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Volume VI, Number 3 July/August/Sep 1990

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Table of Contents

Stephen H. Boyett ........................1

Evan Boyett               ........................6
        Isaac BOYETT                  ........................11
        William W. BOYETT    ........................11
        John W. BOYETT    ........................12
        Evan BOYETT    ........................16
        Robert T. BOYETT    ........................16

Note: The following material was written and submitted by Paul Cook of New Jersey. The information and documentation are so well presented (without typographical errors as well) that with minor omissions, the data is presented here as it was furnished.

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EIGHTH GENERATION

BOYETT

The parents of Fannie Williams Boyett Stanton9 were:

FATHER:    Stephen (Steve) H. Boyett8, born in Attala County, Mississippi, probably in April 18391. This date is from information submitted to the Mormons. His new gravestone says 1838, but his brother Elias' gravestone says Elias was born on February 26, 1838. It is therefore very unlikely that Steve was born in 1838 unless they were twins, a contention I have never heard made. On the 1850 Census Steve was said to be twelve and Elias thirteen, but I think this must be taken to mean only that Elias was one year older than Steve.

Steve married Elizabeth Emmaline Makamson in 1859, and the 1860 census shows them living near his parents with eight-month-old Martha and an eight-year-old child. The sex of the latter child on the census has been marked over so that it could be either Male or Female. The name is listed as M. W. Macinson, but we believe this to be Martha Ann Makamson, youngest daughter of Obadiah7 and Mary7 Word Makamson, who was seven at the time.

Roll 287 of the Records of Mississippi Soldiers in the Confederate Army shows that Steve enlisted in Company K, 20th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, Mississippi on March 11, 1862, for the
duration of the war. He was sent to the hospital on May 23, 1863.
and left it of his own accord five days later. He was carried as Absent Without Leave for six months, but on the November-December report this was changed to desertion. The record then shows a form headed,"List of deserters, conscripts and rascals from Attala County, Mississippi supposed to have gone to the swamps." His name is then written and below is a note, "An extremely bad man." From what the record shows this seems a harsh judgment although he seems to have had a reputation for irascibility most of his life.

The oral tradition in the Stanton family says nothing about military service, but rather that his wartime occupation was selling mules to the Confederate Army. This seems very possible as he made his living after the War for many years as a veterinary and was known as Dr. Boyett.   After Emmaline's death he married about 1896 Rose Ann Weems, who was born in Mississippi on December 10, 1852 and died on October 31, 1933 with burial in the

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1.    On the 1900 Census he said he was born in April 1840, and on the 1910 Census he said he was 70. However, on the 1850 Census, he was 12, in 1860, 21, in 1870, 31, in 1880, 41. The evidence points to April 1839.

city Cemetery in Kosciusko, Mississippi.1 Steve died on February 15, 1934 with burial in the Sallis Cemetery in Sallis, Mississippi, thus surviving both his wives.

MOTHER: Elizabeth Emmaline Makamson Boyett8 was born on April 5, 1842, probably in what was called "the 23rd District" of Choctaw county, Mississippi and died probably in Attala County on October 4, 1893 with burial in the Sallis Cemetery in Sallis, Mississippi    Mr. Stanton9 said he didn't know her first name. He may never have met her, but she seems to have been known most of her life as Emma, and her gravestone gives it as Emma E. Boyett.

Elizabeth Emmaline8 was orphaned in October 1857 when her mother died. Her father had died the previous year. The 1860 census of Oktibbeha shows her brother, Charles, then 14, living with Nancy Woodson6 and her brother, Obadiah, then 9, living with "E. Huntley, merchant, guardian for the minor heirs of Mary Makamson, deceased." . Erastus Huntley was the husband of Mary Makamson, a sister of Obadiah7 Makamson. Since Charles and Martha Ann are found living with relatives, the question whether Nancy Woodson6 was in some way related to the Makamsons is raised.

CHILDREN:    All born in Mississippi, probably in Attala County.
By Stephen8's first marriage to Elizabeth E. Makamson8:
1.    Martha Boyett, born 1859. She married before 1874 John L. Dickson (Dickerson on the 1880 census). He was born in Mississippi in October 1855. Martha died before she was forty, and John married Linnie L., born in Mississippi in September 1872, and thus two years older than John's oldest daughter. We do not know when Martha died, but suggest that it was either in the sir year break in births between 1883 and 1889 or in the five year break between 1891 and 1896, the second being more likely because of Linnie's youth. Accordingly, we do not know which are Martha's children and which Linnie's. The children of John (all born in Mississippi) are:

        A.    Caladonia Dickson, born 1874.

        B.    Allie Dickson, born in November 1877, married craft and lived in Kosciusko.

        C.    Annie B. Dickson, born in October 1879.
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1.    Her full name and dates were furnished by her granddaughter, Mrs. Bettie S. McCool, who copied them from the gravestone. Mrs. McCool says the gravestone gives the year of birth as 1852. The 1900 census shows her birth date as December 1862. in 1910 she said she was 45. However, she had a child, Stephen, in 1904 when, if she were born in 1852, she would have been 52. This does not seem likely.

        D.    Levi C. Dickson, born in September 1881.

        E.    Nellie E. Dickson. born in August 1883, married Bill Bailey and lived in Zama, Mississippi.
        F.    Essa Dickson (a son), born in June 1889.

        G.    Katie E. Dickson, born in August 1891.

        H.    Jack Dickson, born in August 1896.

        I.    Clide B. Dickson, born in September 1898.

2.    Maud (or Maudin) Boyett, born 1866. She was four years old on the 1870 Census and thirteen years of age on the 1880 census. The IGI gives her birth as 1866, but this may have been taken from the 1870 Census. Nothing further has been found.

3.    Anna Holmes Boyett, born November 21, 1869, married John Thomas Simpson and died on March 4, 1957 with burial at the Sallis Cemetery. They had six children:

        A.    Kosy Simpson.

        B.    Earnest Simpson.

        C.    Spurgeon Simpson.

        D.    Mammie Simpson Turner.

        E.    Della Simpson married twice, first to Holman, and second to Weems. She had no children by either marriage.

        F.    Charles Dee Simpson never married.

4.    Emma Boyett, born 1873, married Joseph Musselwhite and had ten children:

        A.    Ellie Musselwhite married first, Walter Paul Coleman and had one son:

                1.    Walter Paul Coleman, Jr. born 1916, who lived in Kosciusko, married Mary Virginia Taylor and died on April 19, 1990 with burial in the Parkway Cemetery in Kosciusko. They had one son, James Coleman of Janesville, Wisconsin, who has a son, Walter Paul Coleman, III.

Ellie then married V.L. Watson by whom she had another son:

                2.    J. C. Buckley of Roswell, Georgia.

Ellie became ill with tuberculosis and before she died in 1920, she put the two boys up for adoption. which explains the change in Buckley's name.

        B.    Lottie Musselwhite married Welden Oaks. They had four children who live around Cruqer, Holmes County, Mississippi.

        C.    Mae Musselwhite married Easley. They had seven children, including Gene and Annie Ruth who are schoolteachers in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Lena Mae Musselwhite who married Ospelall, a Gulfport, Mississippi Ford dealer.

        D.    Annie Musselwhite married McKee. They had no children.

        E.    James K. Vardam Musselwhite, born September 30, 1903 and died June 30, 1985. He married Pearl Kettle
They had six children who live in the Springdale Community, Attala County, Mississippi.

        F.    Benson Musselwhite married Purvis Stevens. They had one son.

        G.    Fannie Musselwhite married Eddie Kinsey. They had nine children. She lives with one of her sons in Memphis,
Tennessee.

        H.    Steven Musselwhite married Lucy Powell. They had two children. He lives near Durant, Mississippi, which is just west of Sallis.

        I.    Marie Musselwhite married first, Machoward and had one son, and married second, Steve Toubby and had another son.

5.    Fannie Williams Boyett born on December 8, 1876, married Stonewall Lee Stanton9 November 15, 1896 and died in Choctaw County, Mississippi on September 22, 1897 thirteen days after the birth of their only child, Fannie Laverne
Stanton10, the mother of Marjory Biggart Cook11. Mr. Stanton said that he remembered her dancing around the room with her baby in her arms the night before she died. Her grave is at the Wake Forest Baptist Church Cemetery in Sturgis, Mississippi.

6.    David Boyett, born 1878. He appears on the 1880 Census with his age given as two years. We have found nothing else. He either died or left the state before 1900.

7.    Florence Boyett, born in 1982, married twice, and died in
1934 with burial in the Sallis Cemetery. By her first marriage to Rule she had three children, Virginia Rule and two sons. By her second marriage to Cummings she had several children.

By Stephen9's second marriage to Annie Weems:

9.    Meredith Weems Boyett, born September 5, 1897. His wife's name was Dorothy. They had no children and Dorothy has died.

10.    Zelda Boyett, born February 16, 1900, married Charlie Bentley Sims (March 13, 1892 - April 7, 1959) and died July 9, 1979. They had nine children. Zelda and Charlie are buried at the Carson Ridge Cemetery in Attala County, Mississippi.

11.    Stephen Boyett, born in 1904, died about the age of seventeen. He, of course, never married.

SEVENTH GENERATION

BOYETT

The parents of Stephen H. Boyett8 were:

FATHER: Evan Boyett7, born in Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina September 15, 1803, married Millie Wallace in 1835 in Mississippi, died December 31, 1890 in Attala county, Mississippi. The fact that there are four brothers living in the same county and that they seem to have married in Mississippi suggests that their father migrated from North Carolina when they were minors.

MOTHER:    Millie Wallace Boyett7, born in Mississippi on April 12, 1815, and died in Attala County on August 11, 1985. We have not found her parents who she consistently says were both born in Mississippi although this is historically difficult.

Evan and Millie are buried near their daughter, Hannah, in the Brooks-Rimmer-Davis-Dean Cemetery in Kosciusko, Mississippi. The cemetery is on Route 14 on the left as one travels from Kosciusko to Louisville, not far beyond the road to Williamsville.

CHILDREN:    All born in Mississippi.

1.    Hannah Boyett, born on November 2, 1836, married about 1853 Isaac Newton Dean (IGI), born on November 20, 1822 in Anderson, Indiana and died November 3, 1900 in Attala County, Mississippi. The papers found in Kosciusko suggest that his mother was an Anderson and that the actor, James Dean is descended from this family. Hannah died on September S, 1871, before either of her parents. Her father's will mentions a granddaughter who was Hannah's daughter. Hannah is buried in the Brooks-Rimmer-Davis-Dean Cemetery just east of Kosciusko. Her grave is beside those of her parents. We did not see Isaac's grave although the records say it is there. The children of Hannah and Isaac were:

A.    Ellisay Dean, born November 20, 1852, married at Kosciusko on January 29, 1871 George Washington Clark, Jr. He was born at Kosciusko on May 31, 1849. His mother was Caroline Winters. Ellisay died on March 22, 1940 and is buried in Rosebud, Texas. Their children were:

    1.    Isaac Cass Clark, born on January 29, 1872 at Kosciusko. If this date is right, the boy was born on the parents' first wedding anniversary

    2.    Daniel Curtis Clark, born on January 29, 1875 at Kosciusko (that date again)!

    3.    James Alvin Clark, born on December 7, 1878 at Kosciusko.

B.    Louella Dean, born 1856, married Alvin Clark, born in 1852, a brother of George Washington Clark, Jr.

C.    Margaret j. Dean, born February 17, 1859, married William Dixon Brooks, born July 22, 1832 and died May
5, 1903. He was the son of Joshua James Brooks and Sarah Smith. Margaret died on April 28, 1952 and both are buried at the cemetery of the Jerusalem Baptist Church between Kosciusko and Smyrna, Mississippi. They had at least one daughter, Reatha, who married her cousin, Hatlie Clark, son of Margaret's sister, Ellisay. Hatlie is described as "the youngest son of G.W. Clark, Jr." but we do not know whether this means he was James Alvin Clark or not.

D.    Exartes Dean (female), born 1860.

E.    Ellen D. Dean, birth date unknown, but the family group sheet lists her in this order. She married three times, first to J. Phillips and third to Cobb.

F.    Isaac (Ike) Dean. An Isaac Dean married Sarah Johnson in Jefferson County, Mississippi on January 17, 1882, but we do not know whether it was the same Isaac.

C.    Eswin W. Dean, born May 23, 1862, married Elizabeth Holland and died April 4, 1947 with burial at the Brooks-Rimmer-Davis-Dean Cemetery.

H.    Carrie Dean, born 1864, married Fed Pleillet on February 26, 1882.

2.Elias W. Boyett, born February 26, 1838, married in 1860 Jane V. Makamson, born December 16, 1838, daughter of Obadiah and Mary Word Makamson7 and sister to Elizabeth Emmaline Makamson8, wife of Elias' brother Stephen Boyett8. Elias served as executor of his father's estate. Elias died on April 26, 1926 and Jane on December 31, 1906. Their graves are in the cemetery of the Jerusalem Baptist Church between Kosciusko and Smyrna, Mississippi. Their children, all of whom were born in Mississippi, were:

A.    Louisa Boyett, born January 16, 1860, married Charles Thrasher and died on February 3, 1947. Mr. Fedrick has her first name as Luvenia.

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1.    Obadiah Makamson was born in South Carolina in 1808 and died in Mississippi in October 1856. His father was James Makamson, born in South Carolina about 1776 and died in Winston County, Mississippi in 1851. James' father was Andrew Makamson who was born in Ireland and came to South Carolina about 1772. He died there between 1810 and 1820.

B.    Wallace C. Boyett, born January 27, 1862, married in 1884 Lucy Allison, born in Mississippi in February 1868.    Their children were:

    1.    Elroy W. Boyett, born March 1885.

    2.    William G. Boyett, born January 1888.

    3.    Charlie D. Boyett, born December 1889.

    4.    Lydia E. Boyett, born January 1892.

    5.    Alva C. Boyett, born January 1895.

    6.    Lonnie W. Boyett, born January 1898.

C. Maude Tennessee Boyett, born July 28, 1863, married Alvin Jack Culpepper and died on June 23, 1936.

D.    Rutha J. Boyett, born August 21, 1865, married Joel Clinton Sills, born at Kosciusko on January 23, 1862, the son of Needham James Sills and Louise Hobby. Rutha died on August 31, 1956. Joel died January 13, 1910. They are buried at the Jerusalem Baptist Cemetery.
They had two sons:

    1.    Clarence Sills, born on February 20, 1902 in Attala County.

    2.    Emmette Wilson Sills, born on June 6, 1903 in Attala County.

E.    Mary Annie Boyett, born April 2, 1867, married Charlie
Johnson and died August 23, 1949. (Jerusalem cemetery.)
Note that Mary Annie's cousin Isaac Dean also married a
Johnson.

F.    Lizzie Alice Boyett, born March 18, 1869, married Robert Smith and died January 23, 1945. (Jerusalem cemetery.) After the death of his wife, Elias W. Boyett lived with Lizzie Alice.

G.    Charles Wilson Boyett, born May 11, 1871, married on April 5, 1890, Nancy Jane Poole who was born in Mississippi in June 1876. Charles died on December 19, 1965 and Nancy on December 7, 1951. Their children were:

    1.    Eunice Eastell Boyett, born February 22, 1893, married before 1910 Jesse Clinton Boyd, born April 15, 1887. Eunice died on May 9, 1970 and Jesse on March 13, 1976. (Jerusalem Cemetery.)

    2.    Vida B. Boyett, born February 3, 1895. She married a man surnamed Ray and died in childbirth

September 23, 1918. Her grave is marked, "Vida Boyette Ray and Infant". (Jerusalem Cemetery.)

3. Clarence Edward Boyett, born February 16, 1897, married Ella Hugh Ferguson on October 19, 1917.

    4.     Charley E. Boyett, born November 1899.

    5.     Ida M. Boyett, born in 1902.

    6.     Fred C. Boyett. born in 1903.

    7.     Clyde L. Boyett, born 1906.

    8.     R. B. Boyett, born in 1908.

    9.     James David Boyett, born November 11, 1911, married Mary Kate ----- born December 5, 1914. James died September 8, 1962 and Mary Kate on May 27, 1976. That Charles and Nancy were his parents is taken from the IGI.

3.    Stephen H. Boyett8 (q.v.)

4.    Wallace P. Boyett, born in 1841, died in 1842.

5.    Sarah Jane Boyett, born in 1843, married first, Thomas Simpson on June 21, 1872 and second, Jake Sulton. Sarah died on September 14, 1938.

6.    Millie Ellen Boyett, born January 17, 1845, married on June 27, 1872 as his second wife, David Pearson Smith, the widower of her cousin, Margaret Ann Boyett, daughter of John Boyett. Millie died September 14, 1938 and David on March 17, 1910. They had nine children. Four did not live long enough to be named. Three sons died before the age of four. The two who survived were:

        A.    Ada C. Smith, born April 27, 1873, died November 19, 1992. Her grave is at Sallis.

        B.    Sallis Freeman Smith, born December 1, 1878, married on December 27, 1911 at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, Fay Walker who was born in Lawrenceburg on March 20, 1877. Sallis Smith was a physician and perhaps practiced in Sallis. They had one daughter, Frances Clyde Smith who was born at Sallis on October 1, 1913 and married George Archie Chancellor at Ackerman on September 12, 1933. Sallis Smith died on September 9, 1919 and Fay died in Mobile, Alabama on March 7, 1951. Both are buried at Sallis.

7.    Evan L. Boyett, born in 1847. He was killed in the Civil War and so is not mentioned in the will which was written after his death.

8. Samuel Boyett, born in 1849, married Miss Crosby. The will refers to a daughter-in-law who is the widow of Samuel Boyett.

Note: the family of Elias Wilson Boyett has apparently adopted the form "Boyette". I have not followed this for the sake of consistency.

The basis for this entry is: 1850 U.S. Census of Attala County, Mississippi, Roll 368, item 1102-1104. It appears in the index under "Boyath, Evan." Also, 1860 U.S. census of Attala county, Roll 577, Item 615-680. The geographical reference is Township 15, Range 8 E. Also Attala County (Mississippi) Wills, Roll 30. Also 1988 IGI for Mississippi and family sheets submitted to the LOS by Jessie Lane Fedrick of Scottsboro, Alabama, a great-great-grandson of Elias Wilson Boyett. Also gravestones in Attala county, Mississippi, unpublished material in the Attala County Library in Kosciusko, Mississippi, and A Place Called Sallis
by Anne Hughes Porter.

SIXTH GENERATION
BOYETT

The parents of Evan Boyett7 were:

FATHER:    Isaac Boyett6.

MOTHER:    Unknown.

CHILDREN:

Note:    There is material in the Attala County Library in Kosciusko, Mississippi that indicates William, Evan and Robert Boyett may have been brothers of John Boyett. I think the evidence demonstrates that John and Evan were brothers. They appear to have come directly to Mississippi from North Carolina about 1825. William clearly went to Georgia and lived there many years before coming to Mississippi. He is not buried in Sallis. Robert also seems not to be connected with either Evan or John. The fact that they all were born in North Carolina means nothing as there were hundreds of Boyetts in North Carolina, especially in Duplin County. So far, only Evan has definitely been identified as Isaac's son. But the following is what we have found.

1.    William W. Boyett, born May 27, 1794 in North Carolina, married Elizabeth Williamson who was born in Georgia in 1803. He died April 12, 1876 and is buried in a family cemetery near Youth Center Lake in Attala County, Mississippi. A note on the family group sheet of John W. Boyett seen in the Attala County Library in Kosciusko, Mississippi says with respect to the burial place, "Same as Wm. W. Boyett." This is wrong. There is such a cemetery on the map and it is miles from the Sallis cemetery where John is buried. The 1950 Census of Attala County shows three daughters all born in Georgia. The fact of this long Georgia sojourn, when Evan and John apparently came directly to Mississippi from North Carolina, makes me doubt that William is their brother. The daughters were:

A.    Ava A. Boyett, born in Georgia in 1824.

B.    Lavinia Boyett, born in Georgia in 1826.

C.    Elizabeth Boyett, born in Georgia in 1833. Shortly after the 1850 Census she married Hiram Browning, who rust have died before 1860 because she is found with four small children living with her parents in 1860. The children, all born in Mississippi were:

    1.    Louisa Browning, born in 1852.

    2.    William Browning, born in 1953.

    3.    Hester (IGI has Lenora) Browning, born in 1856.

    4.    Martha Browning, born in 1859.

2.    John W. Boyett, born in North Carolina on August 30, 1796. His wife was Margaret Elizabeth Calhoun, born in South Carolina on November 6, 1810. They were married in Mississippi. I believe she was his second wife, the first having died in North Carolina. John and Evan seem to have come to Mississippi between 1824 when Thomas was born in North Carolina and 1829 when Ezekiel was born in Mississippi. John died on August 5, 1872 and Margaret on March 12, 1863. Both are buried at the Sallis Cemetery in Sallis, Mississippi.   John's children were:

By his first wife:

    A. Thomas S. Boyett, born in North Carolina in 1824. I do not know that he was John's son, but at the time he was born William was in Georgia and had a daughter born that year. Evan and Richard are too young to be Thomas's father. Thomas appears on the 1850 Census, single, working as a farm laborer. By 1860 he has married Mary B. born in North Carolina the year after he was, and they have two children John H. (5 years old) and William T. (4 years old) indicating a marriage about 1854. The 1870 information is consistent with this except that Thomas is 49 and William 13. The 1880 information conforms in no respect except Thomas's age. He does not appear again.

    1.    William T. Boyett. On the 1900 Census he said he. was born in March 1852, while we know Thomas's son was younger than that. William may have said this so he would be older than his wife, Mary, who was born in Alabama in December 1853. They had six children, all born in Mississippi:

    a.    Sallie Boyett, born October 1885.

    b.    Jessie W. Boyett, a son, born November 1887.

    c.    Bobby R. Boyett, born October 1889.

    d.    Mosie B. Boyett, a daughter, born December 1891.
    e.    Emmett Boyett, birth date missing.

    f.    Maggie B. Boyett. birth date missing.

By his second wife, Margaret Elizabeth Calhoun Boyett:

B.    Ezekiel William Boyett, born October 22, 1829, died October 29, 1887. He apparently did not marry and is buried at Sallis.

C.    Curtis Y. Boyett, born in 1831. He may have died young as he is not seen again.

D.    James E. Boyett. born August 27, 1834, married Mary F. Teague, born about 1840 in Mississippi. Their children were:

    1.    Jasper H. Boyett, born in July 1858. He married between 1882 and 1892 Della W. Ottensley, born in Mississippi in June 1858. she had a son, Alex A. Ottensley, born in Mississippi in August 1882, so obviously she had been married before. No previous marriage of Jasper has been found. They had one daughter:

        a.    Eva Boyett, born in Mississippi in February 1892.

2.    Tennessee Boyett (a daughter), born in 1864.

3.    Joseph T. Boyett, born in May 1867, lived in Newport, Attala County, Mississippi. He married Beatrice, born in Mississippi in December 1870 (according to the 1900 Census, but her gravestone has 1868.) She died in 1932, and he in 1950. They are buried at Sallis. Their children (all born in Mississippi) were:

        a.    Walter Boyett, born in August 1890.

        b.    Percy Leo Boyett, born in September 1891.

        d.    Earl Boyett, born in March 23, 1895, killed November 10, 1918, the day before the Armistice. He was a private in the 128th Infantry, 32nd Division and is buried at Sallis.

        e.    Elias Boyett, born in December 1896. On the 1910 Census, this position is listed as James C. Boyett.

        f.    Emma R. Boyett, born in November 1898.

        g.    Carolyn (or Evelyn) Boyett, born in March 1900.

        h.    A son born in 1903 whose name we cannot read.

        i.    Obie K. Boyett, born in 1905.

        k.    A son born in 1907 whose name we cannot read.

        1.    Estelle Boyett, born 1909/10.

The father, James Boyett was living with this family in 1900, indicating that the mother, Mary Teague Boyett had probably died. I believe this is he even though his birth date is slightly in error.

    4.    John Boyett, born July 8, 1869.
    5.    James E. Boyett, born in 1871.
    6.    Eliza Boyett. born in 1872.

E.    Jasper N. Boyett, born August 27, 1834, married Georgia E. Burnley March 4, 1861 and died on September 29,     1886. Georgia was born at Sallis on May 28, 1838, the daughter of Henry Terrell and Phaldy Story Burnley, and     died on July 30, 1897. Jasper and Georgia are buried at Sallis. Their children were:

    1.    Oscar W. Boyett, born in 1861, married Mary E. Sallis (February 1865 - 1937) and died in 1948. Both are buried     at Sallis. Their children whom we can identify from the Sallis Cemetery records and from the Census are:

        a.    Fleming Boyett, born February 20, 1890, died June 12, 1890.

        b.    Gladys May Boyett, born March 6, 1892, never married and died November 28, 1981 with burial at Sallis.

        c.    Christine Boyett, born December 1895, never married and died in 1969 with burial at Sallis.

        d.    Nina F. Boyett, born January 1898.

        e.    Paul B. Boyett, born in 1901.

        f   Wirt S. Boyett, born 1904, died 1972.

    2.    Phoebe E. Boyett, born August 24, 1864, married James Monroe McCluskey at Sallis on June 26, 1890.

    3.    Earnest Newton Boyett, born February 11, 1867, married Filorena, born November 1873. They lived in Newport, Attala County. Earnest died on December 11, 1902 and is buried at Sallis. After his death Filorena married Emmet Nalues. Earnest and Filorena had one son:

        a.    Sylvin Boyett, born in September 1898.

    4.    Calhoun S. Boyett, born on July 16, 1870, died September 6, 1872.

    5.    Anna Burnley Boyett, born December 17, 1871.

    6.    Ralph Burnley Boyett, born December 7, 1874.

    7.    Otto Boyett, born in 1878

F.    Joseph W. Boyett, born in May 1836. He first married Elizabeth who was ten years younger than he. Their children (all born in Mississippi) were:

    1.    Louella Boyett, born in 1870.

    2.    John Boyett, born in 1874.

    3.    Joseph A. Boyett, born in 1875.

    4.    Liza Boyett, born in 1877.

    5.    Sophia Boyett, born in 1878.

    6.    Ada Boyett, born in January 1880. She and her father are the only members of the family appearing on both the 1880 and 1900 Censuses, but this makes identification possible.

By 1900, Elizabeth had died and he married very soon Mary J., born in Mississippi in May 1872. She was thus two years younger than Joseph's oldest daughter, Louella.
Their children were:

    7.    Etta Boyett, born December 1881.

    8.    Purlis Boyett (a son), born January 1885.

    9.    Bettie Boyett, born September 1891.

    10.    Fannie Boyett, born October 1892.

    11.    Henry M. Boyett1 born December 1898.

    12.    Nettie Boyett, born in 1901.

    13.    Oscar Boyett1 born 1903.

    14.    Clay Boyett. born in 1904.

    15.    Irene Boyett, born in 1908.

G.    Eliza J. Boyett, born in 1839. The IGI shows a Jane Boyett marrying in Sallis on January 5, 1860 Henry Story Burnley, who was born in Georgia in 1835. Henry was the brother of Jasper Boyett's wife. Jane may well be Eliza because of the middle initial. Henry and Jane have one recorded son:

     1.    Willie Cube Burnley, born on February 13, 1872 at Sallis. He married at Sallis on February 19, 1899 Mary Emma Adcock, born April 25, 1882 at Sallis, the daughter of William Thomas and Sallie Little Adcock. Willie and Mary Emma had a son, Herbert Burnley, born at Indianola, Sunflower County, Mississippi on June 1, 1920.

H.    Margaret Ann Boyett, born on January 12, 1843, married as his first wife, David Pearson Smith, who married second, Millie Ellen Boyett, daughter of Evan Boyett. Margaret died on February 17, 1871, thirteen days after the birth of their son, David, who died on August 3, 1871. Margaret is buried near her parents and David with the other Smith infants in the Sallis Cemetery.

I.    Louisa Boyett,. born in 1846.

J.    Pauline G. Boyett, born in May 1850, married William H. Dodd.

3.    Evan Boyett7 (q.v.).

4.    Robert T. Boyett, born in North Carolina in 1807, married Elizabeth L. (Anderson ?), born in North Carolina in 1828. This is probably a second marriage for Robert. He is as dubious as a brother to Evan and John as William is. He shows in Mississippi on only the 1860 Census. They have living with them Caroline P. Anderson (23) and Julian F. Anderson (19) both born in North Carolina. I can explain these only as Elizabeth's siblings. The children of Robert and Elizabeth (all born in Mississippi) were:
    A    William C. Boyett, born in 1853.

    B.     Edwin E. Boyett, born in 1855.

    C.    Joseph M. Boyett, born in March 1860.

The information for this entry is from IGI and other LDS records and from the Census for the years 1850 through 1910. (1850 Census, Attala County, Mississippi, Roll 368, Family # 302). That John is the son of Isaac6 and therefore a brother to Evan7 comes from the Jessie Fedrick material although Mr. Fedrick does not make that conclusion specifically. A note found at the Attala County Library says that William, Evan and Robert were probably brothers to John and there is a family group sheet to this effect. As our comments indicate we do not take this very seriously.

Querie

BOYT, William C. b Jan.l, 1817 Tenn. d May 25, 1897 Licking. Mo. m Elizabeth Wynn either Nov.21, 1841 or Dec. 22, 1841 Stewart Co. Tenn.
Does anyone know who William’s parents were and when and where Elizabeth Wynn died.

Billye Yager
4331 W. Dailey
Glendale, AZ. 85306