CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

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Captain Alfred Andrew Boyd

(1) Jennie Wicker (2) Fannie Lamkin (3) Gussie Lamkin

"Capt. Alfred Andrew Boyd, of Summit, a veteran of Hardcastle's Battalion, Mississippi infantry, was born at Matagorda, Texas., 10 August 1842.  His parents, Alfred G. Boyd, born near Wilmington, Delaware and Anna Whitehead, a native of England, moved to Texas in 1839, and in 1846 to Memphis, Tenn., where the father died in 1852.

Captain Boyd was educated at Petersburg, Va., and Summit, Miss., and left his studies at the latter place to enlist in McNair Rifles, under Capt. R. H. McNair, afterward known as Company E of the Third Mississippi Battalion, Maj. A. B. Hardcastle commanding. This famous Battalion was organized at Jackson in December, 1861; proceeded to Bowling Green, Ky., and returning after the fall of Fort Donelson, did gallant service at the battle of Shiloh, where Mr. Boyd, then a private, was struck on the breast my a minie-ball, but saved from serious injury by the interposition of a notebook in his pocket.  He went through the campaign about Corinth during Halleck's siege, took part in Bragg's Kentucky campaign, including the Battle of Perryville, and the battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga.

At Dalton, Ga., prior to the Atlanta campaign, he was elected captain of his company. In May and June, 1864, he fought with his command from Dalton to New Hope Church and Kennesaw Mountain, and on the latter line was captured. Then being sent north, he was held at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, for a period of eleven months, until the close of the war. On his return to Mississippi, he was occupied as a clerk until 1882. Then being elected mayor, he served until 1883, when he was elected sheriff of Pike county, a position he filled with general satisfaction and much credit to himself for thirteen years.

In February of 1896, he organized the bank of Summit, of which he was elected cashier.  In this capacity he is yet acting, contributing in no slight degree to the success of the institution.  Captain Boyd was married in 1864 to Jennie Wicker, who died in 1874; afterward wedded Fannie Lamkin, who died in 1884, and in 1895 married Gussie Lamkin, his present wife. He has a daughter and two sons living."

Source: "Confederate Military History," Edited by General Clement A. Evans (1833-1911), Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate Publishing Company, 1899. Vol 8, Mississippi."

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