So fun....this is what genealogy is all about! JanC ----- Original Message ----- From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 7:31 AM Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > Once every few years I drive over to my gr. grandfather's Plantation, > Green Plains, in Matthews County. I have really old photos of the > place, of his wife and daughter, of the place before someone with lots > of money gentrified it, sometimes even sit on the porch if no one is > around and view the ice house where, it is told, his sister in law > locked the Yankee soldier in. (Someone said that if all the stories of > Yankee soldiers in ice houses were true there wouldn't have been any > Northern Army left to fight) > > On Jul 11, 2005, at 12:26 AM, Jan Curtis wrote: > > > Anna - that's the fun part of genealogy! > > > > Years ago I went to Va, rented a car & drove all over counties there, > > and I > > went to the VA State Library. I jumped over streams & waded Rivers in > > King > > & Queen Co., Spotslvania, Orange, Botetourt. I found a lot of info, > > and it > > was way cool to walk around my 6th gr.grandfathers original 5,000 > > acres in > > Spots & Orange...1732 land grant. Part of it was shopping centers & > > parking > > lots, but it was interesting to imagine how it was when Anthony owned > > it. > > > > JanC > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <agfoster@headscheme.com> > > To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 9:28 PM > > Subject: Re: [Boyd] BOYDE > > > > > >> There is an LDS Family History Center here in Newport News, VA. I have > >> found some material there that I didn't have before. I had an > >> interesting day: I received a letter from an old colonial parish here > >> in Matthews County, VA saying that they had my gr. grandfather, Asbury > >> McKendree Boyd recorded as buried at a small country church now known > >> as St. James but formerly Trinity Church, part of a larger parish > >> named > >> Kingston. I'd looked for the Trinity Church but since it no longer > >> exists as such couldn't find it. Today my sister and I went to the St. > >> James (formerly Trinity) cemetery and after much searching, sure > >> enough > >> there it was beside his second wife, Mary Mason Roy Boyd. I don't > >> think > >> anyone on this clan ring is connected except collaterally but it's > >> exciting to find something you've just heard about. > >> Anna Grace Boyd Foster > >> > >> > >> ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > >> RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > >> > >> http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > >> trees > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd- > > trees > > > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > > >