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Generation 8
8-274. CASHIRE WILLIAM BOATRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 14 Aug 1814 in St. Bartholemew Parrish, Colleton District, South Carolina, and died 03 May 1877 in Appling County, Georgia. He married (1) HANNAH HONOR Abt. 1841 in South Carolina. She was born 1824 in St. Bartholemew Parrish, Colleton District, South Carolina, and died Bet. 1860 - 1870 in Appling County, Georgia. He married (2) MARY C. EASON in Appling County, Georgia. She was born Abt. 1846 in Appling County, Georgia.
Notes for CASHIRE WILLIAM BOATRIGHT:
Fraternal Org. Holmesville Lodge #195.
1840 Census: Name: Cashire Boatwright Township: St Bartholomews Parish County: Colleton State: South Carolina Roll: 510 Page: 258 1 male: 10 - 15, 1 male: 20 - 30, 2 male slaves: 0 - 10, 1 male slave: 10 - 24, 1 female slave: 0 - 10, 1 female slave: 24 - 36, 1 female slave: over 55, 16 total, 7 agriculture 1850 Census: Name: Cheshire Boatwright Date: October 7, 1850 Age: 30 Estimated birth year: abt 1820 Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): St Bartholomews Parish, Colleton, South Carolina Occupation: Farmer Value of Real Estate: $1,000 Page: 214 Roll: M432_851 1860 Census: Name: Cashire Boatright Date: July 8, 1860 Age in 1860: 42 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1860: Southern District, Appling County, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,500 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M653_111 Page: 48 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Cashire Boatright 1870 Census: Name: Cashire Boatright Date: July 27, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1815 Age in 1870: 55 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1870: Subdivision 1, Appling, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,000 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M593_134 Page: 43 Image: 87 Year: 1870Burial: Memorial Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery, Appling County, Georgia
Notes for HANNAH HONOR:
Nickname Hanner
1850 Census: Name: Hannah Boatwright Date: October 7, 1850 Age: 26 Estimated birth year: abt 1824 Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): St Bartholomews Parish, Colleton, South Carolina Page: 214 Roll: M432_851 1860 Census: Name: Hanner Boatright Date: July 8, 1860 Age in 1860: 36 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1860: Southern District, Appling County, Georgia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M653_111 Page: 48 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Cashire BoatrightBurial: Memorial Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery, Appling County, Georgia
Notes for MARY C. EASON:
1870 Census: Name: Mary C Boatright Date: July 27, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846 Age in 1870: 24 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Subdivision 1, Appling, Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M593_134 Page: 43 Image: 87 Year: 1870
Children of CASHIRE BOATRIGHT and HANNAH HONOR are:
9-610. i. HARRIET P. BOATRIGHT, b. 05 Feb 1843, St. Bartholemew Parrish,
Colleton District, South Carolina;
d. 14 Aug 1910, New Lacy, Appling County,
Georgia.
9-611. ii. CASHIRE WILLIAM BOATRIGHT, b. 02 Sep 1846, St. Bartholemew Parrish,
Colleton District, South Carolina;
d. 09 Jun 1888, Bacon County, Georgia.
9-612. iii. ANN MARY BOATRIGHT, b. 14 May 1848, St. Bartholemew Parrish,
Colleton District, South Carolina;
d. Aft. 1910 in Pierce County, Georgia.
9-613. iv. SHEBA BOATRIGHT, b. Feb 1850, St. Bartholemew Parrish, Colleton
District, South Carolina; d. Bef. 1860, St.
Bartholemew Parrish, Colleton District, South
Carolina.
9-614. v. CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL BOATRIGHT, b. Nov 1854, St. Bartholemew Parrish,
Colleton District, South Carolina.
9-615. vi. FRANCIS DAVID MARION BOATRIGHT, b. 01 Oct 1860, Dublin, Appling
County, Georgia; d. 24 Aug 1929.
8-275. RICHARD JOHN BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born Abt. 1815 in St. Bartholemew Parrish, Colleton District, South Carolina, and died 1885 in Appling County, Georgia. He married MARY HARRISON Abt. 1835 in South Carolina. She was born Abt. 1812 in North Carolina, and died 1880 in Appling County, Georgia.
Notes for RICHARD JOHN BOATWRIGHT:
1840 Census: Name: R J Boatwright Township: St Bartholomews Parish County: Colleton State: South Carolina Roll: 510 Page: 259 Household: 1 male: 0 - 5, 1 male: 20 - 30, 2 females: 0 - 5, 1 female: 20 - 30, 1 male slave: 0 - 10, 1 male slave: 10 - 24, 1 female slave: 0 - 10, 8 total, 2 agriculture, 1 over 20 that can't read or write 1850 Census: Name: Richard J Boatright Date: September 28, 1850 Age: 34 Estimated birth year: abt 1816 Birth place: South Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Georgia Militia District 583, Appling County, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Value of Real Estate: $300 Page: 25 Roll: M432_61 1860 Census: Name: Richard J Boatright Date: July 8, 1860 Age in 1860: 45 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1860: Southern District, Appling County, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,000 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M653_111 Page: 48 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Richard J Boatright 1870 Census: Name: Richard Boatright Date: July 27, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1810 Age in 1870: 60 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1870: Subdivision 1, Appling, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $100 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M593_134 Page: 43 Image: 87 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Richard BOATRIGHT Date: June 11, 1880 Age: 65 Estimated birth year: <1815> Birthplace: South Carolina Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: District 1250, Pierce, Georgia Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Mary BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: SC Mother's birthplace: SC Census Place: District 1250, Pierce, Georgia; Roll: T9_161; Family History Film: 1254161; Page: 606A; Enumeration District: 82; Image: 0214.
1850 Census: Name: Mary Boatright Date: September 28, 1850 Age: 37 Estimated birth year: abt 1813 Birth place: North Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Georgia Militia District 583, Appling County, Georgia Page: 25 Roll: M432_61 1860 Census: Name: Mary Boatright Date: July 8, 1860 Age in 1860: 47 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1860: Southern District, Appling County, Georgia Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M653_111 Page: 48 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Richard J Boatright 1870 Census: Name: Mary Boatright Date: July 27, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1808 Age in 1870: 62 Birthplace: North Carolina Home in 1870: Subdivision 1, Appling, Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Holmesville Roll: M593_134 Page: 43 Image: 87 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Mary BOATRIGHT Date: June 11, 1880 Age: 67 Estimated birth year: <1813> Birthplace: South Carolina Occupation: Keeps House Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: District 1250, Pierce, Georgia Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: Richard BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: SC Mother's birthplace: SC Census Place: District 1250, Pierce, Georgia; Roll: T9_161; Family History Film: 1254161; Page: 606A; Enumeration District: 82; Image: 0214.
Children of RICHARD BOATWRIGHT and MARY HARRISON are:
9-616. i. MARY ANN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1836, South Carolina.
9-617. ii. UMPHREY JANE BOATWRIGHT, b. 14 Jul 1837, South Carolina;
d. 26 Nov 1924, Bradford County, South
Carolina.
9-618. iii. RICHARD JOHN "BULLY" BOATRIGHT, b. 10 Feb 1840, South Carolina;
d. 19 Dec 1917, Bacon County,
Georgia.
9-619. iv. SERENA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1842, South Carolina; d. 1888, Georgia.
9-620. v. ELIZABETH S. "BETTY" BOATWRIGHT, b. Jan 1845, South Carolina;
d. 1932, Bacon County, Georgia.
9-621. vi. JOSEPH S. "JOSIAH" BOATWRIGHT, b. Abt. 1847, South Carolina;
d. 16 Mar 1930, Pierce County,
Georgia.
9-622. vii. CHESLEY JOHN DAVID BOATWRIGHT, b. Apr 1850, Appling County, Georgia;
d. 14 Oct 1914, Pierce County,
Georgia.
9-623. viii. CORNELIAS BOATWRIGHT, b. 1852, Appling County, Georgia.
9-624. ix. MARTHA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1855, Appling County, Georgia; d. Bef. 1860,
Appling County, Georgia.
8-276. MARTHA A. BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 04 Jan 1819 in Wilkes County, Georgia, and died Abt. 1883 in Live Oak, Suwanee County, Florida. She married THOMAS TIDWELL HURST Abt. 1850 in Suwannee County, Florida, son of WILLIAM HURST and SARAH WILDER. He was born 10 May 1831 in Monticello, Jefferson County, Florida, and died 11 Nov 1902 in Suwannee County, Florida.
Notes for MARTHA A. BOATWRIGHT:
Burial: Macedonia Cemetery, Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida
Notes for THOMAS TIDWELL HURST:
Burial: Macedonia Cemetery, Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida
Children of MARTHA BOATWRIGHT and THOMAS HURST are:
i. SARAH ANN HURST, b. 1851, Columbia County, Florida.
ii. JOHN WILLIAM HURST, b. 14 Aug 1852, Columbia County, Florida.
iii. RACHEL LUCINDA HURST, b. 11 Jan 1856, Columbia County, Florida.
iv. JEREMIAH H. HURST, b. 1857, Columbia County, Florida.
v. CHRISTIANA MELINDA HURST, b. 24 Jan 1858, Columbia County, Florida.
vi. ELIZABETH TYLER HURST, b. 1860, Columbia County, Florida.
vii. THOMAS ZACHERIAH HURST, b. 18 May 1865, Columbia County, Florida.
8-277. MARY CURL BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1822 in Wilkes County, Georgia. She married ROBERT H. BRANNAN Abt. 1842 in Madison County, Florida, son of THOMAS BRANNEN and NANCY DONALDSON. He was born Abt. 1819 in Georgia, and died 28 Nov 1864 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York.
Notes for ROBERT H. BRANNAN:
We believe that Robert H. Brannen is the son of Thomas Brannen and Nancy Donaldson. We have not found any direct evidence that would confirm that relationship. However, we have found a preponderance of evidence that strongly supports this relationship and no evidence that disproves it.
Evidence that shows Robert H. Brannen to be the son of Thomas Brannen is as follows:
1. Robert H. Brannan is likely named after his maternal grandfather, Robert Donaldson. It was a very common practice to name the first male child after his maternal grandfather.
2. Robert H. Brannan appears with Thomas Brannan in Hills and Turners Company of Volunteers in the Florida Indian Wars 1836-1840.
3. Robert H. Brannan appears with William Brannan in Hills and Turners Company of Volunteers in the Florida Indian Wars. Sarah A. Brannen, the widow of William D. Brannen, applied for and received a pension in 1902 for William D. Brannen's Indian War service claiming he served in Capt. Hills, Capt. Turners and Capt. Langford's Co. of the Florida Volunteers. William D. Brannan, is the proven son of Thomas Brannan and Nancy Donaldson. His middle name is Donaldson. This clearly shows that William and Thomas Brannan of the Florida Indian Wars are son and father. Since Robert H. Brannan is a year or two older (Robert was born circa 1819 and William 1821 or 1822) than William it stands to reason that Robert being an older son would also have served in the Volunteer militia along with his father and younger brother.
4. Robert H. Brannan appears with Thomas Brannan and William Brannan in the 1847 tax digest of Madison County Florida. He is absent in the 1842 Voters records for Florida statehood, as are the names of William and Thomas Brannen. This suggests a relationship between Robert and Thomas.
5. Robert H. married Mary Boatright about 1842 based on the birthdate of their children. They very likely married in Madison Co. Florida as that is where she and her parents were living at the time. We also know that Thomas Brannen moved into Madison Co. Florida from Lowndes Co. Georgia about 1842 or 1843, this is about the time Robert married Mary Boatright so we have Robert and Thomas near each other thus again suggesting a relationship.
6. There is an unidentified older male born between 1815 and 1820 in the family of Thomas Brannen in the 1820, 1830 and 1840 Census records. Robert, born circa 1819, fits the age description of each of those three census records.
7. Robert names his children Frank, Martha, Owen, Rebecca and Ann which are Brannen and Donaldson family names. Unfortunately, we do not find a Thomas in Robert's family.
8. In 1971, John P. Tompkins (1907-1983) told us that he thought that George Brannan was the name of his grandmothers, Anna Mercy Brannan Parker, father. It turned out that Robert H. Brannan is the father of Anna Brannan Parker (1858-1926) of Suwannee County, Florida and not George Brannen. However, John Tompkins thinking that George Brannan was his great grandfather suggests to us that a George Brannan was a very close relative of his grandmother, Anna. In addition, John Tompkins would often threaten his children (during the 1930 and 1940's) if they misbehaved by getting "George Brannan's big gun". The George Brannen of the big gun could only be George Brannen (1876-1928) of Taylor Co. Florida who is the grandson of Thomas Brannen. George Brannen of Taylor Co. was indicted for a shooting murder in 1899 in Taylor County. He was tried in Madison County in October,1901. A verdict could not be reached after two trials and the case was finally discharged by the court without a trial decision. George Brannen was thus well known in the area at the turn of the century as someone who may have used a gun to kill. It is our contention that Robert H. Brannan is the son of Thomas Brannen which makes Anna Brannan Parker a first cousin of George Brannan (1876-1928). It is reasonable to think that Anna Brannan Parker would know her first cousin that lived all their lives within 15 miles of each other. Why else would this "Big Gun" reputation of George Brannan be passed down through the Anna Brannan Parker family. We are not sure if John P. Tompkins ever met George Brannan but he would certainly have heard stories about him from his grandmother while he was growing up. We don't think he would have heard those stories if George was not related to his grandmother.
The earliest record we have is of a Robert H. Brannan enlisting as a private in Turner's Company, 12 Reg't, 1st Brigade of the Florida Mounted Volunteers in the Florida Indian Wars. Robert H. enrolled Sept. 1, 1838 at Tallahassee and mustered out on 17 November 1838 at Camp Taylor. Robert Brannan enlisted in Capt. Hills Company, 2nd Regiment, Florida Mounted Volunteers as a private on June 16, 1837 at San Pedro for 6 months and was on the muster out rolls for this Company at Ft. Gilliland, Florida on 18 December 1837. [National Archives, Microfilm M-629, Index to Service Records Indian Wars 1815-1858] His father, Thomas and his brother William also enlisted at the same time and place in these same companies.
Robert and his family appear in Columbia County, Florida in the 1850 Census and again in Suwannee County, Florida in the 1860 Census. Likely this is the same place as Suwannee County was formed out of Columbia in 1856. There is also a Martha Leach age 32, born Georgia living with the Brannan family in 1850. This is very likely a sister of Robert. Robert H. Brannan is also listed as voter no. 11 in the Poll Book of the Mineral Springs Precinct, No. 4 in Columbia Co., Florida on 2 November 1852.
Robert, at age 54. enlisted as a private in Company E, (later transferred to Co. H) of the 9th Florida Infantry, Confederate States Army on 4 September 1863 at Lake City, Florida. Nine months later he was killed during the battle of Cold Harbor near Cold Harbor, Virginia on 3 June 1864. [Widow's Pension Application, #18725, of Mary Curl Brannan, widow of W. F. Brannan, Florida State Archive - Tallahassee, Florida]
A record of an R. H. Brannan of Co. H. of the 6th Florida Infantry who died 28 November 1864 as a prisoner of war at Elmira, NY Military Prison. He is buried in the Elmira Prison Cemetery. Since the 6th Florida Infantry was later merged into the 9th Florida Infantry, as reported by Mary C. Brannan in her widow's application of W. F. Brannan, we suspect that this R. H. Brannan is in fact our Robert H. Brannan. Our rationale for this is that he was captured at the battle of Cold Harbor rather than killed and the confederate records are in error. He believe he was captured and transferred to the Federal Military Prison in Elmira, N.Y. where he died and is buried. That is the basis for his date of death and place of burial. Mary appears with her family in the 1850 Census of Columbia County, Florida and in the 1860 Census of Suwannee County, Florida. The 1860 Census in Suwannee County, Florida is the last record we have found for her. Presumably she died in Suwannee County where most of her children remained til their death.
Death: 28 NOV 1864 in POW, N.Y. Military Prison.
Burial: Elmira Prison Cemetery, Elmira, N.Y.
Military Service: 1 SEP 1838 Florida Indian Wars
Military Service: Enlisted at Tallahassee, Florida.
Military Service: Florida Mounted Volunteers
Military Service: Turner's Co., 12 Regt 1st Brigade
Military Service: 4 SEP 1863 Co. E and F, 8th Florida Inf. CSA
Occupation: 1860 Farmer, 150 acres Suwannee Co., Florida
Burial: Elmira Prison Cemetery, Elmira, Chemung County, New York
Children of MARY BOATWRIGHT and ROBERT BRANNAN are:
i. MARY BRANNAN, b. 1843, Florida.
ii. WILLIAM FRANCIS BRANNAN, b. 21 Aug 1845, Florida.
iii. RACHEL A. E. BRANNAN, b. 1848, Florida.
iv. MARTHA ANN ABIGAIL BRANNAN, b. 09 Dec 1849, Florida.
v. OWEN BRANNAN, b. 1854, Florida.
vi. HARRIET BRANNAN, b. 1856, Florida.
vii. ANNA MERCY BRANNAN, b. 19 May 1858, Florida.
viii. REBECCA BRANNAN, b. 1859, Florida.
ix. CLIFFORD BRANNAN, b. 1861, Florida.
8-278. BENJAMIN BOATRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1824 in Madison County, Florida, and died 12 Aug 1863 in Ft. Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Deleware. He married NANCY TOWNSEND Abt. 1851 in Florida, daughter of DAVID TOWNSEND and NANCY BURNETT. She was born 1832 in Florida, and died Abt. 1884 in Columbia County, Florida.
Notes for BENJAMIN BOATRIGHT:
Enlisted in CSA on 08 May 1862, Private in Company A, 8th Florida Infantry, died at Fort Delaware, as a POW. Benjamin's brother, JOHN WILSON BOATRIGHT, also served in the 8th Florida Infantry, Company A and was captured at Gettysburg. John was also taken to Fort Delaware and remained there for the rest of the war, released on May 10, 1865.
In April, 1862, Fort Delaware, a masonry fortification located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, received its first prisoners of war- a total of 358 Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Kernstown, Virginia. By January, 1866 when the fort was discontinued as a prison, the number of men confined had reached 22,773. This total includes southern soldiers, officers and political prisoners. Of these prisoners, 2346 died at Fort Delaware, known as the "Andersonville of the North" The dead were transported across the river to New Jersey, near Fort Mott, which is located near Harrisonville, Salem County, New Jersey. The dead were buried in trenches, and individual identification was lost. Today a monument stands at the site of the burials with a bronze plaque listing the names of the interred.
While the facility was ill equipped to house the numbers of prisoners who came to inhabit the island, Fort Delaware was not as cruel or deadly as other Civil War era prisons. The statistics show that a smaller percentage of men died there than in most other prisons. Even though disease, dirty drinking water, and poor nutrition were rampant at Fort Delaware, they did not engulf the population as drastically as they did in other prisons. Poorly constructed wooden barracks were built outside the walls of the fort to house the prisoners, but they provided inadequate protection from the icy winds which blew off of the river in the winter.
The accomodations differed very little from their guards, who were housed in similar quarters. Overcrowding and the swampy nature of the island led to infestations of lice, rats, malaria-infected mosquitos, and other vermin. Dysentery, small pox, and other diseases were common and even epidemic on occasion. A 600-bed hospital and a separate pestilence residence were constructed to better deal with the various maladies that afflicted the island residents. A staff of well-trained surgeons tended to the sick with equal concern for Union, Confederate, and civilian life.
Many prisoners arrived with nothing more than tattered rags on their backs. Some were marched from the battlefield without shoes. Some Union guards, usually those with the least experience, meted out cruel punishments. Others (usually combat veterans) were fair and considerate. Contact with families was limited to single page letters due to the overwheling volume of mail that had to be screened by clerks.
Following the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg in the summer of 1863, the prison population swelled by more than 12,500 new arrivals. Including the guards, garrison troops, construction laborers, and other residents, the population on Pea Patch Island approached that of Wilmington, Delaware's largest city. All were huddled together on 75 swampy acres. In three and a half years, more than 30,000 unfortunates passed through the gates of the island fortress.
The commandant of Fort Delaware, Brig.Gen. Albin F. Schoepf, a Hungarian refugee, was nicknamed "General Terror". The inmates were described as "looking like the vanguard of the Resurrection ....Scores seemed to be ill, many were suffering from scurvy, while all bore marks of severe treatment in their faces and wasted forms".
Often, the only way for an inmate to obtain fresh food was from local civilian sympathizers or from Northern "suttlers" who set up shop within prison walls. Those with money would buy the much needed food, while the less fortunate inmates could only barter pieces of their uniforms or prison-made crafts for a few vegetables or pieces of fruit.
Water was another problem, as one prisoner wrote: "The standing rainwater breeds a dense swarm of animalculae and when the interior sediment is stirred up...the whole contents become a turgid, jellified mass of waggle tails, worms, dead leaves, dead fishes, and other putrescent abominations...the smell of it is enough to revolt the stomach...to say nothing of making one's throat a channel for such stuff."
Even an 1863 outbreak of smallpox and calls for improvements from the U.S. surgeon general failed to move Col. William Hoffman, commissary general of Union prisons. Confederate prisoners continued to languish in Fort Delaware until two months after the war had ended.
According to Captain John S. Swann (a prisoner at Fort Delaware), "We formed in line and marched to the mess hall, in which were several long rows of plank tables with pieces of bread and meat arranged along the sides at intervales (sic) of some two feet. When we were in place each prisoner took one ration. The bread was made of rye and wheat flour, well cooked, but the piece very small, about half enough for a well man. The meat a small chunk of beef. Occasionally all sinew or mostly bone. It was cut up very carelessly and very small, not half a ration. Some days the bread was substituted with crackers, and these were hard days on us. We were permitted to take these rations to our bunks. I ate mine but remained very hungry. When dinner came the same thing was repeated, except there was occasionally a tin cup of what was called corn soup very tasteless and insipid, with little or no grease."
He also wrote: "Not long after my arrival I heard a cry "Rat call! Rat call!" I went out to see what this meant. A number of prisoners were moving and some running up near the partition, over which a sargeant (sic) was standing and presently he began throwing rats down. The prisoners scrambled for the rats like school boys for apples, none but some of the most needy prisoners, and the needy were the large majority, would scramble for these rats. Of course but few were lucky enough to get a rat. The rats were cleaned, put in salt water a while and fried. Their flesh was tender and not unpleasant to the taste."
House Report No. 45- 3rd Session, 40th Congress (1868-69) states that 2,502 of these men died on the island. Of this number, the bodies of 2,436 soldiers and 36 civilians were buried in trenches at Finn's Point National cemetery on the New Jersey shore overlooking Fort Delaware. Identification was soon lost. Later a granite obelisk was erected in their honor. Around the monument's base bronze plaques bear the names of the interred. Three soldiers' bodies were turned over to friends and relatives for private burial; 27 are unaccounted for.
Finn’s Point National Cemetery is located about six miles northwest of Salem, N.J., at the north end of what was Fort Mott Military Reservation. Today, the picturesque cemetery is entirely surrounded by the Killchohook National Wildlife Refuge and is adjacent to Fort Mott State Park. Originally, the United States purchased the land for the construction of the Finn’s Point Battery to protect the Port of Philadelphia. By 1863, however, the grounds increasingly served as a burial site for Confederate prisoners of war who died while imprisoned at Fort Delaware.
Fort Delaware was on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, one mile east of Delaware City. The island was named after a colonial-era tale that a boat loaded with peas ran aground on a river shoal, and the peas sprouted in the sandy loam. In 1847, Congress appropriated $1 million to construct the largest modern coastal defense fort in the nation here, surpassing Fort Sumter in size, to protect the ports of Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia.
Even prior to its designation as a national cemetery, the remains of POWs were transported to Finn’s Point across the river for burial. When weather or ice made trips to the mainland hazardous, it was necessary to bury the bodies on Pea Patch Island. Finns Point National Cemetery was enhanced and improved in response to the urging of Governor James L. Kemper of Virginia. Governor Kemper had been a brigade commander under Major General George E. Pickett in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and was wounded in action at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. Many of Kemper’s Virginians were sent to Fort Delaware and those who died there were buried at Finns Point. United States Adjutant General E. D. Townsend wrote to Governor Kemper in 1875: "Most of the bodies of the Confederate prisoners of war who died at Fort Delaware are interred in the soldier’s burial ground at Finns Point on the New Jersey shore, opposite to the fort, which is enclosed by an Osage-orange hedge, and while not in as good [an] order as might be desired, is reported as presenting a more respectable appearance than many country church-yards. -- the Quartermaster General will be directed to have the remains of the soldiers - Union and Confederate - buried on Pea Patch Island -- transferred to Finns Point National Cemetery, ---." Finn’s Point was official declared a national cemetery Oct. 3, 1875.
The Quartermaster Department exhumed 135 Union remains and 187 Confederate remains found on Pea Patch Island in November 1875 and reinterred them in the Finns Point burial ground. Twenty-two empty coffins were uncovered on Pea Patch Island during this exhumation, and it appeared that these remains had been removed by family and friends sometime after the war. These are presumed to have been Confederate remains although the surviving Quartermaster records and reports are not clear on this point. The Finns Point burial ground may have been used before the Civil War to bury soldiers involved in the construction of Fort Delaware. There were ten marked Federal graves present in the burial ground when it was first surveyed in the summer of 1875. Prior to June 1863 when Finns Point was first used to bury Confederate soldiers and civilian detainees, these dead were buried on Pea Patch Island. Thereafter the Pea Patch Island Confederate plot was used only when inclement weather prevented taking them across the Delaware River to New Jersey. The Union dead were buried on Pea Patch Island in individually marked graves throughout the war and not removed until November 1875. Markers were lost on Pea Patch Island by 1875 and individual graves, Union or Confederate, could not be identified. While the 135 Union remains were reinterred in numbered grave sites, those markers were also lost over the years. Today there are no marked individual Civil War burials.
Having both Union and Confederate soldiers who died during the American Civil War buried within the confines of the same national cemetery, albeit in separate sections, makes Finns Point somewhat unique. Arlington National Cemetery does have a Confederate Circle and Philadelphia National Cemetery encloses a separate Confederate section. More typical are the separate national cemeteries for Confederates at Camp Chase, Elmira, Point Lookout, and Johnson’s Island. Burial sites used during the war exclusively for the Confederate soldiers, sailors, and civilians who died in Federal prisons and military hospitals in the North were designated as national cemeteries after the war.
Congress passed legislation in 1906 authorizing the marking of the Confederate graves in these cemeteries as part of the national reconciliation effort that took place following the Spanish-American War. Monuments to the Confederate dead buried in the North were erected by the Federal government where other organizations, such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy, had not already done so. The Office of the Commissioner for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead compiled and published a "Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North" (U. S. War Department, 1912). This "1912 Register" contains the names of 2,436 Confederate military prisoners who were interred in the mass burial trenches and pits at Finns Point, and these names appear on the 12 bronze memorial tablets placed around the base of the Confederate monument. There are no individually marked graves, Union or Confederate, of war time dead in Finns Point National Cemetery.
The Confederate Monument, an 85 foot tall granite obelisk, erected in 1910 by the federal government in memory of the 2,436 Confederate prisoners of war who died at Fort Delaware. Their names are inscribed on the monument.
1850 Census: Name: Benjamine Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 26 Estimated birth year: abt 1824 Birth place: Fa Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58 1860 Census: Name: Benj Boatright Date: June 20, 1860 Age in 1860: 29 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Township 5, Lafayette County, Florida Occupation: Farmer Gender: Male Value of real estate: $100 Post Office: New Boston Roll: M653_107 Page: 967 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Benj BoatrightBurial: Finn's Point CSA Cemetery, Pennsville, Salem County, New Jersey
Notes for NANCY TOWNSEND:
1860 Census: Name: Nancy Boatright Date: June 20, 1860 Age in 1860: 27 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Township 5, Lafayette County, Florida Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: New Boston Roll: M653_107 Page: 967 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Benj Boatright 1870 Census: Name: Nancy Boatwright Date: August 16, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835 Age in 1870: 35 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Subdivision 9, Suwannee, Florida Occupation: Keeping House Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Houston Roll: M593_133 Page: 685 Image: 503 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Nancy BOATRIGHT Date: June 1, 1880 Age: 55 Estimated birth year: <1825> Birthplace: Georgia Occupation: Keeping House Relationship to head-of-household: Mother Home in 1880: Precinct 10, Columbia, Florida Race: White Gender: Female Father's birthplace: --- Mother's birthplace: --- Census Place: Precinct 10, Columbia, Florida; Roll: T9_126; Family History Film: 1254126; Page: 420C; Enumeration District: 24; Image: 0428.
Children of BENJAMIN BOATRIGHT and NANCY TOWNSEND are:
9-625. i. GEORGE W. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1853, Lafayette County, Florida;
d. 1932, Hillsborough County, Florida.
9-626. ii. MARY ANGELINE BOATRIGHT, b. 1855, Lafayette County, Florida;
d. 1881, Columbia County, Florida.
9-627. iii. JOHN WILLIAM BOATRIGHT, b. 17 Apr 1858, Lafayette County, Florida;
d. 19 Jun 1935, Ft. Pierce, St. Lucie
County, Florida.
9-628. iv. DAVID IRVING BOATRIGHT, b. May 1860, Lafayette County, Florida;
1918, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida.
8-279. FELIX EMMANUEL BOATRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 10 Jan 1825 in Madison County, Florida, and died 30 Jul 1900 in Suwannee County, Florida. He married MARTHA ELIZABETH STANFORD 08 Aug 1875 in Suwannee County, Florida, daughter of ELI STANFORD and MARY TAYLOR. She was born 22 Nov 1851 in Clinch County, Georgia, and died 22 Jun 1922 in Suwannee County, Florida.
Notes for FELIX EMMANUEL BOATRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Emanuel Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 24 Estimated birth year: abt 1825 Birth place: Georgia Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58 1880 Census: Name: Felix E. BOATRIGHT Date: June 12, 1880 Age: 50 Estimated birth year: <1830> Birthplace: Florida Occupation: Laborer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Elizabeth BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: SC Mother's birthplace: FL Census Place: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T9_132; Family History Film: 1254132; Page: 314D; Enumeration District: 146; Image: 0395. 1900 Census: Name: Emmanuel Boatwright Date: June 12, 1900 Home in 1900: Luraville, Suwannee, Florida Age: 77 Estimated birth year: 1823 Birthplace: Florida Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: brother Census Place: Luraville, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T623 177; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 112. living with brother JohnBurial: Philadelphia Cemetery, Suwannee County, Florida
Notes for MARTHA ELIZABETH STANFORD:
Headstone: BOATWRIGHT, Martha E., b. Nov 22 1851 d. Jun 22 1922, w/o Emanuel, (at the foot of Martha is one unmarked stone)
1880 Census: Name: Elizabeth BOATRIGHT Date: June 12, 1880 Age: 30 Estimated birth year: <1850> Birthplace: Georgia Occupation: Keeping House Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: Felix E. BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: GA Mother's birthplace: GA Census Place: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T9_132; Family History Film: 1254132; Page: 314D; Enumeration District: 146; Image: 0395. 1910 Census: Name: Bettie Boatwright Date: April 25, 1910 Age in 1910: 58 Estimated birth year: abt 1852 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1910: O'Brien, Suwannee, Florida Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Female Marital Status: Widowed Relation to Head of House: Head Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Father's Birth Place: Georgia Census Place: O'Brien, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T624_168; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 156; Image: 373. 1920 Census: Name: Elizabeth Boatright Date: January 7, 1920 Age: 68 years Estimated birth year: abt 1852 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Home in 1920: O'Brien, Suwannee, Florida Home owned: Own Occupation: Farmer Sex: Male Marital status: Widow Relation to Head of House: Head Able to read: No Able to Write: No Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Father's Birth Place: Georgia Census Place: O'Brien, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T625_231; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 160; Image: 1065.Burial: Mt. Pisgah Church Cemetery, Suwannee County, Florida
Children of FELIX BOATRIGHT and MARTHA STANFORD are:
9-629. i. ELIJAH F. BOATRIGHT, b. 1875, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. Bef. 1930, Suwannee County,
Florida.
9-630. ii. MARY ELLEN BOATRIGHT, b. 06 Oct 1877, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. 25 Oct 1947.
9-631. iii. MINNIE BOATRIGHT, b. 04 Jul 1880, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. 07 Feb 1967.
9-632. iv. HORACE D. BOATRIGHT, b. 13 Mar 1883, O'Brien, Suwannee County,
Florida; d. 27 May 1971, O'Brien, Suwannee
County, Florida.
9-633. v. EMMA BOATRIGHT, b. Feb 1885, Suwannee County, Florida.
9-634. vi. SUSAN ARRIE BOATRIGHT, b. Abt. 1888, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. Abt. 1930, Suwannee County, Florida.
9-635. vii. MEDDIE LEE BOATRIGHT, b. 23 Oct 1891, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. 22 Feb 1956.
8-280. CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 24 Nov 1825 in Madison County, Florida, and died 1878 in Clinch County, Georgia. He married MARY. She was born Abt 1820 in South Carolina. He married (2) LOVINIA HILLARD 1858 in Ware County, Georgia, daughter of BENJAMIN HILLARD and MARY BEVERLY. She was born 1842 in Ware County, Georgia, and died 1908 in Clinch County, Georgia.
Notes for CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL BOATWRIGHT:
Chesley Boatwright was a soldier in the CSA.
Chesley John Daniel lived in Ware County, Georgia until 1863 when he moved to Clinch County, Georgia and settled on lot 508 7th Dist. He lived there until his death in 1878. Buried in the family cemetery on west side of his farm bordering Devil's Bay. Shiloh Congregational Methodist Church was built opposite the cemetery and it was no longer called Boatright Cemetery; it is now Shiloh Church Cemetery. Lavina died in 1908 and was buried next to Chesley John Daniel. Son William Henry later bought family land and lived there until his death. Source: Pioneers of Wiregrass Vol VII pg 41-42.
1850 Census: Name: Chesley J D Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 25 Estimated birth year: abt 1825 Birth place: Fa Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Occupation: Farmer Page: 74 Roll: M432_58 1870 Census: Name: C J D Boatright Date: June 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1829 Age in 1870: 41 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1870: District 1219, Clinch, Georgia Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $500 Post Office: Homerville Roll: M593_144 Page: 151 Image: 304 Year: 1870Burial: Shiloh Church Cemetery, Homerville, Clinch County, Georgia
Notes for MARY:
1850 Census: Name: Mary Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 30 Estimated birth year: abt 1820 Birth place: South Carolina Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58
Lovinia's parents moved to Hillsborough (now Manatee) County, Florida when she was age five and was left with relatives [Daniel Wilkinson and family of Wayne (now Brantley) County]. She grew up there and married Chelsey J.D. in Ware County, Georgia in 1858.
1870 Census: Name: Lavina Boatright Date: June 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842 Age in 1870: 38 Birthplace: South Carolina Home in 1870: District 1219, Clinch, Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Homerville Roll: M593_144 Page: 151 Image: 304 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Vina BOATWRIGHT Date: June 17, 1880 Age: 45 Estimated birth year: <1835> Birthplace: Georgia Occupation: Keeping House Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Moorres Mill, Clinch, Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Father's birthplace: GA Mother's birthplace: GA Census Place: Moorres Mill, Clinch, Georgia; Roll: T9_140; Family History Film: 1254140; Page: 574A; Enumeration District: 39; Image: 1900 Census: Name: Luvina Boatright Date: June 11, 1900 Home in 1900: Sausey, Clinch, Georgia Age: 55 Estimated birth year: 1845 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Mother Occupation: View Image Census Place: Sausey, Clinch, Georgia; Roll: T623 188; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 17. living with son, WilliamBurial: Shiloh Church Cemetery, Homerville, Clinch County, Georgia
Children of CHESLEY BOATWRIGHT and MARY are:
9-636. i. LEWIS BOATWRIGHT, b. 1840, Florida. 9-637. ii. RHODA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1842, Florida. 9-638. iii. AUGELINE BOATWRIGHT, b. 1844, Florida. 9-639. iv. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT, b. 1846, Florida.
Children of CHESLEY BOATWRIGHT and LOVINIA HILLARD are:
9-640. v. MARY ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT, b. 1859, Ware County, Georgia;
d. Abt. 1928.
9-641. vi. ELIZA BOATWRIGHT, b. 24 Nov 1861, Ware County, Georgia;
d. 10 Jul 1945, Jacksonville, Duval County,
Florida.
9-642. vii. CATHERINE "KATIE" BOATWRIGHT, b. 1865, Ware County, Georgia;
d. Abt. 1933.
9-643. viii. JAMES D. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1867, Clinch County, Georgia;
d. Bef. 1880, Clinch County, Georgia.
9-644. ix. LOVINIA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1869, Clinch County, Georgia;
d. Abt. 1907.
9-645. x. ADAM BENJAMIN BOATWRIGHT, b. 04 Feb 1871, Clinch County, Georgia;
d. 14 Sep 1941.
9-646. xi. CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 1872, Clinch County, Georgia;
d. 1937.
9-647. xii. DUNCAN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1873, Clinch County, Georgia;
d. 1873, Clinch County, Georgia.
9-648. xiii. LAURA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1874, Clinch County, Georgia.
9-649. xiv. WILLIAM HENRY BOATRIGHT, b. 24 Feb 1875, Clinch County, Georgia;
d. 01 Apr 1925, Homerville, Clinch
County, Georgia.
9-650. xv. NESSIE BOATWRIGHT, b. 1877, Clinch County, Georgia.
8-281. ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1826 in Madison County, Florida, and died Bef. 1889 in Suwannee County, Florida. She married RICHARD MACON HURST Abt. 1851 in Florida, son of WILLIAM HURST and SARAH WILDER. He was born 1825 in Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, and died 14 Jan 1890.
Notes for ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT:
Burial: Macedonia Cemetery, Suwannee County, Florida
Notes for RICHARD MACON HURST:
Burial: Macedonia Cemetery, Suwannee County, Florida
Children of ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT and RICHARD HURST are:
i. HENRY HURST, b. 10 Mar 1854, Florida.
ii. FRANCIS HURST, b. 1856, Florida.
iii. MARTIN B. HURST, b. 22 Feb 1861, Florida.
iv. CAROLINE LUCRETIA HURST, b. 1862, Florida.
v. ELLIE ETTA HURST, b. 1867, Florida.
vi. MARY ANNA HURST, b. 03 Sep 1877, Florida.
8-282. RACHEL ELLEN BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1828 in Madison County, Florida.
Notes for RACHEL ELLEN BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Racheal Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 22 Estimated birth year: abt 1828 Birth place: Fa Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58
8-283. HARRIETTE BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born May 1831 in Madison County, Florida, and died 12 Oct 1915. She married (1) JAMES SMITH. She married (2) THOMAS P. QUIETTE 11 Apr 1874 in Suwannee County, Florida. He was born 1835 in Georgia, and died 1890.
Notes for HARRIETTE BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Harriott Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 16 Estimated birth year: abt 1834 Birth place: Fa Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58Burial: Friendship Cemetery, Suwannee County, Florida
Notes for THOMAS P. QUIETTE:
Burial: Sealey Cemetery, Taylor County, Florida
Children of HARRIETTE BOATWRIGHT and JAMES SMITH are:
i. MARGARET N. SMITH, b. 1855.
ii. JAMES SMITH, b. 1859.
Children of HARRIETTE BOATWRIGHT and THOMAS QUIETTE are:
iii. JASPER QUIETTE, b. 1874.
iv. ROBERT QUIETTE, b. 1876.
v. THOMAS QUIETTE, b. 21 Feb 1885.
vi. ROBBIE QUIETTE, b. 04 Oct 1888.
8-284. JOHN WILSON BOATRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 08 Apr 1833 in Madison County, Florida, and died 31 Aug 1908 in Suwannee County, Florida. He married (1) ELIZA MILLS 1859 in Suwannee County, Florida, daughter of ANDREW MILLS and SOULS PATIENCE. She was born 21 Jan 1836 in Tomahawk, Sampson County, North Carolina, and died 11 Oct 1900 in Taylor County, Florida. He married (2) MAHALIA M. BAILEY 06 Dec 1891 in Taylor County, Florida. She was born 12 Jul 1848 in Madison County, Florida, and died 02 Aug 1917 in Suwannee County, Florida.
Notes for JOHN WILSON BOATRIGHT:
John W. Boatright is listed as having served from 13 Jul 1861 to 9 April 1865 in Company L of the 2nd Fla. Infantry of the CSA. [Soldiers of Florida]
6', 1", hazel eyes, black hair, ruddy skin.
Enlisted September 1, 1861 at McIntosh, Marion County, Florida as Private in Company E, 4th Florida Infantry.
Transferred May 8, 1862 as Private in Company A, 8th Florida Infantry. Exchanged for I. Wynn.
Captured December 11, 1862 at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Exchanged approximated date of December 12, 1862.
Captured July 2, 1863 at Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Imprisoned at Fort Delaware Prison, Delaware City, New Castle County, Delaware.
John's brother, BENJAMIN BOATRIGHT, was also imprisoned at Fort Delaware prison and died there in 1863.
Released on oath May 10, 1865 at Fort Delaware Prison, Delaware City, New Castle County, Delaware.
1850 Census: Name: John W Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 15 Estimated birth year: abt 1835 Birth place: Fa Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58 1880 Census: Name: John W. BOATRIGHT Date: June 10, 1880 Age: 44 Estimated birth year: <1836> Birthplace: Florida Occupation: Farming Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Eliza BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: NC Mother's birthplace: GA Census Place: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T9_132; Family History Film: 1254132; Page: 316D; Enumeration District: 146; Image: 0401. 1900 Census: Name: John Boatwright Date: June 12, 1900 Home in 1900: Luraville, Suwannee, Florida Age: 63 Estimated birth year: 1837 Birthplace: Florida Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Luraville, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T623 177; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 112.Burial: Suwannee County, Florida
Notes for ELIZA MILLS:
1880 Census: Name: Eliza BOATRIGHT Date: June 10, 1880 Age: 45 Estimated birth year: <1835> Birthplace: North Carolina Occupation: Keeping House Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: John W. BOATRIGHT Father's birthplace: NC Mother's birthplace: NC Census Place: Precinct 1, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T9_132; Family History Film: 1254132; Page: 316D; Enumeration District: 146; Image: 0401.
Notes for MAHALIA M. BAILEY:
1900 Census: Name: Mahalia Boatwright Date: June 12, 1900 Home in 1900: Luraville, Suwannee, Florida Age: 56 Estimated birth year: 1844 Birthplace: Florida Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Luraville, Suwannee, Florida; Roll: T623 177; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 112.Burial: Philadelphia Cemetery, Suwannee County, Florida
Children of JOHN BOATRIGHT and ELIZA MILLS are:
9-651. i. ALLEN CROSLIE BOATRIGHT, b. 06 May 1860, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. 26 Aug 1928, Duval County, Florida.
9-652. ii. ALEXANDER MONROE BOATRIGHT, b. 26 May 1861, Live Oak, Suwannee
County, Florida; d. 15 Mar 1927,
Suwannee County, Florida.
9-653. iii. FRANCES WILSON BOATRIGHT, b. 21 Jan 1863, Suwannee County,
Florida; d. 01 Aug 1941.
9-654. iv. ANDREW JACKSON BOATRIGHT, b. 24 Oct 1868, Suwannee County,
Florida; d. 01 Jun 1941, Jacksonville,
Duval County, Florida.
9-655. v. JOHN OLIVER BOATRIGHT, b. 15 Sep 1872, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. 22 May 1938, Suwannee County, Florida.
9-656. vi. MARY FLORENCE BOATRIGHT, b. 18 Apr 1873, Suwannee County, Florida;
d. 30 Oct 1910.
Child of JOHN BOATRIGHT and MAHALIA BAILEY is:
9-657. vii. MATILDA ELIZABETH BOATRIGHT, b. Jan 1893, Florida; d. Abt. 1972,
Perry, Taylor County, Florida.
8-285. MILLIE A. L. BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1838 in Madison County, Florida, and died Abt. 1863. She married 03 Oct 1862 in Suwannee County, Florida.
Notes for MILLIE A. L. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Pherby Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 12 Estimated birth year: abt 1838 Birth place: Fa Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58
8-286. MARTHA FRANCES BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1839 in Madison County, Florida. She married THOMAS P. QUIETTE 12 Aug 1863 in Suwannee County, Florida. He was born 1835 in Georgia, and died 1890.
Notes for MARTHA FRANCES BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Frances Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 11 Estimated birth year: abt 1839 Birth place: Fa Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58
Burial: Sealey Cemetery, Taylor County, Florida
Children of MARTHA BOATWRIGHT and THOMAS QUIETTE are:
i. LURANIA QUIETTE, b. 1864.
ii. THOMAS QUIETTE, b. 1869.
8-287. JACOB C. BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1842 in Madison County, Florida, and died 25 Oct 1862 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
Notes for JACOB C. BOATWRIGHT:
Jacob Boatright was a soldier in the CSA army, Florida 4th Infantry, Company D, and died in the Civil War. The 4th was organized in the spring of 1861. The men came from the counties of Gadsden County - A, Franklin County - B, Madison County - C, Columbia County - D and part of E, LaFayette County - E, New River County - F, Marion and Levi Counties - G, Washington and Liberty Counties - H, Jackson County - I, and Hillsborough County - K.
Battles: Nashville, Murfreesboro, Lebanon Pike, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge. They surrendered in North Carolina 26 Apr 1865.
1850 Census: Name: Jacob Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1842 Birth place: Fa Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
8-288. WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT (CHESLEY JOHN DANIEL8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1845 in Madison County, Florida.
Notes for WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: William Boatright Date: November 26, 1850 Age: 5 Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birth place: Fa Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Not Stated, Columbia County, Florida Page: 74 Roll: M432_58
8-289. DAWSON BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1833 in Florida.
Notes for DAWSON BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Dawson Boatright Date: January 1, 1850 Age: 17 Estimated birth year: abt 1833 Birth place: Florida Race: White Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Baker, Georgia Page: 51 Roll: M432_61
8-290. ELEANOR BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1836 in Georgia.
Notes for Eleanor Boatwright:
1850 Census: Name: Eleanor Boatright Date: January 1, 1850 Age: 14 Estimated birth year: abt 1836 Birth place: Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Baker, Georgia Page: 51 Roll: M432_61 1860 Census: Name: Eleanor Boatright Date: June 19, 1860 Age in 1860: 24 Birth Year: abt 1836 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Colquitt, Georgia Gender: Female Post Office: Moultrie Census Place: , Colquitt, Georgia; Roll M653_118; Page: 554; Image: 6; Family History Library Film: 803118.
8-291. SARAH A. J. BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 12 Sep 1837 in Georgia, and died 12 Mar 1914 in Colquitt County, Georgia.
Notes for SARAH A. J. BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Sarah A J Boatright Date: January 1, 1850 Age: 11 Estimated birth year: abt 1839 Birth place: Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Baker, Georgia Page: 51 Roll: M432_61 1860 Census: Name: Sarah Boatright Date: June 19, 1860 Age in 1860: 22 Birth Year: abt 1838 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Colquitt, Georgia Gender: Female Post Office: Moultrie Census Place: , Colquitt, Georgia; Roll M653_118; Page: 554; Image: 6; Family History Library Film: 803118. 1900 Census: Name: Sarah Boatwright Date: June 19, 1900 Home in 1900: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia Age: 61 Birth Date: Sep 1838 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Relationship to Head of House: Sister Marital Status: Single Residence : Militia Districts 799, 1510, 1538, Bridge Creek, Harsfield, Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia Census Place: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T623_189; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 24. living with brother John and familyBurial: Gregory Cemetery, County Line Road, Colquitt County, Georgia
8-292. JOHN FRANKLIN CHRISTOPHER BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 23 Oct 1842 in Georgia, and died Bef. 1910 in Colquitt County, Georgia. He married (1) UNKNOWN. He married (2) MARY JANE HOLLAND 1882 in Colquitt County, Georgia. She was born 11 Sep 1842 in Georgia.
Notes for JOHN FRANKLIN CHRISTOPHER BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: T S Chatman Boatright Date: January 1, 1850 Age: 8 Estimated birth year: abt 1842 Birth place: Georgia Race: White Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Baker, Georgia Page: 51 Roll: M432_61 1860 Census: Name: John F Boatright Date: June 19, 1860 Age in 1860: 17 Birth Year: abt 1843 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: Colquitt, Georgia Occupation: Farm Laborer Gender: Male Post Office: Moultrie Census Place: , Colquitt, Georgia; Roll M653_118; Page: 554; Image: 6; Family History Library Film: 803118. 1870 Census: Name: John Boatwright Date: July 27, 1870 Birth Year: abt 1844 Age in 1870: 26 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Colquitt, Georgia Race: White Gender: Male Occupation: Farmer Post Office: Moultrie Census Place: , Colquitt, Georgia; Roll M593_144; Page: 425A; Image: 857; Family History Library Film: 545643. 1880 Census: Name: John Boatwright Date: June 19, 1880 Home in 1880: Bridge Creek, Colquitt, Georgia Age: 35 Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Father's birthplace: Georgia Mother's birthplace: Georgia Occupation: Farm Laborer Marital Status: Widower Race: White Gender: Male Census Place: Bridge Creek, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T9_141; Family History Film: 1254141; Page: 291.2000; Enumeration District: 14; Image: 0587. 1900 Census: Name: John Boatwright Date: June 19, 1900 Home in 1900: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia Age: 57 Birth Date: Oct 1842 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Gender: Male Relationship to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Mary J Marriage Year: 1882 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 18 Occupation: Farmer Residence : Militia Districts 799, 1510, 1538, Bridge Creek, Harsfield, Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia Census Place: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T623_189; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 24.Burial: Gregory Cemetery, County Line Road, Colquitt County, Georgia
Notes for MARY JANE HOLLAND:
1900 Census: Name: Mary J Boatwright Date: June 19, 1900 Home in 1900: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia Age: 57 Birth Date: Sep 1842 Birthplace: North Carolina Race: White Gender: Female Relationship to Head of House: Wife Father's Birthplace: North Car Mother's Birthplace: North Car Mother: number of living children: 2 Mother: How many children: 3 Spouse's name: John Marriage Year: 1882 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 18 Residence : Militia Districts 799, 1510, 1538, Bridge Creek, Harsfield, Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia Census Place: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T623_189; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 24. 1910 Census Name: Mary J Boatwright Date: April 29, 1910 Age in 1910: 67 Estimated birth year: abt 1843 Birthplace: Tennessee Relation to Head of House: Mother Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Home in 1910: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Female Census Place: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T624_179; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 45; Image: 463. living with son Barney and familyBurial: Gregory Cemetery, County Line Road, Colquitt County, Georgia
Children of JOHN BOATWRIGHT and UNKNOWN are:
9-657A. i. WILLIAM THOMAS BOATWRIGHT, b. 10 Aug 1872, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. 16 Apr 1921, Baldwin County, Georgia.
9-657B. ii. SARAH O. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1874, Colquitt County, Georgia.
9-657C. iii. JOHN DANIEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 01 Apr 1877, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. 16 Jul 1942, Polk County, Florida.
Child of JOHN BOATWRIGHT and MARY HOLLAND is:
9-657D. iv. BARNEY B. BOATWRIGHT, b. 24 Sep 1882, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. 17 Nov 1960, Richmond County, Georgia.
8-292A. SARAH JANE BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1864 in Colquitt County, Georgia.
Notes for SARAH JANE BOATWRIGHT:
1870 Census: Name: Jane Boatwright Date: July 27, 1870 Birth Year: abt 1864 Age in 1870: 6 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Colquitt, Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Post Office: Moultrie Census Place: , Colquitt, Georgia; Roll M593_144; Page: 425A; Image: 857; Family History Library Film: 545643. 1880 Census: Name: Sarah J Boatwright Date: June 24, 1880 Home in 1880: District 791, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 16 Estimated birth year: abt 1864 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of Household: Daughter Father's birthplace: Georgia Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's birthplace: Georgia Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Female Census Place: District 791, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T9_158; Family History Film: 1254158; Page: 547.2000; Enumeration District: 46; Image: 0329.
8-292B. MYERS BARNEY BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1865 in Colquitt County, Georgia, and died 04 Feb 1919 in Baker County, Georgia. He married HATTIE LOUELLA EDWARDS. She was born 1870 in Baker County, Georgia, and died 26 Aug 1922 in Baker County, Georgia.
Notes for MYERS BARNEY BOATWRIGHT:
1870 Census: Name: Myers Boatwright Date: July 27, 1870 Birth Year: abt 1865 Age in 1870: 5 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Colquitt, Georgia Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Moultrie Census Place: , Colquitt, Georgia; Roll M593_144; Page: 425A; Image: 857; Family History Library Film: 545643. 1900 Census: Name: Myers Boatwright Date: June 3, 1900 Home in 1900: Maples, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 34 Birth Date: May 1866 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Gender: Male Relationship to Head of House: Head Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Georgia Spouse's name: Hattie Marriage Year: 1890 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 10 Occupation: Farmer Residence : Militia Districts 791, 1548, Maples, Peble City, Mitchell, Georgia Census Place: Maples, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T623_212; Page: 21A; Enumeration District: 58. 1910 Census: Name: Myers Boatwright Date: April 21, 1910 Age in 1910: 49 Estimated birth year: abt 1861 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Spouse's name: Hattie Home in 1910: Militia District 791, Mitchell, Georgia Marital Status: Married Occupation: Farmer Race: White Census Place: Militia District 791, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T624_204; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 108; Image: 632. Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 Name: Miars B. Boatwright Death Date: 4 Feb 1919 County of Death: Baker Certificate: 871-ABurial: Travelers Rest Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery, Newton, Baker County, Georgia
Notes for HATTIE LOUELLA EDWARDS:
1900 Census: Name: Hattie Boatwright Date: June 3, 1900 Home in 1900: Maples, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 29 Birth Date: May 1871 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Relationship to Head of House: Wife Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Georgia Mother: number of living children: 3 Mother: How many children: 4 Spouse's name: Miles Marriage Year: 1890 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 10 Residence : Militia Districts 791, 1548, Maples, Peble City, Mitchell, Georgia Census Place: Maples, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T623_212; Page: 21A; Enumeration District: 58. 1910 Census: Name: Hattie Boatwright Date: April 21, 1910 Age in 1910: 39 Estimated birth year: abt 1871 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Wife Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Spouse's name: Marget J Home in 1910: Militia District 791, Mitchell, Georgia Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Census Place: Militia District 791, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T624_204; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 108; Image: 632. 1920 Census: Name: Hattie Boatwright Date: January 1, 1920 Home in 1920: Militia District 1722, Baker, Georgia Age: 49 years Estimated birth year: abt 1871 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Marital Status: Widow Occupation: Farmer Race: White Sex: Female Home owned: Rent Able to read: No Able to Write: No Census Place: Militia District 1722, Baker, Georgia; Roll T625_233; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 6; Image: 564.Burial: Travelers Rest Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery, Newton, Baker County, Georgia
Children of MYERS BOATWRIGHT and HATTIE EDWARDS are:
9-657D. i. SAMUEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 1891, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. Bef. 1900, Colquitt County, Georgia.
9-657E. i. BENJAMIN LEE BOATWRIGHT, b. 12 Nov 1894, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. May 1921, Baker County, Georgia.
9-657F. ii. JOHN FRANKLIN BOATWRIGHT, b. 18 Mar 1897, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. Apr 1915, Newton, Baker County, Georgia.
9-657G. iii. KATE BOATWRIGHT, b. 21 Apr 1899, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. 03 Sep 1977, Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia.
9-657H. iv. WILLIAM THOMAS BOATWRIGHT, b. 21 Jun 1903, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. 19 Apr 1957, Newton, Baker County, Georgia.
9-657I. v. CARRIE JEWEL BOATWRIGHT, b. 03 Jan 1905, Colquitt County, Georgia;
d. 03 Jul 1983, Baker County, Georgia.
8-292C. WILLIAM DAWSON "MIKE" BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 08 Feb 1871 in Colquitt County, Georgia, and died 16 Aug 1932 in Carmilla, Mitchell County, Georgia. He married CARLETTIE ALIGOOD. She was born 03 May 1868 in Georgia, and died 23 Nov 1937 in Mitchell County, Georgia.
Notes for WILLIAM DAWSON "MIKE" BOATWRIGHT:
1880 Census: Name: William D Boatwright Date: June 24, 1880 Home in 1880: District 791, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 9 Estimated birth year: abt 1871 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of Household: Son Father's birthplace: Georgia Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's birthplace: Georgia Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Census Place: District 791, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T9_158; Family History Film: 1254158; Page: 547.2000; Enumeration District: 46; Image: 0329. 1900 Census: Name: Mike Boatwright Date: June 27, 1900 Home in 1900: Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia Age: 26 Birth Date: May 1874 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Gender: Male Relationship to Head of House: Head Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Georgia Spouse's name: Lettie Marriage Year: 1891 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 9 Occupation: Teamster Residence : Militia Districts 799, 1510, 1538, Bridge Creek, Harsfield, Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia Census Place: Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T623_189; Page: 24B; Enumeration District: 24. 1910 Census: Name: William D Boatwright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 39 Estimated birth year: abt 1871 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Spouse's name: Lettie Home in 1910: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia Marital Status: Married Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Census Place: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T624_179; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 45; Image: 468. 1920 Census: Name: William D Boatwright Date: January 16, 1920 Home in 1920: Sale City, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 51 years Estimated birth year: abt 1869 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Carlettie Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Marital Status: Married Occupation: Farmer Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Rent Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Census Place: Sale City, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T625_269; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 107; Image: 1063. 1930 Census: Name: William Boatwright Date: April 17, 1930 Home in 1930: Camilla, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 60 Estimated birth year: abt 1870 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Carlettie Occupation: Farmer Race: White Census Place: Camilla, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll 376; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 7; Image: 363.0.Burial: Cool Spring Baptist Church Cemetery, Colquitt County, Georgia
Notes for CARLETTIE ALIGOOD:
1900 Census: Name: Lettie Boatwright Date: June 27, 1900 Home in 1900: Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia Age: 27 Birth Date: Jan 1873 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Relationship to Head of House: Wife Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Georgia Mother: number of living children: 3 Mother: How many children: 3 Spouse's name: Mike Marriage Year: 1891 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 9 Residence : Militia Districts 799, 1510, 1538, Bridge Creek, Harsfield, Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia Census Place: Hamilton, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T623_189; Page: 24B; Enumeration District: 24. 1910 Census: Name: Lettie Boatwright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 36 Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Wife Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Spouse's name: William D Home in 1910: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Census Place: Hartsfield, Colquitt, Georgia; Roll T624_179; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 45; Image: 468. 1920 Census: Name: Carlettie Boatwright Date: January 16, 1920 Home in 1920: Sale City, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 50 years Estimated birth year: abt 1870 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of House: Wife Spouse's name: William B Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Female Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Census Place: Sale City, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T625_269; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 107; Image: 1063. 1930 Census: Name: Carlettie Boatwright Date: April 17, 1930 Home in 1930: Camilla, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 63 Estimated birth year: abt 1867 Relation to Head of House: Wife Spouse's name: William Race: White Census Place: Camilla, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll 376; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 7; Image: 363.0.Burial: Cool Spring Baptist Church Cemetery, Colquitt County, Georgia
Children of WILLIAM BOATWRIGHT and CARLETTIE ALIGOOD are:
9-657J. i. MARTHA BOATWRIGHT, b. 1895, Mitchell County, Georgia;
d. Bef 1910, Mitchell County, Georgia.
9-657K. i. MATTIE JANE BOATWRIGHT, b. 20 Sep 1896, Mitchell County, Georgia.
9-657L. ii. JAMES HENRY BOATWRIGHT, b. 16 Jun 1899, Mitchell County, Georgia;
d. 29 Feb 1920, Mitchell County, Georgia.
9-657M. iii. GRACE ZUMER BOATWRIGHT, b. 05 Sep 1901, Mitchell County, Georgia.
9-657N. iv. RICHARD RILEY BOATWRIGHT, b. 13 Nov 1904, Mitchell County, Georgia;
d. 25 Sep 1976, Miller County, Georgia.
9-657P. v. MINNIE MAE BOATWRIGHT, b. 11 Jun 1909, Mitchell County, Georgia.
8-292D. GORDON BOATWRIGHT (FRANCIS8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1876 in Colquitt County, Georgia.
Notes for GORDON BOATWRIGHT:
1880 Census: Name: Gordie Boatwright Date: June 24, 1880 Home in 1880: District 791, Mitchell, Georgia Age: 4 Estimated birth year: abt 1876 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of Household: Son Father's birthplace: Georgia Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's birthplace: Georgia Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Census Place: District 791, Mitchell, Georgia; Roll T9_158; Family History Film: 1254158; Page: 547.2000; Enumeration District: 46; Image: 0329.
8-293. BENJAMIN JOHN ROBERT BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 23 Jan 1833 in Leon County, Florida, and died Bef.1920 in Leon County, Florida. He married AMANDA GEDDIE 04 Dec 1856 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, daughter of ALEXANDER GEDDIE and ANNA MCMILLAN. She was born Feb 1834 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died 17 Jan 1902 in Leon County, Florida.
Notes for BENJAMIN JOHN ROBERT BOATWRIGHT:
There is some confusion around John and his brother James. In several family histories, John is called "John Quincy Boatwright", married to Amanda Geddie. Per census records, John is married to Amanda, but the 1870 and 1910 census refer to John as "Benjamin". John was the oldest son, and it was common to name your oldest son in honor of your father, in this case, John's grandfather, Benjamin Chesley Boatwright. James is referred to in the Census as "Quincy" and in the 1870 Census as "James Q A Boatwright". I believe that James is the "John Quincy Boatwright" referred to in many histories. James' gravestone is marked "John Quincy Boatwright", I believe in error, futhering the confusion. Source: George Boatright
1850 Census: Name: John M Boatwright Date: November 1, 1850 Age: 17 Estimated birth year: abt 1833 Birth place: Florida Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 8, Leon, Florida Occupation: Farmer Page: 60 Roll: M432_59 1860 Census: Name: John Boatwright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 27 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Not Stated, Leon, Florida Occupation: Farmer Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,000 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M653_108 Page: 34 Year: 1860 Head of Household: John Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Benjamin J R Boatwright Date: July 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1833 Age in 1870: 37 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Southern Portion, Leon, Florida Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $1,000 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M593_131 Page: 646 Image: 690 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: J. R. BOATWRIGHT Date: June 19, 1880 Age: 47 Estimated birth year: <1833> Birthplace: Florida Occupation: Farmer Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Precinct 17, Leon, Florida Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Amanda BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: GA Mother's birthplace: SC Census Place: Precinct 17, Leon, Florida; Roll: T9_129; Family History Film: 1254129; Page: 393C; Enumeration District: 91; Image: 0792. 1910 Census: Name: Benjamon J B Boatright Date: May 2, 1910 Age in 1910: 77 Estimated birth year: abt 1833 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1910: Precinct 16, Leon, Florida Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Marital Status: Widowed Relation to Head of House: Head Mother's Birth Place: South Carolina Father's Birth Place: South Carolina Census Place: Precinct 16, Leon, Florida; Roll: T624_164; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 82; Image: 410.
1860 Census: Name: Amanda Boatwright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 26 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Not Stated, Leon, Florida Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M653_108 Page: 34 Year: 1860 Head of Household: John Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Amanda Boatwright Date: July 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1836 Age in 1870: 34 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Southern Portion, Leon, Florida Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M593_131 Page: 646 Image: 690 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Amanda BOATWRIGHT Date: June 19, 1880 Age: 44 Estimated birth year: <1836> Birthplace: Florida Occupation: Keeps House Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Precinct 17, Leon, Florida Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: R. BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: NC Mother's birthplace: NC Census Place: Precinct 17, Leon, Florida; Roll: T9_129; Family History Film: 1254129; Page: 393C; Enumeration District: 91; Image: 0792.Burial: Boatwright Cemetery, Woodville, Leon County, Florida
Children of BENJAMIN BOATWRIGHT and AMANDA GEDDIE are:
9-658. i. ARTHUR MARION BOATWRIGHT, b. 09 Feb 1858, Tallahassee, Leon County,
Florida; d. 26 Mar 1871, Tallahassee,
Leon County, Florida.
9-659. ii. R. F. BOATWRIGHT, b. Mar 1860, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida;
d. Bef. 1870, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
9-660. iii. JOHN QUINCY BOATWRIGHT, b. 01 Feb 1862, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida;
d. 12 Dec 1873, Leon County, Florida.
9-661. iv. EMMA BOATWRIGHT, b. 14 Jul 1865, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida;
d. 28 Mar 1872, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
9-662. v. MARGARET ANN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1868, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
9-663. vi. IDA BOATWRIGHT, b. 31 May 1874, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida;
d. 25 Nov 1943, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
8-294. JAMES QUINCY ADAMS BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 07 Nov 1834 in Leon County, Florida, and died Bef. 1880 in Leon County, Florida. He married MARY ALLIGOOD 05 Nov 1857 in Leon County, Florida. She was born 1841 in Florida.
Notes for JAMES QUINCY ADAMS BOATWRIGHT:
There is some confusion around James and his brother John. In several family histories, John is called "John Quincy Boatwright", married to Amanda Geddie. Per census records, John is married to Amanda, but the 1870 and 1910 census refer to John as "Benjamin". John was the oldest son, and it was common to name your oldest son in honor of your father, in this case, John's grandfather, Benjamin Chesley Boatwright. James is referred to in the Census as "Quincy" and in the 1870 Census as "James Q A Boatwright". I believe that James is the "John Quincy Boatwright" referred to in many histories. James' gravestone is marked "John Quincy Boatwright", I believe in error, futhering the confusion. Source: George Boatright
J. Q. A. Boatwright was born in 1834 and was enrolled in the 2d Florida Infantry, Company D,
in Tallahassee on 8 July 1861. He was wounded on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, 2
July 1864, and was captured then. He was paroled on 25 September 1864 and was exchanged
at City Point, Virginia. He lost his left leg at the Battle of the Wilderness and was retired to
the Invalid Corps on 8 November 1864. He was discharged from Howard's Grove Hospital at
Richmond on 3 December 1864. He returned to Tallahassee and died there sometime after the
war. He was described as "A good citizen and soldier." Source: Hartman and Coles,
Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers, 1861-1865, vol. I, p. 171.
The 2nd Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Jacksonville, Florida, in July, 1861. Its twelve companies contained men from Escambia, Columbia, Leon, Marion, Jackson, Alachua, St. Johns, Putnam, Hamilton, Nassau, and Madison counties. The regiment was soon ordered to Virginia and in April, 1862, had 530 effectives. It was unattached in the fight at Williamsburg and under the command of General Garland at Seven Pines. Later it was assigned to General Pryor's, E.A. Perry's, and Finegan's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 2nd participated in many conflicts from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then was active in the Petersburg siege south of the James River and around Appomattox. This unit was organized with 1,185 officers and men, reported 23 killed and 114 wounded at Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm, sustained 49 casualties during the Maryland Campaign, and had 3 killed and 29 wounded at Chancellorsville. At the Battle of Gettysburg it lost forty-two percent of the 242 engaged, and on April 9, 1865, it surrendered with 7 officers and 59 men. The field officers were Colonels Walter R. Moore, Edward A. Perry, Lewis G. Pyles, and George T. Ward, Lieutenant Colonel S. St. George Rogers, and Major G.W. Call.
1850 Census: Name: Quincy M Boatwright Date: November 1, 1850 Age: 16 Estimated birth year: abt 1834 Birth place: Florida Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 8, Leon, Florida Occupation: Farmer Page: 60 Roll: M432_59 1860 Census: Name: Quincey Boatright Date: June 21, 1860 Age in 1860: 26 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Between Sopchoppy and St Marks Rivers, Wakulla, Florida Occupation: Overseer Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Newport Roll: M653_109 Page: 911 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Eliza Alegood 1870 Census: Name: James Q A Boatwright Date: June 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834 Age in 1870: 36 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Wakulla, Wakulla, Florida Occupation: Farmer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $200 Post Office: Crawfordville Roll: M593_133 Page: 785 Image: 705 Year: 1870Burial: Old City Cemetery, Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida
Notes for MARY ALLIGOOD:
1860 Census: Name: Mary Boatright Date: June 21, 1860 Age in 1860: 19 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Between Sopchoppy and St Marks Rivers, Wakulla, Florida Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Newport Roll: M653_109 Page: 911 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Eliza Alegood 1870 Census: Name: Mary Boatwright Date: June 14, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842 Age in 1870: 28 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Wakulla, Wakulla, Florida Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Crawfordville Roll: M593_133 Page: 785 Image: 705 Year: 1870
Children of JAMES BOATWRIGHT and MARY ALLIGOOD are:
9-664. i. DAWSON BOATWRIGHT, b. 05 May 1858, Wakulla County, Florida;
d. 08 Dec 1923, Leon County, Florida.
9-665. ii. PERRY LEE BOATWRIGHT, b. Apr 1866, Wakulla County, Florida;
d. Oct 1912, Tallahassee, Leon County,
Florida.
8-295. FRANCIS D. BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 31 Mar 1837 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died Bef. 1865 in the Civil War.
Notes for FRANCIS D. BOATWRIGHT:
Served in CSA, 5th Regiment, Florida Infantry, he did not return from the war and presumed dead.
The 5th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Tallahassee, Florida, during the spring of 1862. Companies that made up the unit were from the counties of Santa Rosa, Baker, Polk, Calhoun, Okaloosa, Wakulla, Madison, and Liberty. Ordered to Virginia with over 1,000 men it served in General Pryor's, E.A. Perry's, and Finegan's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment fought with the army from Second Manassas to Cold Harbor, then was active in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. Only 1 man was wounded at Fredericksburg , but the unit lost 6 killed and 22 wounded at Chancellorsville and thirty-five percent of the 321 at Gettysburg . It surrendered with 6 officers and 47 men. The field officers were Colonels John C. Hately and Thomas B. Lamar, and Major Benjamin F. Davis.
1850 Census: Name: Francis M Boatwright Date: November 1, 1850 Age: 13 Estimated birth year: abt 1837 Birth place: Florida Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 8, Leon, Florida Page: 60 Roll: M432_59 1860 Census: Name: F D Boatwright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 23 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Not Stated, Leon, Florida Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M653_108 Page: 35 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mary H Boatwright
8-296. AGNES BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 01 Jul 1839 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died 26 Aug 1876 in Leon County, Florida. She married 24 Dec 1857 in Leon County, Florida.
Notes for AGNES BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Agnes Boatwright Date: November 1, 1850 Age: 11 Estimated birth year: abt 1839 Birth place: Florida Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 8, Leon, Florida Page: 60 Roll: M432_59
8-297. MARY HOWELL BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 09 Mar 1842 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died 05 Oct 1844 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
8-298. ELIZABETH JANE BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 24 Aug 1844 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died 11 Mar 1849 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
7-299. DAWSON WAGES BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 16 Feb 1847 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died 07 Oct 1847 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
8-300. CHARLES THADDEUS CHRISTOPHER BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 01 Oct 1848 in Leon County, Florida, and died 25 Aug 1914 in Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. He married ALICE CATHERINE KILLEN 20 Sep 1879 in Bazette, Navarro County, Texas, daughter of ALFRED GORDON KILLEN and JULIA L. ROBERTSON. She was born 17 Jun 1850 in Kentucky, and died 27 Dec 1907 in Navarro County, Texas.
Notes for CHARLES THADDEUS CHRISTOPHER BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Thaddeus M Boatwright Date: November 1, 1850 Age: 2 Estimated birth year: abt 1848 Birth place: Florida Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Division 8, Leon, Florida Page: 60 Roll: M432_59 1860 Census: Name: Thadeus Boatwright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 12 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Not Stated, Leon, Florida Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M653_108 Page: 35 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mary H Boatwright 1880 Census: Name: Thaddeus BOATWRIGHT Date: June 18, 1880 Age: 31 Estimated birth year: <1849> Birthplace: Florida Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Navarro, Texas Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Allice BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: SC Mother's birthplace: SC Census Place: , Navarro, Texas; Roll: T9_1321; Family History Film: 1255321; Page: 376C; Enumeration District: 130; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Thadde c Boatright Date: June 11, 1900 Home in 1900: Justice Precinct 3, Navarro, Texas Age: 52 Estimated birth year: 1848 Birthplace: Florida Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: Farmer Census Place: Justice Precinct 3, Navarro, Texas; Roll: T623 1662; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 102. 1910 Census: Name: T C Boatright Date: April 15, 1910 Age in 1910: 62 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1848 BirthPlace: Florida Relation to Head of House: Father Father's Birth Place: United States of America Mother's Birth Place: United States of America Home in 1910: Justice Precinct 3, Navarro, Texas Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Male Census Place: Justice Precinct 3, Navarro, Texas; Roll: T624_1580; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 89; Image: 567. living with son James and familyBurial: Oak Grove Cemetery, Kerens, Navarro County, Texas
Notes for ALICE CATHERINE KILLEN:
1880 Census: Name: Allice BOATWRIGHT Date: June 18, 1880 Age: 29 Estimated birth year: <1851> Birthplace: Kentucky Occupation: Keeping House Relationship to head-of-household: Wife Home in 1880: Navarro, Texas Race: White Gender: Female Spouse's name: Thaddeus BOATWRIGHT Father's birthplace: KY Mother's birthplace: KY Census Place: , Navarro, Texas; Roll: T9_1321; Family History Film: 1255321; Page: 376D; Enumeration District: 130; Image: . 1900 Census: Name: Alice C Boatright Date: June 11, 1900 Home in 1900: Justice Precinct 3, Navarro, Texas Age: 49 Estimated birth year: 1851 Birthplace: Kentucky Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Wife Census Place: Justice Precinct 3, Navarro, Texas; Roll: T623 1662; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 102.
Children of CHARLES BOATWRIGHT and ALICE KILLEN are:
9-666. i. LEONARD ALFRED BOATWRIGHT, b. 19 Jun 1880, Navarro County, Texas;
d. 27 Jul 1956, Terrell, Kaufman County,
Texas.
9-667. ii. JAMES K. BOATWRIGHT, b. 01 May 1884, Navarro County, Texas;
d. 12 Sep 1917, Texas.
9-668. iii. BENJAMIN B. BOATWRIGHT, b. Oct 1886, Navarro County, Texas.
8-301. EDWARD BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 18 May 1851 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died 14 Jun 1873 in Leon County, Florida.
Notes for EDWARD BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: Edward Boatwright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 9 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Not Stated, Leon, Florida Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M653_108 Page: 35 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mary H Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Edward Boatwright Date: July 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1851 Age in 1870: 19 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Southern Portion, Leon, Florida Occupation: Farm Laborer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M593_131 Page: 646 Image: 690 Year: 1870 living with brother Benjamin and familyBurial: Boatwright Cemetery, Woodville, Leon County, Florida
8-302. GREEN BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 05 Jul 1853 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, and died 15 Mar 1872 in Leon County, Florida.
Notes for GREEN BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: Green Boatwright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 6 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Not Stated, Leon, Florida Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M653_108 Page: 35 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mary H Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Green Boatwright Date: July 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853 Age in 1870: 17 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Southern Portion, Leon, Florida Occupation: Farm Laborer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M593_131 Page: 645 Image: 689 Year: 1870 living with sister Agnes and family
8-303. ELIZA BOATWRIGHT (DAWSON8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 27 Jul 1856 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. She married 1874 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida.
Notes for ELIZA BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: Eleza Boatwright Date: June 26, 1860 Age in 1860: 3 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1860: Not Stated, Leon, Florida Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M653_108 Page: 35 Year: 1860 Head of Household: Mary H Boatwright 1870 Census: Name: Eliza Boatwright Date: July 25, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1856 Age in 1870: 14 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Southern Portion, Leon, Florida Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: Tallahassee Roll: M593_131 Page: 645 Image: 689 Year: 1870 living with sister Agnes and family
8-304. AMELIA BOATWRIGHT (BENIAH8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1837 in Georgia.
Notes for AMELIA BOATWRIGHT:
1850 Census: Name: Amelia Boatwright Date: November 29, 1850 Age: 13 Estimated birth year: abt 1837 Birth place: Georgia Gender: Female Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Gadsden, Florida Page: 209 Roll: M432_58
8-305. BENJAMIN BOATWRIGHT (BENIAH8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1846 in Franklin County, Florida, and died 30 Oct 1896 in Suwannee County, Florida. He married SABRIE EDMONDS 19 May 1870 in Lafayette County, Florida, daughter of WILLIAM EDMONDS and ELIZABETH. She was born 1847 in Florida, and died 1900 in Lafayette County, Florida.
Notes for BENJAMIN BOATWRIGHT:
When Benjamin turned 18 he and his friend Charles Emerson went to Cedar Key to volunteer for service in the U. S. Army. They were taken by boat to Key West, Florida, where he was enlisted in Company E, Second Florida Calvary, on April 25, 1864. Prior to joining the army, Benjamin had lived in Liberty county, 1859; Leon county, 1860; and Liberty county,1861-63 per his Army records. Among other battles, Company E fought at St. Marks Light House (Natural Bridge, as we now know it); therefore, he was fighting with the North against other Boatwright relatives fighting for the CSA. He was discharged November 29, 1865 as a private at Tallahassee, Florida.
Source: Linda Douberly - descendent of Benjamin and Sabrie Boatwright
On March 6, 1865, a significant battle took place on the banks of the St. Marks River south of Tallahassee, Florida. Remembered today as the Battle of Natural Bridge, the fight preserved Tallahassee's status as the only Southern capital east of the Mississippi not conquered by Union forces during the Civil War. One of the last significant Confederate victories of the war, it also protected a significant area of North Florida and South Georgia from the severe economic losses suffered by many other regions of the South.
1850 Census: Name: Benjamin Boatwright Date: November 29, 1850 Age: 4 Estimated birth year: abt 1846 Birth place: Florida Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 7, Gadsden, FL Page: 209 Roll: M432_58 American Civil War Soldiers Name: Benjamin Boatwright Occupation: Farmer Enlistment Date: 25 Apr 1864 Enlistment Place: Key West, Florida Side Served: Union State Served: Florida Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 25 April 1864. Enlisted in Company E, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Florida on 25 Apr 1864. Mustered Out Company E, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Florida on 29 Nov 1865 at Tallahassee, FL. Sources: 87 Height: 5'9 " Eye Color: grey Hair Color: brown Complexion: fair 1870 Census: Name: Benj Boatwright Date: July 23, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846 Age in 1870: 24 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Not Stated, Lafayette, Florida Occupation: Farm Laborer Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: New Troy Roll: M593_131 Page: 495 Image: 387 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Benjamin Boatwright Date: June 18, 1880 Home in 1880: Lafayette, Florida Age: 36 Estimated birth year: abt 1844 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Sabriah Father's birthplace: Georgia Mother's birthplace: Georgia Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Census Place: , Lafayette, Florida; Roll 129; Family History Film: 1254129; Page: 179D; Enumeration District: 80; . Florida State Census, 1885 Name: Benj Boatright RESIDENCE: Lafayette, Florida Birth Place: Florida Age: 49 Race: White Gender: Male Relationship to Head of Household: Self Father's Birth Place: Georgia Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Page: 28 Roll: M845_6Burial: Old Ward Cemetery, Dixie County, Florida
Notes for SABRIE EDMONDS:
Benjamin Boatwright and Sabrie Edmonds were married in Lafayette county, Florida, May 19, 1870. Widow's pension for Sabrie Boatwright was dropped December 31, 1900, due to her death. It seems the census takers had a problem with her name. I found her listed as Sophia and Deborah as well as Sabrie and Sabry.
My grandfather Walter Eugene Boatwright was raised by the midwife Mrs. Bass who delivered him and knew almost nothing about his ancestors. It was he who poured and labeled the concrete slabs over their graves in the Old Ward cemetery. Unfortunately, he got the name wrong for his grandmother (a common problem, it seems) and labeled her grave as Mary Elizabeth. Under that slab is actually Sabrie Edmonds Boatwright.
Source: Linda Douberly - descendent of Benjamin and Sabrie Boatwright
1870 Census: Name: Sophia Boatwright Date: July 23, 1870 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847 Age in 1870: 23 Birthplace: Florida Home in 1870: Not Stated, Lafayette, Florida Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $0 Post Office: New Troy Roll: M593_131 Page: 495 Image: 387 Year: 1870 1880 Census: Name: Sabriah Boatwright Date: June 18, 1880 Home in 1880: Lafayette, Florida Age: 35 Estimated birth year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Florida Relation to Head of Household: Wife Spouse's name: Benjamin Father's birthplace: Florida Mother's birthplace: Florida Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Census Place: , Lafayette, Florida; Roll 129; Family History Film: 1254129; Page: 179D; Enumeration District: 80; . Florida State Census, 1885 Name: Sarah Boatright RESIDENCE: Lafayette, Florida Birth Place: Florida Age: 49 Race: White Gender: Female Relationship to Head of Household: Wife Father's Birth Place: Florida Mother's Birth Place: Georgia Page: 28 Roll: M845_6 Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 Name: Benjamin Boatwright State Filed: Florida Widow: Sabria Boatwright 1900 Census: Name: Sabrie Boatright Date: June, 1900 Home in 1900: Joppa Lodge, Lafayette, Florida Age: 55 Birth Date: 1845 Birthplace: Georgia Race: White Ethnicity: American Gender: Female Relationship to head-of-house: Head Father's Birthplace: Georgia Mother's Birthplace: Georgia Mother: number of living children: 3 Mother: How many children: 6 Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Widowed Residence : Precincts 2-3, Hart Hammock, Joppa Lodge, Lafayette, Florida Census Place: Joppa Lodge, Lafayette, Florida; Roll: T623_172 Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 74.Burial: Old Ward Cemetery, Dixie County, Florida
Children of BENJAMIN BOATWRIGHT and SABRIE EDMONDS are:
9-669. i. MARY ELIZABETH BOATWRIGHT, b. 1871, Lafayette County, Florida;
d. 1950, Florida.
9-669A. ii. FRANK BOATWRIGHT, b. 1873, Lafayette County, Florida.
d. Bef. 1900, Lafayette County, Florida.
9-670. iii. JAMES T. BOATWRIGHT, b. Feb 1876, Lafayette County, Florida.
9-671. iv. JOHN B. BOATWRIGHT, b. 19 Mar 1878, Lafayette County, Florida;
d. 20 Feb 1946, Dixie County, Florida.
9-672. v. DIANNA BOATWRIGHT, b. 10 Jul 1880, Lafayette County, Florida;
d. 07 Jan 1900, Lafayette County, Florida.
9-673. vi. HENRY BOATWRIGHT, b. 1883, Lafayette County, Florida.
d. Bef. 1900, Lafayette County, Florida.
9-674. vii. MAUD BOATWRIGHT, b. 1884, Lafayette County, Florida.
d. Bef. 1900, Lafayette County, Florida.
8-305A. GEORGE W. BOATWRIGHT (JOHN W.8, BENJAMIN CHESLEY7, BENJAMIN6, BENONI5, JOHN4, JOHN3, JOHN2, Not Yet Determined1) was born 1833 in Georgia. He married JOSEPHINE L. McJUNKINS, daughter of SAMUEL McJUNKINS and LUCINDA. She was born 1841 in Georgia.
Notes for GEORGE W. BOATWRIGHT:
1860 Census: Name: George W Boatright Date: July 20, 1860 Age in 1860: 27 Birth Year: abt 1833 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: District 28, Early, Georgia Gender: Male Occupation: Mail Rider Post Office: Octavia Census Place: District 28, Early, Georgia; Roll M653_120; Page: 642; Image: 103; Family History Library Film: 803120.
1860 Census: Name: Josephine L Boatright Date: July 20, 1860 Age in 1860: 19 Birth Year: abt 1841 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1860: District 28, Early, Georgia Gender: Female Post Office: Octavia Census Place: District 28, Early, Georgia; Roll M653_120; Page: 642; Image: 103; Family History Library Film: 803120. 1870 Census: Name: Josephine Boatright Date: July 5, 1870 Birth Year: abt 1841 Age in 1870: 29 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Militia District 626, Calhoun, Georgia Race: White Gender: Female Occupation: Farm Laborer Post Office: Morgan Census Place: Militia District 626, Calhoun, Georgia; Roll M593_138; Page: 578B; Image: 673; Family History Library Film: 545637. 1880 Census: Name: Josephine Boatright Date: June 15, 1880 Home in 1880: District 947, Randolph, Georgia Age: 38 Estimated birth year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Georgia Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Father's birthplace: Georgia Mother's birthplace: Georgia Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Keeping House Marital Status: Widowed Race: White Gender: Female Census Place: District 947, Randolph, Georgia; Roll T9_163; Family History Film: 1254163; Page: 193.2000; Enumeration District: 61; Image: 0168.
Children of GEORGE BOATWRIGHT and JOSEPHINE McJUNKINS are:
9-674A. i. DAVID FRANKLIN BOATWRIGHT, b. 1857, Early County, Georgia;
d. Bef. 1900, Navarro County, Texas.
9-674B. ii. LOUISA K. BOATWRIGHT, b. 1859, Early County, Georgia.
9-674C. iii. SAMUEL CHATMAN BOATWRIGHT, b. 29 Mar 1861, Early County, Georgia;
d. 12 Aug 1899, Clay County, Georgia.
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