Anywerls part 3. I cant believe he is still rattling on...

IF the Madisonville, Tennessee county records were actually available, more information could be found regarding health, longevity relatives and family members etc.  The Dallas Public library, Lloyd BOCKSTRUCK had the Civil War Pension Records for the Widow of Jeremiah BOYD.  Barbara ETTER BOYD.  Her son David, pursued her claim for a pension for several years and was denied because the confederacy considered him a deserter, when, however, his family claimed he was an aide to a general who was wounded and captured and sent to a prison outside of Dalton Georgia, where he cared for the general until the end of the war and their release.  David L. BOYD was a school teacher, lived with his mother.  No record of marriage.

Another delay in the pension for Barbara ETTER BOYD was that the granting officer had a heart attack and did not get to his official business for a year.  I cannot remember if she ever got a pension.

Cinderella SMITH BICKHAM did.  Thirteen dollars and some change each month.  She was the second wife of Sheriff Bickham, also son of Sheriff Bickham of Washington Parish Louisiana smack dab in the middle of the recent unpleasantness, the Civil Woa-ah!



It was at this hospital the Jeremiah BOYD met LUTHER and through that acquaintance, Joseph Marion met his Mattie A. LUTHER, from whence came Edgar Earl Senior. etc.  (Isnt it fullfilling to be an etc.?)

Sidenote the ETTER relation was a cousin to the Hardwicke Etter Cotton Gin manufacturing company of Sherman Texas.   They built cotton Gins all over the state and cotton growing country.  They were an innovator in cotton milling engineering.  Many of their freestanding gins are still around in remote sections of the state.  They were made out of corrugated steel siding and the ginworks and storage were inside.