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Simon Walter Boykin

2 May 1838 – 27 Nov 1890

Birth2 May 1838
Death27 Nov 1890
CemeteryBoykin Cemetery
Angelina County , Texas , USA
Added byToni Mackain on 05 Jan 2012
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32858660

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Name on stone spelled as Simon. Suggestion made it may have been spelled as Simeon. ------------------------------- The following info is courtesy of contributor: John Rich (49656524): Source: "Paddling the Wild Neches", pages 186-188. Sterling Boykin lived in North Carolina and Alabama before moving to Texas. His first wife bore him 5 sons and 1 daughter before her death. He then married an Indian girl and fathered a son by her, named Simon, before she died. After the death of his second wife in the 1840's, Boykin packed his white children and Indian son into a wagon and headed for Texas. Sterling laid claim to 3,500 acres of land along what is now the Angelina and Jasper County line Boykin made at least one trip back to Alabama. When he returned, a young mulatto girl, one-fourth black ancestry, was riding behind him. The girl's name was Lettie Neal, and it is said she was a runaway slave. She was brought to Texas to raise Sterling's children and care for his house, to be paid $3 per week. Lettie became Boykin's common-law wife and bore him two more children. Sterling taught all his children to read and write, including his mulatto children, much to the displeasure of some of the area's whites. A gang of Red Caps, a vigilante group, burned his collection of books to make sure that no other blacks would be taught.

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"In my father's house there are many mansions .... " Gone from our home but not from our hearts.

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