Parents:
William Edwards 1825-1894
Rachel Roberts Edwards 1831-1872

Paternal Grandparents:
Barnabas Edwards 1804-died about 1869
Catherine Edwards (?) 1805-died about 1865

Maternal grandparents:
Richard Roberts 1789-1875 (Wayne Co., NC)
Rebecca Hobson 1808-1865 (Wayne Co., NC)

Brothers & Sisters:
Pvt. Barnabas Edwards 1847-1923 (Thomasville, GA)
William Monroe Edwards 1851-1932 (Zion Cem., Horry, SC)
James W. Edwards 1855-1919 (Conway, SC)
John Edwards 1856-died after 1910 in NC.
Doctor Franklin Edwards 1858-1936 (Flo. Co., SC)
Henry C. Edwards 1859-1944 (Flo. Co., SC)
Mary Edwards 1861-unknown death)
Martha Edwards 1863-unknown death)
Rachel Edwards Graham Timmons 1866-1945 (Antioch B.C., Aynor, SC)
John Richard Edwards b. 1870
Eliza Jane Edwards b. 1872

Spouses:
Louisa Eleanor Floyd (married about 1868)
Celia Carolina Johnson (married about 1873)
*Note: These women were 1st cousins.

Gabriel Edwards was born on Christmas Day 1849 in Wayne Co., NC & relocated with his parents & 2 brothers (Barnabas & William) to the Aynor vicinity of Horry, SC to start a turpentine business in the 1850's. He would have 7 more siblings after arriving in Horry District, SC, Aynor vicinity (remember Aynor didn't exist at this time) & 2 more after his parents relocated to Florence, Pamplico, SC.
Served as the first mayor of Aynor, SC in 1913-1917 & again in 1923-1927 for a second term.
Opened the first Ever-Ready Gasoline station in Aynor in early 1900's (Ever-Ready Service Station located on 9th Avenue, Aynor, SC, across the street from Keb & Renee Graham Johnson, Gabriel Edwards was also living in that same house at the time of his death).

Gabriel's footstone was erected in 2000 with his parents names & other historical data listed by Keith Edwards(GG-grandchild).

Obituary (Taken from THE HORRY HERALD, April 1938)
The night of March 15, 1938 the death angel took my loving father, Gabriel Edwards home with Jesus to rest forever more. He was 89 years 2 months & 20 days old when God called for him. Oh dear father how I miss you in this world of sin & pain. But someday I hope to meet you where we never part again.
Dear Heavenly Father I am praying that you will help us all to live right so we will have that assurance that when you call for his children that we will have our robes washed in the blood of the Lamb. So dear brothers & sisters let's pray till God shall call us to that blessed home above, so the family circle will never be broken in that home that God has prepared above.

Submitted by his daughter,
Pearl Lee Edwards Johnson Cook

According to Register of Deeds, Horry, SC, Gabriel Edwards paid $600 for 278 acres in Galivants Ferry Township May 12, 1905.
He also sold 17 acres (at the junction where hwy 219 & Hwy 501 meet) for $3000 in Galivants Ferry Township (in the future town of Aynor, SC) in Nov. 1918.

Bio written by Keith Edwards (gg-grandchild via his son Wyle---James F.---James A. Edwards)