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Generation 7
7-287. ZELPHA BOATWRIGHT (JOHN3, AMBROSE2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1821 in South Carolina, and died Aft. 1880 in Washington County, Georgia. She married (1) JAMES LAYTON 1838 in Washington County, Georgia. He was born 1812 in North Carolina, and died Abt. 1855 in Washington County, Georgia. She married (2) JOHN HARTLEY Abt. 1857 in Washington County, Georgia. He was born Abt. 1818, and died Bef. 1870.
Notes for ZELPHA BOATWRIGHT:
In 1850 Zelphia is married to James Layton and has 6 children. In 1860 she is married to John Hartley and 5 of those children are living with her with the name of Hartley. In 1860 she also has 3 other children. The largest gap between the children is between Solomon b. 1854 and Melissa b. 1859. So I have guessed that Solomon is James Layton's child and Melissa is John Hartley's.
In 1870 Zelphia is head of HH and her youngest child was born in 1864 so I'm assuming John Hartley died between 1864 and 1870.
In 1880 Zelphia is still head of HH with two children, George and Louisa, still at home.
Children of ZELPHA BOATWRIGHT and JAMES LAYTON are:
i. ELIZABETH J. LAYTON, b. 1842.
ii. JOHN W. LAYTON, b. 1843.
iii. WILLIAM T. LAYTON, b. 1844.
iv. ZELPHA ANN FRANCES LAYTON, b. 1845.
v. JAMES S. LAYTON, b. 1847.
vi. HILLARY M. LAYTON, b. 1849.
vii. MARY A. LAYTON, b. 1852.
viii. SOLOMON B. LAYTON, b. 1854.
Children of ZELPHA BOATWRIGHT and JOHN HARTLEY are:
ix. MELISSA M. HARTLEY, b. 1858.
x. GEORGE W. HARTLEY, b. 1860.
xi. SARAH LOUISA HARTLEY, b. 1866.
7-288. PERMELIA BOATWRIGHT (JOHN3, AMBROSE2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 23 Dec 1823 in South Carolina, and died 01 Jul 1880 in Washington County, Georgia. She married RAIFORD HARTLEY 28 Sep 1841 in Washington County, Georgia. He was born 07 Aug 1819 in Georgia, and died 16 Jun 1886 in Washington County, Georgia.
Notes for PERMELIA BOATWRIGHT:
Permelia's children and ages are from 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census records for Washington Co, GA.
Burial: Wise Family Cemetery, Washington County, Georgia
Children of PERMELIA BOATWRIGHT and RAIFORD HARTLEY are:
i. MARY J. HARTLEY, b. 1843.
ii. GEORGE W. HARTLEY, b. 1845.
iii. ROBERT A. HARTLEY, b. 1847.
iv. JOHN T. HARTLEY, b. 1849.
v. ALMEDIAN HARTLEY, b. 1851.
vi. JAMES F. HARTLEY, b. 1853.
vii. ANNIE MARTHA HARTLEY, b. 1855.
viii. RUTH P. HARTLEY, b. 1858.
ix. SUSAN HARTLEY, b. 1858.
x. ELIZABETH HARTLEY, b. 1859.
xi. REBECCA HARTLEY, b. 1860.
xii. ADISON HARTLEY, b. 1863.
xiii. BURRELL HARTLEY, b. 1865.
xiv. ASA CHARLTON HARTLEY, b. 1866.
xv. PENNY HARTLEY, b. 1869.
7-289. GEORGE D. BOATWRIGHT (JOHN3, AMBROSE2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 10 Jan 1826 in Washington County, Georgia, and died 04 Jul 1912 in Rusk County, Texas. He married (1) ARTAMISSA MASSEY 16 Dec 1848 in Washington County, Georgia. She was born Abt. 1829 in Georgia, and died Bef. 1855 in Georgia. He married (2) SARAH RICHEY 04 Aug 1856 in Rusk County, Texas, daughter of DANIEL BOONE RICHEY and SARAH K. BROWN. She was born 1837 and died Bef. 1859. He married (3) MARY JANE JONES 12 Jun 1859 in Rusk County, Texas. She was born 31 Jan 1836 in Tennessee, and died 10 Oct 1904 in Rusk County, Texas.
Notes for GEORGE D. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: George D Boatright Date: November 21, 1850 Age: 23 Estimated birth year: abt 1827 Birth place: Georgia Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 91, Washington County, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Value of Real Estate: $300 Page: 233 Roll: M432_87 1860 Census: Name: Geo D Boatwright Date: July 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 32 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Beat 6, Cherokee County, Texas Occupation: Farmer Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,000 Post Office: Rusk Roll: M653_1290 Page: 484 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Geo D Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: G D Boatwright Date: September 13, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1826 Age in 1870: 44 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Precinct 5, Rusk, Texas Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,000 Post Office: Henderson Roll: M593_1603 Page: 470 Image: 357 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: G. D. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 22, 1880 Age: 54 Estimated birth year: <1826> Birthplace: Georgia Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Precinct 6, Rusk, Texas Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: M. J. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: GA Mother's birthplace: GA Census Place: Precinct 6, Rusk, Texas; Roll: T9_1325; Family History Film: 1255325; Page: 189A; Enumeration District: 78; Image: .1870 census Rusk Co, TX: George is married to Mary Jane. I found two marriages for him in Rusk Co, TX.
Name: G. D. BOATRIGHT Spouse: SARAH RICKEY Marriage Date: 4 Aug 1856 County: Rusk State: TX Name: GEORGE D. BOATRIGHT Spouse: MARY JANE JONES Marriage Date: 12 Jun 1859 County: Rusk State: TX1910 census Rusk Co, TX age 84 living with daughter Almeda and her husband.
Burial: Old Henderson City Cemetery, Henderson, Rusk County, Texas
Notes for ARTAMISSA MASSEY:
1850 Census: Name: Artamissa Boatright Date: November 21, 1850 Age: 21 Estimated birth year: abt 1829 Birth place: Georgia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 91, Washington County, Georgia Page: 233 Roll: M432_87
1860 Census: Name: Mary J Boatwright Date: July 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 25 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1860: Beat 6, Cherokee County, Texas Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Rusk Roll: M653_1290 Page: 484 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Geo D Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Mary Jane Boatwright Date: September 13, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1836 Age in 1870: 34 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1870: Precinct 5, Rusk, Texas Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Henderson Roll: M593_1603 Page: 470 Image: 357 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: M. J. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 22, 1880 Age: 48 Estimated birth year: <1832> Birthplace: Tennessee Occupation: Keeps House Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Precinct 6, Rusk, Texas Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: G. D. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: --- Mother's birthplace: --- Census Place: Precinct 6, Rusk, Texas; Roll: T9_1325; Family History Film: 1255325; Page: 189A; Enumeration District: 78; Image: .Burial: Old Henderson City Cemetery, Henderson, Rusk County, Texas
Child of GEORGE BOATWRIGHT and ARTAMISSA MASSEY is:
8-808. i. ROBERT T. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1849, Washington County, Georgia.
Child of GEORGE BOATWRIGHT and SARAH RICKEY is:
8-809. ii. ALAPHANE BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1856, Rusk County, Texas.
8-810. iii. DAVID BROWN BOATWRIGHT, b. May 1858, Rusk County, Texas;
d. Bef. 1920, Texas.
Children of GEORGE BOATWRIGHT and MARY JONES are:
8-811. iv. ALMEDIA BOATWRIGHT, b. 14 Jun 1860, Rusk County, Texas,
d. 13 Jun 1955, Henderson, Rusk County, Texas.
8-812. v. JOSEPHINE BARRON BOATWRIGHT, b. 1867, Rusk County, Texas;
d. Bef. 1870, Rusk County, Texas.
7-290. JAMES THOMAS BOATWRIGHT (JOHN3, AMBROSE2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 22 Jul 1829 in Washington County, Georgia, and died 16 May 1863 in Baker's Creek, Hinds County, Mississippi. He married RACHEL JOINER 10 Jan 1850 in Washington County, Georgia, daughter of MALACHI JOINER and RACHEL GARDNER. She was born 08 Jan 1825 in Wilkes County, Georgia, and died 09 Sep 1880 in Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia.
Notes for JAMES THOMAS BOATWRIGHT:
When I (Claudia Walters) was young in the 1880’s I heard relatives speak of receiving letters from Uncle George Boatright in Texas. I do not know when he died. He was married three times, but in all, had only three children. Boatwrights are still in Texas where he lived, or his descendants-I don’t know whether they were sons, daughters, or both.
James Thomas Boatwright, son of John and Jane Oliver Boatwright was our immediate ancestor. He was born the 22nd day of July 1829. He married Rachel Joyner--our immediate ancestress, and they had six children. James Thomas Boatwright was killed in the Civil War.
The pioneer ancestor, John Boatwright died on or about the year 1860, or just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, his wife Jane lived a few years only, she died—probably partly from grief--after her son (our ancestor) James Thomas (called “Tom Boatwright”) enlisted as a Confederate soldier. Her son enlisted in May, but she did not die until the following December. Think that was in 1862.
Both Pioneer distiller John Boatwright and his wife Jane were buried on their homestead farm in Washington County, Georgia. It was the custom to bury on the home farm in those days. The cemetery was kept up for many years, but may have been plowed over by now. It was called the old Boatwright Cemetery.
As stated above our immediate ancestor, James Thomas Boatwright, was born July 22, 1829. He was younger than his wife, who was Rachel Joyner (or Joiner as some spell it).
Rachel Joyner was born March 25, 1823. Rachel Joyner was the daughter of two neighboring pioneers to the Boatwrights, Malachi Joyner and Rachel Gardner Joyner. I believe they claim the Joiner family came about the same time of the Boatwright family to Washington County, Georgia, while the Gardner family is said to have come to Georgia from the state of Kentucky. I do not know this for a fact, however.
Anyway, Rachel Joyner and James Thomas Boatwright were married January 10, 1850. They had six children. They lived in Washington county in or near Tennille until two or three years prior to the Civil War when they came down to the newly formed County of Laurens, nine miles from the county seat of Dublin. They purchased a farm, the land of which surrounded old Boiling Springs church; the purchase having been made from a man by the name of Ryals. In fact, the old Ryals graveyard was nearby as long as I could remember. We picked blackberries there every spring.
Children of James Thomas Boatwright and Rachel Joyner Boatwright:
Charles Thornas Boatwright, born November 3, 1850.
Mary Anna Boatwright (my own mother) was born March 17, 1852.
James Jason Boatwright was born February 21, 1854.
Ceneann Boatwright (married Ivey Smith) was born May 13, 1856.
William Moses Boatwright (your own family) was born May 16, 1859.
Another son, Francis Marion Boatwright, was born just about the outbreak of the
Civil War. He was a baby when his father enlisted in the Confederate Army and
died a few years after the war. He was a puny child, my mother said.
This picture shows one of the identifiable burial pits at Champion Hill. It is
located about 150 yards southwest of the crest. It is not known what troops were
buried here nor if they have been disinterred. The right edge of the burial pit can
be made out near the right-center of the photograph where the leaves contrast with
the green brush.
My father’s remarks concerning James Thomas Boatwright: Said he was one of the
finest men he ever knew. My father married his daughter, who was his first cousin
(his own mother being Elizabeth Joyner, sister of Rachel Joyner). My father said:
his “Uncle Tom Boatwright” was a well informed and quite enterprising man for his
time. When he moved down into Laurens County, there was no school for the poorer
folks with whom he classed himself, as slave owners had teachers mostly for their
own children, which excluded the poorer classes unable to pay a teacher. He went
back to his own county or up near Tennille, and brought down a young man whose name
I think was Needham Rodgers to teach school. My mother and her brother started in
to school, but unfortunately, at that time the entire South was in a state of
turmoil due to the anti-slavery agitation in Congress. I believe it was in May 1861
that the Civil War actually commenced. This James Thomas Boatwright was an ardent
southerner, and as he owned the site of the local Post Office known as Cedar Hill,
on the main road near Boiling Springs, seat of Justice Court, and a store kept by
three German Jews—maybe Polish Jews—our grandfather’s field was given over to the
drilling of the neighborhood militia all the rest of that year. The new school
teacher also drilled. My mother says the field was the field in front of the Post
Office, which later became the home of Uncle Jim Boatwright. The field was called
the “muster field” because drilling militia was called “mustering”. The three
Jewish storekeepers also drilled with the militia and when the company of volunteer
infantry departed for the war in May 1862, the Jews went along also, as did the new
school teacher, Needham Rodgers, but before the school teacher left to fight, he
married a neighborhood girl, Melinda Moorman, who was your own half aunt, as she
later became Melinda Moye. Rodgers was killed in the war, so his bride never saw
him again.
This is most likely the site of another burial pit, this time about 300 yards out on
the ridge from the crest of Champion Hill. The earth appears sunken in the middle
of the photograph and the pit is running into the picture. The view is looking
southeast toward the crest.
Here is the list of officers of the company in the Confederate Army: Company C,
Fifty-Seventh Georgia Regiment. Officers: Lucien Tucker, Captain; (Lucien Stubbs of
our day was his nephew and namesake); first Lieutenant R.A. Kellam; Second
Lieutenant, A. L. Morgan; Third Lieutenant, W. B. Snell; Lieutenant Colonel, C. S.
Guyton (from around Marvin church); The colonel was named Armstead. I did not know
his first name.
The names of the three Jews who left their country store and enlisted in the above company with our grandfather were Bashinski, Wesaloski, and Dawson. All my father said, were good Confederate soldiers. That Bashinski was the father of those Laurens County Bashinski’s, cotton buyers. I believe Wesaloski came back, and probably located in Macon, while Dawson went down in Emanuel County, took up government land, as a farmer, and died there some time in the 1890’s. One of his daughters was Jennie Dawson. He was of German birth.
In this company of militia besides our grandfather was one man named Enoch Linder. He and our grandfather were close friends, as a later incident will show.
James Thomas Boatwright’s company first saw service on the Georgia coast near Savannah from there to upper Georgia under General Joseph E. Johnston; they then marched up through Tennessee and Kentucky, without any heavy fighting, but great suffering. Marching was hard and food scarce. He wrote home to his wife that he had been living on one meal of parched corn a day for four days. During a hard march there was a draught, little water. A comrade came home and reported that our grandfather was the life and inspiration of his company. While all the soldiers were very thirsty on a hard march, they came to a mud hole, and it was the only water in sight. The men held back but it was said that he said “come on boys, and let’s drink” and he was the first man to lie down by the mud hole and drink the water, and then all the other soldiers followed his example. Seems it did not hurt them.
Marching through Tennessee and Kentucky was under the generalship of one General Pemberton. They were sent southward again, this time to Mississippi, in the vicinity of Vicksburg, where General Grant (of the Union Army) had taken Vicksburg by shelling with his gunboats on the Mississippi river. A land force of the Union Army engaged the Confederates under General Pemberton at a place called Baker’s Creek, near Vicksburg. Before the battle, our grandfather took Enoch Linder, his friend, to one side and handed him a pocket knife. Told Enoch Linder that he felt he would never come out of the battle alive, and asked him to deliver that pocket knife to his little baby at home (Francis Marion) after the war. During the battle, Mr. Linder said our grandfather was shot directly through the left breast, that he was able to crawl up to the root of a tree and died with his head resting in the root of the tree. His body was buried with the other slain dead—probably in a long trench.
Enoch Linder came home after the Civil War and delivered that same pocket knife to our grandmother. My mother claimed it was kept for years. Enoch Linder came home minus one arm, and in his old age peddled for a living, but he was a brave soldier and from a good family.
Grandfather Boatwright owned no slaves—not one, yet he gave his life that the South remain a slave state. Before he left, he hired a negro woman named Caroline Linder from her master, one Charlie Linder, to come and work with his two children, my mother and her little brother Jim, to make the living for the family. The oldest boy, Tom, was lazy and worthless as a worker. The living for the family was made by two little children working with a young negro woman, and my mother said they made a very good living, too.
Following the Union occupation of Jackson, Mississippi, both Confederate and Federal forces made plans for future operations. General Joseph E. Johnston retreated, with most of his army, up the Canton Road, but he ordered Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, commanding about 23,000 men, to leave Edwards Station and attack the Federals at Clinton.
Pemberton and his generals felt that Johnston's plan was dangerous and decided instead to attack the Union supply trains moving from Grand Gulf to Raymond. On May 16, though, Pemberton received another order from Johnston repeating his former directions. Pemberton had already started after the supply trains and was on the Raymond-Edwards Road with his rear at the crossroads one-third mile south of the crest of Champion Hill. Thus, when he ordered a countermarch, his rear, including his many supply wagons, became the advance of his force.
On May 16, 1863, about 7:00 am, the Union forces engaged the Confederates and the Battle of Champion Hill began. Pemberton's force drew up into a defensive line along a crest of a ridge overlooking Jackson Creek. Pemberton was unaware that one Union column was moving along the Jackson Road against his unprotected left flank. For protection, Pemberton posted Brigadier General Stephen D. Lee's men atop Champion Hill where they could watch for the reported Union column moving to the crossroads.
Lee spotted the Union troops and they soon saw him. If this force was not stopped, it would cut the Rebels off from their Vicksburg base. Pemberton received warning of the Union movement and sent troops to his left flank. Union forces at the Champion House moved into action and emplaced artillery to begin firing.
When Grant arrived at Champion Hill, around 10:00 am, he ordered the attack to begin. By 11:30 am, Union forces had reached the Confederate main line and about 1:00 pm, they took the crest while the Rebels retired in disorder. The Federals swept forward, capturing the crossroads and closing the Jackson Road escape route. One of Pemberton's divisions (Bowen's) then counterattacked, pushing the Federals back beyond the Champion Hill crest before their surge came to a halt. Grant then counterattacked, committing forces that had just arrived from Clinton by way of Bolton.
Pemberton's men could not stand up to this assault, so he ordered his men from the field to the one escape route still open: the Raymond Road crossing of Bakers Creek. Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman's brigade formed the rearguard, and they held at all costs, including the loss of Tilghman. In the late afternoon, Union troops seized the Bakers Creek Bridge, and by midnight, they occupied Edwards.
After the battle of Champion Hill, the Federal army pursued the Confederates only as far as Edwards, and most of them would bivouac there the night of May 16. However, some troops were left behind to gather weapons, ammunition, and other supplies from the battlefield as well as care for the wounded and bury the dead. Part of this job fell to troops from McGinnis' brigade. Hospitals were set up at several of the plantation houses located on the battlefield where surgeons performed their duty well into the night. As for the dead, Union and Confederates were buried in separate pits near the center of the battlefield. In the year following the war, many of the Federal dead were disinterred and reburied in the national cemetery at Vicksburg, where they still remain, mostly as unknowns. There is some debate as to what happened to the Confederates who died that day. Many of them most likely still remain in their earthen tombs on Champion Hill.
This picture shows one of the identifiable burial pits at Champion Hill. It is located about 150 yards southwest of the crest. It is not known what troops were buried here nor if they have been disinterred. The right edge of the burial pit can be made out near the right-center of the photograph where the leaves contrast with the green brush.
James enlisted as a private in Company C, 57th Regiment Georgia Infantry May 8, 1862. He died on May 16, 1863 from wounds received at the Battle of Baker's Creek, Mississippi on May 16, 1863. He served for the Confederate States of America. He was enlisted in Savannah, Ga. by Col. H. Cleveland for a period of three years or the duration of the war. He was paid his $50.00 bounty on July 15, 1862.
Source: Confederate Archives, Chapter 10, File No 4, Page 27: Shows place of birth as Washington, Georgia. Also the following: The 57the Regiment Georgia Infantry was originally known as the 2nd Regiment, Georgia State Troops (Col. Barkuloo). It was mustered into the service of the Confederate States in May, 1862, as Colonel Barkuloo's Regiment and subsequently became the 54th Regiment Georgia Infantry. Early in 1863 this designation was changed to 57th Regiment Georgia Infantry.
1830 Census - Washington Co,GA
1840Census - Washington Co, GA
1850 Census: Name: James F Boatright Date: November 14, 1850 Age: 21 Estimated birth year: abt 1829 Birth place: Georgia Race: White Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 91, Washington County, Georgia Occupation: Planter Value of Real Estate: $300 Page: 259 Roll: M432_87 1860 Census: Name: James T Boatright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 31 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Laurens County, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Gender: Male Value of real estate: $2,000 Post Office: Dublin Roll: M653_129 Page: 596 Year: 1860 Head of Household: James T BoatrightBurial: Champion Hill Burial Ground, Champion Hill, Hinds County, Mississippi
Notes for RACHEL JOINER:
Rachel Joiner was born in 1825 in Washington County, Georgia. She lived with her parents until 1850 when she married James Boatwright. They were planters and she took over the farm when James left to fight in the Civil War. She received assistance for wives of service men from the town of Dublin in 1861 and 1862.
1850 Census: Name: Rachael Boatright Date: November 14, 1850 Age: 26 Estimated birth year: abt 1824 Birth place: Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 91, Washington County, Georgia Page: 259 Roll: M432_87 1860 Census: Name: Rachael Boatright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 36 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Laurens County, Georgia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Dublin Roll: M653_129 Page: 596 Year: 1860 Head of Household: James T Boatright 1870 Census: Name: Rachel Boatright Date: August 18, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1820 Age in 1870: 50 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Georgia Militia District 86, Laurens, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $500 Post Office: Dublin Roll: M593_161 Page: 383 Image: 151 Year: 1870Burial: Laurens County, Georgia
Children of JAMES BOATWRIGHT and RACHEL JOINER are:
8-813. i. CHARLES THOMAS BOATWRIGHT, b. 03 Nov 1850, Laurens County, Georgia;
d. 23 Dec 1926, Marion County, Florida.
8-814. ii. MARY ANN BOATWRIGHT, b. 17 Mar 1852, Laurens County, Georgia;
d. Bet. 1910 - 1920, Laurens County, Georgia.
8-815. iii. JAMES JASON BOATWRIGHT, b. 21 Feb 1854, Laurens County, Georgia;
d. 09 Jan 1919, Brewton, Laurens County,
Georgia.
8-816. iv. CENIANN PERMELIA BOATWRIGHT, b. Feb 1854, Laurens County, Georgia;
d. 17 Oct 1917, Adrian, Emanuel
County, Georgia.
8-817. v. WILLIAM MOSES BOATWRIGHT, b. 16 May 1859, Laurens County, Georgia;
d. 22 Aug 1907, Laurens County, Georgia.
8-818. vi. FRANCIS MARION BOATWRIGHT, b. 1861, Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia;
d. Abt. 1867, Laurens County, Georgia.
7-291. MARY JANE BOATWRIGHT (JOHN3, AMBROSE2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 25 May 1830 in Washington County, Georgia, and died 26 Jun 1905 in Washington County, Georgia. She married JOHN LEONARD LAYTON Bef. 1850 in Washington County, Georgia. He was born 1823 in Washington County, Georgia, and died 1874 in Washington County, Georgia.
Notes for MARY JANE BOATWRIGHT
Burial plot is next to daughter Elizabeth E. Layton Smith and her husband John Asa Smith. According information published in "The John Layton Family" by Bessie Elton in 1972, the land for the church was donated by Mary J. Boatwright Layton. Source: Rod Layton - Joplin, Missouri (Find-A-Grave website: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40154917)
Burial: Mount Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery, 4 miles SE Tennille, Washington County, Georgia
Notes for JOHN LEONARD LAYTON
Leonard was killed by accident in 1874 and buried near the Eaton Shepard home place. Oral history from Rod Layton's branch of the family says the death was an accidental gun shot by his son Jesse G Layton. Source: Rod Layton - Joplin, Missouri (Find-A-Grave website: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40495117)
Children of MARY BOATWRIGHT and JOHN LAYTON are:
i. JESSE GREEN LAYTON, b. 01 Jun 1851, Washington County, Georgia.
ii. SARAH LAYTON, b. 1853, Washington County, Georgia.
iii. WILLIAM MARION LAYTON, b. 1855, Washington County, Georgia.
iv. JAMES T. LAYTON, b. 1857, Washington County, Georgia.
v. MARY FRANCES LAYTON, b. 05 Jan 1859, Washington County, Georgia.
vi. ROBERT MADISON LAYTON, b. 24 Mar 1861, Washington County, Georgia.
vii. GEORGE SEABORN LAYTON, b. 1863, Washington County, Georgia.
viii. ELIZABETH ELVIRA LAYTON, b. 05 Nov 1865, Washington County, Georgia.
ix. BENJAMIN GORDON LAYTON, b. 07 Nov 1869, Washington County, Georgia.
7-292. ZACHY ANN AMANDA BOATWRIGHT (JOHN3, AMBROSE2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1835 in Washington County, Georgia.
Notes for ZACHY ANN AMANDA BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Zacha Ann A Boatright Date: November 14, 1850 Age: 15 Estimated birth year: abt 1835 Birth place: South Carolina Race: White Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 91, Washington County, Georgia Page: 259 Roll: M432_87
7-293. SUSAN ANN BOATWRIGHT (JOHN3, AMBROSE2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1839 in Washington County, Georgia. She married PERKINS.
Notes for SUSAN ANN BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Susan Ann Boatright Date: November 14, 1850 Age: 11 Estimated birth year: abt 1839 Birth place: South Carolina Race: White Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 91, Washington County, Georgia Page: 259 Roll: M432_87 1860 Census: Name: Susan M Boatwright Date: July 5, 1860 Age in 1860: 21 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Washington County, Georgia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Sandersville Roll: M653_140 Page: 242 Year: 1860 Head of Household: John Boatwright
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