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DuBose Heyward

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Edwin Watkins Heyward

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• • Father of DuBose Heyward — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Savage Heyward Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Louisa Watkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1862 
  • Birth Location:
  • South Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 May 1888 
  • Death Location:
  • Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane Screven DuBose
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Nov 1884 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  (Edwin) DuBose Heyward (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Jeannie DuBose Heyward

• Sources for Edwin Watkins Heyward

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A098657.
  • ² Federal Census, SC, Charleston County, 1870, Charleston Ward 2, p. 78, Image 78 of 120.
  • ³ Federal Census, SC, Charleston County, 1880, Charleston, E.D. 5, p. 31, Image 31 of 38.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/07/2020).
  • ⁵ North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976, Death certificate for son DuBose Heyward.
  • ⁶ South Carolina, U.S., Death Records, 1821-1971, Death record for Edwin Watkins Heyward.
  • ⁷ South Carolina, U.S., Delayed Birth Records, 1766-1900 and Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., Birth Records, 1877-1901, Delayed birth record for unnamed son.
  • ⁸ Heyward, James Barnwell, The Genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon Families of South Carolina, 1670-1900, Atlanta, Georgia: Foote and Davies Company (1905), 175.