John H. Boyd

U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 426, Plate XXVII, A. East Slope of Pine Mountain, A Granite Gneiss Dome, Lithonia, DeKalb County, GA. (photo provided by Lisa Boyd)

We now know John had a brother named Robert J.  He was married to the Sarah who is living with John and Lucinda during the 1850 census.  We're assuming he has died by 1850, but we're not certain.  Considering she is remarried in the 1860 census, I think we can safely assume Robert has died and not just run off.  We would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone who may have some information on this line of Boyds.  Family stories say Thomas J. Boyd's grandfather came from Ireland.  That would be John and Robert's father. 

Reference Material:  Newton County Georgia, Estate Records

Volume 1, A - K

1822 - 1900, John L. Bruno

Boyd, John 1853

He died before March 14, 1853, the date an Inventory and Appraisement of his Estate were made.  His Estate consisted of a land warrant for 40 acres, and 200 1/2 acres being Land Lot 184 in the 16th District of DeKalb County, Georgia which was near Lithonia and was mainly a Granite Quarry, also household goods and furniture which his widow Lucinda Boyd bought all of it on the 12th of April 1853.  At time, David T. White was Administrator of the Estate.  On August 30, 1890, a jury in the case of the Southern Granite Company vs. Thomas J. Boyd, Administrator of John Boyd et. al, found that 1/2 undivided interest in and to the granite on Land Lot 184 in the 16th District of DeKalb County did vest in Thomas J. Boyd as Administrator of the John Boyd, deceased, estate.  They also awarded him some money for granite which the previously mined.  He in turn, in 1893, gave it to the following heirs of John Boyd, Thomas J. Boyd, Henry Boyd, Mr. McHughs, M.F. Wigley, et al. later John B.Davis was appointed Administrator and he made a compromise with the granite company in November 1901.  The heirs were Annie Elizabeth Boyd who married T.W. McHughs.  She died and was survived by her husband and 3 children to wit, John W. McHughs, S.P. McHughs and Annie Elizabeth McHughs who later married Trook McElroy, other heirs were William Phillips, R.E. Butler, C.D. Phillips and Mary Wigley.  The document dated May 22, 1888 is a request by Thomas J. Boyd for Temporary Letters of Administration for the Estate.  In that document he states he is the youngest son of the John Boyd, deceased (61 documents)