Elisha Boyd Family Tree

This 19th Century, hand drawn Tree depicts and records the family of General Elisha Boyd. It includes Colonel John Elisha Boyd of Civil War fame, Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd, and Charles James Faulkner.

It is drawn in pencil on paper board with penned names and dates. It is a large size and framed without glass.

Overall condition is very good. There is paper discoloration, some minor mars and a faded area on the main base of the Tree.

It was recently found in the Tidewater-Area of S.E. Virginia.

One has to wonder why the main trunk of the tree is gone? Does it represent the main Kilmarnock branch of Boyds? Or the unlucky 4th Earl, William Boyd who lost his head? What was the artist thinking when he took the General’s line from a main branch and what do the three cut branches represent? Cadet lines?

General Elisha Boyd was born in Berkeley County, October 6, 1769, a son of John Boyd, one of the early emigrants to the county. He attended the country schools of the time; in 1785 he entered Liberty Hall Academy, which was the nucleus of Washington and Lee University. He studied law in the office of Colonel Philip Pendleton. In 1796, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, with William Lamon as his colleague and in 1797 with Richard Baylor. He was chosen attorney for the State by the County Court of Berkeley County and held that position for 40 years.

Elisha Boyd married Mary Waggoner, daughter of Major Andrew Waggoner of Revolutionary War fame. They had one child, a daughter, Sara Ann Boyd, who married Philip C. Pendleton. Some years after the death of Mary Waggoner, he married Ann Holmes, daughter of Colonel Joseph Holmes and the sister of Governor Holmes of Virginia and Major Andrew Hunter Holmes. They had the following children:

Ann Rebecca Holmes, John E. Boyd, Rev. Andrew H. H. Boyd, and Mary Boyd, who married Charles James Faulkner.

Elisha served in the War of 1812 with a commission of Colonel of the 4th Regiment of Virginia Militia and was engaged in the second defense of Norfolk and Portsmouth against a British attack of land and naval force. For his services in defense of Virginia, the General Assembly elected him a Brigadier-General. The United States Army was then composed of States Militia.

Elisha Boyd helped to establish Martinsburg Academy, and built “Boydville,” which he bequeathed to his daughter Mary, who lived there with her husband Charles Faulkner. Elisha married a third time, to Elizabeth Byrd of the Westover family; she died November 16, 1839. General Boyd died October 21, 1841, and was buried in the family burying ground at Norborne Cemetery.

Source of text: Hardesty's West Virginia counties; Vol.2 Berkeley County; Richwood, W. VA. J. Comstock.

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