CLAN BOYD SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL
ANCESTRY OF BELLE BOYD,
CONFEDERATE SPY
(photos below)
I. William Boyd b. 1705 d. 1767 m. Margaret McClean b. 1706 in N. Ireland d. Marsh Creek, PA.
Will of William Boyd
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II. Samuel Boyd m. Mary Beckett 1773
III. Samuel Boyd m. Maria Reed Stephenson in 1798 b. 1775
IV. Benjamin Reed Boyd m. Mary Rebecca Glenn
V. Isabelle
(Belle) Boyd b. 9 May 1844 Martinsburg, VA d. 11 Jne 1900 Kilbourn,
Wisconsin (now Wisconsin Dells).
Married 1st Samuel Wylde Hardinge 25 Aug 1864
d. 1865-66 in England
Married 2nd Colonel John Swainston Hammond 17 Mar 1869
Divorced 1 Nov 1884
Married 3rd, Nathaniel Rue High 7 Jan 1885
Isabelle Boyd was born at Martinsburg, Virginia May 9, 1844. Belle was named Isabelle after her great-aunt Isabella who married John Boyd, brother to her grandfather, Samuel Boyd. Her parents were Benjamin Reed Boyd and Mary Rebecca Glenn. Mary was descended from Captain James Glenn of Frederick County, Virginia who was born in 1764 and died in 1832, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. (D.A.R)
Belle's father was Samuel Boyd Jr. (1775-1819)* who married Maria Reed Stephenson in 1798. Their children were: John William Boyd, James Stephenson Boyd, Benjamin Reed Boyd, Isabella Boyd, and Anna Maria Boyd. John W. married Rebecca Southwood, James S. married Elizabeth King Wilson, Isabella married William Compton, and Benjamin R. married Mary Rebecca Glenn, parents of Isabelle (Belle) Boyd.
John Boyd (1776-1846), brother to Belle's father, Samuel, married Isabella Stephenson in 1803. Their children were: Benjamin S. Boyd, Samuel Beckett Boyd, James Stephenson Boyd (married Iva McMullen) , William S. Boyd, and Sarah Boyd. John and Isabella Boyd lived in Knoxville, Tennessee. Benjamin S. married Cynthia Kerr Brooks, Samuel B. married Susan Howard Mason, William S. married Mary Kennedy. More on this line
Belle married three times having children by two husbands. Her daughter Grace Hardinge was born in England 1865-66. Her father was Samuel Wylde Hardinge. Belle had three children by her second husband, Col. John Swainston Hammond; Byrd Swainston Hammond, Marie Isabelle Boyd Hammond, and John Edmund Swainston Hammond. Her third husband was Nathaniel Rue High. They had no issue. Belle died June 11, 1900 in Kilbourn, (now Wisconsin Dells) Wisconsin.
* Samuel Boyd Jr. was the son of Samuel Boyd who married Mary Beckett in 1773. This Samuel was probably the son of William Boyd (1700-1767) who was born in Northern Ireland and married Margaret________, and lived in Marsh Creek, Pennsylvannia.
BELLE'S CHILDREN
1. Grace Hardinge b. 1865-66 d. in 1933 m. Lee Bennett no issue
2. Byrd Swainston Hammond
b. 26 Feb 1874 d. 16 Dec 1932
m. 1st James F. Williams in 1891.
m 2nd H.W. Mowery 1906. One child, Nana Ottilie
Williams born 19 Mar 1897. Nana married
William McCabe and had two children: Nana Ottilie McCabe born 4 July
1930 and William Boyd McCabe born 16 June 1931.
3. Marie Isabelle Boyd Hammond
b. 31 Oct 1878 m. 1st Charles W. Chase 1903 and m. 2nd Adolph
Michael 13 April 1913 no
issue
4. John Edmund Swainston Hammond
b. 30 Aug 1881 m. ________? Two sons, John Edmond
Hammond Jr. and Ned Boyd S. Hammond.
Photos of Belle Boyd at various stages in her life |