John T. Boyett (son of John Boyett and Elizabeth Chapman)32, 33 was born 23 Sep 1839 in Stewart County, Georgia33, and died date unknown in Webster Parish, Louisiana33. He married Virginia Draper on 23 Feb 1866 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana34, 35.
Notes for John T. Boyett: [Boyet.FTW]
"John T. Boyet has been interested in agricultural pursuits in this section of the country since 1859, and is the owner of a fine plantation, which he has brought to its present state of farming perfection through his own management and energy. He was born in Stewart County, Ga., September 23, 1839, to John Boyet, who was born in the Old North State. At an early day the latter removed to Georgia with his father, John B. Boyet, Sr., and became a prominent citizen of Marion County, serving as high sheriff of that county for a number of years. John B. Boyet was a soldier in the War of 1812. John Boyet, the father of the subject of this sketch, grew to manhood in Stewart County, and when a young man went to Marion County, where he married Miss Eliza Chapman, a native of Pike County, Ga. After farming in that State for a number of years he removed to Louisiana in 1859, and located on the farm on which he now resides in Webster Parish, and on this farm his wife passed from life in 1888. John T. Boyet, whose name heads this sketch, grew to mature years in this parish, and up to 1861 made his home with his father. In March, 1862, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, being mustered into the Twenty-seventh Louisiana Infantry at New Orleans, and served until the war was over, being in a number of important engagements: Chichamauga, Grand Bluff, Port Gibson, Baker's Creek, Black River and the siege of Vicksburg. He received two wounds, one in the shoulder by a piece of shell, and a gunshot wound in the thigh. After his parole and return home from Vicksburg he began farming, and made one crop, at the end of which time he received notice of his exchange, was ordered to his regiment, which he joined in Alexandria, where he was held in reserve until the close of the war. After the surrender he returned home, and once more proceeded to make a living by the cultivation of the soil. He was without means and by working as a farm hand for some three years he managed to save some means, and purchased a piece of land on time for $1,500. He was compelled to labor very hard for three years, but at the end of that time his farm was his own. He then purchased enough more land to make his acreage 500, and after farming this place for ten years he bought the farm where he now resides. The home tract consists of 500 acres, with about 300 under cultivation, and besides a fine new house which is on his place, he has convenient and fair outbuildings. He lost by fire a handsome residence a few years age, but has since rebuilt. By his own earnest endeavors he has acquired his present property, a fact that speaks well for his ability as a man of business. He was married in this parish in February, 1867, to Miss Virginia Draper, a daughter of Philip Draper. She was born and reared in this parish, and here her children have been born, their names being: Sarah V., Eliza, Philip M., Henry C., Maude, Thomas C. and an infant son. Francis S. died at the age of seven years, and two children died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Boyet are members of Fellowship Church, and are well known throughout this region as hospitable, charitable people, and excellent and obliging neighbors."
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
More About John T. Boyett and Virginia Draper: Marriage: 23 Feb 1866, Bienville Parish, Louisiana.36, 37
Marriage Notes for John T. Boyett and Virginia Draper: [Boyet.FTW]
Marriage license recorded in Book B, page 139.
Children of John T. Boyett and Virginia Draper are:
John T. Boyett (b. 23 Sep 1839, d. date unknown)
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