Below I have posted what I have on this family. If you can add to it, I would appreciate it John Descendants of Joshua H. Byrd Generation No. 1 1. JOSHUA H. BYRD was born in Lenoir County, North Carolina, and died October 10, 1848 in St. James Island, Franklin County, Florida. He married OLIVIA UNKNOWN. She was born March 05, 1791 in Lenoir County, North Carolina, and died December 06, 1853 in Wakulla County, Florida. Notes for JOSHUA H. BYRD: He was a drummer boy in the War of 1812 with his brother Nathan who was a Lt. Died while on St. James Island, reason why he was there is unknow. His body was carried back for burial in the Parish Cemetery, Miccosukee, Leon County, Florida Notes for OLIVIA UNKNOWN: 1850 Wakulla County, Florida Census: 205 Olivia Byrd 57 N.C. Mary A. 25 N.C. Benjamin F. 22 Fl Isaac F. 19 Fl Louisanna C. 17 Fl Burial: Parish cemetery, Micoukee, Leon County, Florida "Mrs. Olivia Byrd, born in Lenoir County, N. C., died in Wakulla County, Dec. 6, 1853." Children of JOSHUA BYRD and OLIVIA UNKNOWN are: 2. i. WAISTELLE A. C. BYRD, b. Abt. 1821, North Carolina. 3. ii. ROBERT F. BYRD, b. Abt. 1824, North Carolina. iii. MARY A. BYRD, b. Abt. 1825. 4. iv. BENJAMIN F. BYRD, b. Abt. 1828, Florida. 5. v. EVELYN M. BYRD, b. March 21, 1829, Lenoir County, North Carolina; d. March 06, 1855, Wakulla Cpunty, Florida. vi. ISAAC F. BYRD, b. Abt. 1831, Leon County, Florida; m. MARY E. STROMAN, December 20, 1855. vii. LOUISANNA BYRD, b. Abt. 1833. Generation No. 2 2. WAISTELLE A. C. BYRD was born Abt. 1821 in North Carolina. He married ELIZABETH F. UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1831 in Florida. Notes for WAISTELLE A. C. BYRD: 1850 Wakulla County, Florida Census: 203 W.A.C. Byrd 29 N.C. Elizabeth 19 Fl Robert A. 3 Fl Joshua W. 1 Fl Children of WAISTELLE BYRD and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN are: i. ROBERT A. BYRD, b. Abt. 1847. ii. JOSHUA W. BYRD, b. 1849. 3. ROBERT F. BYRD was born Abt. 1824 in North Carolina. He married SARAH L.. She was born 1826 in South Carolina. Notes for ROBERT F. BYRD: 1850 Wakulla County Census: 92 Robert F. Byrd 26 farmer N.C. Sarah L. 24 S. C. Eliza Olivia 1 Fl. Child of ROBERT BYRD and SARAH L. is: i. ELIZA OLIVIA BYRD, b. Abt. 1849. 4. BENJAMIN F. BYRD was born Abt. 1828 in Florida. He married SARAH C. STROMAN December 13, 1854 in Leon County, Florida. Notes for BENJAMIN F. BYRD: Living in Decatur County, Georgia in 1872. Child of BENJAMIN BYRD and SARAH STROMAN is: i. LEONORA BYRD, m. CHARLES A. MYER, November 17, 1872, Decatur County, Georgia. Notes for LEONORA BYRD: The Weekly Floridian, 3 December 1872. "On the 27th ultimo, at the residence of the bride's father, by the Reverend Dr.Towers, C.A.MYER of this city to Miss Leonora, daughter of B.F.Byrd of Decatur county, Georgia. 5. EVELYN M. BYRD was born March 21, 1829 in Lenoir County, North Carolina, and died March 06, 1855 in Wakulla Cpunty, Florida. She married WILEY SCOTT MCGEHEE. He was born in South Carolina. Notes for EVELYN M. BYRD: Obituary Evelyn M. Byrd McGehee A few months since, we were startled by the sudden decease of Dr. W. S. McGehee, who, a few days before, was buoyant with high health, and hope, anticipating perhaps many more years enjoyment of this life's goods. But he was stricken with death. His beloved companion (it was thought) would scarce survive the deep grief which convulsed her delicate frame, as with an earthquake of sorrow. In the wisdom of God she was strengthened, and spared yet a while to her little ones. After the decease of her husband, Mrs. Evelyn McGehee removed, with her two little girls, to Madison County, and became an inmate of the family of Judge J. McGehee, her brother-in-law. On revisiting this county not long since her relations and friends were greatly encouraged, with the apparent improvement of her health; and for the first time in many years, her heart may have been cheered, with the hope, so dear to every mother's heart; that of rearing her own offspring. But alas! Our brightest sunshine is often succeeded, by the darkest night. Whilst enjoying the pleasure of a reunion, with an only sister, to whom she was deeply attached, Mrs. McGehee was attacked by distressing illness (Erysipelas) which terminated in death. In the beginning of the sickness, she assured her friends, she would never recover and besought the sister to take charge of her helpless orphans. Though delirious a great portion of the time, yet the few sane moments vouchsafed her, were spent in supplication and Praise to God. Ere consciousness was mingled in the agonies of death, she requested that her little girls should;d be brought to her. The changing scenes of many years, may obliterate traces of the past. But the fervency of that dying spirit's benediction, the monitions, and pleadings of that mother's anguished heart, for her babies, will never be effaced from the memory of those that witnessed the melancholy scene. Without a single tear, but with a calmness beautiful, as strange, she placed her emaciated hand on the heads of her dear little girls, and gave them a mother's blessing, then with inexpressible pathos, gave them to her sister, as her dying pledge of love. Oh! how tenacious was that mother's love for her children, as she exclaimed in the agony of her heart, oh, that it was the Lord's will I might take them with me! Yet for the love of Jesus, my redeemer, I can part even from them, committing them to my Father's care. May our God, in his abundant mercy draw the hearts of his bereaved relations and friends to that fountain of love all potent in its power to soothe the mourning spirit. May the sister through much tribulation, be purified, remembering the Garden of Gethsemane, may she pray and not lack for strength to perform the sad duty assigned to her. Mrs. Evelyn M. McGehee was born in Lenoie County, North Carolina the 21 March, 18296. Her illness was short, yet her suffering was excruciating, and of the most distressing nature. Her death occurred in Wakulla County, Florida, during a visit to her brother Waitstell Byrd, on the 6th of March, 1855. She was an acceptable member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died in the full fellowship of the denomination. A FRIEND 1850 Leon County, Florida Census: McGehee, W. Scott 33 Physician South Carolina Eveline 22 North Carolina Ann O. 1 Florida Children of EVELYN BYRD and WILEY MCGEHEE are: 6. i. OLIVIA A. MCGEHEE, b. October 11, 1849, Wakulla County, Florida; d. February 04, 1920, Fernandina, Florida. 7. ii. CELIA MCGEHEE, b. Abt. 1840. Generation No. 3 6. OLIVIA A. MCGEHEE was born October 11, 1849 in Wakulla County, Florida, and died February 04, 1920 in Fernandina, Florida. She married WILLIAM NAYLOR THOMPSON I November 22, 1871. He was born Abt. 1843 in Virginia, and died September 30, 1896. Notes for OLIVIA A. MCGEHEE: Nassau County, Florida 1880 Census: Thompson, William N. 37 Clerk in RR Office Ann O. 31 Evalyn E. 7 Lucy 6 Scott 3 John M. 1 Obituary Mrs. Olivia A. Thompson Fernandina, Fla., Feb. 6, 1920 At half past ten o'clock on Thursday morning, February 5, a congregation thoroughly representative of Fernandina's best people assembled in the First Presbyterian Church of this city, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Olivia Ann Thompson, who died at her residence on seventh street at twenty minutes to four o'clock February 4, 1920. The services were conducted by Dr. Eugene 'Daniels, the pastor of the church, the pall bearers being A.S. Allan, F.H.Hobein,W.H. Seibert, Hinton J. Baker, Ira Hardee, and B.P. Mularkey.The interment was in St. Peter's Cemetery. On the eleventh day of October, 1849, there was born in Wakulla County,an infant whose future life was to be of unusual interest. This little child was the daughter of Dr. Wiley Scott McGehee and his wife, nee Evelyn Bird, both South Carolinians. Dr. McGehee was a surgeon in the United States Army, both in the Mexican and the Indian Wars. In the very early childhood of this little daughter she lost both her parents. She was then adopted and reared as the child of her uncle, Honorable John C. McGehee. Judge McGehee, who was born in 1800 and died in 1881, had become proprietor of a most extensive plantation in Madison County while Florida was yet a territory, and had built a noble mansion, "Chuleotah", the Indian name for "pine hill". The adopted child was ultimately placed in the celebrated Moravian school at Salem, N.C., and remained there'till she was graduated. After the Civil War the foster father resided temporarily at Fernandina. William Naylor Thompson of Fernandina, a citizen of much prominence, was Treasurer of the F.C. and P. Railroad; he also represented Nassau County in the Florida Senate. Senator Thompson and Olivia Ann McGehee were married in 1871. Ever afterward, Mrs. Thompson resided in Fernandina, in the home which she and her husband had built. Here her husband died September 30, 1896, and here also she breathed her life away. Mrs. Thompson was the beloved mother of six children. Two of these went home to God long years ago. The surviving ones are Evelyn Elizabeth, wife of Dr. L. T. Galphin of Havana, Fla., Lucy, wife of R. V. Nolan of Fernandina, Lieut. Scott M.Thompson of Fernandina, and Lewis Glass Thompson, of Tallahassee. Mrs. Thompson was a much loved and useful member of the Presbyterian Church, of which her foster father had been an honored ruling elder. This life of three score years and ten, so full of noble connections and so replete with interesting details, reveals a woman whom her husband could love and reverence, whom her children could almost worship while she lived, and can lovingly remember after she died --- for the touch of whose "vanished hand" her fiiends may long sigh and her church may grieve, yet not without hope. (From a penciled manuscript found among the belongings of Miss Evelyn Galphin, grandaughter of Olivia Ann Thompson, in 1997.) Children of OLIVIA MCGEHEE and WILLIAM THOMPSON are: i. WILLIAM NAYLOR, II THOMPSON. Notes for WILLIAM NAYLOR, II THOMPSON: Oldest child, died when he was three years old. ii. LEWIS GLASS THOMPSON. Notes for LEWIS GLASS THOMPSON: of Tallahassee, Florida iii. EVELYN ELIZAABETH THOMPSON, b. Abt. 1873; m. LAWRENCE GALPHIN. Notes for LAWRENCE GALPHIN: Doctor - of Havana, Florida iv. LUCY THOMPSON, b. Abt. 1874; m. R. V. NOLAN. Notes for R. V. NOLAN: Of Fernandina, Florida v. SCOTT M. THOMPSON, b. Abt. 1877. Notes for SCOTT M. THOMPSON: Lieut. - of Fernandia. Graduate of Naval Academy at Annapolis vi. JOHN M. THOMPSON, b. Abt. 1879. 7. CELIA MCGEHEE was born Abt. 1840. She married WILLIAM H. POPE. He was born Abt. 1830 in Georgia. Notes for CELIA MCGEHEE: 1880 Nassau County, Florida Pope, William H. 50 Physician Georgia Celia 40 South Carolina Emilie 18 Florida John M. 16 Florida Lula 6 FloridaPhysician Children of CELIA MCGEHEE and WILLIAM POPE are: i. EMILIE POPE, b. Abt. 1862. ii. JOHN M. POPE, b. Abt. 1864. iii. LULA POPE, b. Abt. 1874.