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Edwards County is in the southwest corner of the central portion of Texas. It's situated on the Edwards Plateau between the western counties and the southern ones. The county seat is Rocksprings, a bit northeast of the center of the county. Two other small communities have less than 100 people. The southern part of the county is bordered in the east by the Nueces River. The county contains the headwaters of the Llano, Nueces, and West Nueces rivers.

The earliest inhabitants were Apache and Comanche with the earliest white settlers arriving in about 1760 but only staying about 10 years. Edwards County was created from Bexar in 1858. It was named for one of Stephen F Austin's contemporaries, Haden Harrison Edwards. The county wasn't officially organized until 1883 with Francis Winan's sheep camp at Rocksprings and about 250 setters. The first courthouse was built in 1891.

The county seat was originally Bullhead, which subsequently changed its name to Vance. Rock Springs (now Rocksprings) became county seat in 1891. In 1913, Real County was taken from the eastern section of Edwards County, thus decreasing Edwards County to its present size. [from The Handbok of Texas]

Resources

On-Site

Cemeteries Census Records Families History Local Information Lookups Military Records Obituaries Queries Surrounding Counties Vital Records

Off-Site

Edwards Archives Other TXGenWeb Counties Portal to Texas History Query Board

Communities

Barksdale
Bullhead/Vance (g)
Carta Valley
Hackberry
Rocksprings

Publications

History Books

Breaks of the Balcones, by Allan A. Stovall, Firm Foundation Publishing Co., Austin, TX 1967
Nueces Headwater Country, by Allan A. Stovall, The Naylor Publishing Co., San Antonio, TX, 1959
A History of Edwards County, Rocksprings Women's Club Historical Committee, Anchor Publishing, San Angelo, TX 1984

Family History Books

with information on Edwards County Families
The Stephen Lacy Family of Goochland County, Virginia, by Hazel Potter Lawler, Privately Published, 1981
The Thomas Lacy III Family of Hanover and Buckingham Counties, Virginia, by Hubert Wesley Lacey, edited by Howell Edison Lacy, privately published, 1983
The William and Elliott Lacy Families of New Kent and Chesterfield Counties, Virginia, by Hubert Wesley Lacey and Howard Elton Lacey, privately published, 1996
The Yancey Family Genealogical Register, compiled by Dennis J. Yancey, privately published, 1994