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Generation 8
8-352. MARTHA JANE BOATWRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1823 in Virginia. She married JOHN G. WHITE 12 Nov 1846 in Barbour County, Virginia (Now West Virginia).
8-353. NANCY BOATRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 30 Jun 1824 in Virginia, and died 15 Dec 1875 in Wright Twp., Hillsdale, Michigan. She married ASA CRITES 08 Jan 1847 in Barbour County, Virginia. He was born 1826 in Virginia.
Notes for NANCY BOATRIGHT:
All information concerning the children of Asa and Nancy was received from Debbie A. Backwell. - Source: David C. Rains
Children of NANCY BOATRIGHT and ASA CRITES are:
i. BENJAMIN CRITES, b. 1849.
ii. MARTHA J. CRITES, b. 1851; d. 1862.
iii. GEORGE CRITES, b. 1855.
iv. SARAH CRITES, b. 1856; d. 1862.
v. MARY F. CRITES, b. 1857; d. 1862.
vi. JACOB L. CRITES, b. 1859; d. 1862.
8-354. THOMAS JAMES BOATRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1828 in Powhatan, Virginia, and died 16 Mar 1876 in Oakland, Clay County, Kansas. He married (1) ALCY PECK 14 Dec 1848 in Barbour County, West Virginia, daughter of JOSIAH PECK and SARAH SMITH. She was born 1829 in Harrison County, Virginia, and died 1858 in Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia. He married (2) MARY ANN MCCUBBIN 27 Jun 1860 in Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia. She was born Nov 1839 in Gilmer County, Virginia (Now West Virginia), and died 11 Aug 1911 in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
Notes for THOMAS JAMES BOATRIGHT:
All information concerning Thomas James and his descendants was received from Debbie A. Backwell. - Source: David C. Rains
He was a Lieutenant in the Civil War for the Union side, Military Service Bet. 1861 and 1862.
1850 Census: Name: Thomas Boatwright Date: September 17, 1850 Age: 22 Estimated birth year: abt 1828 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour, Virginia Occupation: House Carpenter Page: 77 Roll: M432_935 1860 Census: Name: Thomas J Boatright Date: June 28, 1860 Age in 1860: 32 Birth Year: abt 1828 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Spencer, Roane, Virginia Occupation: Master Carpenter Gender: Male Post Office: Spencer Value of real estate: View image Census Place: Spencer, Roane, Virginia; Roll: M653_1375; Page: 595; Image: 59; Family History Library Film: 805375. 1870 Census: Name: T J Boatright Date: June 22, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827 Age in 1870: 43 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Republican, Clay, Kansas Occupation: Carpenter Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,500 Post Office: Gatesville Roll: M593_430 Page: 197 Image: 394 Year: 1870Burial: Rose Meron Cemetery, Oak Hill, Clay County, Kansas
Notes for ALCY PECK:
1850 Census: Name: Alcy Boatwright Date: September 17, 1850 Age: 21 Estimated birth year: abt 1829 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour, Virginia Page: 77 Roll: M432_935
1870 Census: Name: Mary Ann Boatright Date: June 22, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841 Age in 1870: 29 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Republican, Clay, Kansas Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Gatesville Roll: M593_430 Page: 197 Image: 394 Year: 1870
Children of THOMAS BOATRIGHT and ALCY PECK are:
9-797. i. WILLIAM E. BOATRIGHT, b. Dec 1849, Barbour County, West Virginia;
d. 18 Aug 1870, Clay County, Kansas.
9-798. ii. MARTHA JANE BOATRIGHT, b. 22 Feb 1853, Roane County, West Virginia;
d. 24 Feb 1936, Ralston, Pawnee County,
Oklahoma.
Children of THOMAS BOATRIGHT and MARY McCUBBIN are:
9-799. iii. MARGARET BOATRIGHT, b. 1861, Roane County, West Virginia.
9-800. iv. ABRAHAM LINCOLN BOATRIGHT, b. 26 Aug 1865, Lawrence, Douglas County,
Kansas; d. 18 Mar 1944, Boise, Ada
County, Ada County, Idaho.
9-801. v. MARY ELLA BOATRIGHT, b. 23 Sep 1868, Clay County, Kansas; d. 1876.
9-802. vi. AMANDA NAN BOATRIGHT, b. May 1870, Oak Hill, Clay County, Kansas.
8-355. REBECCA BOATRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 16 Jul 1834 in Virginia, and died 25 Dec 1870 in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
Notes for REBECCA BOATRIGHT:
Rebecca is listed in the 1850 Barbour County, Virginia, census as deaf and dumb.
1850 Census: Name: Rebecca Boatright Date: August 30, 1850 Age: 16 Estimated birth year: abt 1834 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour County, Virginia Page: 59 Roll: M432_935
1860 Census: Name: Rebecca Boatright Date: June 13, 1860 Age in 1860: 26 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Upshur County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Buckhannon Roll: M653_1382 Page: 201 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mickelberry BoatrightBurial: Waldron Cemetery, Hillsdale County, Michigan
8-356. MARY FRANCES "FANNIE" BOATRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 06 Jul 1836 in Virginia, and died 16 Sep 1911 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Notes for MARY FRANCES "FANNIE" BOATRIGHT:
Mary Frances is listed in the 1850 Barbour County, Virginia census as deaf and dumb.
Fannie never married.
She was deaf.
She died in Kalamazoo, MI in 1911.
Source: Phyllis Rickard
1850 Census: Name: Mary A Boatright Date: August 30, 1850 Age: 14 Estimated birth year: abt 1836 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour County, Virginia Page: 59 Roll: M432_935 1870 Census: Name: Fannie Boatright Date: July 6, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1832 Age in 1870: 38 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Wright, Hillsdale, Michigan Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Hudson Roll: M593_673 Page: 563 Image: 808 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Mary F. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 2, 1880 Age: 43 Estimated birth year: <1837> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: Keeping House Relationship to head-of-household: Daughter Home in 1880: Wright, Hillsdale, Michigan Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Father's name: Micklebury BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Wright, Hillsdale, Michigan; Roll: T9_581; Family History Film: 1254581; Page: 335C; Enumeration District: 97; Image: 0346.
8-357. ELIZABETH MARGARET BOATRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1837 in Virginia, and died 10 Jun 1897. She married ELIAS ROBINSON 13 Nov 1855 in Harrison County, Virginia (Now West Virginia). He was born 13 Nov 1835 in Harrison County, Virginia (Now West Virginia), and died 11 Jul 1919 in Harrison County, West Virginia.
Notes for ELIZABETH MARGARET BOATRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Elizabeth Boatright Date: August 30, 1850 Age: 12 Estimated birth year: abt 1838 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour County, Virginia Page: 59 Roll: M432_935
Children of ELIZABETH BOATRIGHT and ELIAS ROBINSON are:
i. JOHN GRANT ROBINSON.
ii. FREDERICK ROBINSON.
iii. BENJAMIN ROBINSON.
iv. JASPER ROBINSON.
v. ELIZA ROBINSON.
vi. LYDIA ROBINSON.
vii. MARY ELLEN ROBINSON.
viii. JAMES ROBINSON.
8-358. SARAH A. BOATRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 26 Sep 1840 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died Aft. 1900. She married STEPHEN W. MATHENY 26 Jan 1858 in Upshur County, Virginia (Now West Virginia). He was born 24 Jun 1836 in Highland County, Virginia, and died 11 Feb 1911 in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.
Notes for SARAH A. BOATRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Sarah Boatwright Date: August 30, 1850 Age: 10 Estimated birth year: abt 1840 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour, Virginia Page: 60 Roll: M432_935 More About STEPHEN MATHENY and SARAH BOATRIGHT: Marriage: 26 Jan 1858, Upshur County, Virginia (Now West Virginia)
8-359. RACHEL MADGE BOATRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 30 Sep 1842 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died 27 Dec 1919 in Wright Twp., Hillsdale County, Michigan. She married JEREMIAH E. WILLIAMS 15 Oct 1863 in Upshur County, Virginia (Now West Virginia), son of SAMUEL WILLIAMS and ELIZABETH ENLOW. He was born 12 Jun 1837 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and died 15 Dec 1911 in Dunkirk, Hardin County, Ohio.
Notes for RACHEL MADGE BOATRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Rachel Boatwright Date: August 30, 1850 Age: 9 Estimated birth year: abt 1841 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour, Virginia Page: 60 Roll: M432_935 1860 Census: Name: Rachel M Boatright Date: June 13, 1860 Age in 1860: 17 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Upshur County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Buckhannon Roll: M653_1382 Page: 201 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mickelberry Boatright
Child of RACHEL BOATRIGHT and JEREMIAH WILLIAMS is:
i. EVALINE WILLIAMS, b. Abt. 1872.
8-360. DANIEL RAFE BOATWRIGHT (MICKLEBERRY8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 26 Nov 1844 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died 23 Oct 1931 in Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia. He married (1) LYDIA ANN MATHENEY 24 Jul 1865 in Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia, daughter of JAMES MATHENEY and SARAH QUEEN. She was born Jan 1851 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and died 22 Nov 1922 in Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia. He married (2) LYDIA ANN ELLIS McCROSKY 24 Dec 1924 in Roane County, West Virginia. She was born 14 Apr 1858 in West Virginia, and died 06 Oct 1928 in Roane County, West Virginia.
Notes for DANIEL RAFE BOATWRIGHT:
All information concerning the children of Daniel and Lydia was received from Debbie A. Backwell. - Source: David C. Rains
See link for Daniel and Lydia marriage certificate.
See link for Daniel Rafe Boatwright Civil War Pension Application.
Obituary
Daniel R. Boatright was born in Fluvanna County, Virginia on Nov. 26, 1844, and departed this life Oct. 23, 1931. Being at the time of his death 86 years, 10 months and 21 days.
He lived at the home of his daughter Inez McCrosky of Island Run.
He was one of the few remaining Civil War veterans, having enlisted at the age of 17, and serving forty months in action. He was a private in Company H, 10th regiment, West Virginia infantry.
In the year 1865 he was united in marriage to Lydia Anne Matheny of Buckhannan, West Virginia. To this union were born 10 children, 4 of whom are deceased.
Living are J. S. Boatright of Millstone, D. G. Boatright of Clendemen, M. S. Boatright of Morgantown, Myrtle Pantall of Orchard Run, Lloyd L. Boatright of Newton.
He was the grandfather of 76 children, great grandfather of 60 children and great, great grandfather of 3 children.
His wife preceeded him in death 8 years ago.
He led a devoted Christian life having joined the Baptist Church and was baptized about 35 years ago, by Rev. George Williams at Rhodes Run, Calhoun County.
He was in excellent health until the last 5 months. He broke down with old age and a complication of diseases. His dying words was "I'm only waiting for the Lord to take me, for I'm prepared to meet my God." Funeral services conducted by Rev. Herbert Spencer.
The body was laid to rest by the side of his wife in Dave Simmons Cemetery on Spring Creek.
The Van Dale Undertaking Co. has charge of the funeral.
1850 Census: Name: Daniel Boatwright Date: August 30, 1850 Age: 5 Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 5, Barbour, VA Page: 60 Roll: M432_935 1860 Census: Name: Daniel Boatright Date: June 13, 1860 Age in 1860: 15 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Upshur County, VA Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Buckhannon Roll: M653_1382 Page: 201 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mickelberry BoatrightDaniel listed twice in 1870 census:
1870 Census: Name: Daniel Boatwright Date: August 15, 1870 Birth Year: abt 1846 Age in 1870: 24 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: District 2, Augusta, Virginia Race: White Occupation: Farm Laborer Gender: Male Post Office: Mount Sidney Census Place: District 2, Augusta, Virginia; Roll M593_1634; Page: 324B; Image: 410; Family History Library Film: 553133. 1870 Census: Name: Daniel Boatright Date: August 26, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844 Age in 1870: 26 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Warren, Upshur, West Virginia Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Pecks Run Roll: M593_1700 Page: 438 Image: 438 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Danl. R. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 16, 1880 Age: 35 Estimated birth year: <1845> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Lydia A. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia; Roll: T9_1402; Family History Film: 1255402; Page: 135C; Enumeration District: 138; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Daniel Boatwright Date: June 14, 1900 Home in 1900: Lee, Calhoun, West Virginia Age: 55 Estimated birth year: 1845 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Lee, Calhoun, West Virginia; Roll: T623 1757; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 23. 1910 Census: Name: Danil R Boatwright Date: April 28, 1910 Age in 1910: 65 Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Smithfield, Roane, West Virginia Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1696 Part: 2 Page: 115B 1920 Census: Name: Daniel R Boatwright Date: February 19, 1920 Age: 75 years Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Home in 1920: Smithfield, Roane, West Virginia Occupation: Farmer Able to read & write: Yes Roll: T625_1971 Page: 11B ED: 125 Image: 401 West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973 Name: Daniel R. Boatright Birth Date: 26 Nov 1844 Birth Place: West Virginia Death Date: 23 Oct 1931 Death Place: Spencer, Roane, West Virginia Burial Date: 25 Oct 1931 Cemetery Name: Spencer Death Age: 86 Occupation: Farmer Race: White Marital Status: Married Gender: Male Father Name: Michael B. Boatright Father Birth Place: West Virginia Mother Birth Place: Virginia FHL Film Number: 565848Burial: Simmons Cemetery, Clover, Roane County, West Virginia
Notes for LYDIA ANN MATHENEY:
1870 Census: Name: Lydia Boatright Date: August 26, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851 Age in 1870: 19 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Warren, Upshur, West Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Pecks Run Roll: M593_1700 Page: 438 Image: 438 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Lydia A. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 16, 1880 Age: 29 Estimated birth year: <1851> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: Keeping House Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: Danl. R. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Troy, Gilmer, West Virginia; Roll: T9_1402; Family History Film: 1255402; Page: 135C; Enumeration District: 138; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Lydia A Boatwright Date: June 14, 1900 Home in 1900: Lee, Calhoun, West Virginia Age: 49 Estimated birth year: 1851 Birthplace: West Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Lee, Calhoun, West Virginia; Roll: T623 1757; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 23. 1910 Census: Name: Lydia A Boatwright Date: April 28, 1910 Age in 1910: 59 Estimated birth year: abt 1851 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Smithfield, Roane, West Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Series: T624 Roll: 1696 Part: 2 Page: 115B 1920 Census: Name: Lydia A Boatwright Date: February 19, 1920 Age: 69 years Estimated birth year: abt 1851 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Home in 1920: Smithfield, Roane, West Virginia Able to read & write: Yes Roll: T625_1971 Page: 11B ED: 125 Image: 401 West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973 Name: Lidia Ann Boatright Death Date: 22 Nov 1922 Death Place: Roane, West Virginia Gender: Female Father Name: James Mathevey Mother Name: Sarah Queen FHL Film Number: 1953051Burial: Simmons Cemetery, Clover, Roane County, West Virginia
Notes for LYDIA ANN ELLIS McCROSKY:
West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973 Name: Lillie Kathrine Boatright Death Date: 6 Oct 1928 Death Place: Roane, West Virginia Marital Status: Married Father Name: Eva Ellis Spouse Name: Daniel R. Boatright FHL Film Number: 1953440Burial: Wright Cemetery, Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia
Children of DANIEL BOATWRIGHT and LYDIA MATHENEY are:
9-803. i. CLARA VIRGINIA ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT, b. 01 Jul 1868, Warren Twp.,
Upshur, West Virginia;
d. 16 Jan 1912, West Virginia.
9-804. ii. JAMES SYLVESTER BOATRIGHT, b. 12 Dec 1870, Upshur County, West Virginia;
d. 24 Nov 1957, Grantsville, Calhoun
County, West Virginia.
9-805. iii. CHARLES STEWARD BOATWRIGHT, b. 22 Sep 1872, Upshur County, West
Virginia.
9-806. iv. THOMAS LAWSON BOATWRIGHT, b. 05 May 1876, Gilmer County, West
Virginia; d. Abt. 1909, Calhoun County,
West Virginia.
9-807. v. HUGH A. BOATWRIGHT, b. 27 Sep 1878, Gilmer County, West Virginia;
d. 1978.
9-808. vi. GARFIELD DANIEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 06 Sep 1880, Gilmer County, West
Virginia; d. 01 Dec 1965, Charleston,
Kanawha County, West Virginia.
9-809. vii. MARION S. BOATWRIGHT, b. 08 Jul 1882, West Virginia; d. 06 Aug 1936,
Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia.
9-810. viii. MYRTLE BOATWRIGHT, b. 12 May 1885, West Virginia; d. 17 Jun 1957,
Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia
9-811. ix. INEZ V. BOATWRIGHT, b. 10 Jun 1891, West Virginia; d. 21 Oct 1944,
Roane County, West Virginia.
9-812. x. LLOYD LOVELL BOATWRIGHT, b. 16 Jan 1893, West Virginia; d. Jan 1941.
8-361. MARTHA ANN BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born in Missouri.
8-362. JAMES P. BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 01 Mar 1827 in Montgomery County, Missouri, and died 31 Mar 1909 in Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri. He married (1) AMY SALE daughter of SAMUEL SALE and NANCY REYNOLDS. She was born 1834 in Michigan, and died 1872 in Wilson, Gentry County, Missouri. He married (2) FRANCES M. JENNINGS about 1882 in Missouri, daughter of JESSE JENNINGS and MARTHA MEECE. She was born 06 Apr 1852 in Kentucky, and died 25 Oct 1916 in Wilson, Gentry County, Missouri.
Notes for JAMES P. BOATWRIGHT:
Obituary from Stanberry Headlight April 5th 1909
James Boatright Dead
Jas. Boatright, one of the oldest citizens of the county, died last Wednesday night at his home near Alanthus. Deceased was over 82 years old and had resided in Gentry County for probably upward of 60 years. He had been a sufferer from diabetes for some time, and his death resulted from this. The wife and four children survive.
Funeral services were held at the home Friday morning at 10 o'clock, after which the remains of this old pioneer citizen were laid to rest in the Hall cemetery.
1860 Census: Name: James Boatright Date: July 17, 1860 Age in 1860: 31 Birth Year: abt 1829 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1860: Township 63, Gentry, Missouri Occupation: Farmer Value of Real Estate: $1, 020 Gender: Male Post Office: Higginsville Census Place: Township 63, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: M653_620; Page: 0; Image: 146. 1870 Census: Name: Joseph Boatwright Date: August 27, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1826 Age in 1870: 44 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $600 Post Office: Albany Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: M593_776; Page: 674; Image: 568. 1880 Census: Name: James Boatwright Date: June 16, 1880 Age: 54 Estimated birth year: <1826> Birthplace: Missouri Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri Marital status: Widower Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: KY Mother's birthplace: KY Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: T9_687; Family History Film: 1254687; Page: 426.3000; Enumeration District: 271; Image: 0183. 1900 Census: Name: James P. Boatwright Date: June 25, 1900 Home in 1900: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri Age: 73 Estimated birth year: 1827 Birthplace: Missouri Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: T623 855; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 91.Burial: Hall Cemetery, Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri
Notes for AMY SALE:
1860 Census: Name: Anna Boatright Date: July 17, 1860 Age in 1860: 28 Birth Year: abt 1832 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1860: Township 63, Gentry, Missouri Gender: Female Post Office: Higginsville Census Place: Township 63, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: M653_620; Page: 0; Image: 146. 1870 Census: Name: Amy Boatwright Date: August 27, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834 Age in 1870: 36 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Albany Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: M593_776; Page: 674; Image: 568.
1900 Census: Name: Frances M. Boatwright Date: June 25, 1900 Home in 1900: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri Age: 47 Estimated birth year: 1853 Birthplace: Kentucky Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: T623 855; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 91. 1910 Census: Name: Francis Boatwright Date: April 25, 1910 Age in 1910: 57 Estimated birth year: abt 1853 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1910: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri Race: White Gender: Female Marital Status: Widowed Relation to Head of House: Head Mother's Birth Place: Kentucky Father's Birth Place: Kentucky Census Place: Wilson, Gentry, Missouri; Roll: T624_781; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 92; Image: 624.Burial: Jennings Cemetery, Gentry County, Missouri
Children of JAMES BOATWRIGHT and AMY SALE are:
9-813. i. DANIEL B. BOATWRIGHT, b. 14 Feb 1857, Gentry County, Missouri;
d. 08 Aug 1934, Stanberry, Gentry County,
Missouri.
9-814. ii. SENATOVIA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1858, Gentry County, Missouri.
9-815. iii. SAMUEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 1862, Gentry County, Missouri; d. 1939,
Gentry County, Missouri.
9-816. iv. WILLIAM GRANVILLE BOATWRIGHT, b. 10 Apr 1863, Gentry County,
Missouri; d. 06 Jul 1930, Stanberry,
Gentry County, Missouri.
9-817. v. NANCY BOATWRIGHT, b. 1865, Gentry County, Missouri.
9-818. vi. SARAH ANN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1867, Gentry County, Missouri.
9-819. vii. EDWIN S. BOATWRIGHT, b. 29 May 1872, Gentry County, Missouri;
d. 10 Aug 1899, Philippines.
Children of JAMES BOATWRIGHT and FRANCES JENNINGS are:
9-820. viii. DAVID BOATWRIGHT, b. 22 Feb 1882, Wilson, Gentry County, Missouri;
d. 1947
9-821. ix. LOLA MAY BOATWRIGHT, b. 16 Jun 1888, Wilson, Gentry County, Missouri.
9-822. x. LONA LEE BOATWRIGHT, b. Oct 1891, Wilson, Gentry County, Missouri.
9-823. xi. BESSIE F. BOATWRIGHT, b. 16 Oct 1892, Wilson, Gentry County, Missouri;
d. 1978.
8-363. SARAH ANN BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born in Missouri.
8-364. WILLIAM GRANVILLE BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 06 Feb 1833 in Danville, Montgomery County, Missouri, and died 28 Sep 1916 in Montgomery County, Missouri. He married (1) MARY FRANCES FRAZER 14 Mar 1867 in Montgomery County, Missouri. She was born Nov 1837 in Missouri, and died 03 Jun 1908 in Montgomery County, Missouri. He married (2) IDA FRANCES THOMPSON 17 Mar 1910 in Callaway County, Missouri, daughter of SPRAWL THOMPSON. She was born 26 May 1873 in Callaway County, Missouri, and died 22 Apr 1932 in St. Louis County, Missouri.
Notes for WILLIAM GRANVILLE BOATWRIGHT:
The cause of his death was Uremia due to chronic nephritis.
Buried by the G.A.R. post.
Medical Notes: Informant: S.C. Northern
Now comes Dr. O.R. Rauschelbach and being duly sworn upon his oath says that he is
a practicing physician located at Rhineland Mo and that he was called in
consultation with Dr Bridges in the last illness of Wm G Boatwright and that the
said Wm G Boatwright died on the 28th day of September 1916. And he further says
that he is Vital Statistics for Loutre township Montgomery Co. Mo and as such issued
the Burial Permit for the said Wm G Boatwright who died at the home of his daughter
Mrs. Curt Northern whose home is in Loutre Township, Montgomery county Mo. While on
a visit to said daughter.
Military: Filed Declaration for pension, 6 Mar 1907, Montgomery County, Missouri. 74 years of age Enrolled at Jefferson City, Mo on the 10th day of September 1861 as a private in Co G 25th Illinois Infantry (Vol) on pension roll as private in Co. H Honorably discharged at Chattanooga Tenn on the 21st day of September 1864.
General debility:
He makes the following statement upon which he bases his claim:
Have a good deal of distress in upper part of left heart and when I take a little
cold I cough at times a little day and night- In my left side lower down I have more
or less pain all the time and give in very quick - cant do more than two or three
hours work.
Physical examination:.......weight 131, age 58......conclusion entitled to 12/18 rating for the disability caused by Heart disease and resulting debility.
Land: bought from Barton J. and Rhoda Ann Ramsey, 19 Mar 1867, Montgomery County,
Missouri. In consideration of two hundred and fifty dollars in partner with John
Wright. The South East Quarter of the North West Quarter of section thirty four in
Township forty Six (46) North of the Missouri river of Range Six (6) West containing
forty acres more or less.
Land: bought from probate sale of Daniel Boatwright filed for record, 4 Mar 1872, Montgomery County, Missouri. N 1/2 of the of section N 34 township 45 range 6W 80 acres.
Source: Sherrie Hambleton
1850 Census: Name: William Boatright Date: October 11, 1850 Age: 17 Estimated birth year: abt 1833 Birth place: Missouri Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 61, Montgomery, Missouri Page: 211 Roll: M432_407 1860 Census: Name: William Boatwright Date: September 30, 1860 Age in 1860: 27 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Rhineland Roll: M653_635 Page: 0 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Danl Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: W G Boatwright Date: June 28, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834 Age in 1870: 36 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $800 Post Office: Danville Roll: M593_794 Page: 67 Image: 135 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Wm. BOATRIGHT Date: June 26, 1880 Age: 48 Estimated birth year: <1832> Birthplace: Missouri Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Mary F. BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: KY Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T9_705; Family History Film: 1254705; Page: 84A; Enumeration District: 110; Image: 0169. 1900 Census: Name: Wm G Boatwright Date: June 4, 1900 Home in 1900: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Age: 67 Estimated birth year: 1833 Birthplace: Missouri Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T623 876; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 63. Callaway County, Missouri Marriages, 1870-1922 Groom: W. M. G. Boatwright Bride: Mrs. Ida Austin Marriage Date: 17 Mar 1910 Volume/Page: I-439 1910 Census: Name: William Boatwright Date: May 5, 1910 Age in 1910: 76 Estimated birth year: abt 1834 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1910: Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Head Mother's Birth Place: Missouri Father's Birth Place: Missouri Census Place: Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: T624_774; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 19.29 Sep 1916, Best Bottom Cemetery, Bluffton, Montgomery County, Missouri
Notes for MARY FRANCES FRAZER:
1870 Census: Name: Mary Boatwright Date: June 28, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843 Age in 1870: 27 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Danville Roll: M593_794 Page: 67 Image: 135 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Mary F. BOATRIGHT Date: June 26, 1880 Age: 40 Estimated birth year: <1840> Birthplace: Missouri Occupation: Housekeeper Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: Wm. BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T9_705; Family History Film: 1254705; Page: 84A; Enumeration District: 110; Image: 0169. 1900 Census: Name: Mary F Boatwright Date: June 4, 1900 Home in 1900: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Age: 62 Estimated birth year: 1838 Birthplace: Missouri Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T623 876; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 63.Burial: Best Bottom Cemetery, Bluffton, Montgomery County, Missouri
Notes for IDA FRANCES THOMPSON:
Ida was previously married to an Austin. There are a couple children listed with her and William in the 1910 census as "Boatwrights" and should really be "Austins" and one child in the 1920 census that should by an Austin - Source: George Boatright
1910 Census: Name: Ida Boatwright Date: May 5, 1910 Age in 1910: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1870 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1910: Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri Race: White Gender: Female Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Wife Mother's Birth Place: Missouri Father's Birth Place: Missouri Census Place: Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: T624_774; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 19. 1920 Census: Name: Frances Boatwright Date: January 26, 1920 Home in 1920: Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri Age: 46 Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: Missouri Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Father's Birth Place: Virginia Mother's Birth Place: Virginia Marital Status: Widowed Occupation: Dress Maker Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Census Place: Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri; Roll T625_909; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 22; Image: 544.Burial: Portland Cemetery, Portland, Callaway County, Missouri
Child of WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT and MARY FRAZER is:
9-824. i. MARY ANN "MOLLY" BOATWRIGHT, b. 20 Jul 1877, Bluffton, Montgomery
County, Missouri; d. 05 Mar 1962,
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.
8-365. MILTON M. BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1841 in Montgomery County, Missouri.
Notes for MILTON M. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Milton M Boatright Date: October 11, 1850 Age: 9 Estimated birth year: abt 1841 Birth place: Missouri Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 61, Montgomery, Missouri Page: 211 Roll: M432_407
8-366. JOHN F. BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1847 in Montgomery County, Missouri.
Notes for JOHN F. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: John Boatright Date: October 11, 1850 Age: 3 Estimated birth year: abt 1847 Birth place: Missouri Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 61, Montgomery, Missouri Page: 211 Roll: M432_407 1860 Census: Name: John F Boatwright Date: September 30, 1860 Age in 1860: 13 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Rhineland Roll: M653_635 Page: 0 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Danl Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: John Boatwright Date: July 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847 Age in 1870: 23 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Central, Franklin, Missouri Occupation: Laborer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Moselle Roll: M593_775 Page: 176 Image: 352 Year: 1870
8-367. GREENBURY BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1849 in Montgomery County, Missouri.
Notes for GREENBURY BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Green Boatright Date: October 11, 1850 Age: 1 Estimated birth year: abt 1849 Birth place: Missouri Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 61, Montgomery, Missouri Page: 211 Roll: M432_407 1860 Census: Name: Green B Boatwright Date: September 30, 1860 Age in 1860: 11 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Rhineland Roll: M653_635 Page: 0 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Danl Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Greenbury Boatwright Date: June 29, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1849 Age in 1870: 21 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Danville Roll: M593_794 Page: 68 Image: 136 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Green B. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 24, 1880 Age: 31 Estimated birth year: <1849> Birthplace: Missouri Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Son Home in 1880: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: MO Mother's name: Sarah BOATWRIGHT Mother's birthplace: MO Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T9_705; Family History Film: 1254705; Page: 83D; Enumeration District: 110; Image: 0168. 1900 Census: Name: Green B Boatwright Date: June 27, 1900 Home in 1900: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Age: 51 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birthplace: Missouri Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T623 876; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 63.
8-368. DAVID BOWLES BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1850 in Montgomery County, Missouri, and died 1894 in Oklahoma. He married LATISHIA WRIGHT 1877 in Montgomery County, Missouri. She was born 1854 in Missouri, and died Bef. 1900 in Montgomery County, Missouri.
Notes for DAVID BOWLES BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: David Boatwright Date: September 30, 1860 Age in 1860: 10 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Rhineland Roll: M653_635 Page: 0 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Danl Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: David Boatwright Date: June 29, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851 Age in 1870: 19 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Danville Roll: M593_794 Page: 68 Image: 136 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: David BOATWRIGHT Date: June 24, 1880 Age: 29 Estimated birth year: <1851> Birthplace: Missouri Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Son Home in 1880: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Father's birthplace: VA Mother's name: Sarah BOATWRIGHT Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T9_705; Family History Film: 1254705; Page: 83D; Enumeration District: 110; Image: 0168.Burial: Cashion Cemetery, Cashion, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma
Notes for LATISHIA WRIGHT:
1880 Census: Name: Lutecia BOATWRIGHT Date: June 24, 1880 Age: 26 Estimated birth year: <1854> Birthplace: Missouri Occupation: Housekeeper Relationship to head-of-household: Daughter-in-law Home in 1880: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Race: White Gender: Female Father's birthplace: KY Mother's birthplace: MO Census Place: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri; Roll: T9_705; Family History Film: 1254705; Page: 83D; Enumeration District: 110; Image: 0168.
Children of DAVID BOATWRIGHT and LATISHIA WRIGHT are:
9-825. i. JAMES H. R. BOATWRIGHT, b. 14 Nov 1874, Montgomery County, Missouri;
d. 16 Dec 1910, Montgomery County, Missouri.
9-826. ii. EVEY L. BOATWRIGHT, b. Mar 1880, Montgomery County, Missouri.
9-826A. iii. WILLIAM EDWARD BOATWRIGHT, b. 29 Jul 1881, Montgomery County, Missouri;
d. 12 Sep 1966, Stanberry, Gentry County, Missouri.
8-369. ROBERT ANDERSON BOATWRIGHT (DANIEL8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 13 Apr 1853 in Montgomery County, Missouri, and died 11 Feb 1918 in Sepulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma. He married ELIZABETH SCHARFF 17 Sep 1878 in Boone County, Missouri, daughter of HEINRICH PETER SCHARFF and CATHERINE ELIZABETH THOMAS. She was born Mar 1864 in Missouri, and died 1915 in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
Notes for ROBERT ANDERSON BOATWRIGHT:
Excerpt from the R. A. Boatwright Family History
Source: History of Robert Anderson Boatwright Family,
John Embry, Author, December 1, 1981
Note: John Embry, Attorney at Law, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, wrote this account as a Christmas
present to the family. It was his 76th Christmas. Lucille Elhanon Kendrick McDonald gave this
account to her granddaughter, who has transcribed the history in part to document and shed light
on the family in a way that government documents cannot.
Below are selected excerpts from that family history in the voice of John Embry with the
exception of notes in BLUE that clarify some of the information not available to John
when the history was written:
Robert Anderson Boatwright was born in Central Missouri, the exact date is unknown, (13 Apr 1853). His parents were Daniel and Sara Frazier Boatwright... One family historian has Daniel’s name as “David”. Daniel Boatwright was a second cousin of Zachary Taylor, the twelfth President of the United States (have not proven this fact). Sara Frazier came from Virginia. How or when Robert Anderson Boatwright ancestors migrated to Missouri is unknown (Robert’s father, Daniel Boatwright, migrated to Missouri from Virginia, ca. 1818 – 1819).
He is first identified near Columbia, Missouri along about the time of the advance of the pioneers and near the Boonslick Road or its extension. Robert Anderson Boatwright married Elizabeth Scharff in about the year 1878, at or near Columbia, Missouri.
Elizabeth Scharff was the daughter of Henry Peter Scharff and Catherine Elizabeth Thomas, who were both born in that part of Germany known as Bavaria. Munich is the principal city in Bavaria. They were married in a Lutheran church and one child, John Frederick Scharff, was born in Germany.
In the early 1840’s the (Scharff) family emigrated from Germany to a site near Chicago, Illinois, then came to Americus, Montgomery County, Missouri, where Elizabeth Scharff was born in 1864, during the civil war. Henry Peter Scharff then moved to Hermann, Missouri, where he and his wife are buried.
Henry Peter Scharff last an eye in Germany due to a fever, and this exempted him from military duty. He was a carriage maker and casket maker. During the Civil War he shoed horses by contract with the Union Army. John Fredrick Scharff and his wife Cathering lived in St. Louis, Missouri until their death. They had two children, Frederick and Nora.
The name “Uncle Green” and the name of “Quisenberry” were mentioned often by Ivy (Ramsey Boatwright) Embry. The Quisenberry family of Columbia, Missouri were cousins for Robert Anderson Boatwright. It is assumed that Uncle Green may have been his brother (Greenbury Boatwright). Ivy R. Embry corresponded with one of the Quisenberry women at Columbia, Missouri. No further information is available as to the whereabouts of any of the family.
Robert Anderson Boatwright and his wife were a farm family and farmed near Columbia, Missouri until after the Sac and Fox opening in 1891. This opening included lands in Lincoln County, and after the opening, the R. A. Boatwright family moved to a farm on the north side of the Deep Fork River and west of the Sac and Fox Agency, and south of Stroud, Oklahoma.
In Missouri six of their children were born, Catherine, Ivy Ramsey, William Porter, Henry, Pearl and Everett. Catherine (Aunt Kate) was married to a person by the name of (George Barnett) McQuitty, in Missouri.
PHOTO: Children of Robert and Elizabeth Boatwright taken 1891: Ivy Ramsey, Pearl (age 2), Sarah Catherine, Porter and Henry.
All the family moved together with the exception of Catherine McQuitty and Porter, who was deceased (1901). Aunt Kate had one child by this marriage by the name of Clifford McQuitty. After the death of McQuitty, Aunt Kate married (Elhanan) Jerome Kendrick, and they moved to a farm they purchased (not purchased Jerome obtained thru the Oklahoma land run) three or four miles southwest of Davenport, Oklahoma.
All the remainder of the R. A. Boatwright family were born on the farm near Stroud; Arvilla, Walter, Eva, Robert and Helen. Jim Thorpe, the famous Sac and Fox Indian athlete, was in attendance at school during the time that Ivy Boatwright went to/attended.
Sometime, about 1912 to 1913, Elizabeth (Scharff) Boatwright inherited about $8,000.00 from a relative who had died in Germany. Just who this relative was is unknown, except reference was made to an uncle who had a title and was an industrialist.
The family decided to leave the farm, move to Tulsa, Oklahoma and enter the grocery business. The son, Henry, his father and mother operated the business, which was located on Riverside Drive in Tulsa.
In about 1914, a flu or some other epidemic, brought most of the family down and in a short time Arvilla, Walter and Helen died. This was a great tragedy to Elizabeth Boatwright, and she became distraught, sick, and unable to care for or maintain her family. She was hospitalized and then came to live with her daughter, Ivy Embry, at Chandler, Oklahoma, where she died in 1915. She is buried in Oak Park Cemetery in Chandler, Oklahoma.
Robert Anderson Boatwright died in 1916 (11 Feb 1918) at Sapulpa, Oklahoma where his son Everett lived. He is buried in the last grave in the northeast corner of the old Sapulpa, Oklahoma Cemetery.
Not much is known about the life of the R. A. Boatwright family in Missouri other than orderly and productive family life. It is perceived to have been a good satisfactory and happy life of a proud family. Uncle Green was the hunter and a fisherman, a trait followed by Henry Boatwright, John Embry and the Webb boys, particularly Bart Webb. They were good farmers on the Stroud farm.
It was a great event to go to Grandpa and Grandma Boatwright’s for a visit, good times and good eats. Often, Freddie and Nora (Scharff) were present. These were intelligent, substantial and grand people. The first and most elegant two-seated, two-horse drawn surrey with fringe on top that appeared in the community was that of the R. A. Boatwright’s. Everybody would get to take a ride and a turn driving the fine horses. The surrey was shiny black with small red body stripes and was the “Cadillac” of the times.
The desire for a better life and place for the family obtain an education and grow up prompted the decision to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa was an oil metropolis and second city in Oklahoma in population and growth and had great advantages. Fate was not kind. At Tulsa, sickness and death ended the happy family life of the R. A. Boatwright family.
The remaining young ones at home, Eva and Robert, went to live with others. Eva with J. A. Embry for a short time, and then with Rev. and Mrs. Charles Morison, a Methodist Minister, who had no children. Robert went to his brother Henry’s where he remained until his death of typhoid fever in 1920. He is buried in Oak Park Cemetery in Chandler, Oklahoma, beside his mother.
Henry Boatwright and family moved to a farm west of Davenport, Oklahoma and later back to Tulsa, Oklahoma. He became a grocer. He was a competitive trap-shooter and belonged to the local club.
This account is not coordinated, and there is no input here other than Ivy (Boatwright) Embry accounts and that provided by the J. A. Embry family. This account is disseminated to provide the living relatives all of the family history that the author has assembled. The family are free and privileged to reproduce this account completely or in part and to edit and revise. The author regrets he cannot provide a more complete account. He feels that this grand family deserves more. He is very proud of the family and of being a member of it.
John Embry, 216 N. W. 33rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73118
Note: John Embry passed away June 18, 1988 and is buried in Oak Park Cemetery in Chandler, Oklahoma. He served his country in World War II and in Korea as a Colonel in the United States Army.
Source: Clare Reynolds, great, great-granddaughter of Robert Anderson Boatwright
1860 Census: Name: Robt A Boatwright Date: September 30, 1860 Age in 1860: 7 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Loutre, Montgomery, Missouri Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Rhineland Roll: M653_635 Page: 0 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Danl Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Robert Boatwright Date: June 29, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1852 Age in 1870: 18 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Loutre, Montgomery, MO Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Danville Roll: M593_794 Page: 68 Image: 136 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Robert BOATWRIGHT Date: June 21, 1880 Age: 27 Estimated birth year: <1853> Birthplace: Missouri Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Missouri, Boone, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Lizzie BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: KY Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Missouri, Boone, Missouri; Roll: T9_676; Family History Film: 1254676; Page: 209B; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 0431. 1900 Census: Name: Robert A Boatwright Date: June 1, 1900 Home in 1900: Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma Age: 47 Estimated birth year: 1853 Birthplace: Missouri Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma; Roll: T623 1339; Page: 25B; Enumeration District: 121. 1910 Census: Name: Robert Boatwright Date: April 21, 1910 Age in 1910: 57 Estimated birth year: abt 1853 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1910: South Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Head Mother's Birth Place: Virginia Father's Birth Place: Virginia Census Place: South Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma; Roll: T624_1259; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 98; Image: 220.Burial: Old Sepulpa Cemetery, Sepulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma
Notes for ELIZABETH SCHARFF:
The village of Americus is on Dry Fork of Loutre, Missouri, in Sec. 2, Twp. 46, Range 6 ... Henry P. Scharff (Elizabeth's father) had a house on the village site some years before the Civil War ...
1880 Census: Name: Lizzie BOATWRIGHT Date: June 21, 1880 Age: 16 Estimated birth year: <1864> Birthplace: Missouri Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Missouri, Boone, Missouri Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: Robert BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: Germany Mother's birthplace: Germany Census Place: Missouri, Boone, Missouri; Roll: T9_676; Family History Film: 1254676; Page: 209B; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 0431. 1900 Census: Name: Elizabeth Boatwright Date: June 1, 1900 Home in 1900: Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma Age: 36 Estimated birth year: 1864 Birthplace: Missouri Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma; Roll: T623 1339; Page: 25B; Enumeration District: 121. 1910 Census: Name: Elizabeth Boatwright Date: April 21, 1910 Age in 1910: 46 Estimated birth year: abt 1864 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1910: South Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma Race: White Gender: Female Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Wife Mother's Birth Place: Germany Father's Birth Place: Germany Census Place: South Keokuk, Lincoln, Oklahoma; Roll: T624_1259; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 98; Image: 220.Burial: Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma
Children of ROBERT BOATWRIGHT and ELIZABETH SCHARFF are:
9-827A. i. CATHERINE ELIZABETH "KATE" BOATWRIGHT, b. 24 Aug 1880, Boone County,
Missouri; d. 01 Aug 1959,
Seminole, Seminole County,
Oklahoma.
9-827. ii. IVY RAMSEY BOATWRIGHT, b. 17 Nov 1881, Boone County, Missouri;
d. 20 Mar 1962, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
9-828. iii. HENRY BARTON BOATWRIGHT, b. 11 Mar 1884, Boone County, Missouri;
d. Bef. 1930, Oklahoma.
9-829. iv. WILLIAM PORTER BOATWRIGHT, b. Feb 1886, Boone County, Missouri;
d. 1901, Keokuk, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
9-830. v. PEARL ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT, b. 30 Aug 1888, Boone County, Missouri;
d. 15 Aug 1969, Ramona, Washington
County, Oklahoma.
9-831. vi. EVERETTE BOATWRIGHT, b. Dec 1890, Boone County, Missouri.
9-832. vii. ARVILLA BOATWRIGHT, b. Feb 1898, Boone County, Missouri;
d. Abt. 1914, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
9-833. viii. WALTER BOATWRIGHT, b. 1901, Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma;
d. Abt. 1914, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
9-834. ix. EVA MAE "EVIE" BOATWRIGHT, b. 1904, Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma;
d. 02 Aug 1964, Ronan, Lake County, Montana.
9-835. x. ROBERT L. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1908, Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma;
d. 1920, Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
9-835A. xi. HELEN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1910, Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma;
d. Abt. 1914, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
8-370. ANN E. BOATWRIGHT (ROBERT S.8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1841 in Fluvanna County, Virginia. She married JAMES L. BURGESS. He was born Abt. 1837 in Virginia.
Notes for ANN E. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Ann E Boatwright Date: September 24, 1850 Age: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1842 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Ann E Burgess Date: July 14, 1860 Age in 1860: 19 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M653_1345 Page: 665 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Robert S Boatwright
1860 Census: Name: James L Burgess Date: July 14, 1860 Age in 1860: 22 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M653_1345 Page: 665 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Robert S Boatwright
8-371. SALLIE E. BOATWRIGHT (ROBERT S.8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Aug 1842 in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Notes for SALLIE E. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Sallie E Boatwright Date: September 24, 1850 Age: 6 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Sally E Boatwright Date: July 14, 1860 Age in 1860: 17 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M653_1345 Page: 665 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Robert S Boatwright 1900 Census: Name: Sallie E Boatwright Date: June 9, 1900 Home in 1900: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia Age: 57 Estimated birth year: 1843 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Sister Census Place: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: T623 1697; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1. living with brother Robert and family
8-372. MARY F. BOATWRIGHT (ROBERT S.8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1845 in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Notes for MARY F. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Mary F Boatwright Date: September 24, 1850 Age: 5 Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Mary F Boatwright Date: July 14, 1860 Age in 1860: 15 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M653_1345 Page: 665 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Robert S Boatwright
8-373. MARGARET J. BOATWRIGHT (ROBERT S.8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Sep 1846 in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Notes for MARGARET J. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Margaret J Boatwright Date: September 24, 1850 Age: 3 Estimated birth year: abt 1847 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Margaret J Boatwright Date: July 14, 1860 Age in 1860: 13 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M653_1345 Page: 665 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Robert S Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Margarett J Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847 Age in 1870: 23 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Margaret BOATWRIGHT Date: June 12, 1880 Age: 30 Estimated birth year: <1850> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: At Home Relationship to head-of-household: Daughter Home in 1880: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Father's name: Robert S. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: T9_1365; Family History Film: 1255365; Page: 498A; Enumeration District: 52; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Margret J Boatwright Date: June 9, 1900 Home in 1900: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia Age: 53 Estimated birth year: 1847 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Sister Census Place: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: T623 1697; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1. living with brother Robert and family 1910 Census: Name: Margaret J Boatwright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 65 Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Series: T624 Roll: 1619 Part: 3 Page: 15A living with brother Robert and family
8-374. WILLIAM DANIEL BOATWRIGHT (ROBERT S.8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Dec 1848 in Fluvanna County, Virginia. He married BARBARA A. HAMILTON 1861 in Augusta County, Virginia, daughter of WILLIAM HAMILTON and NANCY WILSON. She was born Jul 1843 in Augusta County, Virginia.
Notes for WILLIAM DANIEL BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: William D Boatwright Date: September 24, 1850 Age: 1 Estimated birth year: abt 1849 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Wm D Boatwright Date: July 14, 1860 Age in 1860: 11 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M653_1345 Page: 665 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Robert S Boatwright 1880 Census: Name: W. D. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 16, 1880 Age: 32 Estimated birth year: <1848> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: South River, Augusta, Virginia Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Barbara A. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: South River, Augusta, Virginia; Roll: T9_1354; Family History Film: 1255354; Page: 259A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Wm D Boatwright Date: June 9, 1900 Home in 1900: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia Age: 51 Estimated birth year: 1849 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Carpenter Census Place: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: T623 1697; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1. 1910 Census: Name: William D Boatwright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 61 Estimated birth year: abt 1849 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia Occupation: Carpenter Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1619 Part: 3 Page: 15A 1930 Census: Name: William D Botwright Date: April 5, 1930 Home in 1930: Charlottesville, Virginia Age: 81 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1849 Birthplace: Virginia Relation to Head of House: Boarder - Widower Race: White Census Place: Charlottesville, Virginia; Roll: 2466; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 741.0.
1880 Census: Name: Barbara A. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 16, 1880 Age: 36 Estimated birth year: <1844> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: House Keeping Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: South River, Augusta, Virginia Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: W. D. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: South River, Augusta, Virginia; Roll: T9_1354; Family History Film: 1255354; Page: 259A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Barbara A Boatwright Date: June 9, 1900 Home in 1900: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia Age: 46 Estimated birth year: 1844 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: T623 1697; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1. 1910 Census: Name: Barbara A Boatwright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 59 Estimated birth year: abt 1851 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Series: T624 Roll: 1619 Part: 3 Page: 15A
8-375. NANCY BOATWRIGHT (ROBERT S.8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1851 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, and died Bef. 1860 in Fluvanna County, Virginia.
8-376. ROBERT JOHN BOATWRIGHT (ROBERT S.8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Apr 1854 in Fluvanna County, Virginia. He married (1) MARY E.. She was born Sep 1856 in Virginia, and died Bef. 1910 in Albemarle County, Virginia. He married (2) KATHERINE V.. He was born 1879 in Virginia.
Notes for ROBERT JOHN BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: Robert J Boatwright Date: July 14, 1860 Age in 1860: 6 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M653_1345 Page: 665 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Robert S Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Robert J Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854 Age in 1870: 16 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 18 1900 Census: Name: Robert J Boatwright Date: June 9, 1900 Home in 1900: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia Age: 46 Estimated birth year: 1854 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Carpenter Census Place: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: T623 1697; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1. 1910 Census: Name: John R Boatwright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1854 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia Occupation: Professor, Commercial School Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1619 Part: 3 Page: 15A
1900 Census: Name: Mary E Boatwright Date: June 9, 1900 Home in 1900: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia Age: 43 Estimated birth year: 1857 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Court House, Albemarle, Virginia; Roll: T623 1697; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1
1910 Census: Name: Katherine V Boatwright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 21 Estimated birth year: abt 1879 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Series: T624 Roll: 1619 Part: 3 Page: 15A 1920 Census: Name: Kate Boatright Date: January 5, 1920 Home in 1920: Charlottesville Ward 2, Virginia Age: 60 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860 Birthplace: Virginia Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Father's Birth Place: Virginia Mother's Birth Place: Virginia Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Sex: Female Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Census Place: Charlottesville Ward 2, Virginia; Roll: T625_1882; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 24; Image: 985.
Child of ROBERT BOATWRIGHT and MARY E. is:
9-835B. i. HENRY C. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1883, Virginia;
d. 08 Oct 1890, Orange, Orange County, Virginia.
8-377. JUDA A. BOATWRIGHT (WILLIAM BUCK8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1852 in Virginia.
Notes for JUDA A. BOATWRIGHT:
1870 Census: Name: Juda A Boatwright Date: July 4, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1852 Age in 1870: 18 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Southern District, Louisa, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Trevilians Depot Roll: M593_1660 Page: 397 Image: 265 Year: 1870
8-378. SAMUEL ORSON BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 14 May 1844 in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia, and died 19 Aug 1864 in Point Lookout Prisoner Camp, St. Mary's County, Maryland.
Notes for SAMUEL ORSON BOATWRIGHT:
Samuel served in the Army of the Confederacy. He enlisted as a Private, Company C, 44th Infantry Regiment Virginia. He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House on May 12, 1864, during the battle of the bloody angle.
May 11th was mostly spent in preparing for another battle. Grant determined to strike Lee's right center where it appeared most vulnerable. The night was very dark and stormy. Grant moved at midnight, and Hancock took a position within 1,200 yards of the Confederate line. He stormed it at 4 A.M. on the 12th. He burst through the lines, and, after a hand-to-hand conflict inside the trenches, captured 4,000 men, and drove his adversaries through the woods towards the village. At the second line of entrenchments Hancock's men, having lost their organization, were forced to retire to the first, which they held with the aid of the 6th Corps. Five times during the day Robert E. Lee attempted to dislodge Hancock, but was repulsed each time, with heavy loss. So fierce had been the battle that one-half of the forest within range of the musketry was destroyed by bullet wounds. A tree 18 inches in diameter was entirely cut in two by musket balls. The scene of the engagement was afterwards known as " the field of the bloody angle."
In May 1864, Union wounded and Confederate prisoners from the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House were transported to the wharves at Belle Plain on Potomac Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, located east of Falmouth. Samuel was confined at Belle Plain, Stafford County, Virginia, May 14, 1864. He was transferred to Point Lookout on May 18, 1864. He died 3 months later on August 19, 1864. His name is inscribed at the base of the monument to Confederate soldiers buried at Point Lookout Cemetery.
Belle Plain, Stafford County, Virginia
In May 1864, Union planners searching hurriedly for a supply base in the Fredericksburg area chose the stretch of shoreline known as Belle Plain. Situated on the south side of Potomac Creek near its junction with the Potomac River, Belle Plain offered many logistic advantages: it was closer to Fredericksburg than were the nearby Aquia Creek landings, it did not share Aquia's dependence upon a connecting railroad, and it had hosted Federal supply operations earlier in the war. Thus Union forces reoccupied Belle Plain by May 10, 1864 and on May 12 constructed the first of two pontoon wharves there: one on the west side of Whipsawason's Point, one-half mile east of (downstream from) modern Belle Plain Landing, and another at Pratt's Point, a mile downstream from Whipsawason's.
Navigating past crowds of reinforcements, stevedores, guards, and medical personnel thronging the wharves, Northern photographers soon made their way to the Punch Bowl depressions. There on May 16th or 17th they produced what would prove to be a record number of photographs of Confederate prisoners in an active combat zone. The captives were among a total of about 7,500, their vanguard arriving from the Wilderness and Spotsylvania battlefields on May 13th and their rearguard departing for Northern prisons on May 18th.
Belle Plain was the objective of a remarkable procession that left Fredericksburg at 6:00 a.m. on May 13th. First came an ambulance carrying captured Confederate Generals Edward Johnson and George Stuart, escorted by a detachment of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. Then came a group of Confederate officers of lesser grades escorted by two companies of the 80th New York Infantry. Next were two regiments of Confederate enlisted men, the first guarded by the 68th Pennsylvania Infantry and the second by another detachment of the 80th New York. These Southern "regiments" were provisional creations of the commander of the Union escorts, Colonel Theodore Gates, who formed them from "companies" of 100 prisoners each. Members of the 15th New York Light Artillery constituted the column's next segment, providing visual variety with their four guns and associated teams and vehicles. In the wake of the guns came five more of Gates's pseudo-regiments, overseen by the 4th and 5th New York Cavalry and the 2nd Michigan Infantry. Guards and captives arrived at Belle Plain at about 5:00 p.m. and rested for nearly an hour, after which the former herded their officer-charges aboard the steamer Star and placed the balance of the captives in bivouac on shore. In his diary Gates estimated that his men conveyed a total of 7,000 Confederates.
Gates' prisoners would be the first and largest group of arrivals by far, but later contingents created major fluctuations in Belle Plain's Confederate census. The Star evidently delayed departing until May 14th, while other captive groups left on May 16th and on each of the three days that followed. Despite the arrival of an additional, 275-prisoner group on May 16th, only 26 captives remained at Belle Plain by May 20th. Their numbers swelled dramatically the next day with the arrival of a batch of 497. The Union garrison shipped the last of the prisoners on May 23rd and abandoned the landings on May 24th.
Confederate Prisoners at Belle Plain and the Belle Plain Wharf
Belle Plain's hosting of more than 7,800 Confederates over the ten-day period between May 13th and 23rd
elicited considerable comment by Northern onlookers. Walking along one of the wharves, a female nurse
encountered a squad of captive Southern officers, "strong, well-fed, iron looking men....There's no `give in' in
such...." In a letter to a home-state newspaper, a member of the U.S. Christian Commission described chatting
with other prisoners, who expressed "wonderful confidence in `Old Bobby', as they familiarly term Lee" and
in the superior piety of his army. The correspondent also claimed that Major-General Johnson was "surly as a
bear[,] tried to raise a mutiny in camp" and was marched off to the Star amid the mocking strains of "Yankee
Doodle." A chaplain noted that bandsmen from the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry harassed their charges with the
same tune, adding "Johnnie Stole a Ham" and "Ain't You Glad to Get Out of the Wilderness?" to the barrage.
However, the Southerners he spoke with generally maintained "good spirits, and said that Lee knew what he
was about, and...would fight till the last man fell."
Point Lookout Prisoner Camp, St. Mary's County, Maryland
Point Lookout is located in the most southern point of Maryland's western shore. It is bordered by the Potomac River on the west and the Chesapeake Bay to the east.
Point Lookout Sketch
Before the Civil War, Point Lookout was a summer resort with a hotel, numerous beach cottages and a large
pier and lighthouse. In 1862 the US government neede a hospital to treat wounded and sick soldiers from the
Northern Armies. The Government leased the Point Lookout Resort to use as an Army hospital. They recieved
their first Union Army patients on 8/17/1862. In 1863 a number of Conferate prisoners were ordered to be
confined on the hospital grounds, they were mostly Southern Marylander's accused of helping the
Confederacy.
Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg they started building a rebel camp, Camp Hoffman, to hold 10,000 prisoners of war. In December 1863 they had over 9,000 POWs here. In June 1864 they had over 20,000 prisoners. 3,384 men died in this prison. Point Lookout held a total of 52,264 prisoners during the war, most of whom were enlisted men. When the Civil War ended in Apr 1865 they transferred the prisoners to the South, the last prisoner leaving Jun 1865.
G.W. Jones, a private of Co. H, 24th Virginia Cavalry, described his ominous entrance into the prison amidst "a pile of coffins for dead rebels," hearing the lid close shut on his own soon thereafter when he learned that the system of prisoner exchanges had been suspended for the duration of the war. Jones described the camp as laid out into a series of streets and trenches, intended to aid in drainage, and surrounded by a fourteen foot parapet wall. Prisoners, who lived sixteen or more to a tent, were subjected to habitually short rations and limited fire wood in winter, and when the coffee ration was suspended for federal prisoners at Andersonville, the Point Lookout prisoner lost theirs as well.
The worst the prisoners suffered, however, may have been inflicted by the physical conditions. The flat topography, sandy soil, and an elevation barely above high tide led to poor drainage, and the area was subjected to every imaginable extreme of weather, from blazing heat to bone-chilling cold. Polluted water exacerbated the problems of inadequate food, clothing, fuel, housing, and medical care, and as a result, approximately 4,000 prisoners died there over 22 months.
Estimates report that over 14,000 prisoners died while imprisoned at Point Lookout but the cemetery is
known to hold 3,384 soldiers in a mass grave with no evidence to back up this massive figure. According to
history data received from Point Lookout State Park, " Of the 50,000 men held at the Point between 1863 and
1865, nearly 4,000 died. Ironically, however, this death rate of 8 percent was less than half the death rate
among soldiers who were in the field with their own armies." As you can see, there seems to be some
controversy over the number of deaths at this prison.
The Confederate soldiers' bodies have been moved twice and have found their final resting place in Point Lookout Cemetery. The first Confederate monument ever constructed has been placed above this mass grave. Made of granite and standing over 85 feet tall, the base of it is covered with bronze tablets, telling the story of the Confederate soldiers lost at Point Lookout Civil War Prison.
Sources: William L. Clements Library; The University of Michigan; Schoff Civil War Collections
"Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates", by Edwin W. Beitzell of St. Mary's County, Maryland. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-85750.
1850 Census: Name: Samuel A Boatwright Date: September 25, 1850 Age: 6 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Samuel O Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 16 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 676 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 Name: S O Boatwright Service Info.: CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY CIVIL WAR Cemetery: Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery Cemetery Address: Point Lookout St. Mary's County, Maryland Buried At: Section 1 Site 1
8-379. ANN MARIA BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 22 Mar 1846 in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Notes for ANN MARIA BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Ann M Boatwright Date: September 25, 1850 Age: 4 Estimated birth year: abt 1846 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Maria Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 14 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 676 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Maria A Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846 Age in 1870: 24 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 1870
8-380. SUSAN ANN BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 20 Dec 1847 in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia. She married JOHN REYNOLDS.
Notes for SUSAN ANN BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Susan A Boatwright Date: September 25, 1850 Age: 3 Estimated birth year: abt 1847 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Susan A Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 10 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 676 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Susan A Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847 Age in 1870: 23 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Susan A. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 12, 1880 Age: 32 Estimated birth year: <1848> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: At Home Relationship to head-of-household: Daughter Home in 1880: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Father's name: Drury W. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's name: Frances N. BOATWRIGHT Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: T9_1365; Family History Film: 1255365; Page: 498A; Enumeration District: 52; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Susan Boatwright Date: June 19, 1900 Home in 1900: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Age: 52 Estimated birth year: 1848 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Daughter Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: T623 1708; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 77.
8-381. MARY ELIZABETH "BETTIE" J. BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 15 Jun 1849 in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia, and died 20 Apr 1863.
Notes for MARY ELIZABETH "BETTIE" J. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Mary E Boatwright Date: September 25, 1850 Age: 1 Estimated birth year: abt 1849 Birth place: Virginia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Page: 45 Roll: M432_944 1860 Census: Name: Bettie J Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 8 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 677 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Mary E J Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850 Age in 1870: 20 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 1870
8-382. JUDITH ALLEN BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 30 Sep 1851 in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia. She married JOHN D. HOLLOWAY 1872. He was born 03 Feb 1852 in Virginia.
Notes for JUDITH ALLEN BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: Judith A Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 6 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 677 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright
8-383. SARAH CLEMENTINE BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 26 Sep 1853 in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Notes for SARAH CLEMENTINE BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: Sarah C Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 4 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Not Stated, Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 677 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Sarah C V Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854 Age in 1870: 16 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Clementine N. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 12, 1880 Age: 27 Estimated birth year: <1853> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: At Home Relationship to head-of-household: Daughter Home in 1880: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Father's name: Drury W. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's name: Frances N. BOATWRIGHT Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: T9_1365; Family History Film: 1255365; Page: 498A; Enumeration District: 52; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Sarah C Boatwright Date: June 19, 1900 Home in 1900: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Age: 46 Estimated birth year: 1854 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Daughter Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: T623 1708; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 77. 1910 Census: Name: Sarah C Boatwright Date: May 4, 1910 Age in 1910: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1854 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Series: T624 Roll: 1628 Part: 3 Page: 236B Living with sister Judith and family
8-384. MARTHA W. BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 11 Sep 1856 in Palmyra, Fluvanna County, Virginia. She married EMMETT MCGEE.
Notes for MARTHA W. BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: Martha W Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 2 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 677 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Martha W Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857 Age in 1870: 13 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 1870
8-385. DRURY DANIEL BOATWRIGHT (DRURY WILSON8, SAMUEL7, JAMES6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 06 Apr 1859 in Fluvanna County, Virginia, and died 16 May 1947 in Virginia. He married LULA MAUDE JOHNSON 25 Dec 1900 in Lousia County, Virginia, daughter of JOSHUA LEE JOHNSON and MARTHA JANE HAMM. She was born 06 Nov 1879 in Lousia County, Virginia, and died 20 Mar 1951 in Richmond, Virginia.
Notes for DRURY DANIEL BOATWRIGHT:
Front row, left to right: Lois, Drewry, Myrtle,
Back row: Mable, Lula Maude, Martin, Drury Daniel and Elizabeth.
Photo source: Dan Boatwright.
1860 Census: Name: Drury Boatwright Date: July 25, 1860 Age in 1860: 1 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Fluvanna County, Virginia Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Palmyra Roll: M653_1345 Page: 677 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Drury Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Drury D Boatright Date: September 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860 Age in 1870: 10 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Chapel Hill Roll: M593_1646 Page: 237 Image: 474 Year: 18701880 Census: Name: Drury D. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 12, 1880 Age: 20 Estimated birth year: <1860> Birthplace: Virginia Occupation: Laborer Relationship to head-of-household: Son Home in 1880: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Father's name: Drury W. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: VA Mother's name: Frances N. BOATWRIGHT Mother's birthplace: VA Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: T9_1365; Family History Film: 1255365; Page: 498A; Enumeration District: 52; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Drewry D Boatwright Date: June 19, 1900 Home in 1900: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Age: 30 Estimated birth year: 1870 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Son Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: T623 1708; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 77. 1910 Census: Name: D D Bootwright Date: May 4, 1910 Age in 1910: 50 Estimated birth year: abt 1860 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1628 Part: 3 Page: 236B 1920 Census: Name: Drewry D Boatwright Date: January 3, 1920 Age: 60 years Estimated birth year: abt 1860 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Home in 1920: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Occupation: Farmer Able to read & write: Yes Roll: T625_1889 Page: 1B ED: 96 Image: 151 1930 Census: Name: Drewry Boatwright Date: April 4, 1930 Age: 70 Estimated birth year: abt 1860 Birthplace: Virginia Relation to head-of-house: Head Spouse's Name: Lula W Boatwright Race: White Home in 1930: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: 2443; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 9; Image: 578.0.
1910 Census: Name: Lula Bootwright Date: May 4, 1910 Age in 1910: 29 Estimated birth year: abt 1881 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1910: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Race: White Gender: Female Series: T624 Roll: 1628 Part: 3 Page: 236B 1920 Census: Name: Loula R Boatwright Date: January 3, 1920 Age: 40 years Estimated birth year: abt 1880 Birthplace: Virginia Race: White Home in 1920: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Able to read & write: Yes Roll: T625_1889 Page: 1B ED: 96 Image: 151 1930 Census: Name: Lula M Boatwright Date: April 4, 1930 Age: 49 Estimated birth year: abt 1881 Relation to head-of-house: Wife Spouse's Name: Dorothy Boatwright Home in 1930: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia Census Place: Palmyra, Fluvanna, Virginia; Roll: 2443; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 9; Image: 578.0.Burial: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
Children of DRURY BOATWRIGHT and LULA JOHNSON are:
9-836. i. MARTIN CHESLEY BOATWRIGHT, b. 05 Jan 1899, Fluvanna County, Virginia;
d. 06 Jun 1976, Lake County, Florida.
9-837. ii. MABLE HUNTER BOATWRIGHT, b. 08 Oct 1903, Fluvanna County, Virginia;
d. Abt. 1986.
9-838. iii. RUTH DANIEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 1905, Fluvanna County, Virginia; d. Feb
1906, Fluvanna County, Virginia.
9-839. iv. IVY ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT, b. 16 Jun 1906, Fluvanna County, Virginia.
9-840. v. MYRTLE WALDINE BOATWRIGHT, b. 07 Jan 1908, Fluvanna County, Virginia.
9-841. vi. DREWRY WALTON BOATWRIGHT, b. 26 Jul 1910, Fluvanna County, Virginia;
d. 22 Jan 1968.
9-842. vii. LOIS WILSON BOATWRIGHT, b. 07 Nov 1912, Fluvanna County, Virginia.
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