62-MFZ (their page): residence 1880, Chana Hatchee, Elmore, Alabama back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94H4-P6R: children of John T. Edwards and Nancy Ann Willingham back to the text
  6. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, J. T. Edwards in entry for J. D. Edwards and Lula Harris, 01 Dec 1889. Record: J. T. Edwards in entry for J. D. Edwards and Lula Harris, 01 Dec 1889 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, J. T. Edwards in entry for J. D. Edwards, 1 Dec 1889. Record: J. T. Edwards in entry for J. D. Edwards, 1 Dec 1889 back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, John Edwards, 1900. Record: John Edwards, 1900 "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Nancy A Edwards in entry for John Edwards, 1900. Record: Nancy A Edwards in entry for John Edwards, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94H4-P6R: residence 1900, Precinct 15 Eclectic, Elmore FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LW62-MFZ (their page): death 30 Oct 1900 back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 94H4-P6R: death 25 Mar 1910, no place; burial 1910, Eclectic, Elmore, Alabama back to the text
  9. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, J T Edwards in entry for James D Edwards Sr., 1938. Record: J T Edwards in entry for James D Edwards Sr., 1938 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, John Edwards in entry for Robert Vehulan Edwards, 1956. Record: John Edwards in entry for Robert Vehulan Edwards, 1956 back to the text