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1. Thomas Boyte/Boyett b. Abt.1665 perhaps in Namsemond Co. VA

2. Thomas Boyte/Boyett Sr. b. 1695 Namsemond Co. VA

3. Edward Boyett Sr. b. 1715 Nansemond Co. VA, d. ca. 1786.
m. Abigal abt. 1738, b. abt. 1720, in VA, d. abt 1770 in NC.

4. James Boyett b. abt. 1745 Northampton Co.NC d. Mar. 3, 1811 Screven Co. GA.
m. Sabra Sasser 1768 Dobbs Co NC

5. Irvin Boyett b. 1790 d. 1824 Screven Co. GA
m. Julia Ann Mundy Feb. 2, 1823 in Monroe co Ga. recorded in Jasper co. Ga.

6. Reuben Boyett b. abt. 1824 Monroe or Jasper Co. Ga., d. Oct. 1858 in Chambers Co. AL
m. Louisa Amanda Heard Nov.18, 1849, b.July 8, 1833,d. July 1,1862,
she m. 2nd James M. Pittman Jan.28,1860

7. Ervin Newton Boyett b. 19 Nov 1854 Chambers Co. AL d. 22 Mar. 1931, Abbot, Clay Co. MS
bur. in Houston Cem, next to first wife , Jennie Park. m. Laura Blakenship ,
b. July 13, 1873 in Clay Co. MS, d.26 Oct. 1968, bur. Greenwood Cem. West Point, MS

8. Sidney Ervin Boyett b. 19 Oct. 1901 Houston, Chickasaw Co. MS d. 10 Dec 1933
Atlanta, Chickasaw Co MS, m. Sevilla Faulkner b. Sept. 22, 1905 in Atlanta MS,
d. Mar. 6, 1967, Burial, Midway Cemetery, 3 mi. s. of Vardaman MS Mar. 9, 1967

9. Charles Eugene Boyette b.1928, m. Ethel Edwards of Chickasaw Co. Houston , MS



John Boyett(1795 NC-1872 MS)
Jasper Newton Boyett(1834-1886 MS)
Oscar Boyett (1861-1948) Oscar m. 12/18/1888, Mary Edmondson Sallis (1865-1937)

Documents received from Charles E. Boyette:

Regarding The Boyett Family, Written by Oscar Boyett

According to tradition which is all that I personally have and which is mostly from great uncles when I was a small boy and so far back that I am not sure of names. The first of my branch of the family came over from England and settled on the Neuse River in Lenoir Co., N. C. He and his
wife both lived to be very old and knowing that soon they would need them decided to have their coffins made after these were brought in they decided to try them-deciding they fit better the other way they swapped. She died first and he lived to be very old--more than a hundred. A negro staid in the room to watch over him. One night sambo preffered to nod. The old man touched some fire to sambo's foot to rouse him. The old man died that night.

One of their boys was our great grandfather who lived in ----- neighborhood and also lived to be old. His wife died and married a second. The oldest of the first set was William and when he became of age his father released him. He said to his father , "I want you to let John (our grandfather) go
with me" and to this he consented. They enlisted in the Army and were in the Seminole war and were known in their regiment Uncle William as the Singing Boyett and grandpa as the Wrestling(?) Boyett. I don't know when they separate but the next I know grandpa was in Lawrence(?) Co., Miss. In
the early days of Miss. Natchey (Natchez) was the gateway-the southern counties of the state were the first open to white settlement. This part was still indian country.

In Lawrence Co., he fell in love with Miss Margaret Calhoun, daughter of a South Carolina family and a cousin of John C. Calhoun. But he had a rival and this rival told a lie on him and for which grandpa undertook to horse whip him. The rival stabbed him and he was badly hurt. His friends carried him to nearby Mr. Calhoun's house the last place on earth he wanted to go for right then he felt he had lost out. But he got over the hurt and it seems that troubles worked out.

After the treaty of Doak's stand and 2nd cession and purchase of Choctaw lands-territory now comprising counties of Hinds, Copiah, Yazoo, Holmes and part of Madison there was an exodus from Natchy (Natchez) district to this territory. My grandparents came to Holmes Co. I don't know where they lived, But my father was born in Holmes Co. Later came the treaty of Dancing rabbit Creek and cession of the rest of Choctaw lands - opening them for settlement. In the end they came to Attala, settled on Big Black, lived and died there.

During the civil war my family lived at Grandpa Burnley's and once I saw Uncle Curtis there. Later I went with my father to his house and Aunt E?x cracked some walnuts on the hearth for John about my age and me. The next and last time I saw him was near Grandpa Boyett's at Cold Spring near old
Teague's(?) Ferry and Boyett pond(?). The occasion was a fish fry and picnic on the eve of his leaving (Curtis?) for California. There were Cypress trees in the lake and Cypress trees near the spring and big gourds and John and I got busy throwing water on the Cypress knees.

Uncle Curtis had been a business man and saved some money. He said the war over this country was ruined. California a new country was a better place. I was so fully convinced he was right I was sure I would not be long in following him. A few days after he left I decided that I must go to
California and told my mother. Without hesitancy she packed a bundle of clothes for me and I started on foot. In front of the yard was a grove of oak trees enclosed and a big iron(?) Gate. I was used to playing in the grove and made it to the gate without trouble. But once outside it was all woods and I was alone, the little boys heart failed. I sat down on a bank to think and cried. A big man rode up on a mule and asked my trouble. In the end he said,"Come on sonny go back to the house." He took me up behind him and that was the end of my trip to California.

Uncle Curtis left hopeful but his trip proved disastrous. My father rec'd several letters from him. He wrote good letters in a good round hand. He worked hard for a cover(?) back and was always hopeful. But he did not live long. For a long time I had these letters but after my health failed I went west for a time and while I was gone the folks moved and many things was stored in a little house in the yard. A few days later a wind blew this house to pieces and scatters things all over the hill - so many of my books and papers were lost.

My next visit was Aunt Lou's marriage to Uncle Henry Smith. My grand mother had died not long before that and this left Aunt Pauline hardly grown alone. Soon after when I was four we went to live my mother to keep house.

Soon after this Uncle Joe came. He had been in the army - a prisoner in Rock Island, my father had a grey mule - Dolly and Uncle Joe looked around and found a grey mule and together they farmed the place and made a crop. One day I remember my sister and I were at play and saw them coming from the
field and went to meet them - on the way we found at foot a big post oak two big snakes coiled up. Uncle Joe killed the snakes.

During this year my grandfather did but little-he was very quiet-not reminiscent-he read some. He had a bow(?) basket and kept the kitchen supplied with peaches, potatoes, cucumbers and heavy things from the garden. Often he would be eating a cucumber when he came in. One thing he attended
to regularly. He always fed, curried , watered and kept a fat horse. He was a lover of a good horse flesh and rode horseback as long as he lived. One day after his return from Durant he related that he had met a Mr. Leroy Boyett who lived in Holmes Co., and they had traced back and concluded they
distantly related.

The first drugstore I remember in Durant was Davis and Murphy. Dr. Davis entered stock and banking business. Then George Beall and Ernest(Ervin?) Boyett had the drugstore. Ernest was the son of Leroy. One other son was Vay(?) Boyett who had a blacksmith shop here soon after the RR was built.
In the fall of '82 (1882) I made a trip from neighborhood of Vaiden up Poplar Creek to French Camp. I heard of some Boyetts on that trip but didn't see any of them. Later I met a Mr. Boyett who was a traveling businessman and lived at Amory but his people had died when he was young and
he didn't know his ancestry.

In 1870 grandfather was reading a paper following closely the campaigns in the lsirman(?)- French (the only war I could find for 1870-1871 was the Franco-Prussian war) war where the loser(?) was over run France. I had commenced to study history then and my sympathies were much with the French
because they helped us win the revolution.

Grand father was very quiet, grandmother had been dead several years and no marker at her grave. The girls became anxious about it and asked my father to speak to him about it. I was present at the interview. His reply was ,"It won't be long till I am up there with her and then the children can place such markers as they wish." That was the way he felt about it and his plan was followed. He was sick only a short time and the Dr. described his passing as fruit ripening and falling from a tree. He died at age 77 in 1872.

Uncle William who was older lived several years longer. Unlike my grandfather he liked to talk and was very reminiscent. In a crowd always center of entertainment. He liked jokes and would tell them on himself and laugh most heartily at his own mistakes. He settled on Factory Creek NW of
Kosciusko and would come down occasionally. If my parents were busy he would take me for an audience and I was a willing listener, and very fond of him. In early days he bought horses as far North as Illinois and brought them south. He liked to (talk) about his purchases and trades. At one time he owned a very fine stallion named Sir William Wallace.

He had three daughters, all widows when I knew him. He lived with a Mrs. Browning and was very fond of her son Billy. The other two married Englands. The older one Aurie(?) Ann married Charles England and still lived on Factory Creek. Charles was killed during Civil War. The youngest Lariva(?) Married Harrison England who was older than Charles. Uncle Curtis married Aunt Ex(?) oldest daughter of Charles England.

Harrison went to Lonoke, Ark. and for some time was county clerk. After his death Cousin Lariva(?) came back on a visit when I was a boy and stayed several days with us. She had four sons, Eddy(?) Was a young lieutenant in Civil War and so I have later heard one of his sons was in the Navy-under
Dewey at Manilla. John C. was studying law and later located Little Rock. The younger two were Albert and Charles. That branch have been prominent in Ark.

Last winter Edna(?) Earl, Edgar Boyett's daughter, who works a good part of time in Kosciusko found a new friend and brought him down to see me a Mr. Sam(Samuel?) Boyett whose house is Shiloh Tenn.
(NOTE:from Charles:The man he met from Amory Miss. was George Washington Boyett, a brother to my grandfather Ervin Newton Boyett who came to Miss. in 1867 from Heard County Ga. with their grandparents John Jasper and Amanda Malvina Heard after Sherman tore up the area.)

He seems to be a nice young man an engineer in Ison.(?) Service, then working on Natchez Trace and
stationed at Kosciusko. My Boyett has a written record of his branch of the family. Thomas and Eli Boyett as young men came over from North Ireland. Four days out they were discovered in hold of ship and the Captain put them to hard work. They reached North Carolina married and settled down.
Orie(?) Raised nine boys and one girl- the other nine girls and one boy. From this beginning they branched out but as I did not make a copy can not go further With them. At that time Tenn was western district of N. C. and emigration to Texas was large and some to Miss. And other places.

Mr. Boyett said when spring opened some weekend he would take me home with him and thro. the park where he had worked and with which he was familiar. That would have been a treat, But he was transferred and since they send him up and down the line and I can't see him.

I went on a visit to Aunt Jane Burnley's just before they moved from Burnley Creek. She told me Uncle William was there and was sick. I went in to see him - quiet and sad - was sitting before the fire in sock feet on the hearth. All he said was "I'm sick and want to go home". The next I heard
he was dead. He was 84.

Uncle Evan was youngest of three. I did not know him so well though he called now and then. He told me that he came thru Ala. And stopped and for a while managed a plantation in that state. He settled in Beat 5 SE of Kosciusko. He had three sons, Elias, Steve and Sam I never saw Sam but
over - there about grown. He married and soon after had some trouble. He was said to be an expert shot and his enemies feared him and waylaid him and shot him. Uncle Evan lived to be 87, cousin Eli(?) was 87, Cousin Steve 98. One of their sisters Cousin Ellen Smith who died not long ago over 90.

There were some children in 2nd set and I have heard about them and many other things but sure all them and so long ago I am dim on names and facts. It seem that our boys came out here, lived in Carroll Co. and was killed at Black.

The Scarborough farm is east of Pleasent Hill church. There was an old house on NW corner where a negro Sam Stewart lived known as Scarborough place. If I remember right the Scarboroughs lived in a new house south of church. Aunt Lizzie had a brother Ab who was killed by a runaway team. I
never knew him. She had a sister Sophia who married Mr. Wright.

There was a Dr. Scarborough and a lawyer Judge, I.(?) W. Scarborough in Kosciusko. One of Judge Scarborough's sons, Otis studied law and our Othello studied medicine. They went to Ark. One of the girls married Joe Chestnutt a traveling man. Mr. Chestnutt discovered and introduced the most
nuttiest(?) And highest priced pecan on the market. The trees cost $5.00 apiece. I never knew them very well and not parted(?) on relationships.

The Calhouns came over from North Ireland and settled in Piedmont region of South Carolina near the Savannah River. Most of Ireland is Catholic but the northern part irish and scotch irish is Protestant and mostly Presbyterian.

John C.(Calhoun) was a bright boy and his folks sent him to Yale. As an orator and statesman his record appears in U. S. History. One of his brothers moved to Miss. And settled in Tallahachie Co.

I have heard my father speak of a trip he made when a boy with my grandmother back to see her folks in Port Gibson.

Also of a trip later that uncle Joe made to Texas. I don't know full particulars except it was connected with some estate matter- so concluded that some of family moved there.

In the early settlement of colonies, puritans and pilgrims came over to escape persecution and later because intolerance of others who came who didn't believe just as-they did - hung some people and banished others.

In the reign of Louis 14th of France, a Catholic country there was severe persecution of protestant. The British Gov. Permitted these exiles to enter protestant of their domain. At that time Charles 2nd of England gave some of his friends a liberal charter to Carolinas. The soil and climate were better than more northern sections there was more freedom and no religious
restrictions. In consequence the Carolinas more rapidly settled. There was a large immigration of French Huguenot and protestants from Northern Ireland and also from other colonies. So without evidence of record tradition from general facts of history, the name and general characteristics of family I am inclined to believe(?) The Boyett's were Huguenot. As for the name my grandfather spelled it Boyett, another Boyet, another Boyt and some the others added an e - Boyette. I think my grandfather right.

Yours Very truly
Oscar Boyett
(1861-1948)