DNA and Other Evidence Suggests a Relationship Between Mary Boan Johns, Charles Wesley Boan and John Lewis Percy Boan

 
For many years I struggled with the identity of my maternal 2^nd Great Grandmother. All I knew about her came from the 1850 Chesterfield County Census. That information was that:

• Her name was Mary and she was born about 1815 in South Carolina
• She married my 2nd Great Grandfather - Shadrach John/Johns
• They had 4 children; 2 sons and 2 daughters
• One of those sons (Joseph Henry) was my Great Grandfather

Then my friend and fellow researcher Marie Gulledge Wiggins told me about two land deeds in the Register of Deeds Office at Chesterfield, South Carolina these two deeds were:

• DB 5, Page 598-599 -- Jas. Eddings & Others to W. T. Goodwin Deed
• DB 6, page 177 -- S. Johns & Others to Alice Goodwin Deed
• http://carolinafamilyroots.blogspot.com/2012/03/amanuensis-monday-land-deed-db-6177.html

These two land deeds were very insignificant in that they were transferring a small plot of land, 8 acres, from Shadrach and Mary to the Eddings and Goodwin families. These 8 acres were estate lands of Mary Boan/Bone, deceased; some say Mary Therrell Boan, mother of:
 
Ann Bone Eddings, wife of John Ellis Eddings, Sr.
Rebecca Bone,
Mary Bone Johns, Wife of Shadrach Johns
Effy Bone Goodwin, Wife of William Thomas Goodwin

On the other hand the parties’ names within the two deeds were very significant.
First, the land deed was dated 6 December 1866 and stated that the Shadrach Johns family was of Washington County, Florida. Three of the four children of Shadrach and Mary were named along with a son-in-law, Joel Toler, husband of Alice Catherine Johns Toler, H. J. Johns; not named is Thomas H. Johns, son of Shadrach and Mary and he is presumed deceased.
 
Other parties named within these two deeds were: 
 
James Eddings, Ann Eddings, W. H. Eddings, F. T. Eddings, Rebecca Bone, Alice Goodwin, Mary Boan/Bone, deceased, Effy Goodwin, William T. Goodwin
Witness were E. Rushing, James Grant, 
 
So all parties are either daughters of Mary Bone, deceased; her Son-in-laws, grandchildren, or witnesses to the land deed transaction. 
 
For a while this line has remained static with no additional leads to push forward; that is until DNA became popular within the past few years. Over three years ago, I tested with FTDNA, then Later with 23and me and finally with Ancestry. 
 
Now with DNA, we have additional evidence of Mary Boan/Bone Johns ancestry and connections to the Boan/Bone of Chesterfield County. I believe that Mary Bone is a daughter of Archibald Boan thus making her a sister to Charles Wesley Boan and John Lewis Percy Boan or she and they are 1^st cousins.
 
First, we have the proven DNA connection to Charles Wesley Boan

My line on the left and Charles Wesley on the right; I have 7.1 centimorgans shared across 1 DNA segments with this researcher and Charles Wesley Boan descendant. 
 
Next we have the DNA Connection to John Lewis Percy Boan.

My line on the left and John L. Percy on the right; I have 10.7 centimorgans shared across 2 DNA segments with this researcher and John L. P. Boan descendant. 
 

With another John L. P. descendant I share 61 centimorgans across 6 DNA segments.
 
The DNA and land deed evidence all proved that Shadrach Johns wife Mary was/is a Boan descendant related to John Lewis Percy and Charles Wesley Boan, sons of Archibald A. Boan and his wife Mary Walton.
 
 
 








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[1] Ancestry.com DNA = A244596
[2] Family Tree DNA = F205903
[3] 23andMe = M141800
[4] GEDMatch.com

Treasure Chest Thursday~Death of Alexander Huneycutt

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State of North Carolina}
Cabarrus County} This day Sarah Honeycutt personally appeared before me J. S. Denker A Justice of the peace for said County And made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of Alexander Honeycutt, a Private in Co. B. 46 Regiment of North Carolina State Troops. That the said Alexander Honeycutt died in the camp at Raleigh No. Ca. on 3rd May last 1862. That as his widow I am entitled to the pay and Bounty that may be due the said Alexander Honeycutt, Deceased, and that she now desires to draw the same.
Also appeared John Barba at the Same time and place, and made oath that he knows of his own knowledge that the Said Sarah Honeycutt is the widdow of Alexander Honeycutt, Deceased, and the facts as set forth above are true and That he is Entirely Disinterested.
                                                              Sary X (her mark) Honeycutt
                                                              John X (his mark) Barba

Sworn To and Subscribed before me this the 29^th Day of October 1862, and I certify That John Barba is a creditable Witnefs.

                                                                          J. S. Denker JP

Alexander Huneycutt, born 1825 was a son of Lewis Huneycutt and Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Rowland. He was the grandson of Dempsey Huneycutt and Ruth Keyes.
Alexander married,  about 1849,  Sarah Jane Crayton. They had six children; 4 sons and 2 daughters.^{2 3}

On  16 April 1862, Alexander enlisted into Company “B’ 46th Regiment, NC State Troops. On 3 May 1862, he died while “in Camp” at Raleigh, North Carolina. His Civil War service record on Fold3.com shows that he died of “croup colic”. ^{4 5} 

After the death of Alexander, his widow, Sarah Jane Crayton Huneycutt married on 2 January 1870 John Rosencrans.⁶  
 
 
 









 
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Note: Justice of the Peace name may not be correctly reported. I make the name out to be J. S. Denker
[1]https://www.fold3.com/image/271/51729223
[2] 1850 Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Furrs, Stanly County, North Carolina, Page: 38B(stamped); Line 42, Dwelling 536, Family 538, Household of Alexander HONEYCUTT; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 November 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 645.
[3] 1860 U. S. Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Stanly County, North Carolina, Page: 71B(stamped); Line 1, Dwelling 1017, Family 1032, Household of Alexr HONEYCUTT; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 November 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 914.
[4] Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 11 November 2015), entry for Alexander Huneycutt, private; Company 'B', 46th Regiment, NC Troops; Confederate.
[5] Ancestry,Military Service Records, database entry for Alexander Huneycutt, private; Company 'B', 46th Regiment, NC Troops; Confederate.
[6] "North Carolina, Marriages Index, 1741-2011," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 9 November 2015), Marriage; John Rosencrants and Sarah Crayton [Huneycutt], Married 2 January 1870.