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Samuel Augustus “Sam” Floyd

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Camden County, Georgia, USA
Death
16 Feb 1878 (aged 64)
Saint Marys, Camden County, Georgia, USA
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Samuel Augustus Floyd was born on Floyd's Neck, Camden Co., GA, son of Brig.-Gen. John Floyd & Isabella Maria Hazzard. He never married. He played the violin exceptionally well. He was a good shot and loved to hunt deer with his brothers on the grounds at Floyd's Neck. He was a member of the Camden Hunting Club. Upon his father's death, he and his mother inherited Bellevue Plantation. Traditionally, it is known in this family that the Floyds built Bellevue in the shape of an anchor (The Anchor House) to symbolize their fortunes provided by the sea. During the Civil War, Bellevue Plantation House, including the outbuildings, was destroyed by intermittent incursions from raiding parties sent ashore off of a Yankee blockading vessel anchored in St. Andrews Sound. Today, all that remains of this once-grand antebellum structure are the tabby ruins.

After the Civil War, Samuel lived in a rented house at 111 Wheeler Street in St. Marys. He lived here with Polly Green, mulatto, and six mulatto children: Ellen, John, Eugenia, Cornelia, Mary, Henry. Samuel died in this house on Wheeler Street, but not before he sold 100 surrounding acres plus the ruins of Bellevue to a former slave who was living on the Bellevue Plantation grounds.

He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in the town of St. Marys -- his grave is unmarked.
Samuel Augustus Floyd was born on Floyd's Neck, Camden Co., GA, son of Brig.-Gen. John Floyd & Isabella Maria Hazzard. He never married. He played the violin exceptionally well. He was a good shot and loved to hunt deer with his brothers on the grounds at Floyd's Neck. He was a member of the Camden Hunting Club. Upon his father's death, he and his mother inherited Bellevue Plantation. Traditionally, it is known in this family that the Floyds built Bellevue in the shape of an anchor (The Anchor House) to symbolize their fortunes provided by the sea. During the Civil War, Bellevue Plantation House, including the outbuildings, was destroyed by intermittent incursions from raiding parties sent ashore off of a Yankee blockading vessel anchored in St. Andrews Sound. Today, all that remains of this once-grand antebellum structure are the tabby ruins.

After the Civil War, Samuel lived in a rented house at 111 Wheeler Street in St. Marys. He lived here with Polly Green, mulatto, and six mulatto children: Ellen, John, Eugenia, Cornelia, Mary, Henry. Samuel died in this house on Wheeler Street, but not before he sold 100 surrounding acres plus the ruins of Bellevue to a former slave who was living on the Bellevue Plantation grounds.

He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in the town of St. Marys -- his grave is unmarked.

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