John Boyd and Elizabeth McLean
John Boyd 1796-1873, legislator, the son of Abram Boyd,
was
born near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1796. The family moved to
Kentucky, but Boyd returned as a young man to Tennessee, where
he married Elizabeth McLean in Maury County and settled in Trigg
County. The couple had nine children,six of whom died in childhood.
Boyd and his family moved to Texas in the fall of 1835 and settled in
Sabine County. Though no record of his military service is extant,
he is
said to have participated in the Texas Revolution. From October 1836
through May 1838 he represented Sabine County in the House of the First
and Second congresses of the Republic of Texas.qv He moved from
Sabine to Robertson County in 1845 and then to Limestone County,
where he located a claim near the Tehuacana Hills. Boyd was a
strong supporter of secession and represented the Nineteenth
Senatorial District in the Ninth Legislature (1862-63). He was a
Cumberland Presbyterian. He gave 1,100 acres and a cash donation
for the founding of Trinity University at Tehuacana. Boyd died
in Limestone County in 1873.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Memorial and Biographical History of
Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone, and Leon
Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893). Texas House of Representatives
Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and
Congresses, 1832-1845