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The various census sheets from the children and various years differ on where Joel and Minerva are from. (both could be from New York, Connecticut, USA or Massachusetts - Minerva could also be from New Jersey)

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[willsturdevant1650 3.ged]

Married by Rev. Langley.

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[willsturdevant1650 3.ged]

1870 Census. OCC: / Farmer.
1885 Census. (H-66, W-63)

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[willsturdevant1650 3.ged]

Information from Belva Taylor.

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Married on November 30, 1858 by Rev. Mason of Wisconsin. From the 1900 census, had 6 children but only 3 were alive at that time. Previous DOB - 1829 or 1832.

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Also appears as FEEM CLEMENTS in Marriage reg. Also FEN CLEMENTS on 1891 census and FERN on 1871 census

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Found basic info from John Cousins / Caroline Coates marriage certificate

Robert Coates christened 12/30/1792 Badwell Ash Suffolk - parents William and Diana

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Found birth place of Lettie Drown's father from US Census 1920 - Jasper Township, Dallas County, Missouri, USA 1-8-1920

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Found birth place of Lois Bramwell's father from US Census 1920 - Jasper Township, Dallas County, Missouri, USA 1-8-1920

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Listed in the Bosmere and Claydon Hundred section, Crowfield, of the 1844 Suffolk, England Gazetteer and Directory as a / Farmer

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Age shows as 50 in the 1871 census

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Listed as George B Cousins in 1891 census which is possible as his maternal grandmother was a Berry

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Also known as Mrs. Ma Cousins, member of the choir during 1930s.

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[samuel III.ged]

Joseph Boyett was born Christmas Day, 1795, in North Carolina and appeared in Laurens County, Georgia, as a single man, in 1819 when he drew once for Georgia land in the state land lottery. He then married on May 8, 1819 and settled in Randolph County, Georgia, in 1833, where he died shortly after the end of the Civil War in 1865. He was buried in Shiloh Church yard, Randolph (now Clay) county.

In March 1833, Joseph Josiah purchased for $2075, over 200 acres of land in Randolph County that was the family home until he died. His wife refused a widow's portion of the estate, taking only a child's portion. She closed out her household and went from one child's house to another, until she died in 1910 in Houston Co, Alabama.
(Source: Information received from Bunelle Gresham, March 1998)

Joseph appears in Randolph Co, Georgia for the 1840, 1850, and 1860 census.
(Source: Randolph Co, Randolph County Historical Society, 1977)

It is thought, but not proven, that Joseph Josiah Boyett had at least two brothers, Thomas James, Born 1783, Wayne County, North Carolina, USA, married Elizabeth Rogers, in 1809. Thomas died in 1867 in Alabama. Joseph's other brother was William, nothing is known of him as of now.

The following from "The History of Clay Co, Georgia, USA", Chapter IV, The Lost Town of Cotton Hill":
"I still remember the beautiful and hospitable homes of the Jester, Shivers, Boyett, Oliver Morris, Green,....wealthy farmers whose plantations were the show places of Southwest Georgia".

"Shiloh Baptist Church is located on the road from Cotton Hill to Cuthbert a little way off the road to the left." From the book "Ft Gaines & Environs" by PC King, Jr, 1976