GOOD AFTERNOON MARGIE,

HERE IS THE INFORMATION YOU REQUESTED....

Rebecca Boyd was born ABT 1827, and died BEF 1850. She was the daughter of 2. William Boyd and 3. Rebecca Sellers. She married Matthew Wilson 4 APR 1844. He was born ABT 1797, and died BEF 1846.






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Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2

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2. William Boyd was born ABT 1772 in NC, and died ABT 1852 in Montgomery, Alabama(?).


3. Rebecca Sellers was born 1796 in Brunswick Co., NC, and died AFT 1850 in Coryell Co., TX.

Children of Rebecca Sellers and William Boyd are: i. James J. Boyd was born ABT 1820 in Pinetucky, Montgomery Co., Alabama, and died UNKNOWN. He married Penelope Jane Sellers 12 JAN 1849 in Pike, Alabama. She was born ABT 1831 in NC, and died UNKNOWN. He married Caroline Newman Neel AFT 1850. She died UNKNOWN.
ii. Martha Elizabeth Boyd was born ABT 1822 in Alabama, and died AFT 1880 in when in Coryell Co., TX. She married unknown Taylor. He died UNKNOWN. She married Sampson McCown. He was born ABT 1820 in Alabama, and died UNKNOWN.
iii. Michael Boyd was born 5 MAY 1825 in Pinetucky, Montgomery Co., Alabama, and died 20 OCT 1891 in Coryell Co., TX. He married Mary Eliza Sellers ABT 1854 in TX?. She was born ABT 1834 in NC, and died AFT 1880 in when in Coryell Co., TX.
1. iv. Rebecca Boyd was born ABT 1827, and died BEF 1850. She married Matthew Wilson 4 APR 1844. He was born ABT 1797, and died BEF 1846.
v. Margaret Boyd was born ABT 1830 in Alabama, and died UNKNOWN. She married Bill Thompson in Coryell Co., TX. He died UNKNOWN.
vi. John Boyd was born ABT 1831 in Alabama, and died AFT 1864.
vii. Sarah Boyd was born ABT 1836 in Alabama, and died UNKNOWN. She married Sam Coleman. He died UNKNOWN.
viii. Malinda Boyd was born ABT 1839 in Alabama, and died UNKNOWN. She married John Wesley Nichols. He died UNKNOWN. She married Arthur Wilson. He died UNKNOWN.

Only Richard, Henry, and Samuel are certain to have been children by William's
first marriage. William, Mary, Elizabeth, and Rebecca could have been children
by either marriage, as their birth dates have not yet been identified.
My theory is that William and Mary belonged to the first marriage, and Elizabeth and Rebecca to the second. The birthdates of most of William (Sr)'s younger children were estimated from the ages of the children in his 1840 household and from the years of their marriages, if known. [Note: Michael should have been 15 in 1840, but he is unaccounted for in the BOYD census records of that year, if he was actually born in 1825 as his tombstone states.]

William BOYD is said to have been a Methodist Circuit Riding Preacher who moved from Brunswick Co. NC to Montgomery Co., Alabama ca 1821, where he organized a congregation at Pinetucky (later Pine Level] in the SE part of the county, near Pike Co. Actually, the family seems to have settled first in present-day Pike Co., near Banks, Alabama (by 1829) and to have moved into the Pine Level (Montgomery Co.) area beginning around 1835.

William BOYD wrote his will on 19 Aug 1844 and had it recorded during his lifetime in Montgomery Co. Will Book 2, page 292. We know he was still living when the 1850 census was taken, and there is not a single document in Montgomery Co. probate records to indicate that his will was ever probated, that letters of administration or letters testamentary were ever issued, or in fact any other reference to the estate of this William BOYD. It is possible that he was still living when the family moved to TX, but died not long after the move. Perhaps the Probate records in Coryell Co. (created in 1854 from Bell Co.) or Bell Co. (whose probate records go back to it's creation in 1850) might shed some light on this mystery.

We know that Rebecca and her children came to TX, settling in Coryell Co., where her stepson Henry BOYD (also a Methodist preacher) had a church built by the fall of 1852.

On 1 Jan 1861, Rebecca (SELLERS) BOYD married James KELL. She spent the rest of her life in service to the church and to the family of the area.

On 29 June 1861, Matthew KELL donated an adjacent piece of land to Henry BOYD, William BABB, H. T. EMBRY, and himself (as Trustees) and construction then began on the New Liberty Methodist Church.

I AM NOT A FAMILY MEMBER OF THIS FAMILY BUT I DO HAVE HIM IN MY DATABASE AND I HAVE CHILDREN FOR MOST OF HIS KIDS, TOO. IF YOU NEED MORE INFO. LET ME KNOW MY EMAIL IS brysonhatfield20032003@yahoo.com