Question: Do you know if your Hugh & Jennett Boyd may have been from Chester Co. PA? It runs in my mind that I saw a marriage for a Hugh & Jennett Boyd there. Jane in Ohio ----- Original Message ----- From: <JodieK444@aol.com> To: <CLANBOYD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:10 AM Subject: [ClanBoyd] Robert H Boyd of Meriwether - Follow up > I think I've found some convincing evidence that Robert H. Boyd of Meriwether > was the same Robert H. Boyd who married Cloretta Gray, and the same Robert > Boyd who was the son of Hugh and Jennett Boyd. After a frustrating search, I > found Benjamin and Julia Boyd White in 1870 in Milton County, GA. Milton County > was north of Atlanta and quite a distance from Meriwether. Milton was merged > into Fulton County in 1932 and no longer exists. > > The convincing part was finding a daughter named Cloretta. Here's the census: > > 1870 Milton Co., GA, Alpharetta P.O., #657/593 > White, Benjamin, 52, wm, farmer, $500/$500, b. GA > White, Julia, 35, wf, keeping house, b. GA (Boy! Did she lie! She was at > least in her 40s.) > White, Ellen, 26, wf, at home, b. GA > White, Robert, 15, wm, at home, b. GA > White, Laura, 11, wf, at home, b. GA > White, Benjamin, 8, wm, b. GA > White, Emerson (????), 6, wm, b. GA > White, Cloretta, 4, wf, b. GA > White, Mary C., 2, wf, b. GA > > And here is the previous census from 1860: > > 1860 Meriwether: (Warnerville P.O., #801/801) > White, B.H., 42, m, farming, $1000/$8000, b. GA > White, Julia, (30 or 39), b. GA > White, Ellen, 18, b. GA > White, Robert, 3, b. GA > White, (I thought it said Nora ... but it was Laura), 2, wf, b. GA > > While this is not hard proof, I believe it is safe to assume Julia Boyd was > the daughter of Cloretta Gray and Robert H. Boyd. That is the first of that > name I have come across. I'm also dropping the Floretta in favor of Cloretta. > > Still would love to hear from descendants of this family and share > information. There is much yet to be discovered. > Judy K. in Newnan > > > ==== CLANBOYD Mailing List ==== > RING OF BOYDS http://k.webring.com/wrman?ring=clanboydwebring&addsite > BOOKS http://clanboyd.info/books/forsale > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=boyd-trees > >