Three men by the name of "Boykin, Buykin, Baykin" were listed in a Red River County militia. ..Intersting that they would come to Texas from Mississippi to serve in the militia.
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BOYKIN, Burrell Amos Boykin, b-1825 NC (m-Harriett C. Harless b-1842 MS) in 1860 Noxubee Co MS cen p942/p6 (Red River Co, TST)
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BOYKIN, Henry C. Boykin, b-1835 NC (m-S.A. Harless, b-1842 MS) 1860 Noxubee Co MS cen p942/p6 (Red River Co, TST)
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BOYKIN, Jesse N. Boykin (m-Ms. Harless) 1860 Noxubee Co MS cen p942/p6 (Red River Co, TST)
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Quoting Bobby Boykin:
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I have been trying to establish just what actually happened to them during these years for some time and this is really the first factual information I have found.

My great grand father was Burrell Amos Boykin of Noxubee County, MS. He married Harriet Harless also of Noxubee County. Two of his brothers, Henry C and Jessie N, married Harriett’s two sisters. Judging from land deeds they sold their various properties in the 1860 – 1861 time periods and vanished from Noxubee County. Family stories said they went to TX and around 1865 returned to Noxubee County. Land deeds in that time period do show them buying/owning land in Noxubee County again after the mid 1860s.
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I found both H.C. Boykin and B.A. Boykin in the same Noxubee Co MS household. Even though most of the men of the 243 militia listings of the 34 North Texas counties that I study lived within 20 miles of where they signed to be a Texas militia member, a few came several hundred miles to enroll in a militia, most of whom then mustered into a CSA military unit with close relatives.
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Interesting that both B.A. and H.C. Boykin were listed in the same household.
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My initial posting that Bobby Boykin corrected:
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Below are current entries, transcribed from handwritten records, in my 176-page Name Index:
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BOYKIN, B. A. Boykin, Buykin, Baykin, probably the Burrell A. Boykin b-1825 NC (m-Harriett C. Harless b-1842 MS) in 1860 Noxubee Co MS cen p942/p6; maybe Robert Boykin b-1839 AR on p25 of 1860 VanZandt cen; R.S. Buykin b-1839 AR in 1880 VanZandt cen p97 (Red Riv Co, TST), A-66
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BOYKIN, H. C. Boykin, Buykin, Baykin, probably the H.C. Boykin b-1835 NC on 1860 Noxubee Co MS cen p942/p6 (m-S.A.,.b-1842 MS); maybe the H.B. Boykin b-1840 TN on 1860 Hopk cen p123 (Red River Co, TST), A-66
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BOYKIN, J. N. Boykin, Buykin, Baykin, probably not the J.T. Boykin b-1841 AR; 1860 VanZandt Co cen p25 (Red River Co, TST), A-66
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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