GeorgeWashingtonBoykin
andAngelineFloyd
History
By Cheryl Martak Garrison
GEORGE WASHINGTON BOYKIN and ANGELINE FLOYD 1847 ‐ 1917 1844 ‐ 1912 11 January 1847 ‐ 1917 1844 ‐ George Washington Boykin was born 11 January 1847 in Boykin, Smith, Mississippi to Francis Boykin and Jane Royals. George was listed as a Confederate Private in the Civil War, Company H 16th and 46th Mississippi Infantry. The 16th is the only one listed on the Golden Link Cemetery record. He entered the service as a young teenager, just turning 17 when he enlisted in 1864. He went home early in the war but returned to be at the awful part around Petersburg and Appoma ox, Virginia. Court records show that he was court mar aled and fined six months' pay, commencing August 1864, for being absent without leave. He was on the roster when General Lee surrendered. 1 He was paroled on 9 April 1865 a er being surrendered by General Robert E. Lee at Appoma ox Court House, Virginia, 9 April, 1865.2 (See more on the next page about his court mar al.) Map above: Red Box Outline: Shows Smith County, where George was born. Black Box Outline: Anguilla in Sharkey County where George W. Boykin is buried in the Gold‐
en Link Cemetery. Right: Enlargement of the area. General Robert E. Lee Lorraine told me why George Washington Boykin went AWOL. The family (which included her mother and her grandmother, Carle Boykin Martak) have always said that George went AWOL to come home and marry Angeline. (If that is true, wouldn't that mean that they probably married in 1864 instead of "abt 1865"?)3 An interes ng note: The formal copy of Grant's surrender terms was scribed by Ely Parker, a Seneca Indian. Lee remarked to Parker, “I am glad to see one real American here.” Parker later stated, “I shook his hand and said, We are all Americans.” Parker's library is in the Appoma ox Court House NHP collec on. 7 "The Surrender" by Keith Rocco shows the known officers that were present for at least a por on of the mee ng in the McLean Parlor, April 9, 1865.8 Below: Appoma ox Court House, Virginia with Federal soldiers at the courthouse, April 18659 A er the Civil War George and his brother Thomas moved from Smith County, Mississippi to Sharkey County, Mississippi. (Interes ng note: Thomas married Angeline's sister, Mary Ann Floyd). Angeline Floyd was born March 1844 in Mississippi to Allen James Floyd and Sarah Jane Rawls. Her dad always called her "Angelina". She had 2 sisters, Emeline and Mary Ann Floyd. The years during the Civil War were devasta ng for these young families as the war claimed the lives of all three husbands of these Floyd sisters. Angeline was first married at age 16, about 1859 in Smith County, Mississippi to Francis Marion Adams who was wounded in the Civil War at the Ba le of Weldon Railroad, below Petersburg, Virginia and died in a Richmond hospital three days later, in August of 1864. His remains are buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, Richmond City, Richmond, Virginia. George Boykin was in the same unit, the Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry. Siege of Petersburg ‐ Confederate A empt, August 20, 1864 To Regain the Weldon Railroad10 Angeline Floyd and her first husband, Francis Marion Adams had 2 children: 1. Abner James Adams, Sr. born May 1860 in Smith County, Mississippi, married Susie Alouishus Hampsey, daughter of Patrick Hampsey and Mary Nolan, 27 October 1886 in Sharkey County, Mississippi. Susie was born May 1869 in Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, died 13 April 1904 in Sharkey County, Mississippi and is buried in the Vickland Cemetery in Delta City, Sharkey, Mississippi. Abner James Adams, Sr. died April 1915, near Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi. Note: Susie's sister was Margaret Hampsey who married Albert Monroe Boykin. When Susie died her li le daughter, Susie, was raised by her two aunts, Francis "Fannie" Adams Shrader and Margaret "Maggie" Hampsey Boykin. 2. Frances V. Adams born 22 November 1864 in Smith County, Mississippi. She married Samuel H. Shrader, son of J. A. C. Shrader and Mary E a Logan, 21 September 1878, Sharkey County, Mississippi. Samuel was born 28 February 1853 in Alabama and died 1 May 1926 in Cooter, Pemiscot, Missouri when he was accidently killed as he was direc ng a freight train backing up to a warehouse when he slipped and fell and the train ran over him. Frances died 15 January 1935 in Steele, Pemiscot, Missouri. HISTORICAL EVENTS 1844 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message) 1859 Oregon admi ed as 33rd state of the Union 1863 President Lincoln delivers the Ge ysburg Address 1865 End of American Civil War "By 1870 Angeline had married George W. Boykin... About 1871 these families (George Washington Boykin, Angeline Floyd and her sisters) oved with rela ves to the area of the Mississippi Delta that later became Sharkey County." ("Smith County, Mississippi and Its Families Volume II", pages 65 & 175, Compiled and Published by the Smith County, Mississippi Genealogical Society, 2006) George Washington Boykin and Angeline Floyd were married about 1865 in Smith County, Mississippi and had 6 children: 1. Albert Monroe “Sam” Boykin, born 29 January 1867 in Smith County, Mississippi, died 7 November 1937 in Sharkey County, Mississippi, and is buried in the Vickland Cemetery, Delta City, Sharkey, Mississippi. He married Mary Margaret Hampsey, sister of Susie Alouishus Hampsey and daughter of Patrick Hampsey and Mary Nolan, 17 December 1885, Sharkey County, Mississippi. Mary was born 1861 of Vicksbury, Warren, Mississippi, died 3 February 1928, Sharkey County, Mississippi, and is also buried in the Vickland Cemetery. Albert and Mary Margaret Hampsey had 9 children. Note: Margaret's sister was Susie A Hampsey who married Abner James Adams Sr. in Sharkey County, Mississippi. They had a brother, James, who also lived in the Anguilla, Mississippi area. When her sister, Susie, died, Susie's li le daughter, Susie, was raised by her two aunts, Francis "Fannie" Adams Shrader and Margaret "Maggie" Hampsey Boykin 2. Carle was born 18 August 1868 probably in Boykin, Smith, Mississippi, died 26 May 1946, Anguilla, Sharkey, Mississippi, and is buried in the Golden Link Cemetery there in Anguilla. She married Adam Kaman Martak, son of Juraj (George) Martyak and Anna Pavlina, 26 December 1888 in Sharkey County, Mississippi. Adam was born 20 April 1859, Zakopcie, Cadca, Austro‐Hungarian Empire, died 16 March 1935, Anguilla, Sharkey, Mississippi, and is also buried in the Golden Link Cemetery in Anguilla. They had 6 children. I wrote a history which gives more informa on on this family. 3. Eudore Boykin born 28 August 1876 in Sharkey County, Mississippi, died 29 October 1896, Sharkey County, Mississippi, and is buried in Vickland Cemetery, Delta City, Sharkey, Mississippi. She married Thaddeus C. Whitson, son of James H Whitson and Julia I. (maiden name unknown at this wri ng) 18 November 1894, Sharkey County, Mississippi. Thaddeus was born 4 April 1873, Yalobusha County, Mississippi, died 16 August 1899, Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi, and is buried in Pales ne Cemetery in Water Valley. 4. Willie Leon Boykin, born 4 September 1879, probably Sharkey County, Mississippi, died 7 October 1886, Sharkey County, Mississippi, and is buried in Vickland Cemetery, Delta City, Sharkey, Mississippi. 5. Clyde Miller Boykin, born 19 October 1881, probably in Sharkey County, Mississippi, died 7 July 1939, Sharkey County, Mississippi, and is buried in Vickland Cemetery, Delta City, Sharkey, Mississippi. He first married Bulie about 1899. She was born May 1880 probably in Mississippi. Later he married Annie M. Hollingsworth about 1910 in Mississippi. Annie was born 24 May 1885 in Mississippi, died 11 July 1976, Oak Grove, West Carroll, Louisiana, and is buried in Vickland Cemetery, Delta City, Sharkey, Mississippi. 6. Letha Belle Boykin, born 1 July 1886, Anguilla, Sharkey, Mississippi, died 27 July 1970, Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, and is buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Glen Allan, Washington, Mississippi. A li le about Smith County... The land that was to become Smith County, Mississippi was once home to Na ve American Indian tribes such as the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and others. This area was part of the Choctaw Indian Na on un l the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830.4 Smith County is named in honor of Major David Smith. The county is well known among Missis‐
sippians for its Smith County Watermelons. Smith County Courthouse in Raleigh, Mississippi Today's Highway 531 in Smith County runs along what was once Andrew Jackson's Military Road, according to most historians. This road was a Nashville to New Orleans route improved by the federal government and later named in honor of Jackson. Over the years, Smith County has suffered three courthouse fires. Sadly, many valuable historic records have been lost.5 A li le about Sharkey County... Sharkey County, Mississippi is the birthplace of blues legend, Muddy Waters, and the Teddy Bear.6 It is named a er William L. Sharkey, the provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1865. HISTORICAL EVENTS 1867 USA buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. 1868 Ulysses Grant elected U. S. President 1869 Suez Canal opens 1873 E. Remington begins to make typewriters and Color photo‐
graphs are first developed GEORGE WASHINGTON BOYKIN ‐ ANGELINE FLOYD TOMBSTONES Pictures taken at the Golden Link Cemetery. George Washington Boykin Civil War Confederate Records George Washington Boykin ‐ Confederate Records Bibliography 1 US Military Court Record, General Order No. 32 HdQs (Headquarters) October 26; Researchers, Linda Adams Phears, Larry Wheeler, and Martha Floyd Miller. 2 Daughter, Letha Boykin Erwin, Applica on for membership to the United Daughters of the Confederacy. His tombstone also shows his service in the CSA Army. 3 Cheryl Garrison’s telephone conversa on with Lorraine Thomason of Anguilla, Mississippi. 4 ,5
h p://smith.msghn.org/ 6 Facebook.com/Sharkey‐County‐Mississippi 7, 8 nps.gov 9 Photographer, Timothy O’Sullivan 10 pictures‐civil‐war.com