Sarah Genette Edwards

Sarah Genette Edwards

• Father: William Edwards b. 31 July 1752, d. 14 January 1828
• Mother: Sarah Gennette b. 31 March 1752, d. 21 January 1826

• Sarah Genette Edwards was born on 4 October 1788 in North Carolina.
• She was known as Sally.
• She married William Howard Douglass, son of Edward Douglass and Elizabeth Howard, on 21 January 1810 in Sumner County, Tennessee, and Sarah's sister Elizabeth married William's father's brother Reuben Douglass.
• On 20 October 1827, William Edwards prepared a will, summarized as follows: leaving bequests to his daughter Loveny Mitchell, grandson Prestley Hassell, granddaughter Charlotte Green, Harriett Looney, and four children of his deceased son William Edwards (Montalbot, Richard, William and Malvina), with the entire residue of his property to his youngest daughter Sally Douglass; he appointed his two sons-in-law, Reuben Douglass and William H. Douglass, executors. The will was recorded in Sumner County, Tennessee, during the February term, 1828. [Although the first bequest apparently has no recipient, likely it was his eldest daughter Elizabeth who is otherwise unmentioned, although her husband Reuben is named one of the executors.]
• Sarah Genette Edwards appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Sumner County, Tennessee, enumerated next to Cullen Douglass and his family.. Other members of the household included William Edwards Douglass.
• Cullen Edwards Douglass and Harriet Newell Bain appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Sumner County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Sarah Genette Edwards, Henryetta L. Douglass, Sallie Douglass, William Howard Douglass, Eliza Douglass, Nancy Donal Douglass, Juliet Douglass and Robert Boyers Douglass. Daughter Delia, age 13 in the 1870 census, is missing from the household.
• Sarah Genette Edwards died on 5 May 1865 at age 76.
• She was interred at Douglass family cemetery, Sumner County, Tennessee, near Gallatin.

• Last Edited: 4 Feb 2013