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Re: Amos Foxx Byington, GA
Posted by: Jenna Cain Date: March 10, 1999 at 09:32:35
In Reply to: Amos Foxx Byington, GA by Lynda Kite of 287

The following is a direct quote from "The Boynton Family, a Genealogy of the Descendants of William & John Boynton" by John Farnham Boynton & Caroline Harriman Boynton published in 1897

Amos Foxx Byington, b. in Columbia, S. C. Mar.20, 1793; went to Milledgeville, GA and m. Nancy Freeney, Mar. 20, 1814. One of his grand-daughters said he often told her, when a child as she sat on his knee combing his hair, that he went from New York when young. He was first a merchant tailor, then bought a farm and mills.
Children:
I. James Lawrence, a celebrated hotel keeper in Albany, Fort Valley, and Macon, GA. He m. Jane Caroline McClendon: d. Jan. 23, 1869. Children: Charles, dead: George, in 1885, was proprietor of the Lanier Hotel in Macon: Edward T., a journalist in Atlanta; Emma, m. Billings Wheeler, res. New York; her children: Henry E. , Charles B., Benjamin K., Hattie, Lillie, m. W. E. Collier; res. Fort Valley.

II. Col. Montgomery P., teacher and Attorney-at-Law; m. Subrina Brown; they had two sons, Crassus, Henry, both dead; Nora, Miriam, m. Col. Tignor; Florence, Gertrude, Roxembeau.

III. Henry K., a farmer, miller and teacher; m. E. P. Ivey; children: Charles G., Willie C., Henry A., James A., Eddie R. d.y., Oolooloo, m. Timothy Bloodworth; Annie E.

IV. Charles A., m. Elizabeth Day. He was killed at Chancerville. Children: Henry, d., Benjamin F., d., Montgomery Fox, John Furman.

V. Mirabeau Lamar, m. Lidia Barrott. Children: first two d.y., James L., Wright, Mary, m. Henry Bloodworth; Sallie, m. Marion Smith; Nancy, m. Joseph Wood; Lillie, Martha.

VI. Jeannett, m. J. N. Miller

VII. Mary, m. John E. McMullen.

VIII. Martha, m. C. B. Anderson.

Four other children, d.y.

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