Documents and pictures relating to Samuel Boyd,                         Susannah Ashley, and their descendants: Copies of original documents: Samuel Boyd died in 1830. The following jpeg files are scans of handwritten estate inventory and related court filings. They are taken from therma-fax (white-on-black) copies and will need to be inverted and cleaned up for best viewing. Samuel Boyd 1 Samuel Boyd 3 Samuel Boyd 4 Samuel Boyd 5 Samuel Boyd 6 Samuel Boyd 7 Samuel Boyd 8 Robert Talbot Boyd (1816-1879) was the youngest child and second son of Samuel Boyd and Susannah Ashley. In 1833 he was made a ward of his brother, James W. Boyd (1807-1884). In 1851 he married Mary Emily Dunham (1830-1917). They were divorced in 1876. Robert T. Boyd - guardianship letter from Telfair County, Georgia court to James Boyd (1833) Robert T. Boyd and Mary Emily Dunham's marriage license, Putnam County, Florida (1851) Robert T. Boyd - steamship license for the St. Johns River, Florida (1878) Robert T. Boyd's heirs - letter to James Boyd (1883) "Mary Emily Boyd's Finest Day's Work" - I wrote this article for a book, The Heritage of Putnam County, Florida (Putnam County Historical Society, forthcoming). Robert T. Boyd's wife, Mary Emily, achieved local fame during the Civil War by thwarting an attack on her town of Palatka, Florida, by a Union gunboat. This account of the incident is taken from her memoir and from U.S. Navy ship logs and records. George Stanislaus Boyd (1856-1940) was the third child (and third son) of Robert T. Boyd and Mary Emily Dunham, and the first of their eight children to survive to adulthood. George S. Boyd's baptism certificate (1856) Typed transcripts of documents and audio files: Williams letters (1810-1816) - This series of transcribed letters was provided to me by Jane Ashley Benson, an Ashley researcher who got them from a linguistics graduate student studying regional (post-Colonial Carolina) speech patterns. The letters are chiefly between Sarah G. Williams and Abner Williams, two cousins of Susannah Ashley Boyd, or between them and their mother, Hannah Williams. The eighth letter is from Elizabeth W. Ashley, Susannah Boyd's sister, to Sarah Williams. The sixth and eighth letters are of special interest, as they contain pointed references to the family of Samuel and Susannah Boyd. Williams letter 1 Williams letter 2 Williams letter 3 Williams letter 4 Williams letter 5 Williams letter 6 Williams letter 7 Williams letter 8 George Earl Boyd Sr. (1899-1996) was the third of eight children and the first son born to George Stanislaus Boyd and Mary Hautense Moseley (1874-1951). George S. Boyd also had three children by his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Goldsby (birth and death dates unknown). A fourth child from that marriage died at birth. George Earl Boyd Sr. interviews (ca. 1993) - The following Word document files are transcripts of audiotaped interviews of Earl Boyd describing his life in Honduras, New Orleans, and elsewhere. The interviewers are his children Robert (BB), Madelyn (MB), and Sylvia (SB); Robert's wife, Hazel Neeld Boyd (HB); and Leonard Brown (LB), the husband of Earl Boyd's youngest sister. The tapes were transcribed by my mother, Grace McElvy (Boyd) Whitecar, Earl's former daughter-in-law. Earl Boyd transcript 1 Earl Boyd transcript 2 Earl Boyd transcript 3 Portraits and photos: Jane Ashley Boyd (1809-1894), second child of Samuel Boyd and Susannah Ashley Charles Irby Shelton (1787-1871), husband of Jane Boyd Dr. Augustus Monroe Boyd (183x-18xx), first child of James W. Boyd and Mary Ann Monroe (1811-1885) Julius Warren Boyd (1834-1930), second child of James Boyd and Mary Ann Monroe These tintypes were in a box of undocumented photos that belonged to George Earl Boyd's sister Hortense Boyd Brown. Does anyone recognize them? Unknown female Unknown male Return to genealogy home page.