Edward John Boyett was a brother of William Jackson Boyett.
John Boyett’s parents were among the pioneer settlers of Berrien County. His father, William Hill Boyett, came to then Lowndes County area from North Carolina as a boy , about 1853, and later acquired land near present day Ray City, GA. John Boyett’s mother, Jemima Taylor, was born January 22, 1842 in South Carolina, and came to Georgia with her family in the early 1850s. His parents were married on Christmas Day, Dec 25, 1856 in Berrien County, GA exactly ten months after the county was formed.
Edward John Boyette and Mary Jane Sirmans, circa 1900. Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun.
John Boyett was born on his mother’s 23rd birthday, January 22, 1865, during the Civil War. At the time his father was serving in Columbus, GA making shoes for the Confederate States Army. Folks Huxford reported:
“Mr. BOYETT volunteered Aug. 22, 1862, in Co., “I”, 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., as a private. He was detailed as a shoemaker Nov. 17, 1862 and sent to Columbus, Ga., where he rendered that service to the army until February, 1865. He was paroled at Thomasville, May 11, 1865, and returned home.”
John Boyett grew up on his father’s farm in the 1300 Georgia Militia District, near Ray City.
On January 15, 1891 John Boyett married Mary Jane Sirmans in Berrien County, Georgia.
http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us:8888/u?/countyfilm,191792
According to Mitchell Calhoun, grandson of the subject, “Edward John Boyett was a rather large farm owner in the early 1900s between Ray City and Lakeland, Georgia. They lived along ‘Boyett Road’ and that general area. There are quite a number of Boyett descendants in that area today. And the Empire Church and the Beaver Dam Cemetery at the First Baptist Church of Ray City has a lot of their graves.”
Boyette Road near Ray City, GA.
John Boyett died in 1938 and his estate was divided among his nine children.
Gravemarker of John Boyett, Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.
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Richard Wheeler said,
March 16, 2012 at 1:22 am
Thank you for the great information. My mother, a great grand daughter of John and MaryJane’s has the exact same portrait hanging in her living room. I have seen the original online. In this photo John’s jacket and tie are painted on and Mary Jane’s dress and shaw are painted over. In the original my great grandmother can be seen holding my grandfather as a infant, but they are painted out of these doctored portraits. This photo was taken 1930 or early 31.
John died April 2 1938, from injuriy/illness days after crashing his pick-up truck.
Julie Queen said,
March 22, 2012 at 9:39 am
If I’m not mistaken, John is a great-great-great uncle of mine. William Hill Boyett’s oldest son was also named William (older brother to John). The younger William’s youngest daughter was Beulah…she was my great grandmother…
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