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Nancy Boyd / Benjamin Benajah Tidwell
There is a marriage record in Meriwether County, GA for the
above couple and I have never been able to figure out who the Nancy Boyd
might be ... until a few days ago. I still don't know for sure but have
gathered a lot of evidence as to who she might be.
In 1840 in Pike County, GA, Benjamin Tidwell (abt. 1816 - 1862) married
Martha Moody (1816-1905), daughter of Benjamin Moody and Sybilla
Westmoreland. They raised three children who appear in the 1850 and 1860
Meriwether County census - Mary E., Benjamin J. and Luraney S. Tidwell. Mary
E. Tidwell was 13 in 1850, making her born before the marriage which, I know
happened back then, but was not as common as it is now. But I do not believe
that Martha was her biological mother.
Benjamin Tidwell, (seen many times as Benajah) was the son of William
Tidwell and Mary Amelia Jones. Benjamin's sister, Milly Tidwell, married
James Boyd, son of John (Wagonner Jack) Boyd and Nancy Chambers, and
Benjamin's brother, Mark Tidwell, married Frances Boyd, daughter of Robert
Boyd and Rosannah
Stewart. These Boyds all lived in the same area as the Tidwells in
Meriwether, their lands adjoined and they witnessed wills and deeds for each
other and helped settle one another's estates. My point is, these Boyd
families were established as being very active within the Tidwell family.
Court documents show that David and Hugh Boyd, both sons of Robert Boyd and
Rosannah Stewart, participated in many facets of the 1837 estate settlement
of William Tidwell, Benjamin's father.
According to Moody family information, Mary E. Tidwell married (1) John F.
Byram and (2) William Henry Harrison Hayes. With her first husband, she had
two daughters, Alice V, and Nancy Lavonia Byram. With her second husband,
she had a son, Oscar Boyd Hayes.
The Moody family of Mary's stepmother, Martha Moody, also got on the Boyd
band- wagon. Martha's brother, John S. Moody, married Nancy E. Spence,
daughter of Margaret Boyd and Wilson Spence. Margaret was a sister of James
Boyd who married Milly Tidwell.
James and Margaret Boyd, children of Wagonner Jack, had a sister named
Nancy, according to the will of their grandfather, John (Buckles) Boyd.
Nancy shows in the 1820 Newberry Co., SC census as a female born between
1810 and 1820. Sometime between 1820 and 1830,Wagonner Jack (separated from
his wife) and his son came to Meriwether County, bought land, and appear in
the 1830 census.
Sarah Boyd Bell, another child of Wagonner Jack, also came
to Meriwether, as did Margaret Boyd and Wilson Spence. Did Nancy Boyd come
with them? I don't know, but looking at all the Boyd families in Meriwether
in the 1830 time frame, no one had a daughter named Nancy the right age to
have married Benjamin Tidwell in 1837.
I believe that the Nancy Boyd who married Benjamin Tidwell in 1837 may have
been the daughter of Wagonner Jack, and therefore the sister of James Boyd,
Sarah Boyd Bell, and Margaret Boyd Spence who were all in Meriwether. I
believe she died shortly after giving birth to Mary in 1839 and that
Benjamin, finding himself with an infant and no wife, married Martha Moody
in 1840. The names of Mary's children, Nancy and Boyd, would reflect her
parentage.
This all happened in the northeast corner of Meriwether County which
sometimes spilled over into Coweta. Benjamin's estate, filed in 1862 in
Meriwether, and in which he is referred to as "Benajah" throughout, does not
mention his daughter Mary, just Benjamin J. and Luraney, who were minors.
Mary married her first husband in 1856.
None of our Boyd family is listed as being in any cemetery in Meriwether,
although I have records of many of them who died there. If anyone has any
insight, opinion, thoughts or facts to add to this Nancy Boyd/Benjamin
Tidwell theory, I would welcome your comments. Judy Kilgore, 2197 Hwy
154, Newnan, GA 30265 JodieK444 "at" aol.com
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