Francis Marion Boyd (1846 - 1910)

Ancestors

Husband of Nannie (Cutrer) Boyd — married 27 Sep 1901 in Magnolia, Pike, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 17 Mar 1910 at age 63 in Walthall County, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Francis was born in 1846. He was the son of William Boyd and Mary Beard.

CSA

Pvt. Francis Marion Boyd (b. Pike County, MS, 1846-d. Walthall County, MS, 1910), Co. A ("Capt. Josephus R. Quinn's Company," raised in Pike County, MS), 14th Confederate Cavalry. Enlisted May 15, 1864, at Summit, Pike County, MS, at age 17.

Present on June 30, 1864, company muster roll. No further records in his military file. [Note: He is listed in some databases as having served in Co. A, 14th MS Infantry, but this is in error.] Buried in the Walter Boyd Cemetery, 2 mi. E of Enon, Walthall County, MS, with marker type (if any) undetermined. (No better directions available.) - Jim Huffman

First Marriage

Francis married Rachel C. Gulledge on September 10, 1866.

Children

1. Bessie C. Boyd (1867 - 1897)
2. Carrie M Boyd Simmons (1867 - 1934) married Thomas Carroll Simmons
3. William Asa Boyd (1870 - 1949) married Margaret Hester Simmons
4. Ernest E. Boyd (1872 - 1913) married Carrie Simmons (1876–1964)
5. Martha (Mattie) Elizabeth Boyd McKinney (1874 - 1908). Mattie married Benjamin F. McKinney c1897
6. Eliza L. Boyd,(1875-1950)
7. Bessie Boyd (1876- 1897)
8. Hiram Boyd (1880 - 1892)
9. Marion Boyd (1882 - 1894)

Who is Theodore* born 1879?

• Listed on *"Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850-1892; 1908-1957

Second Marriage

Francis married Nannie Cutrer on Sept 26, 1901.^[1]

Children

1. Bertha Body Reeves (1903-1976)
2. Eugene Clifton Boyd (1903-1990)
3. Gussie B Boyd (1905-1980)
4. Francis Marion Boyd (1910-1965)

Sources

1. ↑ The Times-Democrat, New Orleans, Louisiana · Friday, September 27, 1901, page 9 newspapers.com link

• "Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850-1892; 1908-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6W-538R : 19 July 2017), F Marion Boyd in entry for Carrie M Boyd, 1885; citing School enrollment, , Pike, Mississippi, United States, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LF-WKS : 12 April 2016), Marion Boyd in household of William Boyd, Pike county, Pike, Mississippi, United States; citing family 435, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GD-G69 : 14 December 2017), Marion Boyd in entry for Wm M Boyd, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4G1-GRN : 16 August 2017), Francis M Boyd, Beat 2, Pike, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 38, sheet 374B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0662; FHL microfilm 1,254,662.

Also in this census: Martha Gulledge, Mother in Law, age 64. and a nephew and Niece, Rachel and William Boyd.

• Find A Grave Memorial# 100892703

• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=coyote1&id=I91484

Acknowledgments

Thank you to George Berthelson for creating WikiTree profile Boyd-2524 through the import of William M Boyd.ged on Feb 27, 2013.

Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by George and others.