MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA -COURT -Boyd, Wm  Guardianship

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Georgia, Meriwether County
Minutes of the Court of Ordinary, January Term 1840
Sitting Justices of the Peace: Wiley B. Ector, James Render, Willis Jones, 
and Samuel K. Gates, 8th day of January, 1840


Book 1, Page 159

Whereas William Boyd applies to this Court and prays to
be appointed guardian for his children (to wit) Hugh
Boyd and Malinda J. Boyd, And whereas the said William
Boyd has taken the oath and entered into bond in the
sum of Three thousand dollars with Mark Tidwell and
Robert Colwell his securities in said bond. Ordered
that he be appointed guardian for his minor children
above named and that letters of guardianship do issue
him as such. (no signature) ~~~~


Notes: William Boyd, born 1789 in SC, was the son of
Robert Boyd and Rosannah Stewart of Newberry Dist. SC,
who moved to Georgia in the late 1820s or early 1830s.
The name of William's deceased (or missing) wife
(above) is unknown at this time. Malinda J. Boyd
married Lewis Dudley Groce, and Hugh Boyd married
Martha Caroline Pyron, both marriages recorded in
Meriwether County, Book B. William died intestate in
1857 in Carroll County, GA and Hugh was named principal
of his father's property, with L.D. Groce as security.
Hugh Boyd moved to Alabama and, later, to Texas.
Malinda lost Lewis Dudley in the Civil War and moved
with her son, George Washington Groce, and his family
from Carroll County to Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia,
where she died in 1890. She is buried in Greenwood
Cemetery in Cedartown.
~~Submitted by Judy Fowler Kilgore, June 2003