Clan Boyd Society,
International
MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE
ANDREW
T. BOYD is a son of JAMES BOYD, whose
father was a soldier under
Gens. George Washington and
Nathaniel Greene during the Revolutionary
war, in the battles of Monmouth
and King's Mountain, and served through
the war. James Boyd was born
in Davidson County, Tenn., and there
married ELIZABETH
HENDERSON, a native of North Carolina. The father was
a tiller of the soil and departed
this life in 1825. The mother was a
member of the Presbyterian
Church, and died in 1860. Andrew T. Boyd
began studying' medicine and
took a course of lectures at Lexington, Ky.
He afterward attended the
University of Philadelphia, Penn. He practiced
his profession successfully
for about twenty years, and then retired
from active duties. In 1879
he married MISS L. CURTHIRELL. In the late
war he was surgeon in the
Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment for one year.
He is now a Democrat, though
formerly a Whig, and belongs to the Masonic
fraternity, Royal Arch Degree.
Source: Biographical Appendix
- History of Tennessee -
Goodspeed Publishing Co.,
1886
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