Edwards (Peyton Forbes) Family

Peyton Forbes Edwards (1844-1918) was a soldier in the Civil War, lawyer, judge, politician, and Nacogdoches county treasurer.

He was the eldest of eight children of Sarah M. (Forbes) and Haden Harrison Edwards, soldier and legislator. Edwards's grandfather, Hayden Edwards, was a leader of the Fredonian Rebellion (December 1826-January 1827). During the Civil War, Peyton Edwards served in the Fourth Texas Cavalry and in Company A of the Seventeenth Texas Cavalry, Confederate Army.

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