Bogg Chisolm Cemetery

Newton Co, MS

The cemetery is located near Union, MS on private property, in the edge of a heavily fenced cow pasture.  It is not accessible to the general public.  A sharp drop-off separates the back side of the family burial ground from the nearby woods.

James Boyd

Revolutionary Soldier

born in Lancaster Co, PA

Jan. 31 AD 1763

Died in Newton Co, Miss.

Jan. 14 AD 1852

For 50 years a member of the Presbyterian Church.  And was loved by all who knew him.

(Tombstone is also marked by a DAR Revolutionary Solder marker placed by the Bobashela Chapter NSDAR)

1850 Newton Co, MS Census, #621-621, p. 189

Residence in the Revolution - Washington Co, NC, Service: He volunteered in Col. John Sevier's NC Regiment in the Spring on 1781. He served along the frontier of SC and GA and rendezvoused by the French Broad River in 1782.

Anna Boyd

Daughter of Jas Boyd

born in Knox Co, E. Tenn.

Jan. 15 AD 1787

died in Newton Co, Miss.

Sep. 25 AD 1850

Susan Kimball Boyd Day

Wife of L. B. Day

Born Nov. 8, 1833

died Sept. 5, 1889

Susan Kimball was the daughter of David Kimball and his wife Susanna Anderson.  She married (1) Carlinus Boyd (2) Lemuel B. Day on November 29, 1876 in Newton Co, MS.

Susanna Anderson Kimball

Died Dec. 31, 1866

58 yrs. 11 ms. 14 ds

Susanna Anderson, daughter of James Anderson, married David Kimball on June 23, 1827 in Greene Co, GA.

David Kimball

Died July 25, 1871

Aged 70 ys, 2 ms, 17 ds

1850 Newton Co, MS Census #487-487
1860 Newton Co, MS Census, Union PO #591-607
1870 Newton Co, MS Census, Newton Post Office, p. 251, Township 8 Range 13, #92-92

Newton Weekly Ledger, Thursday, June 18, 1874
Chancery Notice: David Kimbel, dec'd. Andrew Gordon, Adm'r. To: Mary & Andrew Gordon, Susan & C. Boyd, Elizabeth & Rankin Amis, Jane, Elmira K, D. S., Martha, Thomas, John, Andrew, Wm & Louisa Kimbel; Arch, father & guardian of Mary Curry of Scott Co., and Nancy Ann & William Walton of St. Augustine, Texas.