BOYD,ADEN.	1784-1864 	BERRIEN

Aden Boyd was born in Georgia in 1800 according to the 1850 census, but in 
1784 according to his tombstone. His wife, Nancy, was born 1802 in this 
state according to same census, but her tombstone shows she was born 1790. 
They were married in Tattnall County, Dec. 19, 1819; she was formerly Nancy 
Sykes, daughter of Arthur Sykes (she had a brother of the same name), and 
had previously been married, so that her name in the marriage license 
appears as Nancy Jones. To Aden and Nancy were born:

1. Blansett	b. 1823, m. Henry Tison.
2. David	b. 1827, m. Anna Ford, Oct. 27, 1858.
3. Aden, Jr.	b. 1829, m. Maxie Cook, dau. of Elijah.
4. Lucinda	b. 1832, m. William Baldree, Sept. 9, 1857.
5. Sarah	b. 1835, m. Robert Lewis Taylor.
6. Mary E.	b. 1836, m. Elbert J. Chapman.
7. Eliza H.	b. 1838, m. Wm. J. Taylor, Jr., July 29, 1862.
8. William H.	b. 1841, m. - Tyson in Florida.

Aden Boyd and wife immediately after their marriage, proceeded to Appling 
County and made their home there until about 1828-30, when they removed to 
Lowndes County. He settled in the 10th land district, and in 1856 was cut 
out of Lowndes into Berrien County.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd were originally members of Union Church which they joined 
on professions of faith, he being baptized Nov. 12, 1831, and she on Jan 7, 
1832. They continued members there until 1854 when a meeting-house was 
erected on the Boyd lands called Boyd's Meeting-house. A new church called 
Empire was organized there and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd became charter-members of 
it by letter of transfer from Union Church dated March 11, 1854. Mr. Boyd 
gave the land for the church and cemetery. He and his wife continued 
members there until their deaths, he dying in April 1864, and she in April, 
1872. They were buried in the cemetery at the church.

Census Refs: 1820, Appling; 1830, 1840, 1850, Lowndes; 1860, Berrien.

BOYD, ADEN (p. 29): He was the son of David and Sarah Dabney Boyd of 
Tattnall County. The elder Boyd was a Revolutionary soldier, enlisting in 
Culpepper County, Va., in Capt. Ladson's company, later being tranferred to 
Capt. Clark's company and serving under Gen. Lincoln at Charleston and 
Augusta. These and other details of his service were set forth in an 
application executed Feb. 4, 1856, in Lowndes County, by Aden Boyd and his 
sister, Mrs. Blansett Jones (wife of Abner Jones of Berrien County) to 
obtain pension due their deceased mother as the widow of a Revolutionary 
soldier. The affidavit stated that Aden Boyd was at the time 52 years old 
and his sister, Mrs. Jones, was 68 years old, and that their parents had 
died in Tattnall County "about 32 or 33 years ago".

BOYD, ADEN (p.29): He was apparently cut into Ware County in its creation 
out of Appling County 1825. Ware County deed records (book "G", p.726) show 
a deed from James Cobb of Tattnall County to Aden Boyd of Ware County, 
dated July 11, 1826, conveying lot of land 155 in the 8th district - a lot 
now in the city limits of Waycross. Boyd sold the land Sept. 24, 1827, to 
Jeremiah Walker. Berrien County deed records (book 'B", p.103) show Aden 
Boyd on Feb. 22, 1839, bought a part of lot 356, 10th district of what was 
then Lowndes but now Berrien County, from Gen. Levi J. Knight; he was 
living there at the time.

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