H. Boyd/Lucinda M. Branham of Crawford County, AR:
H. BOYD, a farmer of Lee's
Creck Township, was born January 1, 1837, in
Floyd County, Ky., and is
a son of JAMES and MARY (WOOD) BOYD, natives
of Virginia. The father has
always been a farmer,and in 1835 moved to
Kentucky, where he has since
lived with the exception of about five
years,which he spent in Crawford
County, Ark. He is now a resident of
Floyd County, Ky. The grandfather,
William Boyd, was of English descent,
and lived in Virginia. He
served in the Revolutionary War seven years,
and died in 1868. Our subject
had but few educational advantages when a
youth, but became a well-informed
man. In 1856 he married Miss Lucinda
M. Branham, daughter of Isham
and Lucy (Hatcher) Branham, and born in
1836. This marriage has been
blessed with nine children, five boys and
four girls, all save one girl
now living. Mr. Boyd farmed upon rented
land until 1879, and then
purchased his present farm, which contains 400
acres, upon which he has erected
a cotton-gin, grist and saw-mill. One
of the natural wonders of
Crawford County is a natural dam upon this
farm, which runs across Mountain
Fork of Lee's Creek, and is of hard
granite,eight feet high and
seventy yards wide. The pond above is six
feet deep at low water. Mr.
Boyd has been a Mason for seven years. In
politics he is a Democrat,
and in religion a Methodist.
Source: Biographical and Historical
Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers,
1889.
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