The Floyd Family

1^st generation

Henry Bruce Floyd

(1716-1816)

Nancy Ann Helm

(1725-1780)

            Henry Bruce Floyd was born in about 1717 in Prince William Co., VA, the son of Henry Floyd.[1]  No information on his mother.[2]

          Nancy Ann Helm was born in 1725 in Pineton, Prince William Co., VA, the fifth of nine children of Thomas Helm and Margaret Lynaugh.[3]  (See HELM)

          Henry Bruce Floyd and Nancy Ann Helm had six children:

          i.        Frances Floyd b. 1757

          ii.       Mary Floyd b. 1759

          iii.      Henry Helm  Floyd b. 1761 in Pineton, Prince William Co., 

                   VA d. September 1850[4]

          iv.      Nathaniel Helm Floyd b. 1763 in Prince William Co., VA

          v.       John Helm Floyd b. 1765 in Prince William Co., VA

          vi.      Leonard Floyd b. 1768 in VA

          Nancy died in 1780 in Uniontown, Union Co., KY.[5]

          Henry died in 1816, which would make him 99 years old.[6]

2nd generation

John Helm Floyd

(1765-1852)

Elizabeth "Polly" Jeffers

           John Helm Floyd was born 31 May 1765 in Prince William Co., VA, the son of Henry Bruce Floyd and Nancy Ann Helm.[7]

          He married Elizabeth "Polly" Jeffers in Nelson, KY, on 16 November 1789.  No information on her dates or family.

          John and  Elizabeth had 11 children:

          i.        Margaret Floyd, b. 8 Jan 1791

          ii.       Nathaniel J.  Floyd (1792-before 1850)

          iii.      Polly Floyd b. 27 Sept 1794

          iv.      William Helm Floyd b. 4 Sept 1796

          v.       Joseph Floyd b. 9 Oct 1798

          vi.      John J. Floyd b. 13 Sept 1800

          vii.     George R. Floyd b. 20 Nov 1802 Green River, KY

          viii.    Nancy  Floyd b. 18 Aug 1804

          ix.      Frances Floyd b. 18 Feb 1807

          x.       Delilah Floyd b. 20 Mar 1809

          xi.      Matilda Floyd b. 28 Apr 1811

          Nancy apparently died before 1840, and John married on 3 Mar 1840 (when he was 75 years old) Henrietta Hargrave.  They had 3 children:

          i.        Alfred Helm Floyd b. 11 Oct 1842

          ii.       John Philander Floyd b. 22 Sept 1845

          iii.      William Floyd b. 4 Aug 1850

          John died in 1852 in Union, KY.  His will was written 1 Oct 1847, codicil added 17 Dec 1851, proved in Jan.1853, leaving 84 acres of land to his wife Henrietta.  He left $1 each to his sons John and Nat J. Floyd, "full part with what I have already given them."

3^rd generation

Nathaniel J. Floyd

(1792-before 1850)

Ann Hewett

(b. 1798)

            Nathaniel J. Floyd was born 27  Sept 1792 in Kentucky, the second of eleven children of John Helm  Floyd and Elizabeth "Polly" Jeffers.

          Nathaniel married Ann Hewett on 15 February 1814 in Union, KY.[8]  She was born about 1798 in Kentucky, the daughter of Russell Hewitt and Ann Barrett.[9]

          Nathaniel and Ann had at least the following children:

          i.        James W.B. Floyd  b. about 1816 Union Co., KY

          ii.       William J. Floyd (1817-1854)

          iii.      Russell H.  Floyd (1819-1865)

          iv.      S.D.F. Floyd b. about 1820 Union Co., KY

          v.       Sarah Ann Elizabeth Floyd b. about 1822 Union Co., KY

          vi.      John N. Floyd b. 1828

          vii.     Martha Ann Floyd b. 1831

          viii.    Luther G. Floyd b. 1837 Union Co., KY

          ix.      Nathaniel A. Floyd b. 1840 Union Co., KY

          Nathaniel Floyd died in 1844.  Ann was listed as head of household in the 1850 Union Co., KY census, age 52, living with her children John, Martha, Luther, and Nathaniel, and next door to her son William J. and his wife Alley.[10]

          No information on Ann's date of death, or if she remarried. 

4^th generation

William J. Floyd

(1817-1854)

Alley Pulliam (Pullam)

(1819-after 1910)

            William J. Floyd was born in about 1817, in Kentucky, the son of Nathaniel J. Floyd and Ann Hewitt.[11] 

          Alley (or Allie) Pulliam was born about 1818 in Union County, Kentucky, the second of seven children of Thomas Pullam and Priscilla "Prissie"  Skinner.[12]  (See PULLAM and SKINNER).

          William appears in the 1840 Union  Co., KY census, p. 9 as follows:   William Floyd, 1 male 20-30.  He was living near his parents but not in the same household.

          William and Alley were married 10 December 1844 in Union Co., KY[13] and had the following children:

          i.        Matilda Floyd b. 1845 Union Co., KY

          ii.       Minerva Floyd (1847-1926) m. John Ramsey (See RAMSEY)

          iii.      W.T. Floyd b. 1849 Union Co., KY

          iv.      Nathaniel Floyd b. 1849

          v.       Mary J. Floyd b. 1851

          vi.      Margaret E. Floyd b. 1853

          The family appears in the 1850 Union Co., KY census, p. 470, as follows:   W.J. Floyd 33 farmer, Alley 31, Matilda 5, M.A. 3, N.T. 1, Robert Pullam 19 (Alley's brother).

          William Floyd died 22 Feb 1854.  His death notice reads:  William J. Floyd, 37, married, parents N.J. and Annah Floyd, 22 Jan 1854, disease of liver.[14]

          Allie was left with five children.  She appears in the 1860 Webster Co., KY census as follows:   Ally Floyd 41; Matilda 14; Minerva A. 13; Nathaniel 11; Mary F. 9; Margaret C. 7.

          1870 Webster Co., KY census:  Alley Floyd, widow, 52; N.T., male 21, Margaret  E. 17., living in home of her daughter Minerva and her husband John Ramsey.

          Minerva and John moved to Kansas in about 1880, but Alley Floyd does not appear with them in the 1880 census, nor in the 1900 census.  She was not found in the census of any other location in those years.

          However, the 1910 Reno Co., KS census lists Allie Floyd, 92, living with John and Minerva Ramsey.