SILVANUS J. BOYD/CESSNA/ALEXANDER - CHRISTIAN CO; KY 
 

SILVANUS J. BOYD was born in Muhlenburg County, KY., August 11, 1833, and is a son of REV ADLAI BOYD who, with his parents, moved from the state of North Carolina about 1814 to Christian County, KY., and two years afterward removed to Stewart County, Tenn., where in 1817 he united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in 1822 entered upon the duties of a Minister of the Gospel in Christian County, KY.  He married JOHANNA CESSNA of Muhlenburg County, KY., and she died January 3, 1863. He was actively engaged as a minister for over fifty-nine years and until his death, which occurred on the last day of 1881, having preached his last sermon in Greenville, KY., six days prior to his death. S.J. Boyd was educted in Greenville, KY., where he studied law and was admitted to practice in said place in 1859, and removed to Calhoun, McLean Co., KY; in 1866, and in 1876 removed to Hopkinsville, KY.  While living in Calhoun, and on the 19th day of December 1872, he married MISS ANNIE A. ALEXANDER of that place.  She is now the only surviving child of L.G. and Martha L. Alexander (deceased), and was born in Jefferson County, KY., on the 6th of September 1848.  Her father was born in Prince William County, Va., and died in Calhoun, McLean Co.,
KY., on the 29th day of December 1869.  He descended from the old Sterling branch of the old Alexander family of Scotland, and his wife as a daughter of Richard Steele of Louisville, KY., in which place she was born.  Gen Neville was her maternal grandfather, and she was a great-granddaughter of Gen Daniel Morgan, who commanded the American forces at the battle of the Cowpens.  She died February 1, 1863.  Mr and Mrs Boyd are blessed with three children, namely: ASHTON A. Boyd, NINA Steele Boyd and GENEVIA Boyd. 

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