 Birth | December 26, 1870 48 25 |
 Birth of a sister | Addie S Edwards November 7, 1872 (Age 22 months) |
| Death of a half-sister | Mary Elizabeth Edwards about 1874 (Age 3 years) |
| Birth of a brother | James Edwards May 1, 1875 (Age 4 years) |
| Birth of a brother | Elbert Ovie Edwards December 23, 1876 (Age 5 years) |
 Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 7 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Birth of a sister | Milen J Edwards February 8, 1883 (Age 12 years) |
| Death of a father | Andrew Jackson Edwards September 28, 1885 (Age 14 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 27 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 45 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 46 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 47 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Death of a mother | Amanda Latham July 26, 1920 (Age 49 years) |
| Death of a half-brother | William Harrison Edwards July 7, 1926 (Age 55 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 58 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Death of a half-brother | Howell B Edwards July 10, 1933 (Age 62 years) |
 Death | November 27, 1938 (Age 67 years) |