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Mobile Boyd (abt. 1839 - abt. 1918)

Mobile Boyd
Born about in Mississippi, USAmap
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Died about at about age 79 in Shady Point, Le Flore County, Oklahomamap
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Biography

Mobile was the child of Caesar Boyd and Sophia Unknown. Mobile passed away about 1900.

Mobile Boyd was a Private in the United States Army. He was also a Chocktaw Freedmen. He was with the 83 Regiment Company C infantry (USCT) United States Colored Troops. He died in Oklahoma and is buried at Brazil Cemetery in Oklahoma LeFlore County.

The 83rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry -- New Organization (2nd Regiment, Kansas Colored Infantry) Organized from 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry December 13, 1864. Attached to 2nd Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to January, 1865. Colored Brigade, 7th Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 7th Corps, Dept of Arkansas, to August, 1865. Dept. of Arkansas to October, 1865.

SERVICE.-Duty at Fort Smith, Ark., till January, 1865. Moved to Little Rock, Ark., January 15-February 4, and duty there till August. Moved to Camden, Ark., August 1-10, and duty there till October 9. Mustered out October 9, 1865. Discharged at Leavenworth, Kansas, November 27, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 32 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 211 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.

He is listed on the African-American Civil War Memorial in Washington DC. His is plaque C-89.


"United States Census, 1910," Kennady, Le Flore, Oklahoma[1]

Mobile Boyd Head Male 68 Mississippi
Erma Boyd Wife Female 56 Arkansas
Nancy Boyd Daughter Female 17 Oklahoma
Janie Boyd Daughter Female 13 Oklahoma

"Oklahoma Applications for Enrollment to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XVC1-CWR : 7 July 2017), Mobile Boyd, 1898-1914; from "Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914," database, Fold3.com (http://wwwfold3.com : 2008); citing case number 1182, NARA microfilm publication M1301 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 73.

Sources

  1. FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML7P-7GJ : accessed 4 September 2018), Mobile Boyd, Kennady, Le Flore, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 153, sheet 9B, family 137, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1258; FHL microfilm 1,375,271.

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