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Personal data William Boyd 

• He was born on October 7, 1814 in Horry County,South Carolina.
• A child of Simon Boyd and Scealy
• This information was last updated on August 12, 2006.

Household of William Boyd

He is married to Eliza Loniza Smith.

They got married on February 23, 1853 at Horry County,South Carolina, he was 38 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Henry Wilson Boyd  1854-1940 
2. John Lafayette Boyd  1857-1908 

Notes about William Boyd

Event: 1850 Census 1850 District Of Horry , SC, Family # 153
Event: 1860 Census 1860 Kingston Parish, (Horry Co, SC) family # 29
Event: 1880 Census 1880 Horry Co, SC, (Bayboro, Tws) # 229
Note:
The following article appeared in the Sun News, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in June 1994, written by C. B. Berry, a former mayor of Crescent Beach, South Carolina, who was instrumental in the creation of the Horry County Museum. He is a surveyor and a member of the Horry County Preservation Commission. He has written extensively on the history and genealogy of the area.

Area history
Seeking the burial site of Peter Vaught, Sr:

" For many years I have searched for the burial place of Peter Vaught Sr., who owned more than 4,000 acres of land that encompassed the modern-day Restaurant Row area. Last year, a call from Tim Chestnut of Conway indicated that he could show the spot where Vaught is supposed to be buried.
Tim is a son of Ducy Chestnut and a great grandson of the late Arch and Dell Ricks Chestnut, who owned most of the Restaurant Row area where they made their home. Tim and his wife Lou Jane Martin, took me down Chestnut Street from Conway National Bank, to a side street (the last before reaching the creek run or swamp) which apparently has no name. We proceeded southward to a gray house No. 601, which was built in 1977 by Bill Chestnut
(Stokes Chestnut`s son) and now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Reid Mittan. The unmarked grave is supposed to be located in the northwest corner of the lot.
We went down Chestnut Street, across the branch and about 150 feet west of the first entrance to Green Lake Subdivision, to a spot on the north side of the road where a picket fence once enclosed a cemetery, but they had no information about who was buried there. It was latter a cultivated field and is now reclaimed by the forest.
Next we visited a huge oak on a preserved site in the Galleria Shopping Center right behind the Chuck E Cheese Pizza. It was was here, they said that William Boyd and his wife resided and made salt by evaporating sea water before the Civil War. They had heard that Mrs. Boyd died here and was buried under this oak. The oak and about a 150-foot-square area is preserved in the lease of the Galleria property.
In attempting to get more information about the Boyds and this burial, a call was made to Letha Livingston Chestnut, Tim`s grandmother. She indicated that William Boyd`s grandson, Havey Boyd was still living and referred me to her sister, Myrtle Livingston Edge, for more information.
Mrs. Edge was familiar with the story about the oak tree and the old salt pan that was seen nearby. It was said that Mrs. Boyd loved that old tree so much that she requested to be buried there. She revealed that the grandson Havey Boyd, resided next door to Beulah Baptist Church between Red Bluff and Daisy
A visit to the Boyd home found Havey and his wife Leath Cox Boyd most cooperative. She was the daughter of Will Derrick Cox, brother of the merchant, Jerry Cox of Conway. visiting them were their son Paul A. Boyd and his wife Esther. They live in Plano, Texas, but were on an extended visit with his invalid parents.
Havey Boyd was familiar with the story about his grandparents being salt makers and the grandmother being buried under the great oak but his memory failed to recall her name. She had died many years before his birth. He was the youngest son of Henry W. Boyd and his wife Sophronia Gause, who are buried at Cane Branch Baptist Church Cemetery between Allsbrook and Cherry Hill in Horry County.
A search of the Horry County deed records failed to reveal any Boyd ownership of property in the vicinity of of the great oak. Neither could a land grant be found in the S.C. Archives. However, a conveyance from A.J.H. Galbraith to Burroughs and Collins Co. describes a tract 1,000 acres which Galbraith bought at a sheriff`s sale as the property of one William Boyd. This was in the Myrtle Beach area and may or may not have been the site of the Boyd residence.
The 1950 census records show William Boyd as a wealthy farmer born in 1814. His wife is listed only with initials. " M.A." was born the same year. There are also four daughters and two sons listed, all by initials: A.G., D.C., G.W.,
W.M., M.A.R.. and A.E.
The search continues for more information about this mysterious woman and perhaps in time a suitable tablet can be erected beneath that great oak to commemorate her burial place."

In the 1840 Horry District, census William Boyd, is listed as head of household on page 328. In the household are listed; two males age 20 to 30, one of them would be William Boyd the othe could be a brother or a hired hand. There are to females under 5 years of age; two females 20 to 30 years of age. One would be Williams wife the other could be the wife or sister or hired girl of the other male.
In the 1850 census of Horry District, William Boyd, is listed as head of household # 153, with his wife M. A., and 6 children, he is listed as a farmer, real est. value $3500.00.
In the 1860 census of Horry County, Kingston Parish, W. Boyd is listed as head of household # 29, there is a female Eliza 30 years old who is to old to be a daughter and to young to be the mother of the oldest children in the household, so she must be a second wife, and the last 2 children listed must be hers because there is a 8 year gap between the birth of William M., and the birth of Henry W. In the 1880 Horry County, census of Bayboro Township, District # 59, William Boyd, is listed as head of household # 229, with his wife Sarah A., and 2 children, he is listed as a farmer.
See notes on his wife Eliza. (WSH)

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