TENNESSEE
Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 3
A.M. BOYD - cotton commission
firm
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PROFESSOR WHARTON STEWART
JONES. On the 20th of December. 1888,
Professor Jones was united
in marriage to MISS MATTIE BOYD, a native of
Memphis and a graduate of
Vassar College. They are parents of two
daughters: Mrs.Martha Wharton
Jones, who is the wife of William A. Jones
of Memphis, who though of
the same name was not a relative; and Mrs.
Mary Wharton Ramsey, the wife
of Howard E. Ramsey, also of this city.
The social position of the
family is an enviable one, particularly in
those circles where intelligence
is considered a necessary attribute to
agreeableness.
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FRANK BOYD. One of the prominent
attorneys of Waynesboro is Frank Boyd,
who was born at Vesuvius,
Ohio, on the 30th of July, 1859, a son of G.
W. and ANN (SONGER) BOYD.
Mr. Boyd was born in western Pennsylvania in
1827 and his wife was born
in Virginia. On the 22d of May, 1883, was
celebrated the marriage of
FRANK BOYD to MISS LAURA E. HALLELL, a
daughter of A. T. and Eliza
Hassell, prominent residents of Waynesboro.
Mrs Boyd is a woman of much
culture and refinement, a descendant of John
Sevier and Francis Marion,
on her mother's side. She is prominent in the
social circles of Waynesboro
and Wayne county, and was an interested and
efficient coworker with her
husband in every duty performed by him
during the World war. In the
acquirement of his preliminary education
Frank Boyd attended the public
schools of Wayne county and at the age of
fifteen years engaged in teaching
school. He taught for one year and
then entered Mars Hill College
near Florence, Alabama, for four terms.
He taught during vacations
in Wayne and Shelby counties and in 1879 took
up the study of law in the
office of Alex W. Campbell and Judge Howell
E. Jackson, in Jackson, Tennessee.
In 1880 he graduated from the legal
department of Cumberland University
at Lebanon, and the following year
commenced practice in Waynesboro.
In a profession where advancement
depends upon individual merit
he has achieved substantial success and
stands high among the foremost
members of the Tennessee bar. In 1894 he
was elected attorney general
for the eleventh judicial district of
Tennessee, composing Maury,
Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Hardin and Wayne
counties. He was active in
that office eight years, serving with
distinction. He has always
been a stanch democrat and was elected to the
senate in the fifty-seventh
general assembly of Tennessee in 1910,
representing Lawrence and
Wayne counties.While a member of the assembly
he served as chairman of the
committee on the refunding of the state
debt. He was democratic elector
on the Cleveland-Thurman presidential
election ticket in 1892, for
the seventh congressional district of this
state. Frank Boyd is now,
however, devoting his entire time to his
profession and business interests.
He was one of the original promoters
of the first telephone line
in Wayne county and the first turnpike since
the Civil war. He was likewise
a dominant factor in the establishment of
the first bank in Waynesboro.
In 1885 he became superintendent of
schools of Wayne county and
served in that important position two terms.
He is now a member of the
board of directors of the Wayne County
College. Frank Boyd was one
of the most effective war workers in Wayne
county and throughout the
state. He put all personal interests aside in
order to devote the greater
part of his time to the promotion of the
government's interests. He
was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board of
Wayne county; chairman of
the War Savings Committee; of the Wayne County
Chapter, American Red Cross;
of the Near East Relief Committee; of the
United War Workers Campaign;
the Y. M. C. A. War Work Council; the
European Relief Council; and
of the Four-Minute men. His activities have
always touched the general
interests of society and he is widely known
as a cooperant factor in many
projects relating to the social,
intellectual and moral progress
of the community, as well as to its
material development. In 1907
he published “The Cropper and Other
Poems.” He is a forceful writer
and has in course of preparation other
volumes.
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Jeffie Lee Holding, daughter
of Dr. Samual Holding, wife of E. B. BOYD of
New York city.
...............
Olive DRANE, who was born
November 2, 1858, and was twice married. Her
first husband was George H.Johnson
and to their union three children
were born, William Hudson
of Tishomingo, Oklahoma,being the only one
living. Her second marriage
was to DR. BUTLER BOYD and no children were
born to that union.
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WILLIAM DEXTER PADGET, M.
D. For some time Dr. William Dexter Padget has
successfully engaged in practice
in Lenoir City. A native of James
county, his birth occurred
on the 8th of November, 1873, and he is a son
of Benjamin and Hattie (McNair)
Padget. His paternal grandparents were
Elias and Elizabeth (Wells)Padget
of North Carolina, while the maternal
grandparents were R.L. and
ELIZA (BOYD) MCNAIR of Tennessee.
Source: Moore, John Trotwood
and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee, The
Volunteer State, 1769-1923,
Vol. 3. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
1923.
Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 4
JAMES BARNA WITHERINGTON, M.
D.- James Barna Witherington of Munford,
Tipton county, Tennessee,
was born in Shelby County,Tennessee, on the
7th of December, 1854, the
oldest of eight children of Daniel Mordecai
and Sarah(Gillespie) Witherington.
His maternal grandparents were JAMES
and SARAH (BOYD) GILLESPIE,
natives of South Carolina.
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IRVIN SUTHERLAND SAXTON -
One of the prominent young attorneys at the
Knoxville bar is Irvin Sutherland
Saxton, member of the law firm of
Wright, Wright & Saxton.
He was born in this city on the 7th of March,
1891, a son of HENRY NEVETT
and SARAH SUTHERLAND (BOYD)SAXTON. On the
paternal side he is descended
from English ancestry, three or four
generations of the family
coming to this country together about 1873.
The paternal grandfather,
Henry Nevett Saxton, Sr., was born in England
and was one of those who came
to this country with his family in 1873.
He first located in Minnesota,
residing in that state until sometime
after 1880, when he came to
Tennessee. His death occurred in December,
1913. Henry Nevett Saxton,
Jr.,was born in London, England, in 1865, and
was brought to this country
by his parents. He is now living in
Knoxville and is active in
the conduct of a lumber business. His wife,
SARAH SUTHERLAND (BOYD) SAXTON
died in 1912. She was a native of
Knoxville, and a daughter
of SAMUEL BECKETT BOYD, whose birth occurred
on the 3d of June, 1821. Mrs.
Saxton was socially prominent and she was
an active member of the Daughters
of the American Revolution,being
entitled to membership in
that organization through an ancestor, Moses
Brooks, who served under George
Washington.
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HARRY ROBERTS BOYD - No member
of the Memphis bar is better known or
more highly esteemed than
Harry R. Boyd, who for thirty-two years has
successfully followed his
profession in this city, and his ability has
won for him an enviable reputation
as a corporation lawyer. He was born
in Ottawa, Illinois, November
11, 1860, of the marriage of JOSEPH and
ELVIRA (MCMILLAN) BOYD, the
former of Irish descent and the latter of
Scotch lineage. The father
was born at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and
devoted his life to the occupation
of farming. The mother was a native
of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Both are now deceased. Mrs. Boyd's father
owned the historic peach orchard
where was fought a part of the
memorable battle of Gettysburg,
one of the most notable engagements of
the Civil war. The paternal
grandfather, ROBERT BOYD, was a soldier of
the Revolutionary war. Harry
Roberts Boyd was reared at Ottawa,
Illinois, and after his graduation
from high school he became a student
at Wabash College of Indiana,
from which he won the A. B. degree in
1885, while later he received
the Master of Arts degree from that
institution. He entered the
office of Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, one of
the prominent attorneys of
Indianapolis, Indiana, and a former United
States senator. There he met
Albert J. Beveridge, who was also studying
for the law, in which he was
destined to gain a position of leadership,
while as a member of the upper
house of the national legislature he
proved himself to be a statesmen
of the highest rank.In 1886 Mr. Boyd
was admitted to the bar at
Indianapolis, where he engaged in the
practice of his profession
for four years, and in 1890 he came to
Memphis, which has since been
his home. He has proven his ability to
handle important litigated
interests and has built up a large clientele,
being retained as counsel
by many of the leading corporations of the
city. He has always been an
indefatigable worker, and not withstanding
the breadth and exactness
of his legal learning and his facility in
applying the same,he has never
been known to present a case before court
or jury without preparation
as thorough astime and means rendered
possible. On the 11th of November,
1889, Mr. Boyd was married to MISS
MARGARET BAIRD,, a native
of Chicago,Illinois. She is a member of the
Nineteenth Century Club and
is also active in social and religious
circles of Memphis. The 11th
of November, Armistice Day, will ever be a
memorable date in the history
of this nation, and is a particularly
significant one in the lives
of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, for both were born on
this date, chose this date
on which to begin their married life, and it
was also the birthday of the
minister who performed the ceremony. They
have become the parents of
a daughter, MARGARET, a graduate of Vassar
College, who is now the wife
of GEORGE GUNTHER, a prominent cotton buyer
and a member of the firm of
M. H. Gunther & Company of Memphis.Mr. Boyd
is fond of hunting and is
an expert marksman, bringing down many ducks,
geese and quail during the
season. His leisure hours are spent chiefly
in the open and he is a member
of the Memphis Country Club and also of
several other outing clubs,
while he is likewise connected with the
University Club of Chicago.
He is a Knights Templar Mason and in the
consistory he has taken the
thirty-second degree, while he has also
crossed the sands of the desert
with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He
is a past Noble Grand of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and his
religious faith is indicated
by his membership in the First Presbyterian
church of this city. His professional
ability led to his selection for
the office of president of
the Memphis Bar Association, in which
capacity he was retained for
five years, and he is also identified with
the Tennessee State and American
Bar associations. He gives his best
efforts to his profession,
in which he has steadily progressed, making
good use of his time, talents
and opportunities, and he is conceded to
be one of the most talented
members of the Memphis bar.
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ABRAHAM WEATHERLY BOYD, M.
D.- Dr. Abraham Weatherly Boyd, a member of
the medical profession at
Chattanooga, who in recent years has devoted
his time and efforts to a
mastery of the disease known as pellagra,
becoming a recognized authority
in this branch of medical science, was
born in Bradley county, Tennessee,
March 16, 1860. His father, JOHN
WESLEY BOYD, was a native
of McMinn county, Tennessee, and a wagon maker
by trade. In the days of the
secession movement he was a strong union
man but when the state decided
to leave the Union he felt it to be his
duty to follow the commonwealth.
His service in the southern army,
however, so exasperated some
of the other Union sympathizers that they
brought about his assassination
in 1864. He was a son of MICAJAH and
MARY (BARBE) BOYD and the
latter was a daughter of Colonel Abraham Barbe
of McMinn county, who organized
a company of cavalry for service in the
War of 1812. Both the Boyd
and Barbe families were pioneer planters of
Tennessee, descended from
still older pioneer families of other states
and both were represented
in the struggle for American independence.
Abraham Weatherly Boyd of
this review was educated in the schools of
Bradley county, Tennessee,and
of Murray county, Georgia, until he had
completed his public school
course, while later he pursued a collegiate
course in Athens, Tennessee.
He next became a student in the medical
department of the University
of Georgia and was graduated with the M. D.
degree in 1885. Two years
later he took a postgraduate course in the New
York Polyclinic and throughout
his professional career he has remained a
close and discriminating student
of medical science. He entered upon practice
as a general physician and
surgeon and won creditable success in that field
but during the last few years
has been devoting all of his time and talent to
the study of pellagra, a disease
which has been scourging the south and which
up to a few years ago was
unknown to the profession as to cause or cure. Dr.
Boyd's researches, however,
have resulted in the discovery of a
cure in connection with which
he has established a laboratory for its
manufacture. In this respect
his work is of vast benefit to his
fellowmen, his contribution
to medical science being most valuable. In
1897, in Whitfield county,
Georgia, Dr. Boyd was married to MISS ELLA
WELLS, a daughter of Dr. W.B.
and Mary (Pope) Wells, the former a
surgeon of the Confederate
army during the Civil war and afterward a
leading and successful practitioner
of surgery in Chattanooga. Her
ancestors in both the paternal
and maternal lines were prominent in the
several communities in which
they lived. One of the family was the Hon.
D. H. Pope, a distinguished
attorney of Albany and a brother of Mrs.
Wells. Mrs. Boyd died from
an accident, in March, 1922. She was at one
time president of the Francis
M. Walker Chapter of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy and president
of the St. Elmo Book Club. She also
occupied the presidency of
the Parent-Teachers' Association of
Chattanooga and was a lady
of marked popularity and prominence in
connection with the social
as well as civic interests of the city. By
her marriage she became the
mother of one son, DAVID HUEL, who was
educated at the Baylor school,
at the Georgia Military Academy and at
the Bliss Electrical School
of Washington, D.C. He enlisted for service
in the World war in April,
1917, was sent to Fort Oglethorpe,where he
remained until the 12th of
December, and was then transferred to Fort
Bliss, Texas, where he continued
until September, 1918. He was sent to
the Signal Officers' Training
Camp at Camp Meade, Maryland, and
commissioned a lieutenant
in December of that year. He still holds his
commission in the Officers
Reserve Corps, being attached to the
Eighty-first Reserve Division.
He is a charter member of the David King
Summers Post of the American
Legion and is a member of the Jonathan W.
Bachman Camp of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans. He is likewise a
Master Mason and member of
the Royal Arch chapter. His business
connection is that of secretary
of the Boyd Medicine Company. During the
World war, Dr. Boyd participated
in all the Liberty Loan drives and much
war work. He is a democrat,
active in support of the party yet never an
aspirant for office. He holds
membership in the Christian church, also
in the Masonic fraternity,
in which he has attained the Knight Templar
degree of the York Rite and
is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. Along
professional lines he has
membership in the Hamilton County, Tennessee
State and American Medical
associations and through the proceedings of
these bodies he keeps in touch
with the trend of modern professional
thought and progress.
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BEN R. HENDERSON -.........the
following children were born to Ben R.
and Sallie Henderson: Mrs.
J.C. BOYD of St. Louis, Missouri
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FLEMING - In the early 1870s
John M. Fleming was appointed state
superintendent of public instruction
by Governor Brown, and he
established the present school
system. He wedded ANNA HOWARD BOYD,a
daughter of JUDGE SAMUEL and
SUSAN HOWARD (MASON) BOYD, residents of
Knoxville. He is referred
to in many school histories and is given a
chapter in Temple's book,
"Men of Tennessee".
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CRABTREE - James Crabtree
was born on Lookout Mountain in 1851. He
devoted his time largely to
railroad interests in his earlier manhood,
while later he was a farmer.
By trade he was a carpenter and it was
along that line that he did
his railroad work. He was married in
Tennessee, December 23, 1873,
to Mollie McCue, who was born in Hamilton
county, in 1854. She is now
living in Chattanooga, but Mr.Crabtree
passed away in June, 1921.........To
him and his wife were born eight
children: NETTIE E. the eldest,
is the wife of J.S. BOYD, a railroad
engineer living at Chattanooga;.........
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LATTA - Fred Latta, mayor
of Columbia and active in the conduct of a
drug business here..........To
the unon of Mr. and Mrs. Latta eight
children were born: MYRTLE,
who is the wife of W.P. BOYD, well known
resident of Columbia;........
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THE MORRISTOWN NORMAL AND
INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE.
About 1900, in order to satisfy
the widespread demand for industrial
training, a trade school was
opened. At the beginning an old machine
shop near the school grounds
was rented and classes were instructed in
carpentry, molding and machine
work. In 1903 a department of domestic
science for girls was opened
in Crary Hall and subsequently the
contributions of MISSES MARY
and BELLE BOYD of Philadelphia, whose
mother gave the first money
ever donated to the school in 1881, enabled
the college officials to undertake
the erection of a modern and
commodious building two hundred
by forty feet in dimensions for the
industrial work of the school.
Source: Moore, John Trotwood
and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee, The
Volunteer State, 1769-1923,
Vol. 4. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
1923.
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KIRBY BOYD - TENNESSEE
KIRBY BOYD, who was among the first settlers and one of the commisioners
to establish Polk County, came here from Monroe County. He married
JENNIE COOPER. They were married in Monroe County, and were the parents
of a large family of children, including THOMAS J. BOYD who married
LIZZIE B. LEA, the daughter of the prominent Casewell Lea. She was
born
in Cleveland in the old Lea home. They were the parents of four Boyd
sons.
Source: Tennessee Cousins, Worth B. Ray
HAMILTON COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES
BOYD Cemetery
BOYD, Mary Mahala - Wife of
John Boyd - Died 1848
BOYD, John - Died 1848
BOYD, John, Jr. - Died Mar
5,1915
BOYD, Rebecca Rogers - Wife
of John Boyd,Jr. - d. Nov 28,1888
BOYD, John, No. 3 - Died Sept
28,1888
BOYD, Martha Adelia - b..
Feb 9,1867 - d. Jan 5,1933
BOYD, Dora Acuff
BOYD, Sallie - d. Jan 12,1901
BOYD, McKinney - d. Apr 27,1911
BOYD, Martha D. - d. Jan 5,1933
BOYD,Alexander McKinnie -
b. Feb 11,1875 - d. Apr 27,1911
BOYD, Ruthena Ellen - b. Mar
26,1838 - d. Aug 18,1887
BOYD, F. Mariou - Son -
b.Apr 28,1836 - d. June 20,1902
BOYD, J. A., infant - d.Mar
21,1858
BOYD, Ellie
BOYD, Jessie
SEAGLE, Mary E. BOYD - b.
June 22,1843 - d. Jan 12,1903
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Grainger
County, TN
WILL:
BOYD, Henry, deceased.
My niece, Lucy Angeline BOYD, money for
her education under control
of her grandfather, Edward TATE, if
she dies then goes to her
next oldest sister, Isabella Jane BOYD,
daughter of James B. BOYD,
if both die, then next oldest child;
my brother Francis BOYD in
our partnership of T & H BOYD; my wife
Jane BOYD all property left
her by her father; my infant daughter
Hester Isabella BOYD; Francis
BOYD Of McMinn County, TN & Samuel
SHIELDS of Grainger County,
my sole executors. Signed 20 Sep
1847. Also there shall
be a genteel set of tombstones over my
father and mothers graves.
Henry BOYD. Attested: John A.
McKINNY, B.E. GAINS.
Recorded 10 May 1848.
Source: Grainger
County TN Inventories of Estates and Wills,
Nov 1833- May 1852
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D.A. BOYD, a farmer of Lauderdale
County, is a son of GEORGE and MARY
(HALLEY) BOYD. His father
was born in Halifax County, Va., in 1800, and
his mother in Mecklenburg
County, Va., in 1801; they were married about
1825, and seven sons and two
daughters were born to them. Mr. Boyd, Sr.,
was in the war of 1812, was
not connected with any church, in politics
was an old line Whig, and
died in 1855. Mrs. Boyd was a member of the
Primitive Baptist Church;
she died in 1870.Our subject was
ofScotch-Irish descent, born
in Halifax County, Va., in February, 1830,
was raised on a farm, and
received a good education. March, 1850, he
married MISS MARY GRAVATT,
who was born in Halifax County, Va., in 1835.
Nine of the twelve children
born to this marriage are living. In 1857,
he moved to Haywood County,
Tenn., and in 1862 to Lauderdale County,
where he has since engaged
in farming. Mrs. Boyd is a Primitive Baptist;
he is a member of the Methodist
Church South. Before the war Mr. Boyd
was a Whig, and has since
been a Republican. In 1881, he represented
Lauderdale County in the Legislature,
serving two years. He owns 275
acres of good land, and also
runs a cotton-gin. As a farmer he has been
quite successful, and is considered
one of the substantial and
enterprising citizens of his
district. He is a member of the Masonic lodge.
Source: Goodspeed's Biographies
of Lauderdale Co., TN
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CARTER COUNTY
The first settler on Gap Creek
was Simeon Bundy, whose house stood
near the Big Spring, the head
of that stream. Matthew Talbott also lived
on Gap Creek, where he built
one of the first mills in the State.
Another was built at about
the same time, perhaps a little before, by
Baptist McNabb. It was on
Buffalo Creek near where Alexander Anderson
now lives. Charles Robertson
lived on Sinking Creek on the farm now
owned by Robert Miller. Michael
Hyder settled on Powder Branch, about a
mile from Watauga, on property
still owned by his descendants. James
Edens located near Big Spring,
on Gap Creek, above Simeon Bundy. Thomas
Gourley, WILLIAM BOYD and
Joseph Hyder also located in that vicinity.
Elizabethton - The population
of the town has never been large. In 1830
it was 136, and by 1850 it
had a little more than doubled. It is now
about 500, having increased
somewhat since the completion of the East
Tennessee & Western North
Carolina Railroad. The present business of the
town is as follows: C. P.
Toncray & Co., H. H. Snyder, W. L. Carriger &
Co. and J. J. Edens &
Son, general merchandise; W. E. Carter, drugs; A.
R. P. Toncray, Johnson &
Walters and H. C. BOYD, groceries...........
The academy incorporated
for Carter County under the act of 1806
was denominated Duffield Academy,
and George Duffield, Nathaniel Taylor,
George Williams, Alexander
Doran, John Greer. Andrew Taylor, Abraham
Henry and Reuben Thornton
were appointed trustees of the institution. At
what time a building was erected
and the school put into operation is
not known, but is was some
time about 1820. In 1838 the old building
was torn down, and a contract
for the erection of a new one upon the
same foundation was let to
P. Q. Satterfield, and Solomon Q. Sherfy. It
was not, however, until 1841
that the building, which is still standing
was completed, Meanwhile a
school had been taught in the Methodist
Church, In October, 1841,
James McLin was elected teacher. He continued
in that position about two
years, during which time the institution
experienced its greatest prosperity.
Since then schools of varying
degrees of excellence, and
of varying duration have been maintained.
From the close of the war
until 1881, the institution was under the
management of Capt. J.I.R.
BOYD, an experienced teacher and an excellent
disciplinarian........
Source: Goodspeed's History
of Carter County
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The Village
Messenger, Fayetteville, Tennessee,
Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1, 1827:
FATAL OCCURRENCE.---We regret
to state that on
the last day of the late races
at this place, Richard
BOYD, aged 13, son of Robert
BOYD of this town, in
consequence of being too near
the track was struck
by one of the horses and had
his leg very badly
fractured; surgical assistance
was promptly rendered,
but in vain. On last
Sunday he died of the lock jaw.
The unfortunate fate of this
young man prematurely
hurried to the tomb, should
operate as a caution to all
who are fond of attending
such places of amusement.
Source: Microfilm, Village
Messenger, 1823-1828 (Fayetteville TN
Newspaper)
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Lauderdale County History
.............Probably the next
settlement in the county was made in the
neighborhood of Fulton by
Samuel Givens and others in 1825-26, and the
next one in the Durhamville
neighborhood in 1826-27, by the Durhams,
Turners, Neiswongers, Rices,
Chambers and Taylors, and at about the same
time Robert C. Campbell settled
near Ashport on the Mississippi; Jacob
Boyler, settled near Ripley;
John Flippin, eleven miles north of Ripley;
Hugh Dunlap, near Double Bridges;
James Sherman, on Hatchie River, and
Stephen Blackwell, near Hurricane
Hill. Other early settlers were
Joseph Wardlaw, Benjamin Jordan,
James Blair, John Kenley, James
Bethell,Patton Chambers, Samuel
Strickland, James Saulsberry, L. H.
Dunnaway, John and Zachariah
Mitchell, John Flemming, James and John
Russell, Leonard Dunnevant,Wm.
Chambers, Zachariah Paine, John Brown,
Beverly and Wm. Watson, Richard
and Wm. Matthews, Samuel V. Gilliland,
Wm. Braden, James Crook, Cary
Alsobrook,Dickison Jennings, Jeremiah
Cheek, Claibourn Ransville,
James N. Buck, James P. and John N. Percell,
Jordan C. Cowell, H. R. Chambers,
Jesse Goodman,Jefferson Brown, John
Byrn, Robert West, Joseph
Taylor, John Rudder, W. H. Stone, Samuel C.
Loveless, James Price, Claiborn
Hutton, Thomas Fitzpatrick,R. Golden, J.
P. Fuller, R. P. Reynolds,
Wm. P. Gains, E. Stringer, Wm.McClelland and
J. Robertson. Among
those who received grants for land in the county
were the following, together
with the number of acres each received:
Henry Rutherford, 500 acres;
Griffith L. Rutherford, 3,000; ADAM BOYD,
1,000;.............
Source: Lauderdale County History
- Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887
DEATH OF SAMUEL BOYD - DEPUTY U.S. MARSHAL
A Brownsville Tragedy:
Insults Lead to Death
The Memphis Daily Avalanche
Memphis, Tennessee
February 8, 1876
The original newspaper article
can be viewed at:
http://theoldentimes.com/boydclarke.html
COALMAN
BOYD Seeks His Horse
The Memphis Daily Avalanche
May 23, 1859
The original newpaper article
can be viewed at:
http://theoldentimes.com/stray_horse.html
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NOTE:
Use this data as a finding tool,just as you would any other
secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor
listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
Thanks to Karen Schrode from Ohio, USA