Lucy Ames Edwards and her sister, Cora Ames Byrd, preparing to lead the women of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., on a 1917 march in Washington, D.C., in support of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Jacksonville attorney Thomas S. Edwards, Jr., knew quite a bit about his grandfather, Ray Edwards, who died before the younger Edwards was born.

A wounded WWI veteran and engineer, the senior Edwards moved to Jacksonville with his wife, Lucy Ames Edwards, in the 1930s to run local Civilian Conservation Corps operations. He went on to be founding president of the Duval County Housing Authority (one of the first housing projects in the country), construct seawalls up and down the Florida coast (many of which are still standing), and work on the building of the interstate highway system.

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