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Clan Boyd Society, International
JOHN W. BOYD/FANNIE WALTRIP - MCLEAN CO;
KY
JOHN W. BOYD, McLean County, is the eldest of two children, and is the son of JAMES and SENORA (SHARP) BOYD, and born May 2, 1843, in Ohio County, KY. He was but two years old when his father died; his mother afterward married George DODSON, by whom she had six children. After her second husband's death she married Dr. George CHAPMAN. John W. Boyd received a limited education, and in August 1862, at Hartford, enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Kentucky (Federal) Calvary, and participated in all the engagements of the regiment during his term of service; he was discharged in one year as brevet second lieutenant. He afterward re-enlisted in the Seventeenth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, at Owensboro, and served until September 1865, when he was discharged at Louisville, KY. See Civil War List He then returned home, and engaged in farming, and in 1867 located where he now resides, on 114 acres of land, which he has improved; he now owns 187 acres of good land. He was married in February 1869, to FANNIE WALTRIP, of this county, a daughter of William and Susan (HOOVER) Waltrip, natives of Breckinridge and Ohio Counties. They
have had five children, four of whom are living, as follows: VALERIA, WILLIAM
L., LONADA, DAISY P.; JAMES R. is dead. Mr and Mrs Boyd are members
of the Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist Churches, respectively; he
Source:
A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885
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Regards,
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