COL. AMOS C. BOYNTON, SR. A career of remarkable and strenuous business activity has been that of Mr. Boynton, who is identified in many ways with Panola county, and with his home city of Carthage. He is president and general manager of the Panola Cotton Oil Company, and is president of the National Expeller Cotton Seed Crushers Association. He has lived at Carthage since 1882, and in Panola county since 1851.
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Amos C. Boynton was born October 11, 1841, and when a lad of ten years accompanied his parents to Texas. His father was Moses Boynton, who settled at Old "Rake Pocket" now Pine Hill, and spent the rest of his active life there. Moses Boynton was a blacksmith and gunsmith in his old home state of Georgia, and continued working at his trade for a time after reaching fifty. "Rake Pocket' was not a town, but a traveler said it was large enough to "rake out all the money a man had in his pocket'-hence its euphonious name. Moses Boynton settled there with his slaves and disturbed nature sufficiently to make himself a habitation and a sphere for industrial and social purposes. He was rather a noted dealer in slave property and bought more than fourteen thousand dollars worth of negroes as late as 1864. He pinned his faith strongly to the success of the Confederate cause, and could not bring himself to believe that the south would fail in its contest. His substance went out to those fighting and working for a new republic, in many ways, and he was especially solicitious for the soldier who bared his breast to the enemy's bullet and for his family. He was disheartened and discouraged by the results of the war, and was not the same man after it. Close upon the disaster to his country, he paid a security debt which absorbed a large amount of his property and served to subdue both his energy and ambition. He was one of those Primitive Baptists, who held honor above all else, and thought that what was to be would be and could not be prevented. He lived with his son in Carthage for a period prior to his death, and he expressed a wish to spend the fourth of July at the old farm where he could visit the familiar spots and see them for the last time. He had forecast his own death to occur on this visit, and he was stricken suddenly and died about as he feared. Moses Boynton, who was a native of Monroe county, Georgia, and was given a common school education, was a son of Moses Boynton who moved to Georgia from Vermont. This old New Englander had but two teeth, a freak that nature rarely plays with the human race. He was of Scotch-Irish blood, and his first American ancestor came over before the Revolutionary war and settled in Pennsylvania. It is said that a sailing master, John Boynton landed the first European horses in America on the Virginia peninsula at Fortress Monroe, and it is claimed that his was the second colonization vessel to visit the American shores.
The Boyntons have figured prominently in American affairs as soldiers, jurists, professional men and practical workers. Some of them were Revolutionary soldiers under the banner of Betsy Ross (the stars and stripes), and the personnel of both armies during the war between the states included many of the name.
Moses Boynton, the Panola county early settler, married Martha Lary, a daughter of Archie Lary of Forsyth, Georgia, who was a farmer and merchant. Mrs. Boynton died in Carthage at the age of seventy-nine years. Her oldest child is Dr. Marion Boynton, who was a physician and Methodist minister and died at Shreveport, Louisiana. Antoinette is the wife of Burrell Hambrick, and died in Panola county; Andrew was a Rusk county farmer, when he died; Matilda died in Panola county as Mrs. James Roquemore; Dora married Levi Turner, and died at Carthage; Amos C. is next of the family; Retinca married Ben Templin and lived out her life in Panola county.
Amos C. Boynton had a good English education and studied the classics in Collingsworth Institute in Talbotton, Georgia. He had just about reached his majority when the war broke out between the states. He was at that time preparing to take up his University course, with a view to a professional career, as in the case of thousands of other youths, the war changed the whole course of his life. He enlisted in Captain Curley's Company A of the Fourth Georgia Infantry, commanded by Col. Doles of Millardsville. The regiment was in Doles' Brigade, Garden's Division, and in the armies of Jackson and Lee during a greater part of the war. During the first year he was in service at Norfolk, under General Hughes, but from there the regiment got into the peninsular campaign, started by McClellan, and closing with the battle of Malvern Hill on the James River. In the defense of Richmond and in Lee's Invasion of the North, Mr. Boynton saw service at the battle of Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Seven Days' Fighting, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, where his command gave support to Pickett's immortal charge, at Chancellorsville, at Spottsylvania, at Cold Harbor and at Petersburg, where a part of his company was taken prisoners by negro troops and sent to Hart's Island, New York. He was finally paroled, June 17, 1865. During the war Mr. Boynton was kept at the front with the sharpshooters and had many duels and close-quarter encounters, and came out of the war bearing. scars on his body as momentoes of his long service. He was a sergeant of his company, but at the direction of the colonel, after all the company officers had been either killed or disabled, he took command of the company. That company went out to the front with eighty-seven men in 1861, and only about seven of those who originally enlisted returned, and the survivors at this time are three.
Following his parole Mr. Boynton found a friend who clothed him and provided him with money for the journey back to Talbotton, Georgia. There his sweetheart lived and after a brief visit with her, he went to Morrison, and borrowed enough money from an uncle to buy a good horse. He then rode home with a cousin, Gus Boynton, arriving in Texas several months after the close of the war. In December of the same year, however, he returned to Georgia, and was married on January 29, 1866, to Miss Martha Fort, a daughter of Mrs Miranda Fort of Talbotton. The Fort family were among the old settlers in that vicinity and prominent. Mr. Boynton brought his wife to Texas chiefly by the water route as far as Natchitoches, La., and from there to Carthage came overland by private conveyance. With these preparations for the serious business of life, Col. Boynton opened a farm on the head of Murvaul Creek, and continued farming until the spring of 1882. He then moved into Carthage and engaged in the manufacturing of lumber. He conducted This a grist mill and a gin, the first mill in Carthage. town has been built chiefly of the lumber he cut. After his mill had sawed up all the timber tributary to this point, he located his plant elsewhere. Mr. Boynton is one of the firm of the Boynton Lumber Company, with the mill at White City, Texas. Col. Boynton is president of the Panola Cotton Oil Company, a cold-press mill, and is president of the National Expellers Association, which comprises the cold-process oil mills of the township.
By trade Col. Boynton is a blacksmith, but his general acquaintance and expert knowledge of machinery and with electricity have given him a thorough competency as a builder of mills. He erected the Panola Oil Mill after his own plans, every department of which can be operated independently. Col. Boynton is a Democrat, he has never missed a chance to aid in the welfare of Carthage, and by his strenuous business activity has practically worn out his physical body, though his mind and his spirit are as determined and as valiant as ever. He has always lived at a high pressure and has never considered his duty to himself until the collapse of his physical machinery.
The children of Col. Boynton are: Lee, a groceryman and feed merchant at Carthage; Albert and Moses, who are lumbermen at White City; Amos C., Jr., who is secretary of the Panola Cotton Oil Company; Walker K., who is a saw mill man; R. Lester, who is associated in the operation of the oil mill in Carthage; and one daughter, Stella, now Mrs. Dr. Daniels of Carthage. Col. Boynton has been a Methodist since early youth and is also a Blue Lodge Mason.
Source:
A History of Texas and Texans
Volume 5
By Frank White Johnson, Eugene Campbell Barker, Ernest William Winkler · 1914
Contributor: Kerry Ann Szymanski # 49782268
1 Oct 1841 Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA 21 May 1917 Carthage City Cemetery, Carthage, Panola Co, Texas, USA
Father: Moses BOYNTON Jr Mother: Martha LARY
Spouse:Martha Bethea FORT b: 1844 in Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA
Married: 30 Jan 1866
Lee Fort BOYNTON b: 30 Jan 1867 in Boynton Plantation, Pinehill, Rusk County, Texas, USA
Moses BOYNTON
Miranda BOYNTON
Albert Lary BOYNTON
Amos Chapman BOYNTON Jr
Alice BOYNTON
Walter BOYNTON
Bessie BOYNTON
Robert Lester BOYNTON∼Cpl Co A 4th GA Infantry C.S.A.
Proud Confederate Soldier
member of Horace Randal Camp #163, United Confederate Veterans, Carthage, TX
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Amos C. Boynton was born October 11, 1841, and when a lad of ten years accompanied his parents to Texas. His father was Moses Boynton, who settled at Old "Rake Pocket" now Pine Hill, and spent the rest of his active life there. Moses Boynton was a blacksmith and gunsmith in his old home state of Georgia, and continued working at his trade for a time after reaching fifty. "Rake Pocket' was not a town, but a traveler said it was large enough to "rake out all the money a man had in his pocket'-hence its euphonious name. Moses Boynton settled there with his slaves and disturbed nature sufficiently to make himself a habitation and a sphere for industrial and social purposes. He was rather a noted dealer in slave property and bought more than fourteen thousand dollars worth of negroes as late as 1864. He pinned his faith strongly to the success of the Confederate cause, and could not bring himself to believe that the south would fail in its contest. His substance went out to those fighting and working for a new republic, in many ways, and he was especially solicitious for the soldier who bared his breast to the enemy's bullet and for his family. He was disheartened and discouraged by the results of the war, and was not the same man after it. Close upon the disaster to his country, he paid a security debt which absorbed a large amount of his property and served to subdue both his energy and ambition. He was one of those Primitive Baptists, who held honor above all else, and thought that what was to be would be and could not be prevented. He lived with his son in Carthage for a period prior to his death, and he expressed a wish to spend the fourth of July at the old farm where he could visit the familiar spots and see them for the last time. He had forecast his own death to occur on this visit, and he was stricken suddenly and died about as he feared. Moses Boynton, who was a native of Monroe county, Georgia, and was given a common school education, was a son of Moses Boynton who moved to Georgia from Vermont. This old New Englander had but two teeth, a freak that nature rarely plays with the human race. He was of Scotch-Irish blood, and his first American ancestor came over before the Revolutionary war and settled in Pennsylvania. It is said that a sailing master, John Boynton landed the first European horses in America on the Virginia peninsula at Fortress Monroe, and it is claimed that his was the second colonization vessel to visit the American shores.
The Boyntons have figured prominently in American affairs as soldiers, jurists, professional men and practical workers. Some of them were Revolutionary soldiers under the banner of Betsy Ross (the stars and stripes), and the personnel of both armies during the war between the states included many of the name.
Moses Boynton, the Panola county early settler, married Martha Lary, a daughter of Archie Lary of Forsyth, Georgia, who was a farmer and merchant. Mrs. Boynton died in Carthage at the age of seventy-nine years. Her oldest child is Dr. Marion Boynton, who was a physician and Methodist minister and died at Shreveport, Louisiana. Antoinette is the wife of Burrell Hambrick, and died in Panola county; Andrew was a Rusk county farmer, when he died; Matilda died in Panola county as Mrs. James Roquemore; Dora married Levi Turner, and died at Carthage; Amos C. is next of the family; Retinca married Ben Templin and lived out her life in Panola county.
Amos C. Boynton had a good English education and studied the classics in Collingsworth Institute in Talbotton, Georgia. He had just about reached his majority when the war broke out between the states. He was at that time preparing to take up his University course, with a view to a professional career, as in the case of thousands of other youths, the war changed the whole course of his life. He enlisted in Captain Curley's Company A of the Fourth Georgia Infantry, commanded by Col. Doles of Millardsville. The regiment was in Doles' Brigade, Garden's Division, and in the armies of Jackson and Lee during a greater part of the war. During the first year he was in service at Norfolk, under General Hughes, but from there the regiment got into the peninsular campaign, started by McClellan, and closing with the battle of Malvern Hill on the James River. In the defense of Richmond and in Lee's Invasion of the North, Mr. Boynton saw service at the battle of Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Seven Days' Fighting, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, where his command gave support to Pickett's immortal charge, at Chancellorsville, at Spottsylvania, at Cold Harbor and at Petersburg, where a part of his company was taken prisoners by negro troops and sent to Hart's Island, New York. He was finally paroled, June 17, 1865. During the war Mr. Boynton was kept at the front with the sharpshooters and had many duels and close-quarter encounters, and came out of the war bearing. scars on his body as momentoes of his long service. He was a sergeant of his company, but at the direction of the colonel, after all the company officers had been either killed or disabled, he took command of the company. That company went out to the front with eighty-seven men in 1861, and only about seven of those who originally enlisted returned, and the survivors at this time are three.
Following his parole Mr. Boynton found a friend who clothed him and provided him with money for the journey back to Talbotton, Georgia. There his sweetheart lived and after a brief visit with her, he went to Morrison, and borrowed enough money from an uncle to buy a good horse. He then rode home with a cousin, Gus Boynton, arriving in Texas several months after the close of the war. In December of the same year, however, he returned to Georgia, and was married on January 29, 1866, to Miss Martha Fort, a daughter of Mrs Miranda Fort of Talbotton. The Fort family were among the old settlers in that vicinity and prominent. Mr. Boynton brought his wife to Texas chiefly by the water route as far as Natchitoches, La., and from there to Carthage came overland by private conveyance. With these preparations for the serious business of life, Col. Boynton opened a farm on the head of Murvaul Creek, and continued farming until the spring of 1882. He then moved into Carthage and engaged in the manufacturing of lumber. He conducted This a grist mill and a gin, the first mill in Carthage. town has been built chiefly of the lumber he cut. After his mill had sawed up all the timber tributary to this point, he located his plant elsewhere. Mr. Boynton is one of the firm of the Boynton Lumber Company, with the mill at White City, Texas. Col. Boynton is president of the Panola Cotton Oil Company, a cold-press mill, and is president of the National Expellers Association, which comprises the cold-process oil mills of the township.
By trade Col. Boynton is a blacksmith, but his general acquaintance and expert knowledge of machinery and with electricity have given him a thorough competency as a builder of mills. He erected the Panola Oil Mill after his own plans, every department of which can be operated independently. Col. Boynton is a Democrat, he has never missed a chance to aid in the welfare of Carthage, and by his strenuous business activity has practically worn out his physical body, though his mind and his spirit are as determined and as valiant as ever. He has always lived at a high pressure and has never considered his duty to himself until the collapse of his physical machinery.
The children of Col. Boynton are: Lee, a groceryman and feed merchant at Carthage; Albert and Moses, who are lumbermen at White City; Amos C., Jr., who is secretary of the Panola Cotton Oil Company; Walker K., who is a saw mill man; R. Lester, who is associated in the operation of the oil mill in Carthage; and one daughter, Stella, now Mrs. Dr. Daniels of Carthage. Col. Boynton has been a Methodist since early youth and is also a Blue Lodge Mason.
Source:
A History of Texas and Texans
Volume 5
By Frank White Johnson, Eugene Campbell Barker, Ernest William Winkler · 1914
Contributor: Kerry Ann Szymanski # 49782268
1 Oct 1841 Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA 21 May 1917 Carthage City Cemetery, Carthage, Panola Co, Texas, USA
Father: Moses BOYNTON Jr Mother: Martha LARY
Spouse:Martha Bethea FORT b: 1844 in Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA
Married: 30 Jan 1866
Lee Fort BOYNTON b: 30 Jan 1867 in Boynton Plantation, Pinehill, Rusk County, Texas, USA
Moses BOYNTON
Miranda BOYNTON
Albert Lary BOYNTON
Amos Chapman BOYNTON Jr
Alice BOYNTON
Walter BOYNTON
Bessie BOYNTON
Robert Lester BOYNTON∼Cpl Co A 4th GA Infantry C.S.A.
Proud Confederate Soldier
member of Horace Randal Camp #163, United Confederate Veterans, Carthage, TX
COL. AMOS C. BOYNTON, SR. A career of remarkable and strenuous business activity has been that of Mr. Boynton, who is identified in many ways with Panola county, and with his home city of Carthage. He is president and general manager of the Panola Cotton Oil Company, and is president of the National Expeller Cotton Seed Crushers Association. He has lived at Carthage since 1882, and in Panola county since 1851.
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Amos C. Boynton was born October 11, 1841, and when a lad of ten years accompanied his parents to Texas. His father was Moses Boynton, who settled at Old "Rake Pocket" now Pine Hill, and spent the rest of his active life there. Moses Boynton was a blacksmith and gunsmith in his old home state of Georgia, and continued working at his trade for a time after reaching fifty. "Rake Pocket' was not a town, but a traveler said it was large enough to "rake out all the money a man had in his pocket'-hence its euphonious name. Moses Boynton settled there with his slaves and disturbed nature sufficiently to make himself a habitation and a sphere for industrial and social purposes. He was rather a noted dealer in slave property and bought more than fourteen thousand dollars worth of negroes as late as 1864. He pinned his faith strongly to the success of the Confederate cause, and could not bring himself to believe that the south would fail in its contest. His substance went out to those fighting and working for a new republic, in many ways, and he was especially solicitious for the soldier who bared his breast to the enemy's bullet and for his family. He was disheartened and discouraged by the results of the war, and was not the same man after it. Close upon the disaster to his country, he paid a security debt which absorbed a large amount of his property and served to subdue both his energy and ambition. He was one of those Primitive Baptists, who held honor above all else, and thought that what was to be would be and could not be prevented. He lived with his son in Carthage for a period prior to his death, and he expressed a wish to spend the fourth of July at the old farm where he could visit the familiar spots and see them for the last time. He had forecast his own death to occur on this visit, and he was stricken suddenly and died about as he feared. Moses Boynton, who was a native of Monroe county, Georgia, and was given a common school education, was a son of Moses Boynton who moved to Georgia from Vermont. This old New Englander had but two teeth, a freak that nature rarely plays with the human race. He was of Scotch-Irish blood, and his first American ancestor came over before the Revolutionary war and settled in Pennsylvania. It is said that a sailing master, John Boynton landed the first European horses in America on the Virginia peninsula at Fortress Monroe, and it is claimed that his was the second colonization vessel to visit the American shores.
The Boyntons have figured prominently in American affairs as soldiers, jurists, professional men and practical workers. Some of them were Revolutionary soldiers under the banner of Betsy Ross (the stars and stripes), and the personnel of both armies during the war between the states included many of the name.
Moses Boynton, the Panola county early settler, married Martha Lary, a daughter of Archie Lary of Forsyth, Georgia, who was a farmer and merchant. Mrs. Boynton died in Carthage at the age of seventy-nine years. Her oldest child is Dr. Marion Boynton, who was a physician and Methodist minister and died at Shreveport, Louisiana. Antoinette is the wife of Burrell Hambrick, and died in Panola county; Andrew was a Rusk county farmer, when he died; Matilda died in Panola county as Mrs. James Roquemore; Dora married Levi Turner, and died at Carthage; Amos C. is next of the family; Retinca married Ben Templin and lived out her life in Panola county.
Amos C. Boynton had a good English education and studied the classics in Collingsworth Institute in Talbotton, Georgia. He had just about reached his majority when the war broke out between the states. He was at that time preparing to take up his University course, with a view to a professional career, as in the case of thousands of other youths, the war changed the whole course of his life. He enlisted in Captain Curley's Company A of the Fourth Georgia Infantry, commanded by Col. Doles of Millardsville. The regiment was in Doles' Brigade, Garden's Division, and in the armies of Jackson and Lee during a greater part of the war. During the first year he was in service at Norfolk, under General Hughes, but from there the regiment got into the peninsular campaign, started by McClellan, and closing with the battle of Malvern Hill on the James River. In the defense of Richmond and in Lee's Invasion of the North, Mr. Boynton saw service at the battle of Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Seven Days' Fighting, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, where his command gave support to Pickett's immortal charge, at Chancellorsville, at Spottsylvania, at Cold Harbor and at Petersburg, where a part of his company was taken prisoners by negro troops and sent to Hart's Island, New York. He was finally paroled, June 17, 1865. During the war Mr. Boynton was kept at the front with the sharpshooters and had many duels and close-quarter encounters, and came out of the war bearing. scars on his body as momentoes of his long service. He was a sergeant of his company, but at the direction of the colonel, after all the company officers had been either killed or disabled, he took command of the company. That company went out to the front with eighty-seven men in 1861, and only about seven of those who originally enlisted returned, and the survivors at this time are three.
Following his parole Mr. Boynton found a friend who clothed him and provided him with money for the journey back to Talbotton, Georgia. There his sweetheart lived and after a brief visit with her, he went to Morrison, and borrowed enough money from an uncle to buy a good horse. He then rode home with a cousin, Gus Boynton, arriving in Texas several months after the close of the war. In December of the same year, however, he returned to Georgia, and was married on January 29, 1866, to Miss Martha Fort, a daughter of Mrs Miranda Fort of Talbotton. The Fort family were among the old settlers in that vicinity and prominent. Mr. Boynton brought his wife to Texas chiefly by the water route as far as Natchitoches, La., and from there to Carthage came overland by private conveyance. With these preparations for the serious business of life, Col. Boynton opened a farm on the head of Murvaul Creek, and continued farming until the spring of 1882. He then moved into Carthage and engaged in the manufacturing of lumber. He conducted This a grist mill and a gin, the first mill in Carthage. town has been built chiefly of the lumber he cut. After his mill had sawed up all the timber tributary to this point, he located his plant elsewhere. Mr. Boynton is one of the firm of the Boynton Lumber Company, with the mill at White City, Texas. Col. Boynton is president of the Panola Cotton Oil Company, a cold-press mill, and is president of the National Expellers Association, which comprises the cold-process oil mills of the township.
By trade Col. Boynton is a blacksmith, but his general acquaintance and expert knowledge of machinery and with electricity have given him a thorough competency as a builder of mills. He erected the Panola Oil Mill after his own plans, every department of which can be operated independently. Col. Boynton is a Democrat, he has never missed a chance to aid in the welfare of Carthage, and by his strenuous business activity has practically worn out his physical body, though his mind and his spirit are as determined and as valiant as ever. He has always lived at a high pressure and has never considered his duty to himself until the collapse of his physical machinery.
The children of Col. Boynton are: Lee, a groceryman and feed merchant at Carthage; Albert and Moses, who are lumbermen at White City; Amos C., Jr., who is secretary of the Panola Cotton Oil Company; Walker K., who is a saw mill man; R. Lester, who is associated in the operation of the oil mill in Carthage; and one daughter, Stella, now Mrs. Dr. Daniels of Carthage. Col. Boynton has been a Methodist since early youth and is also a Blue Lodge Mason.
Source:
A History of Texas and Texans
Volume 5
By Frank White Johnson, Eugene Campbell Barker, Ernest William Winkler · 1914
Contributor: Kerry Ann Szymanski # 49782268
1 Oct 1841 Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA 21 May 1917 Carthage City Cemetery, Carthage, Panola Co, Texas, USA
Father: Moses BOYNTON Jr Mother: Martha LARY
Spouse:Martha Bethea FORT b: 1844 in Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA
Married: 30 Jan 1866
Lee Fort BOYNTON b: 30 Jan 1867 in Boynton Plantation, Pinehill, Rusk County, Texas, USA
Moses BOYNTON
Miranda BOYNTON
Albert Lary BOYNTON
Amos Chapman BOYNTON Jr
Alice BOYNTON
Walter BOYNTON
Bessie BOYNTON
Robert Lester BOYNTON∼Cpl Co A 4th GA Infantry C.S.A.
Proud Confederate Soldier
member of Horace Randal Camp #163, United Confederate Veterans, Carthage, TX
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Amos C. Boynton was born October 11, 1841, and when a lad of ten years accompanied his parents to Texas. His father was Moses Boynton, who settled at Old "Rake Pocket" now Pine Hill, and spent the rest of his active life there. Moses Boynton was a blacksmith and gunsmith in his old home state of Georgia, and continued working at his trade for a time after reaching fifty. "Rake Pocket' was not a town, but a traveler said it was large enough to "rake out all the money a man had in his pocket'-hence its euphonious name. Moses Boynton settled there with his slaves and disturbed nature sufficiently to make himself a habitation and a sphere for industrial and social purposes. He was rather a noted dealer in slave property and bought more than fourteen thousand dollars worth of negroes as late as 1864. He pinned his faith strongly to the success of the Confederate cause, and could not bring himself to believe that the south would fail in its contest. His substance went out to those fighting and working for a new republic, in many ways, and he was especially solicitious for the soldier who bared his breast to the enemy's bullet and for his family. He was disheartened and discouraged by the results of the war, and was not the same man after it. Close upon the disaster to his country, he paid a security debt which absorbed a large amount of his property and served to subdue both his energy and ambition. He was one of those Primitive Baptists, who held honor above all else, and thought that what was to be would be and could not be prevented. He lived with his son in Carthage for a period prior to his death, and he expressed a wish to spend the fourth of July at the old farm where he could visit the familiar spots and see them for the last time. He had forecast his own death to occur on this visit, and he was stricken suddenly and died about as he feared. Moses Boynton, who was a native of Monroe county, Georgia, and was given a common school education, was a son of Moses Boynton who moved to Georgia from Vermont. This old New Englander had but two teeth, a freak that nature rarely plays with the human race. He was of Scotch-Irish blood, and his first American ancestor came over before the Revolutionary war and settled in Pennsylvania. It is said that a sailing master, John Boynton landed the first European horses in America on the Virginia peninsula at Fortress Monroe, and it is claimed that his was the second colonization vessel to visit the American shores.
The Boyntons have figured prominently in American affairs as soldiers, jurists, professional men and practical workers. Some of them were Revolutionary soldiers under the banner of Betsy Ross (the stars and stripes), and the personnel of both armies during the war between the states included many of the name.
Moses Boynton, the Panola county early settler, married Martha Lary, a daughter of Archie Lary of Forsyth, Georgia, who was a farmer and merchant. Mrs. Boynton died in Carthage at the age of seventy-nine years. Her oldest child is Dr. Marion Boynton, who was a physician and Methodist minister and died at Shreveport, Louisiana. Antoinette is the wife of Burrell Hambrick, and died in Panola county; Andrew was a Rusk county farmer, when he died; Matilda died in Panola county as Mrs. James Roquemore; Dora married Levi Turner, and died at Carthage; Amos C. is next of the family; Retinca married Ben Templin and lived out her life in Panola county.
Amos C. Boynton had a good English education and studied the classics in Collingsworth Institute in Talbotton, Georgia. He had just about reached his majority when the war broke out between the states. He was at that time preparing to take up his University course, with a view to a professional career, as in the case of thousands of other youths, the war changed the whole course of his life. He enlisted in Captain Curley's Company A of the Fourth Georgia Infantry, commanded by Col. Doles of Millardsville. The regiment was in Doles' Brigade, Garden's Division, and in the armies of Jackson and Lee during a greater part of the war. During the first year he was in service at Norfolk, under General Hughes, but from there the regiment got into the peninsular campaign, started by McClellan, and closing with the battle of Malvern Hill on the James River. In the defense of Richmond and in Lee's Invasion of the North, Mr. Boynton saw service at the battle of Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Seven Days' Fighting, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, where his command gave support to Pickett's immortal charge, at Chancellorsville, at Spottsylvania, at Cold Harbor and at Petersburg, where a part of his company was taken prisoners by negro troops and sent to Hart's Island, New York. He was finally paroled, June 17, 1865. During the war Mr. Boynton was kept at the front with the sharpshooters and had many duels and close-quarter encounters, and came out of the war bearing. scars on his body as momentoes of his long service. He was a sergeant of his company, but at the direction of the colonel, after all the company officers had been either killed or disabled, he took command of the company. That company went out to the front with eighty-seven men in 1861, and only about seven of those who originally enlisted returned, and the survivors at this time are three.
Following his parole Mr. Boynton found a friend who clothed him and provided him with money for the journey back to Talbotton, Georgia. There his sweetheart lived and after a brief visit with her, he went to Morrison, and borrowed enough money from an uncle to buy a good horse. He then rode home with a cousin, Gus Boynton, arriving in Texas several months after the close of the war. In December of the same year, however, he returned to Georgia, and was married on January 29, 1866, to Miss Martha Fort, a daughter of Mrs Miranda Fort of Talbotton. The Fort family were among the old settlers in that vicinity and prominent. Mr. Boynton brought his wife to Texas chiefly by the water route as far as Natchitoches, La., and from there to Carthage came overland by private conveyance. With these preparations for the serious business of life, Col. Boynton opened a farm on the head of Murvaul Creek, and continued farming until the spring of 1882. He then moved into Carthage and engaged in the manufacturing of lumber. He conducted This a grist mill and a gin, the first mill in Carthage. town has been built chiefly of the lumber he cut. After his mill had sawed up all the timber tributary to this point, he located his plant elsewhere. Mr. Boynton is one of the firm of the Boynton Lumber Company, with the mill at White City, Texas. Col. Boynton is president of the Panola Cotton Oil Company, a cold-press mill, and is president of the National Expellers Association, which comprises the cold-process oil mills of the township.
By trade Col. Boynton is a blacksmith, but his general acquaintance and expert knowledge of machinery and with electricity have given him a thorough competency as a builder of mills. He erected the Panola Oil Mill after his own plans, every department of which can be operated independently. Col. Boynton is a Democrat, he has never missed a chance to aid in the welfare of Carthage, and by his strenuous business activity has practically worn out his physical body, though his mind and his spirit are as determined and as valiant as ever. He has always lived at a high pressure and has never considered his duty to himself until the collapse of his physical machinery.
The children of Col. Boynton are: Lee, a groceryman and feed merchant at Carthage; Albert and Moses, who are lumbermen at White City; Amos C., Jr., who is secretary of the Panola Cotton Oil Company; Walker K., who is a saw mill man; R. Lester, who is associated in the operation of the oil mill in Carthage; and one daughter, Stella, now Mrs. Dr. Daniels of Carthage. Col. Boynton has been a Methodist since early youth and is also a Blue Lodge Mason.
Source:
A History of Texas and Texans
Volume 5
By Frank White Johnson, Eugene Campbell Barker, Ernest William Winkler · 1914
Contributor: Kerry Ann Szymanski # 49782268
1 Oct 1841 Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA 21 May 1917 Carthage City Cemetery, Carthage, Panola Co, Texas, USA
Father: Moses BOYNTON Jr Mother: Martha LARY
Spouse:Martha Bethea FORT b: 1844 in Talbotton, Talbot Co, Georgia, USA
Married: 30 Jan 1866
Lee Fort BOYNTON b: 30 Jan 1867 in Boynton Plantation, Pinehill, Rusk County, Texas, USA
Moses BOYNTON
Miranda BOYNTON
Albert Lary BOYNTON
Amos Chapman BOYNTON Jr
Alice BOYNTON
Walter BOYNTON
Bessie BOYNTON
Robert Lester BOYNTON∼Cpl Co A 4th GA Infantry C.S.A.
Proud Confederate Soldier
member of Horace Randal Camp #163, United Confederate Veterans, Carthage, TX
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