In 1858, James and Mary Graham along with five sons (William W.,
Stickland, James Robeson, Wiley, and Larkin), two daughters (Jane and Clarissa
Graham Boykin) and famlies left Clarke County Mississippi as rumor of war
mounted. They came to the Kidd's Mills and Flo Community to join James' two
sisters, Mary Graham Parker (wife of Anderson P. Parker) and Susannah Graham
Pate (wife of Daniel Pate) who had came to Leon County from Mississippi about
1850.
When war broke, James had four sons to join, William W., Strickland,
James Robeson, and Wiley; along with son-in-law Byrd Alexander Boykin, husband
of Clarissa Graham. William W. Graham enlisted as a Private in Company G,
Mississippi, 9th Infantry. Wiley, Strickland and James Robeson Graham joined the
5th Texas, Company C, Hood's Brigade. Son-in-law, Byrd Boykin, enlisted into the
Waul's Texas Legion.
Before the Civil War ended James and Mary Graham had
lost the following sons and son-in-law:
William W. Graham
Strickland
Graham
James Robeson Graham
Byrd Alexander Boykin
William W. Graham
left wife, Sarah Twitchell Graham, and two children, Columbia A. and William
Frankllin Graham.
James Robeson Graham left wife, Delia Elizabeth Boykin
Graham, and children, Angeline and Robeson Graham.
Byrd Alexander Boykin left
wife, Sarah Clarissa Graham Boykin, and children, Azalee, Mary M., Sarah Jane,
James Abel, Delilah Jane, William Robinson and Byrd Alexander Boykin, Jr.
Strickland never married.
Only son, Wiley Graham, returned home to Flo.
Wiley lived in Flo until his death in 1920.,
James and Mary nee Lee Graham
gave the ultimate gift to the southern cause, four sons.
Written by
Marla S. Graham, wife of James R. Graham, Jr. gggrandson of James and Mary nee
Lee Graham.
Submitted on May 16, 2014
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