David Boyd Jr. (abt. 1802 - 1852)

Born about 1802 in Lincoln [then St. Charles] Co., Missouri [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Baldridge) Boyd — married about 1824 in Lincoln County, Missouri, USA

Descendants

Died Apr 1852 at about age 50 in Jackson Township, Sullivan County, Missouri, USA

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Biography

DAVID BOYD, JR., son of David Boyd, Sr. and Catharine Zumwalt; born in Lincoln (then St. Charles) County, Missouri, in 1801 or 1802, son of David Boyd, Sr., and Catherine Zumwalt. He died shortly before the 5th of April 1852 when the Sullivan County Probate Court ordered that the bond of Wilson Baldridge as administrator of the estate of David Boyd should be approved.^[1] In 1820, he was living in Lincoln County. He married ca. 1823/4, MARY “POLLY” BALDRIDGE, but the exact date and place of their marriage is unknown.^[2] Mary was born in Kentucky or Tennessee,^[3] on 23 February 1805, daughter of John Baldridge, Sr., and Sarah “Sally” Clark.^[4] In 1830 the David Boyd [Boid on the census] family was living in Lincoln County, Missouri: the household consisted of David and Mary with two little boys (Wilson and John Jackson) and one little girl (Sarah), all the children under five. He was a landowner in Lincoln County in 1836, in possession of land grant #310 of Spanish Land Grants. The 1840 census for Clark Township in Lincoln County shows David’s growing family—eight children by then; David and Mary were near neighbors to her brother Wilson Baldridge. The Boyd family removed to newly opened Sullivan County, Missouri, in 1843. Most of Mary (Boyd) Baldridge’s relatives—her father, mother, brothers, sisters, many cousins—from the St. Charles and Lincoln County regions were also moving northwest to Sullivan County in the 1840s. On 3 May 1850, David Boyd, along with John Dennis, witnessed the will of William Stone in Sullivan County.^[5] By 1850, according to the census for Sullivan County, David Boyd, occupation farmer, had acquired land worth $500; all his children, except the youngest (only two years old), had attended school within the year, but his oldest child in the household, John Jackson Boyd, twenty years old, could not read or write. Widow Mary Boyd with her children was listed on the 1860 census for Sullivan County; she remained there with her many relatives, and there she died before 1 April 1865. David and Mary were probably buried in unmarked graves in Elmwood Cemetery.^[6] Letters of administration in the estate of Mary Boyd were granted to her son W.J.N. Boyd on 1 April 1865, Sullivan County, Missouri. Her other heirs, as listed in the probate papers, were John J. Boyd, Robert F. Boyd, D.D. Boyd, Wilson Boyd, Mary E. and Nathan Cordray, Francis and Sarah Wages, and E.E. Emberton.^[7] Estate of Mary Boyd 16 Sept. 1865-13 April 1868 Administrator: W.J.N. Boyd, appointed 31 May 1865. Children: John J. Boyd; Robert F. Boyd; D.D. Boyd; Wilson Boyd, Mary E. & Nathan Cordray; Francis & Sarah Wages; E.E. Emberton Shares: $7.60 apiece.^[8]

David Boyd. Jr. and Mary Baldridge: Chronology of Documents, Sources, and Evidence

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CHILDREN

Children of David, Jr., and Mary “Polly” (Baldridge) BOYD:

• i. WILSON BOYD, b. Lincoln Co., Mo., 3 June 1825; m. EMERIAN HILL.
• ii. SARAH J. BOYD, b. Mo., 1827/8 or 1828/9; m. (1) FRANCIS WAGES; m. (2) JOHN COTTON.
• iii. JOHN JACKSON BOYD, b. Lincoln [then St. Charles] Co., Mo., 20 Sept. 1829; m. (1) SARAH MONTGOMERY; m. (2) MARIAH E. REYNOLDS.
• iv. ROBERT FRANKLIN BOYD, b. Lincoln Co., Mo., May 1831; m. (1) NANCY BALDRIDGE; m. (2) MARY O. VANWYE.
• v. MARY E. BOYD, b. Troy, Lincoln Co., 1832/3 or 1835/6; m. NATHAN CORDRAY.
• vi. WILLIAM JASPER NEWTON BOYD, b. Troy, Lincoln Co., 12 Mar. 1835; m. LUCRETIA C. YARDLEY.
• vii. ELIZA ELLEN BOYD, b. St. Charles or Troy, Lincoln Co., 7 Apr. 1843; m. GEORGE W. EMBERTON.
• viii. DAVID DANIEL BOYD III, b. Sullivan Co., 12 Aug. 1849; m. AMANDA M. FRAZIER.

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David Boyd, Jr. was born about 1803, probably in Lincoln County, Missouri. He was the son of David Boyd, Sr. and Catherine Zumwalt.

David Boyd, Jr. married Mary "Polly" Baldridge about 1824 (their 1st child was 5 years old in 1830).

Census collection: David Boyd, Jr. and Mary Baldridge

In 1830, David Boyd, Jr. and Mary Baldridge were living in Clark Township, Lincoln County, Missouri. Enumerated in the household were:

• Males - Under 5: (1)
• Males - 20 thru 29: (1)
• Females - Under 5: (1)
• Females - 20 thru 29: (1)

In 1840, David Boyd, Jr. and Mary Baldridge were living in Clark Township, Lincoln County, Missouri. Enumerated in the household were:

• Males - 5 thru 9: (2)
• Males - 10 thru 14: (2)
• Males - 30 thru 39: (1)
• Females - Under 5: (1)
• Females - 5 thru 9: (1)
• Females - 10 thru 14: (1)
• Females - 30 thru 39: (1)

On October 1, 1840, David Boyd purchased 40 acres of land in Lincoln County, Missouri.

In August, 1850, David Boyd, Jr. and Mary Baldridge were farming in Jackson Township in Sullivan County, Missouri. His father's real estate was valued at $500.00 ($16,154.23/2018). Enumerated in the household were:

• David Boyd (48)
• Mary Boyd (44)
• John Boyd (20)
• Robert F Boyd (19)
• Mary E Boyd (17)
• William J N Boyd (16)
• Eliza E Boyd (7)
• David D Boyd (2)

David Boyd, Jr. died shortly before 5 April 1852, when the Sullivan County Probate Court ordered that the bond of Wilson Baldridge as administrator of the estate of David Boyd should be approved.^[9]

Notes

David Boyd, Jr. and his father David Boyd, Sr. are frequently listed with the middle name Daniel. This is almost certainly in error. David, Jr. had a son named David Daniel Boyd, but both Jr. and Sr. lived in a time when middle names were quite rare--the primary sources from their lifetimes never gave them middle names. The name "Daniel" (without David) was applied to Jr. in a history of Sullivan County, Missouri, but he was certainly never called by that name. What frequently happens is very simple: researchers look at the son called David Daniel Boyd, for example, and apply his whole name backward to earlier generations; so David Boyd, Jr., gets renamed for his son.

Sources

1. ↑ Sullivan Co. Probates 1845-1857, Vol. A [no pagination].
2. ↑ The IGI reports that they were married in 1823 in Linn, Osage County, Missouri, but the marriage records for that county contain absolutely no references for Boyds or Baldridges. It may be that the couple was said to have been married in Linn County, Missouri, which would make more sense, since Sullivan County was formed from Linn, but the Boyds and Baldridges are not listed in those records either.
3. ↑ On the 1850 census, for a household in which Mary (Baldridge) Boyd was actually present, her birthplace was given as Kentucky. On the 1880 census, four of her children named their mother’s birthplace as Tennessee, while one said Pennsylvania, another North Carolina, another Missouri, Ohio. I should say that someone in the various households of Mary Boyd’s children in 1880 made these statements. Almost all the informants agree that David Boyd was born in Missouri, except one respondent who did not know, and another stating that David Boyd was born in Germany! Mary Boyd’s parents actually lived in Tennessee—if she was born in Kentucky they were simply passing through.
4. ↑ Birth date from the John Baldridge, Sr., family Bible.
5. ↑ Sullivan Co. Will Book A: 7, County Clerk’s office, Sullivan County Courthouse, Milan, Missouri. William Stone’s heirs: son John; dau. Elizabeth Hamilton, wife of R.P. Hamilton; dau. Dicy I. McCarney, wife of William McCarney; dau. Mary C. Reynolds, wife of Noah Reynolds; sons Stephen I., Martin G., and Harvey G. Stone; wife Frances Stone; execs: Harvey G. Stone and my wife Frances; recorded 3 Apr. 1853.
6. ↑ According to my grandmother, when her mother-in-law Lucretia (Yardley) Boyd died in 1910 she could not be buried next to her husband William Jasper Newton Boyd, because gravediggers discovered that the spaces next to him were already filled with unmarked burials.
7. ↑ Probate Papers in the Estate of Mary Boyd, administered by W.J.N. Boyd, Box 6. These papers are on file in the Sullivan County Courthouse, Milan, Missouri.
8. ↑ Sullivan Co. Probate Record Book B: 118.
9. ↑ Sullivan Co. Probates 1845-1857, Vol. A [no pagination].

• Birth
  • 1850 United States Federal Census (born 1802)
• Marriage
  • 1st child was 5 years old in 1830
• Residence
  • 1830 United States Federal Census (Lincoln County. MO)
  • 1840 United States Federal Census (Clark, Lincoln County. MO)
  • 1850 United States Federal Census (District 96, Sullivan County, MO)
• Land Purchase
  • U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907