John Boyd Ill (1832 - 1911)

Born 10 May 1832 in Caldwell County, Kentucky

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Gracey) Boyd — married 12 Mar 1872 in Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky

Died 13 Apr 1911 at age 78 in Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 3rd ed. 1886. Lyon Co.

JOHN BOYD was born May 10, 1832, in Caldwell County, Kentucky, and is a son of John and Mildred (Goodall) Boyd. The father came with his parents to Barren County, Kentucky from Virginia, and was raised on a farm; with two of his brothers, came to Lyon, then part of Caldwell County. He acquired a large property, and died in 1863; his wife died two years previous. They had twelve children, three living: Mary A. (Young), James, and John, who is the seventh child. He was educated in the local schools, and at Pittsfield, Ill., where he lived four years with a sister. At nineteen, he returned to Kentucky and clerked two years for William Long. He next was appointed deputy sheriff under his brother-in-law, J. T. Young, from 1861to 1864, at a time when such was the danger to life that none could be found willing to take the office. In March, 1864, he was appointed sheriff by the court, and in August of the same year; was re-elected in 1868-72-74. Since going out of office in 1876, he has been variously engaged in trading and speculating. March 12, 1872, he married Eliza Henry, nee Gracy. They are blessed with two children, Marie and Bessie. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are highly respected in the community.

Boyd Goodall Young Long Henry Gracy = Caldwell-KY Barren-KY VA Pittsfield-Pike-IL

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• 1. http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/lyon/boyd.j.txt

Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 789-791 [Lyon]

JOHN BOYD, ex-county sheriff of Lyon county and mayor of Eddyville, was born in Caldwell county, Kentucky, May 10, 1832. His grandfather, of Irish descent, was a native of Virginia, and his father, John Boyd, was also a native of that state, and came in boyhood to Kentucky, being reared in Barren county. He was a farmer by occupation, and settled in Caldwell county, where he reared his family, and afterward moved to Lyon county, where he died at the age of seventy years. He was a member of the Baptist church. He married Mildred Goodall, a native of Lyon county and a daughter of John Goodall, who was a Kentucky pioneer. She lived to the age of sixty-five years. They were the parents of twelve children, all but one of whom grew up, but only three are living: James, of Eddyville; Mary, the widow of Jacob Young, of Eddyville; and John. John Boyd, the seventh child and fifth son of his parents, was reared in Caldwell county for the first fifteen years of his life, spending that time on a farm and in the country schools. He then went to Pittsfield, Pike county, Illinois, where he attended school and remained about five years. He then returned to Lyon county and clerked in a dry-goods store at Eddyville, until 1861. He was appointed deputy sheriff in that year, and after three years' faithful service in that capacity was elected, in 1864, sheriff of Lyon county, receiving a re-election in 1866, so that he served the full period limited by law in that office, and gave the people one of the most satisfactory administrations ever known. In 1873 and in 1875 he was again elected to this responsible position, which shows how well the citizens appreciated his former business, and has been a successful and enterprising man. In 1893 he was elected mayor of Eddyville for a term of four years, and was re-elected for a similar term. He did much for municipal improvement and progress during his tenure of the chief executive position, and his administration is remembered as connected with much benefit to the town. Mr. Boyd was married in 1872 to Mrs. Elizabeth (Gracey) Henry, the widow of Uriah Henry. She was born in Eddyville, a daughter of Matthew and Maria Gracey, pioneers of Lyon county. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have two daughters, Maria and Bessie, both at home. Mr. Boyd owns a farm of two hundred acres, and he is still engaged in the management of this property, although he has given up the more strenuous labor of his earlier years, being now enabled to enjoy a fitting repose from toil. He has been a life-long Democrat, and is well known and popular in the county where he has spent nearly all his life.

Boyd Goodall Young Gracey Henry=Caldwell-KY Ireland VA Barren-KY Pike-IL http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/lyon/boyd.j2.txt

John Boyd Birth: May 10, 1832 Death: Apr. 13, 1911

Burial: Hickory Grove Cemetery Eddyville Lyon County Kentucky, USA

Created by: Muriel Brooks Record added: Dec 08, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 139758795 John Boyd Added by: Brenda Hatfield