EDWARDS, Andrew Jackson

  Noted events in his life were:

• Fact 1. 2 sources on Andrew Jackson Edwards Revolutionary War record.

1st Source
Private In Capt. Charles Fleming's Co. 7 VA Regiment in the Revolutionary War.
From researcher James Haywood - June 12, 2001

Ref: 976.8..........D 265. (I think that is a library ref.)

Membership Roster and Soldiers
TheTennessee Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution 1894 - 1960
Compiled by
Edythe Rucker Whitley
Registrar, Tennessee Society
Published by
The Tennessee Society of the daughters of the American Revolution, 1961

Andrew Edwards -- Born 1752 in VA; Died about 1787 in Cumberland Co., VA.
Married 1773, Phoebe Meadows, born 1744

Andrew Edwards served as Private in Capt. Charles Fleming's Co. 7, VA Reg.
(Vol. 9, page 101 Revolutionary Soldiers of Va.). He resided in Cumberland
Co., VA., during the Revolution.

The children of Andrew Edwards:

Sarah, born 1774
Mary, born 1775
James, born 1777
David, born 1778, died August 28, 1817, married Eva Lazenoe, born 1779, died
1857
Beny, born 1779
Thomas, born 1780
Andrew, born 1782
Betty, born 1785
John, born 1787

Descendants:
Mary E. S. Roberts (A.H.) No. 272400 Ona D. Thornberry (A..H.) No. 336962

These are apparently the descendants that submitted this information.

2nd Source

Andrew and a brother served in the Revolutionary War. According to War Department records and to the book Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, Volume #9, Andrew served as a private in the War in Capt. Charles Flemming's Co. of the 7th Virginia
Regiment commanded by Col. Alexander McClannahan. His name first appears in the company's muster for June, 1777, which shows that he enlisted Feb.2, year not stated. Discharged 2//7/1778. There is a chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, in Centerville, TN,--the Andrew Edwards chapter-- named in his honor.

Andrew married Phoebe MEADOWS, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, in 1773 in Virgina. (Phoebe MEADOWS was born in 1744 in VA.)