Sina McConnell Boyd – Matriarch of the Glenn-McConnell-Boyd Families Sina was a slave girl born in 1836 on the McConnell plantation in Fairfield County, South Carolina. Although we do not know who her parents were, Sina did report on the 1880 Census that both her mother and father were born in Virginia. It is most probable that Slave master McConnell bought Sinas parents from the slave traders in Virginia and brought them to Fairfield County, South Carolina.. Sina had two children by slave master McConnell. James was born in 1856 when his mother was 20 years of age and Mary was born in 1859 when Sina was 23 years old. After Sina was freed from slavery, she married Mansfield Boyd in 1865. At that time she and Mansfield were both 29 years old. Sina had ten children with Mansfield; John Mansfield, Margaret, David, Lawrence, Eugenia, Grace, Daisy, Emma, William, and an unknown child who probably died young. Mansfield raised James and Mary as his own. Sina had twelve children, however six were deceased by 1920 (Margaret, David, Lawrence, Grace, Emma and unknown child). . Sinas last child William was born when she was 50 years old. Sinas daughter Mary had her son James Watkins Glenn on January 6, 1886. Sinas son William A. Boyd was born 14 days later on January 20, 1886.. According to the 1870 Census, the Mansfield Boyd family lived in Township 13 of Fairfield County. Mansfield is listed as a farmer with personal assets totalling $150. He did not own any real estate. Sina and James are listed as farm laborers. There were 4 children at that time. James (14), Mary (11), Mansfield (2), Margaret (6 months). A family friend, John Randolph (17), lived with them and helped out on the farm. At that time none of the family members could read or write.. Sometime between 1870 and 1880, Sina and Mansfield relocated their family to Township 10 in Fairfield County. According to the 1880 Census, there were 5 children at home. John Mansfield (12), Lawrence (7), Eugenia (5), Grace (2), and Daisy (2 months). It is noted that their daughter Margaret, who would have been sixteen and still at home in 1880, is not in the 1880 Census, suggesting that she died before 1880. There is no indication that any of the children attended school although John Mansfield is listed as being able to read but not write. . Twenty years later in 1900 the family is still living in Township 10. The children living at home are Grace (22), Emma (18), and William (15). Although there is no indication that the children attended school, it is recorded in the 1900 Census that all three were able to read and write. Sina and Mansfield still were illiterate and rented their home. Only 8 of Sinas twelve children were living at this time.. Sometime between 1900 and 1910 Sina and Mansfield Boyd divorced. They were still living in Township 10, but in separate households. Mansfield was living alone in a rental home, but close to his daughter Eugenia and her husband Wright Giles. According to the 1910 Census, Mansfield who was 74 years old could read and write. In 1910, Sina was living in a rented home with her daughter Emma. Emmas daughters Mary (7) and Gracy (6; she is probably also known as Sina) is also living with them. These girls are listed in the census records as mulattos. Sinas daughter Grace died in 1902 and left one son, Willie (William A. Boyd, age 8) who was also living in the home and being raised by his grandmother Sina. It is probable that Grace died in childbirth.. Sina died in 1914 and her daughter Emma died in 1920 of influenza. There is no record that Sina ever learned to read or write.. Written by Gayle Martin Jackson.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:17:29 +0000
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