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Wyatt P. Boyd ~ Elizabeth Morris

Caldwell County, KY

BOYD, WYATT P. was born in Caldwell County, Ky., June 20, 1837.  His father, JOHN P. BOYD, was also a native of Caldwell County, where he spent the greater part of his life as a farmer.  He was a very successful man and accumulated a large estate, but sustained heavy losses during the war, having been a large slave-holder.  He was born in 1809, and died August 17, 1877.  His wife, SARAH P. BOYD, was a daughter of James RUCKER, of Virginia, one of the early successful farmers of Caldwell County.  She died February 3,1870, at the age of sixty-eight years.  WYATT P. BOYD is the second of a family of six children, named as follows: CHARLES M., deceased; W. P.; L. M., wife of J. W. Satterfield; CHARLES C., deceased; FRANCES E., wife of A. E. Jacobs; and F. R., merchant in Princeton.  Our subject enjoyed good educational advantages in his youth, attending the common schools of the county, and later the Cumber- land College, where he remained for a period of three years.  He commenced farming in Caldwell County on attaining his majority, continued about six years, and at the end of that time removed to Christian County and went into the mercantile business near Hopkinsville, where he sold goods for about the same length of time.  He discontinued merchandising on account of failing health and came back to Caldwell County and engaged in farming and stock raising on his present farm, four miles and a half south of Princeton.  Mr. Boyd owns a farm of 200 acres, the greater part of which is under a high state of cultivation.  December 21, 1858, he was married to Miss ELIZABETH MORRIS, daughter of Amon and Permelia (Pickering) Morris, by whom he has four children: VICTORIA, wife of J. T. Parker; CHARLES D., MINNIE LEE and IDA.  Mr. Boyd takes an active part in religious matters, having been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for over thirty-three years. His wife is also a member of the same church.

Source: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885 Caldwell Co.

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