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Thomas Boyd ~ Martha Daniel
Trigg
Co; KY
THOMAS BOYD
was born January 28, 1826, Halifax County, Va. He is the
youngest of a family of four children born to THOMAS and ELIZABETH
(STAMPS) BOYD, also natives of Virginia. His father died when the
subject was quite young, and in 1838 the mother emigrated with the
family to Trigg County where she died in 1877, at the hale old age of
eighty-six. The subject of this sketch was raised on his mother's
farm where he remained until the age of twenty-six, and then purchased a
farm of 127 acres and commenced life for himself. Through his own
exertions he has since increased his farm to 500 acres, where he now
resides, and also owns 250 acres elsewhere in the county and 180 acres
in Caldwell County. The home place is considered to be one of the
best in the county, and he now devotes his main attention to the raising
of live stock. He now has from fifty to seventy-five head of
short-horn cattle, forty to fifty hogs and about 150 head of sheep on
his place. At present his son Charles manages the farm, which lies
eight miles northeast of Cadiz. On January 10, 1881, he was
appointed to fill the vacancy of Sheriff, and in the following August
was elected to fill the office. He had prior to this time
collected the taxes of 1879. In August, 1882, he was re-elected,
and has since filled the office. Mr Boyd was married on October
1,1850, to MISS MARTHA DANIEL, daughter of Major George Daniel.
Mrs Boyd is a native of Trigg County, and is the mother of ten children,
six of whom - five sons and a daughter - are living.
Source:
History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884
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