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Finding the Edwards was a bit of a task, it took a little searching and intuition. I was looking for Susan 'Susie' Elizabeth Powell's parents; Susie is the wife of Robert Harrow Callis. In the Callis book I have it states that her parents were George and Mattie Powell, it also mentions Carroll Powell as her brother (since he married Robert's sister). With these bits of information I had some places to start.
I began searching on Ancestry, looking up Susie's name (both her full and nickname) and a few hits for censuses popped up for the years when she would have been living with her parents. Since I knew one of her siblings, there was only one possible match that came up with Susie and her brother Carroll, an 1880 census which lists her parents as George W and Cincinnati (which if you are creative enough Mattie could be a shortened version of Cincinnati). Also luckily enough this census contained George's mother, Susan (look a naming pattern! and the reason why they called her Susie), and his brother Victor. So much information on one census, it was really exciting.
Just to add some more proof to the parents, I found a marriage index for Carroll's marriage to Lola (Robert's sister) and it lists both of Lola's parents, George and Mary Callis, along with Carroll's parents, George and Cincinnati Powell. His name is listed as Carroll Edward Powell, which I will come back to if you haven't noticed it yet.
With the first census I identified I knew what I had to look for and I found the 1870 census for George and Cincinnati Powell and it had George's mother Susan again, and then Thomas, his father! Which leads to my next discovery; I found a possible marriage index for George and Cincinnati, and look, both Thomas and Susan are listed as household members, and then there was also a William S and Elizabeth Edwards listed as household members. These had to be Cincinnati's parents and with all this evidence adding up, it just had to be true. Plus, Susie's middle name is Elizabeth, and her grandmother is Elizabeth; clue after clue, so wonderful.
Now going back to Carroll's marriage index, his middle name is Edward, his mother's maiden name is Edwards, yet another naming pattern. After this point I had pretty much proven to myself that I had found the right family.
But of course after all this work I, just recently, found through my grandmother's papers a lot of the information that I strived to get. So Edwards was correct all along.
After this point I hit a wall, I can't seem to find William S Edward's parents or the maiden name of Elizabeth. There is a far stretch possibility in the Mathew's Tombstone book that I have, but some of the names are very misspelled (even though some dates are somewhat correct). Until I can find more proof about this I cannot verify it.
Sources:
I began searching on Ancestry, looking up Susie's name (both her full and nickname) and a few hits for censuses popped up for the years when she would have been living with her parents. Since I knew one of her siblings, there was only one possible match that came up with Susie and her brother Carroll, an 1880 census which lists her parents as George W and Cincinnati (which if you are creative enough Mattie could be a shortened version of Cincinnati). Also luckily enough this census contained George's mother, Susan (look a naming pattern! and the reason why they called her Susie), and his brother Victor. So much information on one census, it was really exciting.
Just to add some more proof to the parents, I found a marriage index for Carroll's marriage to Lola (Robert's sister) and it lists both of Lola's parents, George and Mary Callis, along with Carroll's parents, George and Cincinnati Powell. His name is listed as Carroll Edward Powell, which I will come back to if you haven't noticed it yet.
With the first census I identified I knew what I had to look for and I found the 1870 census for George and Cincinnati Powell and it had George's mother Susan again, and then Thomas, his father! Which leads to my next discovery; I found a possible marriage index for George and Cincinnati, and look, both Thomas and Susan are listed as household members, and then there was also a William S and Elizabeth Edwards listed as household members. These had to be Cincinnati's parents and with all this evidence adding up, it just had to be true. Plus, Susie's middle name is Elizabeth, and her grandmother is Elizabeth; clue after clue, so wonderful.
Now going back to Carroll's marriage index, his middle name is Edward, his mother's maiden name is Edwards, yet another naming pattern. After this point I had pretty much proven to myself that I had found the right family.
But of course after all this work I, just recently, found through my grandmother's papers a lot of the information that I strived to get. So Edwards was correct all along.
After this point I hit a wall, I can't seem to find William S Edward's parents or the maiden name of Elizabeth. There is a far stretch possibility in the Mathew's Tombstone book that I have, but some of the names are very misspelled (even though some dates are somewhat correct). Until I can find more proof about this I cannot verify it.
Sources:
- 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Mathews County, Virginia, population schedule, Piankatank District, Enumneration District 047, Sheet 483D, Dwelling 32, Family 32; Geo. W. Powell; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 November 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication T9, Roll 1377.
- Sheridan, Christine L., and Elsie W. Ernst. 1988. Tombstones of Mathews County, Virginia, 1711-1986. Mathews County, Va: Mathews County Historical Society.
- McGinnis, Helena Callis. 1998. The Callis Family in England and the USA 1086-1998. Chicago, Illinois: H.C. McGinnis.
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