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Subject:   Boydstuns
From:  AL BOYDSTUN ALBYDawg@webtv.net
Date:  2/7/2001

hi my name is WILLIAM A.(ALLEN) BOYDSTUN i now live in the
phoenix-tucson az area born in oklahoma while my father was in the air
force in 1956 my father WILLIAM J. BOYDSTUN was born in sanger tx. i
have 3 brothers JAMES R.,JOHN L.,& FRANK D.,all now residents of florida
along with my mother JUNE R.(STINSON) BOYDSTUN originally from oregon
and later california where my father met my mother in the late 40`s and
since became the BOYDSTUN family......respond if this helps or i can be
of assistance i would like to find my family tree as of so many others
it seems so disconnected......AL BOYDSTUN


Subject:   Frank Boydston's Geneology Page
From:  Joe A. Winsell jawinsell@webzone.net
Date:  9/21/2000

Here is the site for Frank's info. He only started it recently so he doesn't
have much. The main stuff is in the Photo Album. Please let me know what you think.

I visited Margaret's site last night and thought it very good. No frills
just the facts. I had not been there in a couple of weeks. Every time I
tried, I would get a message telling me the site had moved and no link to get to the new.

Joe

http://communities.msn.com/FrankBoydstonsGeneologyPages


Subject:   Boydstuns
From:  ClanPattison@aol.com
Date:  9/21/2000

My maternal grandmother was Florida (Boydstun) Hayes from McCall, Idaho. 
There are several boydstuns buried in the same cemetery there. I have
attempted to get some information from a 1/2 sister who has old family
bibles, etc. which might shed more light on the subject, but so far, to no avail.

Also, I once read that there were several recorded instances of
Boydstuns, (as well as other Scots names) among the Cherokee peoples on the
"Trail of Tears." Since the Boydstun name is of Scots origin, and many Scots
Clans trace their geneology back to the Pictish "savages" of northern England
and Scotland, it is not too big a stretch to tie the Scots settlers to the
"White Indians" among the Cherokee on that death march.  Anthropologists have
indicated that the Picts and the Cherokee, as well as many other of the
Easternmost American Indians share many similarities.  Indeed, my Boydstun
ancestors intermarried with the Cherokees a few generations ago, in the last
part of the Civil War years, and it has been a family legend that our
Cherokee blood extends back to the early founding years of the Nation.  I
can't tell you where I read the information about the "Trail of Tears"
Boydstuns, but it was a lot of years ago that I read it.

Thanks, Jimmie Pattison

Subject:   Tie's Together our Boydston Lines
From:  Joe A. Winsell jawinsell@webzone.net
Date:  9/17/2000

Janie,

You may already have been able to make this connection.  However, since I do not devote as much time to this research as you do, I just now have. Charlie is descended from James Boydston's second marriage to Tabitha Smith. Whereas you an I are descended from his first marriage to Mary Prewitt.  Also, I stated in an email and posting on Frank Boydston's site,  I believe Frank is descended from this same marriage. I have no confirmation of any marriage or offspring for James' son William. Am I off base in my conclusion?

Thanks,

Joe

Subject:  
From:  alan boydstun fallen@telepak.net
Date:  9/13/2000

hi i just wanted to email you and tell you i am a boydstun i live in louisville ms i am a decendent a samuel  boydstun he was my father nathan's father i have enclosed a picture of my self i am 20 years old if you have any information on my immediate family please let me know.

thank you alan boydstun

Subject:   Mahala Snow
From:  Morrow, Walter B Jr Mr CECOM RDEC NVESD walter.morrow@nvl.army.mil
Date:  9/7/2000

Charles: Rec'd the attached files ok. Much thanks for the response. 
Frederick County Maryland, formerly part of Prince George County, seems to
have been the meeting ground of many of my pioneering families before they
headed down the Virginia Valleys, ultimately coming to Tennessee and
Kentucky. John And Elizabeth Sollers Cecil, Samuel and Rebecca White Cecil,
Benjamin and Priscilla Boyleston Cecil, Thomas and Elizabeth Cecil Witten,
James and David Boydston, etc. Joining them in the VA Vallies were Benjamin
and Easter Totten, Abraham Pevehouse, George Beibinghaus, George and Sarah
Pearis Teter, Tobias and Peggy Jennings Phillips, Abraham Goad, Thomas
Philips and Mary Goad, Timothy and Ester Sicel Sexton, John and Valentine
Sevier, George Hatfield, Joseph and Rachel Smith Hatfield, John and Nancy
Morris Reed, among others. Rachel Smith Hatfield's family were from the
general area in Delaware where Mahala Snow's Family is found.

I'll keep trying to access the various parts of your website. Thanks again
for the data.

Subject:   Mahala Snow
From:  Morrow, Walter B Jr Mr CECOM RDEC NVESD walter.morrow@nvl.army.mil
Date:  9/6/2000

Chuck: I am a descendant of Benjamin Sollers Cecil and Priscilla Boyleston
though Samuel Cecil and Katie Pevehouse and am interested in getting a copy
of the work on your sight regarding the David Boydston/Mahala Snow issues
and research but am having difficulty in accessing the the particular part
of your site. There was an Email attachment specifically on the
Snow/Boydston Spouses/Delaware issues that I could not get nor the
descendancy chart/data for David Boydston. Would it be possible to get a
hard copy of this material. I will be glad to cover the cost to copy and
mail. Please reach me this email address or at home on: Wbm91837@aol.com

Also, have you read Charles Ward's two entries to the Boydston GENFORUM on
(1) Priscilla Boyleston Cecil and on the Boydstone Mayflower Connection
issue. I believe that he makes a compelling case for Prisiclla being the
daughter of James Boydston Sr and granddaughter of David Boydston. (2) With
regard to Charles' arguments on the Mayflower question, I am very much
interested in the data from your site on this topic which I havn't been able to access.

Thanks again,

Walt Morrow

Subject: Boydstun
From:   Tammy L Barry tammycat@home.com
Date:  9/5/2000

Hi Charles,

My name is Troy Boydstun of Hinton, Oklahoma.  My Great Grandfather was named John who lived in Rogers Arkansas and made baskets for a living. My Grandfather was named Oscar Jay Boydstun everyone called him OJ.  My dad is Edward Boydstun of Holdenville, OK.  I have a brother, Roy, in Seminole, OK.  When I lived in Big Spring, Texas there had been an elementary school named Boydstun School and there is also a housing district named Boydstun.

Hope this can be of some help.......

Live to Ride Ride to Live

Subject: Boydston family
From:  Darms55@aol.com
Date:  8/19/2000

Hello, I am a descendent of Phoebe Jane BOYDSTON, daughter of J. Bartlett
BOYDSTON, which was a son of Benjamin and Mary(Gardner) BOYDSTON.  I have a
picture of Phoebe. I would like to exchange info.. I want to tell you that
you have an excellent site and I enjoyed it greatly.

Doyle Armstrong

Subject:   wyrick wyrick@netins.net
From:  wyrick  wyrick@netins.net
Date:  8/19/2000

Hi Charles,

Just looked at your webpage, and found it to be very informative and
educational. I really like the way you have created it. It is user
friendly.

I have a webpage, linked to Joe Winsell's, and it also contains information
on the Boydston/un families. They are also descendants of mine. Joe and I
have been helping one another for a while now.

Keep up the good work.

Janie M. Gaw-Frost
wyrick@netins.net

Subject:   Michelle Boydstun
From:  Alexandmichelle
Date:  7/22/2000
Email:  alexandmichelle@email.msn.com

Hi!  My father's name is Charles Boydstun and lives in Texas.  It's just amazing that there are so many Boydstuns out there-some with my exact name (before I was married).  I just received an old picture of my great grandparents with their children but it needs to be seen by a professional.  You have a great site.

Subject:   Jennifer Elizabeth Boydstun
From:  Matt Schutte
Date:  7/15/2000
Email:  abalone@Yahoo.com

Hello my name is Jennifer E. Boydstun.  I was born September 20, 1974 to Gary Clarence Boydstun.  His father is Clarence Boydstun, who is from Oklahoma, he now resides in Encampment Wyoming.  I have been very curious to learn about my family's history and who my ancestors were.  If you would like to have more information please email me at abalone@Yahoo.com . 

Subject:   Boydston Genealogy
From:  Amanda Duckett
Date:  4/13/2000
Email:  Duckettwebmaster2@snr-graphics.com

Hi Charles,
I was visiting your website & wanted to drop you a link. http://frontpage.webzone.net/jawinsell/default.htm   I wasn't sure if you've been there before or not, he has a link to your site, but I didn't see a link back to his, nor any of the same pictures, etc so I didn't figure you had.  I'm doing research for my fiance and his mother.  His mother, Marianne (Wyrick) Sherman, is the daughter of Charles Benjamin Wyrick & Hazel Pearl (Rustin). Charles' parents were Gilbert Frederick Wyrick & Lena Margaret (Boydston). So that's the Boydston connection. (Gilbert & Lena are my fiance's great grandparents.)   Anyway, on Joe's site, he's got a number of pictures, info, and even some military record info on Boydstons.  There's even some brief info on the Benjamin Franklin Boydston & Mary Elizabeth (Crenshaw) you have a picture of on your site. (There's more info on Benjamin's ancestors as well.)  Joe doesn't have that picture of them, so you may want to talk with him about that.  There's also info on some of the other Boydstons you have pictures of, I just haven't had time yet to check all of the pics you have with the info he has.  Anyway, I hope the information you find helps you!

Thanks!
Amanda


Subject:   RE: Boydston Family  (See next two messages below)
From:  c dm
Date:  3/26/00
Email: middy2_99@yahoo.com

Lyn and all,

I loved your account of Mahala Snow and David Boydston from which in am suppose to be a decendant.  It is very well done.  It gives me alot of quicker ways to get to the truth.  You have helped me so much there is another place that I can obtain some more info on the Boydstons. I am going to send for it.

One more question, can anyone prove besides the book the lady did on the Boydstons that Nancy Boydston who married Joshua Yates is really the daughter of David Boydston? That is my first quest.

I will be letting all of you know what I have found.

Cheryl

Subject:   Boydston Family
From:  Lynette Kurcina
Date:  3/25/00
Email:  LIPIKAS@aol.com

I'm planning to put the research I'm doing on the web.  Here are David Boydston/Boylston's and Mahala Boydston's page.  Please let me know if you think I should add or subtract anything.  Also, its OK with me if you want to forward any or all of the attached to anyone or use it on your web site.  I haven't finished typing the records for David Boydston (Jr), his wife Hester Ann Burris/Burrough, Mary Willey and the Willey family and scanning in the documents and records I've found yet, but I thought I would E-mail the David Boydston and Mahala Snow pages to you. (See the attachments)

Tracing the early Boydston/Boydstun/Boylston spouses, I found them in the early PA now Delaware area.  David (Jr) and Hester Ann moved to Monongalia county ab Virginia, now West Virginia, about 1780, and then to PA.  Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Lyn (Lynette) Kurcina

Subject:   Boydston Family
From:  Lynette Kurcina
Date:  3/25/00
Email:  LIPIKAS@aol.com

I've been researching the Boydston family for a while now and I've found records that I hope will help correct some of the inaccuracies that we have.  We are fortunate to have so much information on the Boydston family.

I may have told you that I think Mahala Snow was the daughter of Elisha and Elizabeth Snow and that I think our Mayflower connection was in Duck Creek Delaware through David Sr.'s marriage to Mahala Snow. David (Jr.)'s wife Hester Ann Burris/Burroughs's family built a mill on Duck Creek about 1699-1700, and eventually bought the property there. I have found, in the early PA now Delaware records, the names of all the early Boydston/Boylston spouses.

I wanted to let you know where I'm finding the records in case others are looking. I hope to have the research on the web in a few months.

Thanks,
Lynette Kurcina

Subject:   Boydstun Family
From:  Marsha Boydston Grisham
Date:  3/3/00
Email:  mustang_72114@yahoo.com

I am looking up information on my grandfather William Boydston, born 1875, in Water Valley, Mississippi.  I have just started my research.  I have found 1 cousin who lives in Florida.  I belive my grandfathers father was Benjamine Boydston.  I also  think that the family came form Tenn.  If you can be of any help e-mail me at mustang_72114@yahoo.com.  Thank you.

Marsha Boydston Grisham

Subject:  Website Update
From:  Joe A. Winsell
Date:  11/27/99
Email:  jawinsell@webzone.net

Hello to all.

I have just finished the current round or updates to my website. Most of the
information updated is on the Boydston and Wyrick lines. Cousin Janie has
supplied the majority of the information and all of the new photographs and
documents.

I would like for anyone wishing to participate in this to contact me for
arranging the how and when but mostly the what.

Janie sent me electronic copies of things by scanning the hardcopy into her
computer. If this will not work for anyone, there are alternatives.

Also, if anyone objects to the way I have done things, I am open to new
ideas and other views.

The main problem I seem to have is time, opportunity and the information.

Please take a look and let me know what you think. Again, most all of the
updates relate to Boydston and Wyrick lines. However, the Morris and
Hendricks lines are related and affected by these updates.

I hope to have some information on the Hambright and Sipult lines soon so
that I can fill in the blanks for some of these.

Best Wishes and Happy Holidays,
Joe

His website is:  http://frontpage.webzone.net/jawinsell/

Subject:   Home Page
From:  Joe Ben Boydstun
Date:  11/25/99
Email:  jboydstu@csc.com

Charles,
My name is Joe Ben Boydstun. I live in  North Texas. I've just found your page
and I am in awe.

My father's name is Felix Calvo Boydstun. His Father was Butler Ben Boydstun
from Sanger, Texas. My father does not remember his Grandfather's name  as he
never saw him. I am just beginning this journey therefore I don't have much to
offer. Keep up the good work!

Best Regards,
Joe B. Boydstun

Subject:   Forum
From:  Tammy Yedinak
Date:  11/19/99
Email:  afs@3rivers.net

Subject:   Newport Book
From:  Linda Shay
Date:  11/03/99
Email:  LSyselt@aol.com

Charlie,

This is to let you know that I have finally completed publication of Richard
Newport, His Book.  This traces the ministry and early lineage of Rev.
Richard Newport and contains associated lines, such as Conner, Kavanaugh,
Boylston and Boydstun.
For further information, please visit my announcement site:  LSyselt's Home Page 2

I would appreciate it if you would pass this information along to any other
interested parties.

Sincerely,
Linda Shay


Subject:   Keziah Boydstun
From:  Margaret Bates
Date:  10/20/99
Email:  mrbates@swbell.net

Hello All --

Maybe you can help out here -- I have attached my email to Lesli, and retyped her original question below.

Margaret Bates
==
Subject: Keziah Boydstun
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999
From: Lesli Danielson<laddy@rea-alp.com>
To: mrbates@swbell.net

Dear Margaret:

I was visiting your web site today in hopes that you could shed some light on a descendent of mine.  Keziah Boydstun.

You list her as being un married.  From the information that I have gathered, I show her as married to a John Bishop Sr.  Her parents as James Boydstun Jr. and Sarah Alvis.

I do show the same as you as far a birth and death dates.  Do you have something that shows she was never married?

I show they had the following children:
Louvica
Joseph
Sophia
Nancy
Keziah Whiteley (my line)
John
Mary
Jesse

Could you possibly help me here?

Thank you
Lesli Danielson
laddy@rea-alp.com


Subject:   Update of Website
From:  Joe A. Winsell
Date:  09/06/99
Email:  jawinsell@webzone.net
Website:  http://frontpage.webzone.net/jawinsell

I have just finished updating my web site.

Of interest to the Boydston researchers is the continuation of the line back
through the 1600's with the help of Lynette, Al and the family search
organization web site.

Another interesting tidbit is the unidentified photograph sent in by Sarah
B. on http://frontpage.webzone.com/jawinsell/lrgview/unknown017.htm .

Also, thanks to the details on the Wyrick/Wirrick line from Janie.

These are examples of how we can all work together. I am willing if you are.

A suggestion occurs to me. If any of you are web publishing savvy, you can
submit a web page with a suggested path and links to me for inclusion.

Hope to hear from all of you soon,

Joe

Subject:   Benjamin Franklin Boydston
From:  Bobby Boydston/Helen Boydston
Date:  9/02/99
Email:  shortcut@worldnet.att.net

Subject:   Boydston Obituary
From:  Margaret Bates
Date:  8/30/99
Email:   mrbates@swbell.net

I have found the following obituary dated 30 Aug 1999 in the Kansas City
Star, and based on the locations, I feel we should know who this is, but
I find no record in my database of any of the individuals mentioned. Can
anyone help out?  (See the following):

Glenn L. Boydston

Glenn L. Boydston, 85, Valley Falls, KS, died Saturday, August 28, 1999
at his home. Cremation. Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,
September 1, at Mercer Funeral Home, Valley Falls. Memorial
contributions may be made to the Jefferson County District 11 Ambulance
Service or Jefferson County Home Health Care in care of the funeral
home.

Glenn famred in the North Cedar Community west of Valley Falls and was a
rural mail carrier for the Denison route from 1955-1974. He was born
October 5, 1913, in Valley Falls, the son of Ben and Mattie Coleman
Boydston. He graduated from Valley Falls High School. He served with the
U. S. Army 43rd Engineers in New Guinea and Australia during WWII. He
was a lifetime member of the VFW fo Valley Falls and a lifetime member
of Disabled American Veterans of Mountain Home, AR. He was a salesman
for the Westinghouse Co. in Waterloo, IA, where he was a memeber of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Elks Club until 1955. After retiring
from the Post Office in 1974, he moved to Caldwell, KS, and later to
Mountain Home, AR. In 1990, he moved back to Valley Falls. He married
Julie Ann Jean on December 29, 1944, in Topeka; she survives him.
Survivors also include a son, Harry L. Boydston, Overland Park, KS;
daughter, Glenna Jean Newkirk, Ellinwood, KS; sister Sarah George,
Valley Falls, KS; and four grandchildren.


Subject:   RE:  Just when you thought you had the Boydston's figured out...
From:  Ruth Walton
Date:  8/19/99
Email:  ruthwalton@earthlink.net

My two cents worth.
Penny Bloodhart's message is very intriguing. Not that I have documentation or
even too much insight to add, just a bit of information and some thoughts.
Like Penny, I have been interested in the similar movements and military
service of the Cecils and the Boydstons. (My ancestor being the William
Boydston born in Frederick County, MD in 1753.)

I exchanged several letters and information with Erv Chell in Aurora, CO in
1990, after I saw a query he placed in Heritage Quest about his Boylston,
Cecil, Sollers (and other) surnames. He sent a Benjamin Sollers
Cecil-Priscilla Peggy Boylston family group sheet with accompanying notes and
documentation, and I sent much Boydston material to him. Our conclusions were
similar to Penny's: it is very tempting (and might even be correct!) to make a
tentative conclusion that Priscilla Boylston is a daughter of James Boydston
(son of David Boydston and his first wife, Mahala Snow) and Mary Pruitt,
although I do not have a Priscilla listed in my database among James and
Mary's children. As she says, though, the naming pattern is suggestive. Not
only are her two oldest sons named Samuel (for Samuel Cecil) and James
(possibly for James Boydston), IF she is James Boydston-Mary Pruitt's
daughter, then she had two brothers who were named Samuel and James, and her
Pruitt grandfather also was named Samuel.

Then to add another wrinkle, according to my records, there is a Priscilla
Boydston, born in about 1761, who is a daughter of David Boydston and his
second wife, Sarah Pruitt. However, according to Gladys Domonoske in The
Boydstun-Boydston Family, Pages 56-57, this Priscilla married John Box. Unless
we are dealing with two marriages, one to Benjamin Sollers Cecil and one to
John Box, this is probably not the same Priscilla.

Going back to the family group sheet Erv Chell sent me, he lists the children
of Benjamin Sollers Cecil and Priscilla Peggy Boylston as: Samuel Scifacell
Cecil, James Cecil, Benjamin Sollers Cecil, Jr., William Cecil, Thomas Cecil,
and Joseph Cecil. He says they all were born in VA, and at least the first
four sons being born at Dublin, Montgomery Co., VA. Those are all good
"Boydston" names that show up over and over in my lines. Penny, if by chance
you have not been in touch with Erv Chell, let me know and I can at least give
you his 1990 address.

Ruth Walton


Subject:   Just when you thought you had the Boydstons figured out...
From:  Margaret R. Bates
Date:  8/18/99
Email:  mrbates@swbell.net

Hello Everyone --

Knew you would want to see this email I received today. If this proves
true, we all need to rethink the early Boydston generations. My first
thought is that perhaps this particular Priscilla is daughter of another
son of David. Will appreciate hearing your thoughts on this, and know
that Penny will as well --

Regards,
Margaret Bates
Kansas City, MO

Subject: The Boydstons
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:04:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pence234@aol.com
To: mrbates@swbell.net

I just had the pleasure of reading some history on your website.
Excellent and well reasoned!!

I have a major problem in this line.  My Ancestress, Priscilla
Boydstone/Bilestone/Boylestone, etc., was probably born about 1762, and
married Benjamin Sollers Cecil about 1783.

The records of Mccorkle's Store in Pulaski County Virginia from 1774
onward show the names of James Boydstone, Samuel Cecil and William
Cecil.  (Samuel was Benjamin Sollers Cecil's father and William his
brother.)

In Montgomery County, Virginia, Capt. Joseph Cloyd's Company sworn
September 1777, includes the names of James Boydston, Jno. Pruit,
William Boydstone, Benj. Sol. Cicil, John Cecil, Benjamin Pruitt and
James Boydstone, Junr.

My ancestors Benjamin and Priscilla (Boydston) Cecil sold their 380
acres of land in Virginia and moved west. They lived in both Kentucky
and Tennessee. Their son, Joseph, migrated to Arkansas with his brothers
and several Boydstons, including John Pruitt Boydston.

I have always suspected that Priscilla was a child of James and Mary
Prewitt Boydston simply by the fact that her two oldest sons were named
Samuel (for her husband's father) and James for James Boydston??

I am also intrigued by the tracings of the family to Frederick County,
MD. My Cecil line came from there to Western Virginia about 1767 or
1768. These groups tended to travel together. Again, this proves
nothing.

I would really appreciate any insight that you might provide!

Thank you!
Penny (Cecil) Bloodhart


Subject:   FWD: Boydston and Lusk
From:  Margaret R. Bates
Date:  8/05/99
Email:  mrbates@swbell.net

Thanks for sending the email -- she also wrote me, and I see that our
Lusk information is sketchy at best. The only problem I have is that
Sabra's got 2 sisters according to Domonoske -- one named Mary and one
named Elizabeth. Elizabeth is supposed to have married Elnathan Howell
Condray. I have no marriage for Mary. She says "Mary Elizabeth" married
Samuel Lusk. I'm wondering if there is a Samuel Jr. & a Samuel Sr.

If her information makes sense (and I have asked for more), I will
probably accept it, since Gladys Domonoske (and certainly myself) did
only cursory research on the Lusk family. I'll ask her to forward info
to you as well.

Regards,
Margaret

Subject:   Newpott and Boydston Families
From:  Mary E. Bonds
Date:  8/01/99
Email:  mbonds1@tampabay.rr.com

Was great to see the Davis Creek Baptist Church where my 5th gr grandfather, Richard Newport was a preacher, also to see his signature on the songbook?  I haven't cracked the surface of the Boyston info on these pages and have been so excited I forgot to turn on the frying pan for my Sunday chicken.  If my daughter hadn't noticed, it would have sat there for a long time.  Mary Bonds,  mbonds1@tampabay.rr.com.


Subject:   Boydstun and Lusk  
From:  Michelle Miron (Brian Kinderknecht)
Date:  7/24/99
Email:  kinderknecht@earthlink.net

Charles,
I am a decendent of Sabre Boydston and Thomas Lusk, of course I cant
seem to find very much on the Lusk side, but I have found lots on the
Boydston side, mabey you can help.  Sabre or Sabree or Sabara, spelled
many different ways, her mother was Elizabeth Newport and Thomas
Boydston...I hope you can help me....

Michelle Miron

But if you have info on Thomas Boydston and his family and up I would
like to have that as well, for Im a decendent from them to...


Subject:   Tom Davis Boydston, Jr. & Sr.
From:  Sue-Ann Boydston Taub
Date:  7/17/99
Email:  Suzi6bits@hotmail.com

Chuck:  I haven't visited your web page for quite a while.  I am still
looking for info on the above two.  I noticed your comment about a book
"Growing Up With Oklahoma", and thought perhaps they might have been
mentioned.  I know both of them died in Ok. and Jr. was born in Ok. City; he
died in 1961.  I've tried LDS Peoplesearch, but there is no info.

If you have any info at all, I'd appreciate it.  Please reply to
Suzi6bits@hotmail.com

Thanks.  Sue-Ann Boydston Taub, Tempe, AZ

Subject:   Boydston Clan of Texas
From:  Helen Boydston
Date:  7/12/99
Email:  shortcut@worldnet.att.net

Subject:   The New World Book of Boydstuns
From:  Chuck Boydstun
Date:  7/7/99
Email: boydstun@mindspring.com

Recently, I received a flyer claiming to have newly discovered facts about Boydstuns in America.  Without seeing the publication, I suspect it is another commerical scam like the one from Colorado in the past.

I have responded with personal comments and encourage you to "spread the word" if you are in agreement. 

If you want copy of the flyer, I'm sure they would be happy to send one.

RESPONSE:   

July 7, 1999

Ms. Sharon Taylor
Heirloom Books
3687 IRA Road
Bath, OH 44210-9953

Dear Ms. Taylor:

On behalf of the many Boydstun families, I resent your commercialization of our name in your "The New World Book of Boydstuns."  Several Boydstun researchers have spent many years uncovering factual information on the family.  For you to profess that you have something "recently discovered" is ridiculous!  What you are doing may not be illegal, but it is certainly a great disservice to Boydstun genealogy.

Your disclaimer about "genealogical connection" is not enough!  Somewhere there will be a novice researcher who will fall for your misleading flyer and will believe your so-called "oldest facts."  An example of your false information is your reference to the marriage date of David Boydstun and Mahala Snow.   Using your date, he was married eight years after the birth of his first son.

I suspect that you have used some of the readily available information contained in either a 1921 publication on the family, or the records of The Daughters of the American Revolution.  Both have incorrect information.

If you really want to publish something with factual information, you should contact experienced researchers.

Sincerely,
Charles B. Boydstun

Subject:  Email and Website Change
From:  Joe A. Winsell
Date:  6/26/99
Email:  jawinsell@webzone.net
Website:  http://frontpage.webzone.net/jawinsell

To All:

Please update your information as to my email address and website effective
June 26, 1999. My email address is now jawinsell@webzone.net. The address
jawinsell@csi.com will remain until the end of July, 1999. My current
website is at http://frontpage.webzone.net/jawinsell and likewise the old
website will remain until the end of July, 1999.

This change allows me to do the things I have planned in regards to my
website. My CompuServe website is at its web space limit and has not been
updated fully in over two weeks.

My best to all,
Joe A. Winsell

Subject:  Mayflower Connection Rejected
From:  Presley Smith
Date:  6/05/99
Email:  n5vgc@pulse.net

Hello All

I assume that you know our supposed connection back to the Mayflower has been rejected by the Mayflower Society several times...

I was in New England on vacation and visited Plymouth and went to the Mayflower Society.  I have the details why this was rejected:

This is dated 25 January 1950:

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7 Papers have been presented to the Society from 1927 to 1950 on this line of descent only showing in the 6th generation as Mehitable Snow, married to David Boydstun.  All have been rejected.  Details follow:

There has been received the applicaton for membership
in the Texas Society of Mayflower Descendants of Stella
Ethel (James) Boren who claims descent from Stephen
Hopkins through a Mehitable Snow and David Boydstun.
(sixth generation).

This Mehitable was born in Harwich (not Harwick)
Massachusetts on 22 April 1731 and was the daughter of
a Jabez Snow and his wife Elizabeth.  Her birth and
those of her brothers and sisters, Mark, Sarah,
Samuel, Mercy, and Hannah are all entered into the
Harwich Town Records (See Vol. 8 page 162 Mayflower
Descendant 1906).

Jabez Snow, son of Jabez and Elizabeth (Treat) Snow was
born at Eastham 22 July 1696, married there 27 October 1720
to Elizabeth Paine (born 2 June 1702 died 6 July 1772).
This Jebez Snow died at Eastham on 6 September 1760.  His
will dated 31 July 1760 and names his wife and six children
as follows: Eunice, Elizabeth, Jabez, Joshua, Edward, and
Hanna.  (See "The Treat Family" by John Harvey Treat AM Salem 1893)

>From the foregoing it must be evident that the Mehitable Snow born in
Harwich in 1731 was not the daughter of Jabez and Elizabeth (Paine) Snow of
Eastham... and therefore this not approved.

(On a note included in the file: No mention of Mehitable in will of Jabez or any grandchildren of a child deceased.)

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I've not tried to work these issues.  I just was on vacation and was only 20 miles away and decided
to see what was there.  It's still possible that there is a connection to the Mayflower, but someone will have to do some more effort to try and find the right information.  I don't have connections in New England.

Presley
 

Subject:  Boydstun Family Line
From:  Janie Frost To Margaret R. Bates  mrbates@swbell.net
Date:  6/4/99
Email:  wyrick@netins.net

I have to give you a great deal of credit for the extensive work you have on the Boydston family line.  I am a part of this line and I really appreciate all the hours you have spent on it.  My grandmother was Lena or Lanie Margaret Boydston, but no one seems to be able to find any information on her.   She was married to Charley Presley Boydston.  Her mother was Hattie Jane Harris.  Hattie's father was Milton or Milton B. Harris and I think her mother was Lanie Margaret Harris, nothing about her maiden name that I can find either.  Do you have any suggestions of where I could find any of this information?  With all your research, I thought you may have come across those names.  I do know that my gr-grandmother, Hattie, and Charley Boydston are buried at Pawhuska, Ok.. I would really appreciate anything you could help me with.

wyrick@netins.net  Janie Frost

Hello --

Anyone have any information that might help Janie Frost?

Regards,
Margaret Bates
mrbates@swbell.net
 

Subject:  Mehitable-Mahala Snow were they twins?
From:  LIPIKAS@aol.com
Date:  6/3/99
Email:  LIPIKAS@aol.com

Using my grandmother Lucy Boydston Noerenbergs notes, I discovered that
grandma thought Mahala and Mehitable were twin girls.   I've found evidence
of that on the web site familysearch.org and much more.  The Mayflower
connection, I think would then be Boydston and Boydstun families.  I'm also
putting  my research  together for my Aunt Beth's 50th wedding anniversary.
I haven't read Presley's Mayflower connection, so I don't know how much is
new.  I hope to share it when I'm done.
 

Subject:  New Email Address
From:  Samantha Boydstun
Date:  6/2/99
Email:  boydstun@msn.com

Charles,
Hi.  My e-mail address has changed.  It is now boydstun@msn.com.  My site on
FamilyTreeMaker is in desperate need of updating.  I have found much new
information.  Will update as soon as I can.
Samantha Edwards Boydstun
 

Subject: Researching the Boydston Family
From: Crystal Rider
Email:  freckles@zoomnet.net

    Hello.  My name is Crystal Rider.  I am doing research on the Boydston
Family, and would appreciate any information you may be willing to share
to help me.  I'm searching for information regarding descendants of
Charles Ellwood Boydston.  The only information I have is that they came
to Ohio during the war, and were stationed at Camp Sherman in
Chillicothe Ohio.  His father's name is James Boydston and mother's name
is Mary Brown.  He married Hazel Hatfiled.( probably between 1915-1920's)
Charles Boydston had a brother name Luke, and Bill.  Not much information
is available as far as where they originated from, but it's believed
that they were from North or South Carolina, or possibly Louisiana.  It is
believed that they are of Irish descent.  If you have any information
that may help me in my search, please contact me, via e-mail at
freckles@zoomnet.net.

Thank-You,
Crystal Rider
 

Subject: Boydstun family photo's
From: "Janie Frost"
Email:  wyrick@netins.net

I would like to receive any info you can provide me with concerning the Boydstun-on family.  These are direct links to my ancestors.  I have been searching for years and am very interested in anything you can help me with.     Thank you very much.

Janie M. Frost
P.O. Box 589    Seneca, MO.   64865-0589
1-417-776-2063
 

Subject: Funeral Records
From: "Joe A. Winsell"
Email:  jawinsell@webzone.net

Charlie,

I have received the funeral records for my Charles Presley and Hattie Jane
Boydston. These have been posted to my website and show the dates of birth
and death but no mention of C. P. Boydston's father or mother. Hattie Jane
has her father's name but no mother. Also, on Hattie's there is a place
marked as D. K. which I have never seen before. Could you / anyone shed any light?

Joe
 

Subject: Boydstun or Boydston
From: "Joe A. Winsell"
Email:  jawinsell@webzone.net

Charlie,

I have just made contact with a confirmed cousin on the Boydston line.
Notice the spelling of the surname. It is definitely BOYDSTON and not
BOYDSTUN as I had been led to believe. I am sorry we are not as close to a
match as we thought. There is still a possibility in that quite a few
surnames were changed over the generations. My cousin is Roxann Elisabeth
(Boydston) Allgood. I am awaiting her response to an email before sharing
any further data. I have made the corrections to my website. By the way, you
have not responded to my last email as to any preference on how I provide a
link to your site. Chat with you later.

Joe
 

Subject:  Mayflower Connection
From:  Presley Smith
Email: n5vgc@pulse.net
Web Page:  http://www.pulse.net/n5vgc

Hi Charlie

I started a writeup on the Mayflower connection using
data from the Mayflower web pages.  I'm like you and
have not had time to finish this writeup...  You can
post what's there if you want...just note that it is
a work in progress...

But will soon.  And then you can post it in Adobe Acrobat
format on your web site...

I'll attach what I've done so you can see where I'm going.

Presley

PRESLEY SMITH'S BOYDSTUN MAYFLOWER CONNECTION
 

Subject:  Mayflower Connection
From:  Presley Smith
Email: n5vgc@pulse.net
Web Page:  http://www.pulse.net/n5vgc

You might want to add something here on the Mayflower connection.
I did not do the research on this...and maybe it's wrong??

But I got it from relatives in Salt Lake City...

Boydstun Mayflower Connection

FYI.  Presley

Subject:  Web Site
From:  Joe A. Winsell
Email:  jawinsell@webzone.net

Charlie,

I did checkout your site. Looks good. My Boydstuns came from Kentucky via
Texas into Kansas and Oklahoma. Great Grandpa and his brothers were known
for hunting and fishing the Neosho river. Charles' brother Keb I am told was
a railroad engineer and lived in the Kansas City, Kansas area.

I am sending you some jpeg pictures until my website is back.

Joe

Subject:
From:  Joe A. Winsell
Email:  jawinsell@webzone.net

My family line consists of my great grandfather Charles Presley Boydstun who married Hattie Jane Harris. They had two daughters, Laura Bell who married William Jasper McMahan in 1912 in Columbus, Kansas and Lena who married Fred Wyrick. I am of the McMahan line. Charles had at least three brothers and one sister; Barry, Keb, John and Ruth. The reason for the uncertainty is my sources have failing memory and think there may have been more. Also, another contact I made has a family of Boydstuns with almost the same names but not quite and more siblings. I think that since there were four close matches the possibility of there being a good link is great.

Joe

Note:  Joe Winsell has a web site at: http://frontpage.webzone.net/jawinsell
 

Subject:  Missouri Boydstons
From:  Margaret R. Bates
Email:   mrbates@swbell.net

I have been plowing through a very extensive genealogy at Family Tree
Maker site for Stephen C. Verden. It's 653 HTML pages, which translates
into probably 3,000 pages printed out or MORE. He's a descendant of the
Clay County Missouri Boydstons --William, son of Revolutionary David
Boidstone. You might check this out and see if it's appropriate to link
to the Boydstun family page. If you've not heard from him, you can email
him: sverden@sprintmail.com

He has concentrated more on the Faubion/Broadhurst lines thus far in the
book. I'm now working on page 12!

Regards,
Margaret Bates

Subject:  Slave Data
From:  Margaret R. Bates
Email: mrbates@swbell.net

A Kentucky researcher sent me the following URL. I've thought many times
about the various references to slaves in my family documents -- wills,
and probates, Bible records, and wished there was something I could do
with them that might help someone.  This website not only has a
searchable data base of slave data, it also requests submissions. This
is a terrific way to help someone further their genealogy in an area
that is difficult to research.

http://members.aol.com/slavedata/Public/index.htm

Regards,
Margaret Bates
Kansas City MO

Subject:   Web Site
Date:  12/1/98
From:  Marian Shippey Cote'
Email:  cote@jps.net

What a great sight.  My two oldest children are descendants of Mary B. Boydstun who married Issac Lowe.  I have really been able to fill in some information thanks to you.

Marian Shippey Cote'

Subject::  Family Tree
Date:  9/28/98
From:  Tom Davis Boydston III
Email:  TBoyds2443@aol.com

My name is Tom Davis Boydston III, the son of Tom D. Jr., and Barbara Jean
Boydston.  I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma Nov. 13, 1956.   I have a half brother
- Robert Thomas Boydston dob 10/22/44, in Tulsa, born to Barbara in a previous
marriage, and adopted by Tom in the early 50's.  Tom D. Jr. was born in
Oklahoma City,  Okla. in Jan. 1903, and died in Tulsa in August, 1961 at the
age of 58.  I was contacted by my half-sister, Sue Ann Taub for the first time
some months ago, and I see where she has given more info about Tom D. Jr.s
ancestry, which I will not duplicate here.

As the last male with the last name on my side of the tree ( I do not plan to
have children), I would be interested in learning more about my father's
siblings, and their children and so forth.

By the way, I left Tulsa in 1970, moved to Rogers, Arkansas, graduated from
Univ. of Arkansas, and have lived in Houston, TX since 1980.

Looking forward to hearing from anyone.  Thank you.

Subject: Family Tree
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998
From: Troy Boydston tboyds@xroadstx.com
Organization:  Enviro-Tech International
 

I am Troy Edward Boydston in Big Spring, TX.  My original last name
used to be spelled with a UN instead of the ON on the end of Boydston.
However, when I joined the military it was changed to ON due not to
having a birth certificate.  Anyway, I am really interested in gathering
information about the Boydstun Family. I will tell you as much as I know
about my family tree:

Great Grandfather:  John Boydstun

Grandfather:  Oscar Jay Boydstun
His Sons  :     Ralph Boydstun
                      Luster Boydstun
                      Elsie Boydston
                      Edward Boydston

My Father:  Edward Ervin Boydstun
Sisters:    Lousie
                 Shirley
                 Billie
                 Nina
                 Ida
Brother:    Roy
 

Uncle:     Luster Boydstun
His Sons:   Bob
                   Tom

Uncle:     Elsie Boydstun
His Sons:   John
                   Elsie
                   Bob
Daughter:   Darlene

My Father was born and raised in Roger Arkansas.  Moved to Oklahoma when
he was around twenty.

I have always been told our Family generated from Scothland.  In Scothland our
orginal name was Boyles. Then later changed to Boylestown.  Moved to Germany
and name was changed to Boydstun.  How much of this is true, I don't know.

That's about all I really know.  Hope someone will be able to help me
connect my family tree.  Again, thank you for your help.

Troy Boydston

From: Chuck Boydstun
Email:  boydstun@mindspring.com
To: cboydst1@missouth.rr.com
Subject: A little more info

I found a little more info on James Boydstun (on) on the internet concerning Kentucky Land Grants, Volume 1 Part 1.  CHAPTER IV GRANTS SOUTH OF GREEN RIVER (1797-1866) THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY.  Page 276

Grantee: Boydston, James
Acres: 400
Book: 8
Page: 98
Date Survey: 6-4-1804
County: Logan
Watercourse: Big Whipporwill

(this is probably James Boydstun Sr., who died in Logan Co. KY)
This information was found at Ancestry.com.  The site is proving to be a
wealth of info for me.

You are still looking GOOD!
Chuck
 

Subject: Looking for information on my great-grandmother
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998
From:  muchstuff@the-cia.net

I really enjoyed finding the name Boydstun while I was searching for little clues about my
great-grandmother, Bessie Boydstun.  I have VERY little information so far.  I do know she died September 29, 1931 in Greenville, Texas and was 73 years old when she died.  She married Tom Little and one of their son's was named Charles Douglas Little.  Charles married a girl from Hunt County -- Daisy Eureka O'Neal of Commerce.

I was delighted to see that there was a Boydstun Cemetery and that it was close to Commerce and Dallas.  Seems the Littles lived somewhere around that part of the country.  I was also happy to hear that there was a book about the Boydstun family and I will check to see if I can get my hands on a copy of it.  Perhaps this is a wild goose chase, but I have to start somewhere.  I am a very new at this genealogy thing and I hope you don't mind my note to you.

Thanks again for having something on the web that I could get excited about.

Sincerely,
Myra Knapp
(my mother was a Little)
227 Lake Ridge Drive
Seguin, TX  78155
MUCHSTUFF@the-cia.net
 

Subject:Boydstun Family
Date:  Fri, 19 Jun 1998
From: VQUK13A@prodigy.com ( MARJORIE J GRINSTEAD)

Hello,

Stumbled onto your page and glad I did.  I haven't downloaded your
files yet as time hasn't allowed.  But I really like your links and
other information.  You have a great idea.

Just getting started into genealogial research and find myself
backtracking, going back to document sources, and finding questions
on dates, names, etc.  I have been in touch with Samantha Edwards
Boydstun and just sent a e-mail to Alice Lynne Boydstun.  I have
looked at Margaret Bates file some and need to go back or download it.

There is a lot of information concerning the early arrivals of
Boydstuns, so along with everyone else, I'm confused, but maybe we
can get closer to who, what, when and where.  One thing I have
learned over the past months, don't take anything as the absolute
truth in this kind of research - there is room for error.

 I am a grandaughter of Elizabeth Ann Boydstun and Robert Penn
Wynne; my father is Thomas Leonard Wynne born in OK in 1917, (their
youngest child) , still living in Ohio.  I have your web page on my
hot list.

Marge Grinstead - Tacoma, WA
 

Subject:Boydstun Family
 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998
From:  XBoydstun@aol.com

Hello,
My name is John L. Boydstun.  I stumbled on your website while surfing.
I live in Ocala, Florida but was born in California in 1960.  My father was
born in Sanger, Texas in 1927.  His decendents are from Texas, Oklahoma and
Tennessee.

My wife is trying to put together a family tree and has some geneology on the
Boydstun family.  Perhaps we are related somewhere down the line.
Please reply if you are so inclined.

Sincerely,
John

Subject:  For query page
 Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998
 From: boydstun@msn.com

Charlie, I am so impressed with the amount of feedback this site is
generating.  With all of us descendants working together, maybe we can put the
pieces of the puzzle together.

My name is Samantha Edwards Boydstun.  I am researching the Boydstuns for my
husband, Jack Dean Boydstun.  He is descended from John Hall Boydstun and is
one of the many Choctaw Boydstuns in Oklahoma.  I would like to get in touch
with anyone who is related to these Boydstuns in Oklahoma.  I have obtained
hard copies of records from the Dawes Commission which are stored at the
Choctaw Nation in Durant, Oklahoma.  I would like to track down all the
descendents.  Please contact me to exchange information.

Thanks, Samantha  boydstun@msn.com

Subject:   John Gardner Boydstun
 Date:   Tue, 02 Jun 1998
 From:  andrea yankee@wt.net

Hi Charlie!

I'm sure pleased to find your site.  Thanks for the work.

I am descendant of James Sr. and Mary PREWITT (PRUITT) through
John & Nancy Ann GARDNER BOYDSTUN (TN/KY)
John Gardner & Elizabeth ATTERBERRY BOYDSTUN (KY>IL)
James Berry & Hannah Caroline REA BOYDSTUN (IL>TX)
John Thomas & Sarah Eliza Alvora FLEMING BOYDSTUN (TX>NM>TX)
William Ralph "Bunk" & Phyllis Viola BURLESON BOYDSTUN (NM/TX)
Karl Marx & Lettie BRUCE BOYDSTUN (NM/TX)

I have a huge notebook of family data (none of it in any of the
genealogical formats) mostly from James Berry forward, but also some
earlier notes (i.e. from "The Maryland Gazette" No. 646, dated Thursday, 22
Sept 1757--"James Boydstun has a stray mare at his house on Bush Creek,
Frederick County.").  Working on the earlier history has caused me to
appreciate how really well researched Mrs. Domonoske's 3d ed. evidently is
on early family history.

I would really appreciate any GARDNER family information that people have
to share.

Bill Boydstun

Subject: John Hall Boydstun
Date:  Fri, 15 May 1998
From:  "Kimberlee A. Impson" bkd@icok.net

I was excited to stumble on to this wonderful page! I am 34 years old, and
have just started researching my family history. My Impson family came to a
dead stop, but I discovered the Boydstun name is popular!

My father is Hiram William Impson Jr., and his father was Hiram William
Clark Impson.  His father's name was Middleton Impson, and his mother's name
was Angeline Boydstun, daughter of John Hall.  I was amazed to find a
picture of John Hall on your page--I have added it to my FTM file.  Thanks!

I am wondering tho....I have found lots of Boydstun information on the web,
but some of the information conflicts on Thomas Boylston (coming from
Scotland, or England?) I don't know what is correct!  Your file looks like
it is pretty accurate....if you would like any further information past
Angeline, let me know.

Thanks again for your information!

Kimberlee A. Impson
McAlester, Oklahoma  http://www.icok.net/~bkd
 
 

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