Boyds from Ireland

There were three Oliver Frederick Boyds from Ireland. We don't know much about the first one, so we refer to the second Oliver as Oliver, Sr. and the third one as Oliver, Jr.

OLIVER FREDERICK BOYD, SR. was born May 22, 1849 in Dublin, Ireland, and died January 11, 1926 in Plain Dealing, Louisiana. He married JANIE REBECCA GRAHAM (born DOHERTY) May 07, 1871 in Church of St. Michaels, Dublin, Ireland, daughter of Mr. DOHERTY and MARY JOHNSON. Jane was born October 28, 1853 in Calcutta, India, and died November 02, 1929 in Plain Dealing, Louisiana.

Notes for OLIVER FREDERICK BOYD, SR.:

O.F. Boyd, Sr. (nicknamed A-dai) was raised by his grandmother, Sarah, after his mother, Maryanne O'Neill Boyd was killed while riding a horse. 

Notes for JANIE REBECCA BOYD ( born DOHERTY):

Mary Johnson married a man named Doherty who was serving as a surveyor in the British Army in Calcutta, India where their daughter Jane Rebecca ( nicknamed Muddie) was born. Mr. Doherty died in India and Mary returned to Ireland where she married William Graham. They had children: William, Henry, Frank, Erie and Lottie.

William Graham served in the Civil War and Jane, 11 years old, was told to bury gold under the steps of their home in Montgomery, AL where they ran a cafe. Slaves told the Union Soldiers where the family horses and valuables were hidden and the soldiers took it all except the gold. The family fled from the U.S. and went to Brazil, then back to the Virgin Islands, and on to Ireland where Jane met and married Oliver Frederick Boyd. Oliver's mother, Mary Anne O'Neill, was killed when he was small so the O'Neill grandmother (Sarah O'Neill Andrews) had raised him.

During the Graham's marriage the couple and their children moved back to the U.S. leaving Jane who was married to Oliver Frederick Boyd, Sr. in Ireland. Oliver Frederick and Jane came to the U.S. to visit when their son, Oliver Frederick Boyd, Jr. was 10 months old. Oliver Sr. had been so seasick and the family was shipwrecked in a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Another ship picked them up and they landed at Galveston, TX. They lived in Brownwood, TX and then on to Caddo, LA, and finally to Bossier Parish, LA. Oliver vowed never to return to Ireland and risk getting into another storm.

(NAME OF SHIP - Sanitone and Santon. Docked at 9 o'clock some time in November and arrived in America sometime in December in the year 1875. Went to Dublin to Liverpool then to America and landed in Galveston.)

Sometime after they came to the U.S. a neighbor saw an ad in the paper announcing the estate of his father, Oliver Boyd, (first Oliver) but because his father had not answered his letter on coming to the U.S. Oliver, Sr. would not go back to Ireland to claim it. The couple had one other child, a daughter, Mary, who died at the age of 2 years. Muddie (Jane Rebecca) had quite dark hair.