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John Boyd ~(1) Mildred Goodall  ( 2) Mrs. Elizabeth (Gracey) Henry

  Lyon Co; KY

JOHN BOYD, ex-county sheriff of Lyon County and Mayor of Eddyville, was born in Caldwell Co., KY 10 May 1832. His grandfather, of Irish descent, was a native of Virginia, and his father, John Boyd was also a native of that state. John Boyd, senior, came to KY as a boy and was reared in Barren Co. He was a farmer by occupation and settled in Caldwell County where he reared his family before moving to Lyon County.  John Boyd, senior, died at the age of seventy years.  He was a member of the Baptist Church.  He married Mildred Goodall, a native of Lyon Co.,  daughter of John Goodall who was a KY pioneer.  Mildred Goodall Boyd lived to the age of sixty-five years.  John and Mildred Boyd were the parents of twelve children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood.  Three of their children were still living in 1904; James Boyd of Eddyville, Mary, the widow of Jacob Young of Eddyville, and John Boyd of this commentary.

John Boyd, the seventh child and fifth son of his parents, was reared in Caldwell Co. for the first fifteen years of his life, spending that time on a farm and in country schools. He then went to Pittsfield, Pike Co., Illinois, where he attended school and remained for about five years. John Boyd returned to Lyon Co. and clerked in a dry-goods store at Eddyville, until 1861. He was appointed deputy sheriff in that year, and after three years of faithful service was elected, in 1964, as sheriff of Lyon Co. He was re-elected in 1866 and served the full limit of years allowed by law. John Boyd gave the people one of the most satisfactory administrations ever known.  In 1873 and again in 1875 he was again elected to this responsible position. Showing how well the citizens appreciated his former administration. He has been a successful and enter- prising 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.

John Boyd married in 1872 to Mrs. Elizabeth (Gracey) Henry, widow of Uriah Henry. Elizabeth Gracey Boyd was born in Eddyville, the daughter of Matthew and Maria Gracey, pioneers of Lyon Co. John and Elizabeth had two daughters, Maria and Bessie, both still at home. John Boyd owns a farm of two hundred acres and is still engaged in the management of this property, although he has given up the more strenuous labor of his earlier years. He is now able to enjoy a fitting repose from toil.  He has been a life-long Democrat and is well known and popular in the country where he has spent nearly all his life.

Source: Memorial Record of Western Kentucky. Lewis Pub. Co., 1904, pp 789-791

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