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Famous
Boyd Graves
Johnny Boyd - Race Car Driver
Birth: 19 August 1926, Fresno, Fresno Co., California
Death: 26 October 2003, Fresno, Fresno Co., California
Race Car Driver. Johnny Boyd was a 12 time starter of the Indianapolis 500 (1955-1966), finishing in the top 10 five times with 3rd being his best finish in 1958. During the 1955 race he was involved in a spectacular accident with Rodger Ward and Al Keller that caused him to barrel roll down the backstretch into the path of his close friend Bill Vukovich, resulting in the death of the two time 500 winner. Despite sliding upside down for several hundred feet and being pinned in his overturned car, Boyd was not injured. The native Californian began his racing career in 1946 driving midgets on the West coast before moving to the AAA (later USAC) Championship and Sprint divisions in 1954. He was the 1951 Bay Area Racing Association Midget Champion, a member of the exclusive Champion Spark Plug 100 Mile an Hour Club and the Indianapolis 500 Old-timers Club. Johnny Boyd was a great ambassador for the sport of auto racing and will be missed. Buried: Clovis Cemetery, Clovis, Fresno Co., California.
Frank Jay Boyd - Major League Baseball Player
Birth: 02 April 1868, West Middletown, Washington Co., Pennsylvania
Death: 16 December 1937, Oil City, Venango Co., Pennsylvania
Major League Baseball Player. Played Major League baseball as a catcher for two games during the 1893 season for the Cleveland Blues of the National League. Buried: St Josephs Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co., Pennsylvania
Robert Richard "Rope" Boyd - Professional Baseball Player
Birth: 01 October 1925, Potts Camp, Mississippi
Death: 07 September 2004, Wichita, Kansas
Professional Baseball Player. A native of Potts Camp, Mississippi, the 5'10, and 170lbs, Boyd first played baseball with the Memphis Red Sox in the Negro League from 1947 to 1949. In 1950 he signed up to play in the major leagues and made his debut on September 8, 1951, and played his final game on September 24, 1951. Boyd played with the Chicago White Sox in 1951, 1953, and 1954, Baltimore Orioles from 1956 to 1960, Kansas City Athletics in 1961, and the Milwaukee Braves in 1961. Boyd passed away in Wichita, Kansas, in September 2004 at the age of 78.
Stewart "Specky" Boyd - Organized Crime Figure
Birth: 1963
Death: 28 June 2003
Organized crime figure. Known as “Specky” he was a drug lord that operated out of the Royal Oak pub in Nitshill, Glasgow. Specky and his thugs were responsible for a series of murders and disappearances over the past two decades. He had links dating back to the times of Arthur ‘The Godfather’ Thompson Sr., the right-hand man to jailed drug baron John Healy and enforcer for exiled Guardian security firm boss Paul Johnston. He was cleared of murdering Paisley gangster Mark Rennie and jailed for intimidating witnesses on behalf of his masters at another trial. He was killed in a fiery car crash in Malaga, Spain that also killed his daughter, Anne Nicola Gadin, her friend, Louise Anne Douglas, and his girlfriend Catherine’s 3 yr. old daughter, Helen Lindsay. He was laid to rest after a service at this father's council house in Priesthill, Glasgow. Hundreds of mourners lined Nitshill Road in Glasgow's south side to say farewell to one of the city's most feared crime chiefs. Buried: Neilston Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland.
David French Boyd - Civil War Figure, University President
Birth: 04 October 1834
Death: 27 May 1899
Civil War Figure, University President. Professor at Louisiana Military Academy and personal friend to William Tecumseh Sherman.
Confederate commissary officer with the Army of Northern Virginia; resigned May 1863. He built Fort De Russey on the Red River.
Then served on engineer duty in Louisiana. Post-War President of Louisiana State University for thirty years, brigadier general in the Egyptian Army, president of a military school near Cairo. Memoirs have been published. Considered a pioneer of public education in the South, especially of industrial and technical education. LSU alumni erected a memorial hall to his memory.
Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
Eva Narcissus "Little Eva" Boyd - Singer
Birth: 29 June 1943
Death: 10 April 2003
Singer. Born in Bellhaven, North Carolina, at the age of 19, while earning extra money as a babysitter, she was asked by the writing team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin to record a song they had written. The song was called "Locomotion" and became a big hit for Boyd who changed her name to "Little Eva". In 1962 she recorded the song, "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby" and in 1963 she recorded, "Old Smokey Loco-Motion". In 1963 she also recorded the song, "Let's Turkey Trot" which was a Top 20 hit, and one of her last. She sang backup for the likes of Ben E. King and "The Drifters". She continued her singing career until she was forced to quit in October 2001. Cause of death: Cancer. Buried: Belhaven Community Cemetery, Belhaven, Beaufort Co., North Carolina
George Arthur Boyd-Rochfort - World War I Victoria Cross Recipient
Birth: 01 January 1880
Death: 07 August 1940
World War I Victoria Cross Recipient. Born at Middleton Park, County Westmeath, Ireland, he was the eldest son of Major Rochfort Hamilton Boyd. His father died when George was 11, and terms of the will stated that the boys would henceforth be named Boyd-Rochfort. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge (where he was Master of Beagles), and upon graduation took up residence at the family manor and ran the family estates. He spent his leisure time big-game hunting, racing (he rode the winners of the Westmeath Gold Cup and National Hunt Cup), and playing polo. In the last week of August 19194 he was seriously injured in a polo match which resulted in a lengthy hospital stay. He was not able to consider enlisting until 1915, but when he was finally fit enough he was initially rejected due to varicose veins. After surgery to correct the problem he was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Boyd-Rochfort was awarded the V.C. for action in trenches south of the La Bassée Canal between La Bassée and Cambrin, France, August 3, 1915. At about 0200 hours Boyd-Rochfort was in charge of a work detail assigned to improve a communications trench when a German trench-mortar shell landed on the edge of the trench parapet beside a group of workers. Boyd-Rochfort shouted a warning, ran toward the group, grabbed the shell, and heaved it back over the parapet. It blew up almost immediately, nearly burying Boyd-Rochfort and the other members of the detail. Fortunately, no one was hurt; the only loss was Boyd-Rochfort’s hat. With classic British understatement, Boyd-Rochfort was later quoted as saying, "My men were very appreciative of my action and cheered and thanked me". Boyd- Rochfort was later promoted to Captain and served as Adjutant of the Guards Division. After the war he concentrated on raising horses at Middleton Park, breeding the winners of the 1936 St. Leger and 1937 Ascot Gold Cups. His brother, Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, served for a time as horse-trainer to the King. George Arthur Boyd-Rochfort died from complications after surgery in a Dublin private nursing facility. His medals are on display at the Scots Guards RHQ, Wellington Barracks, London. Buried: Castletown Old Churchyard, Castletown, Gheoghegan, Ireland
More Famous BOYDs Graves:
James E. Boyd
Mayor of Omaha, Neb., 1881-1883,1885-1887.
Governor of Nebraska,1891, 1892-1893.
Burial: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
Jim Boyd
Birth: Sep. 28, 1914
Death: Mar. 11, 1993
Country Western Radio and Television performer. He recorded about 300
songs from 1934-51 with his brother Bill and the "Cowboy Ramblers." He
performed at the Grand Ole Opry, with the Sons of the Pioneers and Roy
Rogers. He appeared in the 1942 film "Tumbleweed Trail" starring his
brother. Burial: Restland Memorial Park, Richardson, Dallas County, Texas, USA
John McNeil Boyd
Birth: 1812
Death: Feb. 9, 1861
Captain of HMS Ajax. Died trying to save his men during shipwreck caused
by a hurricane. Burial: Saint Columb's Cathedral, Londonderry, Londonderry, England.
John R. Boyd
Birth: 1835
Death: 1862
CCL. C.S.A. Killed at the first battle of Independence, MO; was a Lt.
Col. in the 5th Division; 1st Infantry 1st Battalion under Brigadier
General Alex Early Steen. Burial:Woodlawn Cemetery, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Linn Boyd
Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Burial:Oak Grove Cemetery, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, USA
Sir John Alexander Boyd
Birth: 1837
Death: Nov. 23, 1916
President of the High Court of Justice and the last Chancellor of
Ontario, Canada. Burial:Toronto Necropolis and Crematorium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Thomas Boyd
Birth: 1756
Death: 1779
Lieutenant Boyd was a victim of Indian torture.
Burial: Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
William Boyd
Birth: Jun. 5, 1895 Cambridge, Ohio, USA
Death: Sep. 12, 1972
Actor. Famed for the role of "Hopalong Cassidy" in numerous Westerns. A Memorial marker in Cambridge, Ohio's Park Elementary School for him reads "Loved and remembered by faithful fans as America's favorite cowboy, William Lawrence Boyd "Hopalong Cassidy", 1895-1972. Burial: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale),Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Non-Famous Graves:
2797 total matches for the surname BOYD, 11 matches for BOID, 99 matches
for BOYDE, 70 matches for BOYT, 50 matches for BOYTE, and many more varients of the surname BOYD.
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