Rueben Thompson Floyd family

Reuben Thompson and Galazia Mayfield Floyd brought their family to Cass County, Texas, between 1850 census in Butts County, Georgia, and the 1860 census Cass County of Unionville and Cusseta. Both pioneers were born in South Carolina. The 1810 census Chester, S.C. census lists John Floyd and wife 26 to 45, one boy and three girls under ten, may be the parents of Reuben T.

John and Reuben T. Floyd were listed in the tax list of Butts County, Georgia 1828. They were in Capt. Bark-ley’s District.

The 1850 census, household #423, Butts County, Georgia lists Reuben Thompson age 49, farmer. Galazia, age 38 female, both were born in South Carolina children listed all born in Georgia. Greer 19, (M); Nance, 14 (F) Elizabeth, 13 (F); John R., 11 (M); Robert F., 8 (M); Sarah J., 6 (F); David A., 4 (M); Mary, 2 (F); John, 84 (M); and Maureen, 84 (F); both born in Virginia.

From 40,000 Early Georgia Marriages, lists; Thompson Floyd married Galarza Mayfield 23 September 1830.

For some reason Reuben Thompson Floyd and family came to Texas and are on the 1860 census of Unionville and Cusseta, Cass Co. Texas, with children listed only with an initial and age; I 20 (M); R. 16 (M); M. 22 (F); C. 15 (F); D. 13 (M); P. 11 (F); A.G. 8 (F); all born in Georgia and S. 4 (F), “born in Texas.

Grover Floyd, son of Robert Franklin who was a son of Reuben Thompson like my grandfather, David A. told me. The Floyds came to Texas in covered wagons with all the family and their slaves, from Butts County, Georgia. Someone else told me that the Yeatman and Hefners, friends and relatives of theirs came too.

They bought 3000 acres of land, 2000 acres cost twenty- five cents (250) an acre, but a widow owned 1000 of the acres and by the time the title was cleared it had cost them fifty cents (500) an acre for this 1000 acres.

As his father before him helped organize a church, Reuben Thompson and Galazia Floyd were two of the twenty nine people who met on 28 September 1879 at Marietta to organize the Oak-ridge Baptist Church. There was also a C.A. Floyd and David Anderson Floyd and his future second wife Olivia C. Smith and her parents. David Anderson Floyd said he would donate the land for the church house, cemetery, and the school house when the church was built. In 1965, the Marietta Oakridge Baptist Church changed its name to the First Baptist Church of Marietta.

Thompson Floyd was cutting down a tree and it fell on him and killed him; date is not known. He must have been helping the John Hefners clear land, as that is where the accident happened, and according to Grover Floyd, he was buried on the John Hefner place.

Children grew up and had families of their own. The two families I know about are Robert Franklin’s, who was Grover Floyd’s father and his brothers and sisters were: Walter, Jack, Quitman, Stella, Greenie, Irving, Carl, and Grover.

DAVID ANDERSON FLOYD David Anderson Floyd was married first to Mollie Hefner and had five children all born in Texas listed on the 1880 census, Precinct three, Cass County as: David Anderson Floyd, age 32, farmer, born Georgia; Olivea Covington, age 32, born Alabama; John, age 11, later married Kate Jordon; Charles, age 10, later married Ora Wommack; Mattie, age 8, later married Jess Moore; Terry, age 6, later married Minnie Shelton May Belle, age 4, later married A.M. Wommack, and Grazia, widow born South Carolina.

David Anderson Floyd married second Olivea Covington Smith, daughter of Joel T. Smith, a Baptist preacher. Both were charter members of the Oak-ridge Baptist Church as were her mother and other kin. Olivea and Dave must have married that year because her name is on the church deed. Deed Book B-2, page 122 Cass County.

Grover said when grandpa freed the slaves, some of them took the name of Nickleberry and Henry Nickleberry’s father came to Texas from Georgia. He also gave them some of the land that he could no longer farm without the slaves.

David Anderson Floyd was a Confederate Soldier from March 1864 until June 1865, Company H of Duff’s Regular Cavalry and he surrendered on the Brazos River in Texas.

D.A. Floyd was born 1848 in Nativity, Georgia; died 25 June 1919-Olivea Covington Smith Floyd born 24 December 184-8, Alabama, died 10 January 1940. Married 1? September 1879, and had five children.

1. Cora Lee Floyd born 10 November 1880; died 19 February 1971. Naples, Texas; buried 21 February 1971, Oakridge Cemetery, Marietta, Texas. Married 23 December 1899, William Augustus Harty at Marietta, by Rev. W.W. Lee. Three children: Baby Harty-still born 1900. Nellie Mae Harty born 16 March 1917; married 23 January 1937, Lynn Tidwell, Mt. Pleasant, Texas; by Rev. L.E. Lamb. Lynn born 20 January 1915. They had three children: Mary Lynn Tidwell born 13 December 1940. Cora Sue Tidwell born 28 May 19W. Vicki Lee Tidwell born 2 November 1952. William Harold Harty born 8 November 1920; married 24 September 1938, Jessie P. McCord, born 7 November 1919, and had four children. Barbara Ann Harty born 5 April 1941; William Harold Harty born 15 December 1944; Connie Joe Harty born 15 November 1947; William Mack Harty born 12 February 1953.

2. Lena Galazia Floyd born 1 July 1883. 3. Clyde Floyd born 28 June 1885; married Mary Susan Boddie and had Grace, Melvin, Lista Bell, Hugh, Garland, David A., and Johnny- Floyd.

4. Tuster Floyd born 22 April 1889; married William F. Elliott; children: Mary Kate Elliott and Dorothy Elliott.

5- Norris Floyd born 1 October 1891; died 1976; married (1) Opal Parrot and had Leslie Faye Floyd and Courtland Floyd. Married (2) Lulie Mae Owens and had Howard Hale Floyd.