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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779 Contact Us: RichBoyd@Speednetllc.com |
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John M. Boyd ~ Marion Hopson Trigg Co; KY JOHN M. BOYD was born April 2, 1846, in Trigg County. He is the eldest of a family of nine children born to WILLIAM and HARRIET (GRAY) BOYD. The father was born in Halifax County, Va.; he died November 18, 1877, aged sixty-three. The mother was born in 1826, in Tennessee, and is now living in this precinct. John M., in 1869, secured a position as clerk in a warehouse at Canton, where he remained about one year. He then bought an interest in a saw-mill in Canton, and operated it about four years; after which, a grist-mill was attached and run about three years. He then engaged in merchandising about four years. In September 1882, he removed to his present locality, having built a grist-mill that fall at a cost of about $6,000. Mr Boyd was married, in 1871, to MARION HOPSON, of Trigg County. This union has been bless with two daughters. Mr and Mrs Boyd are members of the Baptist Church. Source: History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin, F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884
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