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Arkansas
History
Eastern Arkansas
History
WHITE COUNTY:
MOLLIE BOBBITT, bn Gibson County, Tenn., daughter of T.J. and Elizabeth
(Wallace) Bobbitt, wife of WILLIAM BOYD, an editor of Seneca, Mo.
MONROE COUNTY
MARY V. DIAL, daughter of J.H. DIAL and Letitia Caulfield of Greene
Co;Ala, WIDOW OF DR C.H. BOYD, of Holly Grove, Ark.
Source: Biographical and
Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas. Chicago:
Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
CRAIGHEAD COUNTY:
Surveyor, T.M. BOYD, 1880-82; 1884-86.
RANDOLPH COUNTY:
LEM BOYD
INDEPENDENCE COUNTY:
ELVIRA F. DENTON, daughter of William F. Denton and Margaret F. Desha,
wife of J.P. BOYD.
JACKSON COUNTY:
CAPT. GEORGE W. HURLEY
(retired). Newport, Ark. His birth occurred in
Frederick County, Md., on the 1st of May, 1829, and he is the son of
Morris and Catherine Hurley, both natives of County Clare, Ireland. The
parents were married in their native country, and in about 1829
emigrated to America. His marriage to MRS MARY L. BOYD occurred
in 1858 Jackson, Tenn., removed with his family to White-County, Ark one
child, now deceased, was the result of this union.
T. J. WATSON, a retired
and highly respected merchant of Jackson County,
was born in Hickman County, Ky., on the 8th of December, 1845, and is a
son of E. L. and Mary (James) Watson. Mr.Watson was but nine years old
when he came to Jackson County, Ark., with his parents. Mr. Watson was
married in 1869 to Miss Elizabeth Boyd, of Jackson County, by
whom he has had five children: Kate M., Lucy, Elbert L., Bessie and
Fannie.
Source: Biographical and
Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.
Northwestern
Arkansas History
History of Benton County:
RELIGION
page 298
G. BOYD - pastor of The Elm Springs Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
J. T. BOYD - pastor of Friendship Baptist Church.
T. BOYD - preacher, Mount Vernon Baptist Church
POST-OFFICES.
page 323
FRANCIS M. BOYD, December, 1886; discontiuned September, 1887;
re-established May, 1888, FRANCIS M. BOYD.
SETTLEMENT AND
DEVELOPMENT.
page 335
Early Settlers: JOHN BOYD, one of the teamsters, is commonly
given the
honor of having driven the first team into Carroll County.
page 336
JOHN, ALEXANDER and BRUCE BOYD, and Elijah Hulsey,
brother-in-law to the
two last named, removed from Crowley's Ridge, near Helena, Ark., in
1832, and settled on Long Creek below Carrollton.
Early Mills: JOHN BOYD
built a mill on Long Creek about 1836.
EUREKA SPRINGS: Ladies'
Furnishers: MRS. M. E. BOYD
ERA OF SETTLEMENT:
First White Settler.- DAVID BOYD first set foot on the site of
Van Buren
in 1818, when cane-brake covered it, and bear, deer and wild turkey were
to be seen.
MILITARY ANNALS:
J. S. BOYD
A. J. BOYD
EARLY HISTORY AND
SETTLEMENT.
page 609
JAMES BOYD
S. P. BOYD 1840
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
EDNA P. HASH, daughter of Fielding Hash and Nancey C. Counts, wife of
WILLIS BOYD
CARROLL COUNTY.
page 1061
KIMSEY HULSEY, born in Hall County, Georgia June 14, 1830. A son of
Armistead Hulsey (native of Georgia) and FRANCES BOYD, (native of
Virginia). The family resided in Georgia until 1833 when they removed to
Arkansas, and located in what is now Boone County.
MADISON COUNTY.
page 1090
ALEXANDER DORSEY, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of
Richland Township, Madison Co., Ark., was born in Warren County, Tenn.,
in 1830, January 29, a son of Bennett and Ann (Dennis) Dorsey, who were
natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. Alexander made
his home with his parents (Madison Co; Ark.) until his marriage to Lavina
Hillis in 1854. She was born in Tennessee, and died about 1858, leaving
two children, Mary E. and Joseph. December 29, 1859 Mr. Dorsey
married ELIZA BOYD, and their marriage resulted in the birth of
four sons and four daughters.
MADISON COUNTY.
page 1114
LEVI W. ROUTH was born in Lincoln County, N.C., February 18, 1833, his
parents being Jacob and Sarah (Perkins) Routh. The father was born
in Germany in 1788, and when a year old was brought to America by his
parents, and spent his entire life in the State of our subject's birth,
dying in Catawba County in 1848. The mother was of English descent, born
in Lincoln County about 1800, and died in Catawba County in 1866.
At the age of nineteen Levi left home and worked at the carpenter's
trade in Texas. Two years later he returned to North Carolina, married, MARTHA
JOSEPHINE BOYD September 20, 1857. She was also born in Lincoln
County, N.C., her birth occurring June 28, 1837. She is of English and
German descent. He farmed there from 1856-71. He next located at
Hindsville, Ark., where he kept hotel and farmed nine years. He finally
purchased his present farm of John Carroll, and is now the owner of 244
acres, 215 being in valley land on War Eagle, two miles east of
Huntsville. Children: Allie S., wife of W. T. Brooks; Edgar A.; Cora N.;
Avery L., of California; Minnie E., Charles M. (deceased), Myrtle A.,
Nora S., Elmore (deceased) and Retta I. (deceased).
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
page 1192
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON SHIBLEY,of the firm of Shibley, Bourland &
Co.,
was born in 1840 in Ralls County, Mo., a son of HENRY and ELIZA ANN
(BOYD) Shibley. Henry, the father of our subject, was born in 1815,
in Montgomery County, N.Y., in 1839 married Miss E. A. M. BOYD,
and reared a family of seven sons and one daughter. Our subject
accompanied his parents to Crawford County in 1860.
SEBASTIAN COUNTY:
C. M. BARNES, general fire and life insurance agent, of Fort Smith, was
born in Livingston County, N.Y., August 25, 1845. His father was a
son of Henry Hogan, who was paymaster in the United States army, and was
lost at sea during the War of 1812, after which he was adopted by Gideon
Barnes, and was known as Henry Hogan Barnes. He was married to SAMANTHA
BOYD, a native of Massachusetts, where Mr. Barnes' ancestors had
located prior to the Revolution. Mr. Barnes, the father of our subject,
was a farmer and merchant by occupation. C. M. Barnes grew
to manhood in Calhoun County, Mich. In 1876, he then located
permanently in Fort Smith, where he became one of the leading citizens.
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SEBASTIAN COUNTY.
page 1379
MRS. MARCUS BOYD, step daughter of Thomas E. Wilson of Kentucky.
Source:
History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and
Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co.,
1889.
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