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Tracy: I think we are certainly dealing with a second marriage in late life, which the Brooks County cousins knew nothing of when I compiled a family history in 1975. To take the family lineage on back, Isaac Edmondson who died in 1810 in Savannah, married to Anne Cox, was the son of John and Mary Barrington Edmondson of Craven County, N.C. John moved to Wilkes County GA about 1784, possibly had a second marriage, too, and died sometime after 1800 at a good old age. John was a son of Joseph Edmondson and his second wife Priscilla of Craven County NC. Joseph died in 1743. Joseph's father was Thomas Edmundson (spelled with a u) of Essex County VA who died in 1715. He was a member of the House of Burgesses for several terms and a man of considerable success and substance. He arrived in VA in the 1660's and was also married twice, first to Ann Gregory and second to Mary, possibly Mary Haile. He had eight sons who scattered to many frontier settlements. The Confederate secret agent from Mississippi is indeed a distant kinswoman through this lineage. One of his descendants who remained in Essex County was a man named John Edmondson, a wealthy planter and public official, who had one daughter Susannah who married Lawrence Lewis, a nephew of George Washington. Susannah died in childbirth,leaving a large estate as her father's heiress to her husband, Mr. Lewis. He served as Washington's secretary for many years and married next Nellie Custis, Martha Custis Washington's granddaughter. George gave them a tract of land near Mount Vernon on which a fine home was built, partly with Susannah Edmondson's money, I am sure. Nellie Custis Lewis was an aunt of Mrs. Robert E. Lee of Arlington.
When you finish your move, please post your family data for me and others. I am really glad to be in touch with a branch of the Brooks County Edmondsons who had faded into Florida with no forwarding address. You must visit Brooks County sometime. The core of the old David A. Edmondson house, where Jeremiah would have grown up, is still there, lived in by a Hiers man who had to tear away some newer parts this year due to termite infestation. Jeremiah was a Confederate soldier as were most of his brothers. Old Bethel Church where they attended is where the family history marker I mentioned is placed. Steve
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