• General Notes

  July 22, 2001
  I have been trying to straighten out a couple of loose ends, one of them John Bloyd (born 1803 in Green County, KY) who married Devotion____ , children's names included Rhoda and Emberson. To me this would suggest that he is a descendant of John Bloyd Sr. However, he can't be John Bloyd Jr. because he has different spouses and children... So, I thought, thought I, what if this marriage I have been attributing to John Bloyd Jr. to Matilda ______ (before 1810) had offspring, among them John III, also maybe the James and Levy? (about 1810, no later than 1821).
  
  Also then, we have been told that Emberson Bloyd (b 1823) , who married Charity Winn Bloyd, daughter of Levi Bloyd, was her cousin; in fact that her father and his father were brothers. That means Emberson's father was either John Sr. or Eli.   Lo and behold, my stray John Bloyd has named his children Emberson, Rhoda and Elijah (also Alfred..). Most of those names are definitely "our line." So perhaps he fits on the family tree with John Jr. as his father, though how he got born in Indiana is a big
  question mark to me. I will follow up on the Indiana census to see what Bloyds we have there.
  Anyway, just speculation...
  Sunni
  
  1850 Illinois Census, Hancock County, page 297B, dwelling #394 FAM #395,September 19
  Emerson Bloyd, 27, farmer, born IN
  Charity, [age not indicated],  born KY
  William, [age not indicated],  born IL, attended school within the year
  Jefferson, [age not indicated],  born IL, attended school within the ye
  Benjamin Bloyd, 22, laborer, born KY
  
  1860 Illinois Census, McDonough County, Lamoine Township, page 844, dwelling #3444, July 25
  Emersen Bloyd, 37, male, farmer, value of personal estate 100, born IN
  Charity, 35, born KY
  William, 18,  born IL, attended school within the year
  Jefferson, 15,  born IL, attended school within the year
  Sarah A, 2,  born IL
  Martha Jarvis, 7,  born IL
  
  1880 census, Yuba Township, Sutter County, CA, 19 & 20 June, 1880
  SD 3, ED 138, Page 26
  217-217
  Bloyd, Levy J.  38 farmer, b. IL
          Amanda  35  wife
         Sawanda  13 dau  <<=== Is this Rosy?  Name is messy on census.
          Ella         11 dau
         William     9  son
         Henry       7  son
         Annie       5 dau
         Mary       3 dau
  Bloyd, Emberson 60 brother[sic]  <<=== should be father
            Charity     54 wife
           Benjamin   19 son

Details of Emberson's family with Charity Winn Bloyd