Mark Auslander - The Accidental Slaveowner. Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family

(Enslaved persons listed by first name, unless surname is known; freedpersons listed by family name.)

Addison. Slave acquired though the Bishops January 1844 marriage to Ann Leonora Greenwood. From the Thomas Greenwood estate. Mentioned in the April 1844 Longstreet-Andrew deed.

Alexander. Slave. Presumably, a son of Peggy, mentioned in the 1827 transfer to Ann Leonora Greenwood. Perhaps the same person as Elleck.

Allen. Slave. Son of Lillah and brother of Laura. Acquired though the Bishops January 1844 marriage to Ann Leonora Greenwood. From the Thomas Greenwood estate. Mentioned in the April 1844 Longstreet-Andrew deed. Rented out by Bishop Andrew in 1853 to his brother Hardy. Possibly Allen Parham (b. ca. 1835) in the 1870 census for Penfield, Greene County, Georgia.

ANDREW, Ann Amelia McFarlane. First wife of James Osgood Andrew. Died April 24, 1842, in Oxford, nursed by Kitty.

ANDREW, Elizabeth Mason. Born 1817. Eldest daughter of James Osgood Andrew and Ann Amelia Andrew. Later Elizabeth Lovett, wife of Robert Watkins Lovett. Nursed Kitty on her deathbed. Died 1856.

ANDREW, James Osgood. Elected bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1832. From 1845, senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Died 1871.

ANDREW, James, Jr. Son of James Osgood Andrew.

ANDREW, John (Rev.). Father of James Osgood Andrew. Died March 10, 1830.

ANDREW, Hardy H. Brother of James Osgood Andrew.

ANDREW, Henrietta. Daughter of James Osgood Andrew and Ann Amelia. First wife of Thomas Meriwether.

ANDREW, Mary Catherine. Born 1833. Daughter of James Osgood Andrew and Ann Amelia. Attended Wesleyan Female College in Macon in 1847. Died 1858.

ANDREW, Octavia (Occie). Born 1835. Married Rev. John Wesley Rush.

ANDREW, Sarah. Daughter of James Osgood Andrew and Ann Amelia. In 1840, married Lamar, John Oswald. In adulthood, she became a feeble minded invalid, nursed by her mother.

ANDREW, Mary Cosby. Wife of John Andrew. Mother of James Osgood Andrew. Died in Newton County, Georgia.

ANDREW, William H. Brother of James Osgood Andrew.

ANDREWS, Martin. A former slave of James Osgood Andrew, residing two households from him in 1870 in Summerfield, Alabama. (See Martin)

Ann. Slave of the Thomas Greenwood estate. A yellow girl. Assigned in 1827 to Ann Leonora Greenwood.

Anthony. Slave of Rev. Stephen Shell. Brother of Nathan (Boyd).

BANKS, Malvina. Wife of Alfred Boyd. Married April 4, 1866, in Van Buren County, Iowa.

BEAL, Ann. Wealthy woman in Augusta, Richmond County, Ga. Died 1832. Widow of Archibald Beal (d. 1811). Possible source of Kitty.

Ben. A slave sold by Alex. McFarlane along with Dolly to his mother-in-law Eve Catherine McNeal in 1801/1802. Manumitted October 19, 1804.

Ben. Slave partially owned by James Osgood Andrew from 1843 onward, a gift of his mother Mary Andrew.

Billy. (Also known as Black Billy.) Slave in 1840, willed by Catherine Stattler McFarlane to her daughter Ann Amelia Andrew. Inherited by James Osgood Andrew after Ann Amelias death in 1842.

BOYD, Alfred, or Alford. Probably born June 1844 in Oxford, Georgia. Husband of Malvina Boyd, married 1866 in Van Buren County, Iowa. AME minister by 1885 in Iowa. Died 1926.

BOYD, Barbara. Daughter of Alfred and Malvina Boyd. Born 1871.

BOYD, Mary Catherine. Eldest child of Alford and Malvina Boyd. Born 1867. Married Louis Bradley, Rock Island, Illinois, 1888.

BOYD, Cordelia Syphax. Second wife of Russell Nathan Boyd. Mother of Edna Boyd. Died July 4, 1924.

BOYD, Edna. Born January 20, 1896, Washington, D.C. Daughter of Russell Nathan Boyd and Cordelia Syphax Boyd. Married Daniel Gary. School-teacher in the District of Columbia.

BOYD, George Russell. Son of Russell Nathan Boyd and Tulip (ne Cook) Boyd. Born July 25, 1885. Died at age forty-five, December 29, 1937, in Washington, D.C.

BOYD, Malvina Banks. Born ca. 1840. Married Alford Boyd in April 1866, in Keosauqua, Iowa. Had at least one child during slavery. She and her siblings were slaves in Callaway County, Missouri; escaped and led by Union soldiers to Mexico, Missouri; taken then by Quakers to Keosauqua, Iowa. Died August 8, 1930.

BOYD, Maurice (or Morris). Born around 1875. Iowa. Son of Alford and Malvina Boyd. Died in Cook County, Illinois, April 9, 1924.

BOYD, Nathan. Husband of Kitty (Catherine). Father of Alfred (Alford), Russell Nathan, and Emma L. Born ca. 1809 in Newberry, South Carolina. Willed in 1822 to Stephen Shell. Died June 6, 1875. Buried Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia.

BOYD, Nathan. Son of Alford and Malvina Boyd. Born around 1873 in Iowa.

BOYD, Russell Nathan. Kittys second son. Born around 1846. Messenger and librarian at the U.S. Department of State. Died in Washington, D.C., in 1921.

BOYD, Samuel. Son of Alford and Malvina Boyd. Born 1868, Iowa.

BOYD, Shawter (or Shorter). Born around 1878, Mahaska County, Iowa. Son of Alford and Malvina Boyd.

BOYD, Tulip Victoria Cook. Daughter of George Cook and Marcelena Washington, of Washington, D.C. First wife of Russell Nathan Boyd, married 1883 in Washington, D.C. Died before 1895.

BROWN, William. Brother-in-law of Stephen Shell. Born 1786. Married Rev. Stephen Shells daughter Susan Shell of Newberry District, South Carolina, in 1812. Inherited the slaves John Wesley and Dick (brother of Nathan Boyd) in 182224. Died 1856 in Newton County, Georgia.

CALHOUN, John. U.S. senator for South Carolina and secretary of state. Took great interest in the 1844 Methodist General Conference dispute. Mentor to Augustus Baldwin Longstreet.

CANDLER, Warren. Senior bishop, M.E. Church, South. President of Emory College and chancellor of Emory University. Champion of the story of Kitty and of James Osgood Andrew.

CAPERS, William (Rev.). Methodist minister. Delivered funeral sermon for Ann Amelia Andrew.

CARLTON, Wilbur Allen. Born 1890. Faculty member at Oxford College of Emory University. President of the Oxford Historical Cemetery Foundation. Author of In Memory of Old Emory (1962). Died 1971.

CHILDERS, Elizabeth. Died 1851. Wife of George Childers. He later married Emily Sims Woolsey.

CHILDERS, Emily Sims Woolsey. Wife of George Childers. She later became the third wife of James Osgood Andrew, marrying him on November 24, 1854. Died January 4, 1872, in Dallas County, Alabama.

CHILDERS, George. Married to Emily Sims Woolsey Heard, in Summerfield, Georgia. Died in 1853 in Dallas County, Alabama.

COOK, George (free man of color). Washington, D.C. Married to Marcelena Washington. Father of Tulip Victoria Boyd, first wife of Russell Nathan Boyd.

COOK, Tulip Victoria. First wife of Russell Nathan Boyd, married 1883. Daughter of George Cook and Marcelena Washington.

COSBY, Mary Overton. Mother of James Osgood Andrew. Born December 11, 1791. Married John Andrew, evidently his third wife. Died January 26, 1846, in Oxford, Georgia.

DAHLGREN, John (rear admiral, U.S. Navy). Russell Nathan Boyd employed as his house servant in 1869. Married Madeleine Vinton in 1865. Died July 12, 1870.

DAHLGREN, Madeleine Vinton. Wife of Admiral John Dahlgren. Daughter of Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton and Romaine Madeleine Bureau, and the widow of Daniel Convers Goddard, first assistant secretary of the newly created U.S. Department of the Interior.

Daniel. Slave in the Thomas Greenwood estate, distributed to Robert H. Greenwood. Possibly Daniel English in 1870 in Greene County, Georgia, Militia District 140.

Delsie. Slave of Rev. Stephen Shell of Newberry, South Carolina. Sister of Nathan (Boyd).

Dolly. Slave of James McFarlane, and then of his son Alexander McFarlane from the 1790s onward. Sold by Alexander McFarlane to his mother-in-law, Eve Catherine McNeal, in 1801, and then bequeathed to Catherine McFarlane (Alexanders widow) in 1816.