Sarah Jerusha Luvenia Boyd1

F, b. 20 July 1879, d. 7 December 1941
     Sarah Jerusha Luvenia Boyd was born on 20 July 1879.

Sarah married James Marion WATTS, son of Phillip Morgan WATTS and Sarah Elizabeth MOSES, on 3 April 1910 at residence of J. L. Boyd in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. With the ceremony performed by W. R. Kyle, justice of peace.1,2

Sarah Jerusha Luvenia Boyd and James Marion WATTS appeared as head of household on a census enumerated 7 May 1910 in Koeppell, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The household was listed as James M. Watts, a 27-year-old saw mill laborer, and his new wife, a 29-year-old Louvenia. They had been married less than a year and it was their first marriage. They lived in the household of her parents, Luther Boyd, 57, and Mary Jane, 63, at 331 Brookwood Road. Luther was a farm laborer. Mary Jane was the mother of five, but only two were living.3

Sarah Jerusha Luvenia Boyd and James Marion WATTS appeared as head of household on a census enumerated 8 January 1920 in Clement Station, Jones, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The household was listed as James Watts, 38, blacksetter in a sawmill, and his wife, Louvenia, 40, along with their children, David, 8; Roy, 6; Josephine, 3 years one month; and Nettie, age one year and 5 months. Also living with them was James' mother, Sarah, age 67. All were born in Alabama.4

Sarah Jerusha Luvenia Boyd died on 7 December 1941 at age 62.5 She was buried in Enterprise Baptist Church Cemetery, Vance, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
Last Edited=12 Jun 2019

Children of Sarah Jerusha Luvenia Boyd and James Marion WATTS

Citations

  1. [S353] George Randall Watts, "Watts Genealogy," e-mail to John K. Brown, 10 July 2000; info from Luther D. Watts of Jasper, Alabama.
  2. [S361] Tuscaloosa County Marriages: Marriage Book 8, 1907-1911, pg. 350. James M. Watts & Miss Luvenia Boyd.
  3. [S594] 1910 U. S. Census, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Luther Boyd household 331, ED 150, pg. 17-B.
  4. [S245] 1920 U. S. Census, Bibb County, Alabama, James Watts household, ED 116, Sheet 9, Line 56.
  5. [S696] Find A Grave (website), online http://www.findagrave.com

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