SEVENTH GENERATION (Synchronized with the Nathan Carson line)
139 James C. BOYETT was born in
Tennessee in 1811 and died on 13 April, 1874. He was married to (82) Frances (Carson) BOYETT, who was
born in Mississippi in 1824 and died in Bryan, Texas on 20 Aug., 1887. They are
both buried in the Bryan City Cemetery. (The relationship of Frances to the John S. Carson
family has not been established.) Their children were:
+140 Thomas Pinckney BOYETT
952 John Robert BOYETT
was born in 1841, served
in the Confederate
Army
and
died on 17 Dec., 1869. He is buried in the Bryan City Cemetery, Brazos
Co., Texas
+953 Martha Lucy (Boyett) GRAY
954 Phoebe HEARNE was born on
25 April, 1856 and lived in
Bryan, Texas
+955 James Cobb BOYETT
+956 William Carson BOYETT
+975 Nathaniel L. BOYETT
989 Nancy (Boyett) COOK was
born on 2 July, 1854, and married (994) R. A.
COOK
EIGHTH GENERATION
140 Thomas Pinkney BOYETT was born on 10
Aug., 1845 in Tyler County, Texas, on Billum’s Creek, north of Woodville. In
1863 he moved to Rock Prairie in Brazos County, Texas, and there spent the rest
of his life. In 1862 at the age of 17 he entered the Confederate Army in Company
C of the 15th Texas Regiment under Colonel Spaight, attached to
Polignac’s Division of the Trans-Mississippi Department. The regiment was in
Arkansas and also fought the guerrillas in the Indian Territory. In 1863 the
regiment was in Louisiana during the Red River Campaign. At Yellow Bayou his
company was captured and they were sent to New Orleans where they remained
prisoner for about three months, held in the Picayune Cotton Press, then was
paroled. After a furlough at home with his family, he rejoined the regiment in
South Texas and continued until the end of hostilities in 1865.
He refused to sign the amnesty agreement and had to avoid the provost guard for
several months. He worked as a cotton farmer, was in the retail liquor business
in Houston, was in merchandising in Calvert, Texas, and was a cowboy on the
cattle trails, moving cattle from Brazos County up the Chisholm Trail to Dodge
City, Kansas. In Bryan he was local manager for the Houston Brewing & Ice
Company and was one of the stock holders in the Interurban Railway and was owner
of the American Steam Laundry. He was elected City Marshal of Bryan in 1896, and
was a Democrat.
He was married to (274) Mary Eliza "Mollie" (Wicker) BOYETT in the 1870’s in Brazos
County, Texas. Their children were:
+275 Jennie Bell (Boyett) RAMSEY
276 Edna (Boyett)
LAHATTE
277 Pearl (Boyett)
KNOX
278 Blanche (Boyett)
PETERS
279 Ralph BOYETT
280 C. Ivy BOYETT
281 Thomas Pinckney
Jr. BOYETT
953 Martha
Lucy (Frances?)(Boyett) GRAY was born on 16 May, 1844 and married (909) Thomas
J. Gray. They resided in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas. It is not known
if they had any children.
955 James Cobb BOYETT was
born on 10 July, 1858 and died on 10 Nov., 1917. He is buried in the Bryan
City Cemetery in Brazos County, Texas. He was married to (891) Kate (Mendola) BOYETT,
who was born on 25 July, 1867 and died on 2 Oct., 1943. She is also buried
in the Bryan City Cemetery. Their known child was:
1400 James Louis BOYETT was born on 30 Nov., 1892
and died the same day
956
William Carson BOYETT was born on 8 Aug., 1860 and died on 7 May,
1951. He is buried in the Bryan City Cemetery in Brazos County, Texas.. He married (1067) Lillie
Medora (Royall) BOYETT on 18 Dec., 1879 in Brazos County, Texas by the Rev.
R. W. Kennon. She was born on 14 March, 1861 and died on 5 Nov.,
1932. She is also buried in the Bryan City Cemetery. They resided in College Station, Brazos County,
Texas. Their children were:
+1068 Ima Lillie (Boyett) EDMONDS
1397 Wirt Leggett. BOYETT
was born on 9 Feb., 1887 and died on 19 March, 1917
1398 William Algia BOYETT
was born on 2 Nov., 1888 and died on 21 Feb., 1948
1399 Guy Frank BOYETT
was born on 16 Dec., 1895 and died on 9 Feb., 1957
1496 Willard C. BOYETT
was born on 30 Dec., 1880 and died on 20 Oct., 1883
1497 Bertha Medora BOYETT was born on 4
March, 1882 and died on 14 Jan., 1958
1498 Martha Elizabeth BOYETT was
born on 22 Oct., 1883 and died on 22 Oct.,
1885
1499 Claude Earl BOYETT was born
on 2 June, 1885 and died on 16 Nov., 1950
1500 Gladys Lorraine BOYETT was
born on 18 July, 1892 and died on 26 April,
1960
1501 Birdie Ruth BOYETT was born on
27 March, 1894 and died on 25 Sept., 1895
1502 Norman Kittrell BOYETT was
born on 4 Oct., 1897 and died on 4 March, 1960
1503 Oran Holt BOYETT was born on 23
Feb., 1900. His date of death is unknown
1504 Raysor BOYETT was born on 7
Dec., 1901 and died on 17 June, 1902
1505 Alton Parker BOYETT was born on
25 Aug., 1903. He date of death is
unknown
975 Nathaniel G. BOYETT was born in June, 1847 and
was married to (73) Martha A. CARSON, daughter of (63) Nathan
Franklin CARSON. They were married on 9 Oct., 1872 and he died in Sept., 1873,
less than a year later. She is not buried next to him. It is not known if
they had any children.
NINTH GENERATION
275 Jennie (Boyett) RAMSEY was born
about 1886, and died in 1968 in Brazos County. She is buried in Bryan City
Cemetery. She was married to (195) Charles Newton Ramsey, who was born on
12 Aug., 1890 in Comanche County, Texas, and died in Sept., 1968 in Brazos
County, Texas. He was buried in Bryan City Cemetery. Their known child was:
+410 Edna Pearl (Ramsey) SMITH
1068
Ima Lillie (Boyett) EDMONDS was married to (1069) William S.
EDMONDS of Brazos County, Texas. They
had a son:
+1070 William. Sherman EDMONDS Jr. was
born on 22 Sept., 1913
TENTH GENERATION
410 Edna Pearl (Ramsey) SMITH was born on
28 July, 1914 in College Station, Brazos County, Texas. In 1997 she was residing
in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas. She was married to (605) Edward James Sr. SMITH in 1933. He had died prior to 1997, when she was
residing in Bryan, Texas. She was Presbyterian. Their children were:
606 Edward James SMITH, PhD. He was born on 19 Nov., 1943.
+607 Sue Ramsey (Smith) WACHENDORFER
1070 William Sherman EDMONDS was married to
(1071) Unknown Wife EDMONDS. They had two children:
+1072 Ima Michele (Edmonds) JACKSON
1495 William
Sherman EDMONDS Jr. was born on 24 Jan., 1948
ELEVENTH GENERATION
607 Sue Ramsey (Smith)
WACHENDORFER was born 13 April, 1935. She was married to (676) Unknown
WACHENDORFER. Their children are:
677 Frederick
Thomas WACHENDORFER
678 Edward
Ramsey WACHENDORFER
680 Kimberly (Wachendorfer)
HARRIGAN
1072 Michele (Edmonds) JACKSON was born and raised
in College Station, Brazos County, Texas, and still resides there with her
husband, (1073) Jimmy JACKSON
SOURCES:
1. "Texas and Texans", page
2354
2. Extensive unpublished work of R. R. Royall, "The
Virginia Royalls" dated 1961