KENTUCKY
KY STATEWIDE: Divorces
The only
way to get a divorce in the State of Kentucky before the year
1809
was by an act of the state legislature. In January of 1809 the
circuit
courts were given authority to grant divorces.
BOYD,Elizabeth
BOYD,John Granted Nov 15, 1831 (Spencer Co.)
Restored
to her maiden name Elizabeth FOREMAN.
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BOYD, WYATT P. was born in
Caldwell County, Ky., June 20, 1837. His
father, JOHN P. BOYD, was
also a native of Caldwell County, where he
spent the greater part of
his life as a farmer. He was a very
successful man and accumulated
a large estate, but sustained heavy
losses during the war, having
been a large slave-holder. He was born in
1809, and died August 17,
1877. His wife, SARAH P. BOYD, was a daughter
of James RUCKER, of Virginia,
one of the early successful farmers of
Caldwell County. She
died February 3,1870, at the age of sixty-eight
years. WYATT P. BOYD
is the second of a family of six children, named
as follows: CHARLES M.,deceased;
W.P.; L.M.,wife of J. W. Satterfield;
CHARLES C., deceased; FRANCES
E., wife of A. E. Jacobs; and
F.R.,merchant in Princeton.
Our subject enjoyed good educational
advantages in his youth, attending
the common schools of the county, and
later the Cumberland College,
where he remained for a period of three
years. He commenced
farming in Caldwell County on attaining his
majority, continued about
six years, and at the end of that time removed
to Christian County and went
into the mercantile business near
Hopkinsville, where he sold
goods for about the same length of time. He
discontinued merchandising
on account of failing health and came back to
Caldwell County and engaged
in farming and stock raising
on his present farm, four
miles and a half south of Princeton. Mr. Boyd
owns a farm of 200 acres,
the greater part of which is under a high
state of cultivation.
December 21, 1858, he was married to Miss
ELIZABETH MORRIS, daughter
of Amon and Permelia (Pickering) Morris, by
whom he has four children:
VICTORIA, wife of J. T. Parker; CHARLES D.,
MINNIE LEE and IDA.
Mr. Boyd takes an active part in religious matters,
having been a member of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church for over
thirty-three years. His wife
is also a member of the same church.
Source: Kentucky: A History
of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin, 2nd
ed., 1885 Caldwell Co.
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CYNTHIANA WOMEN: WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND HOW THEY ARE SUCCEEDING
LUCINDA ROGERS BOYD, the author
of "Chronicles of Cynthiana and Other
Chronicles," besides numerous
short poems of merit and other
productions, is a woman of
rare and vigorous intellect and of whom
Cynthiana is especially proud.
Mrs. Boyd is the widow of the
late JUDGE J. STROTHER BOYD, and daughter
of Sam ROGERS and Elizabeth
IRVINE. Her father was one of the noted
pioneer preachers of Kentucky,
advocating the Bible and the Bible alone
as a rule of faith and practice.
Her mother was a descendent of the old
Scotch Irvines. William
de Irvine, spoken of in the Peerage of
Scotland, was her ancestor.
His grand-son married Janet Douglas,
grand-daughter of Robert Bruce.
From this family have descended many
brilliant writers, and all
in this country are more or less prominent in
public and in private life.
Mrs. Boyd is now about middle
life and the mother of an interesting
family of four sons and two
daughters. She is a woman of striking
personnel with traces of her
noble ancestors in bearing and general
appearance. In stature
rather above medium, with a full, well-rounded
form and clear-cut, classical
features, shadowed by masses of glossy,
richly waving black hair.
She has a deep penetrating black eye which
ever and anon twinkles with
wicked merriment and a mouth whose every
curve indicates a love of
fun, while the gleaming, strong, firmly set
teeth show the courage of
the Bruce.
Mrs. Boyd is of a responsive,
appreciative nature and a universal
favorite. She numbers
among her close friends quite as many men as
women, quite as many poor
as rich, goes whereve duty calls and is a
noble type of christian womanhood.Her
success as a writer is devoutly
desired and, we believe, perfectly
assured.
Source: Cynthiana Democrat,
Harrison Co, Ky Newspaper, June 1896, Pge 17
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JAMES MILLER, farmer and stock-raiser;
P. 0. Paris; born May 5, 1817, in
Harrison County, this State,
son of Hugh, whose father was likewise
named Hugh Miller, who was
a native of Virginia, and emigrated to this
State when the country was
new and unsettled, locating in Harrison
County, and was one of
the early Judges in that county. Hugh, his son,
was born Nov. 12, 1774. In
1807, April 6, he married Mary Ewalt, who was
born Aug. 28, 1785, in Bourbon
County, daughter of Henry Ewalt, one of
the early settlers in this
County. To Hugh Miller, Jr., were born seven
children; of this number Hugh
was the elder, born 1808; Henry, 1809;
William H., 1812; Polly, 1814;
James, 1817; Elizabeth, 1819; Margaret
J., 1822. The sons were never
married, except James, our subject; he was
left fatherless at an early
age; his father was killed by a horse. James
was raised by his mother.
Jan. 12,1841, he married ANNIE F. BOYD, a
native of Harrison County,
daughter of JOSEPH and ALICE (WITHERS)
BOYD; he was a son of
JOHN BOYD and KATIE MONTGOMERY.
JOHN BOYD was a native of the
British Isles, and emigrated first to Virginia.
Alice was born in Fauquier
County, Va., daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Markham)
Withers; Benjamin was a soldier
in the Revolution; Joseph, his son, participated
in the war of 1812. Mr. Miller
remained on the home farm until 1872,
when he removed to this County,
locating on the farm he now owns, called
“Sunnyside,” which contains
about 331 acres; this farm was settled and improved
by Benjamin Rogers. Since
1858, Mr. Miller has been interested in breeding and
raising thoroughbred and trotting
horses; his stock are well and
favorably known in this and
adjoining counties. He purchased and brought
to this State, Alexander’s
Abdallah, which has become famous among
lovers of fine horses in Kentucky.
Three children have been born to Mr.
Miller, but one now living,
Mary E., wife of J. Quincy Ward, of
Cynthiana. Alice died Nov.
23, 1853, aged six years; Fannie died Jan.,
1878; she was the wife of
Sidney B. Kennedy. Mr. Miller has two
grandchildren: Anna C. and
Jay Quincy, who are the children of Mary E.
Mr. Miller’s sisters married
and settled as follows, viz: Polly, married
Abe Keller, and settled in
Harrison County; Elizabeth E., H. Cromwell;
Margaret J., James Patterson,
are settled in Harrison County.
Source:William Perrin's "The
History of Bourbon, Scott,Harrison and
Nicholas Counties, Kentucky"
and E. Polk Johnson's "The History of
Kentucky and Kentuckians,"
Vol. III.
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