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 Charles M. Boyd

Platte City, Missouri

THE SHOOTING OF C. M. BOYD
 

February 1, 1868---Charles M. Boyd was killed by Joseph Boyd (not related). The two occupied the same house on main Street, opposite the court-house, in Platte City, Missouri. Joseph Boyd's store was below, and Charles M. Boyd, with his family, occupied the upper rooms. An outside stairway led to the street. Joseph Boyd, having missed some of his goods, secreted himself in his store, by night, to shoot the robber, if he should again visit the house. About ten o'clock two shots were heard, the window lights in the front door were blown out, and C.M. Boyd was found dead, on the stairway leading to his rooms. Joseph Boyd testified that he had shot him when in the act of entering the store. Nothing was done, but much scandal was freely spoken.

Charles M. Boyd was the son of Judge John R. Boyd and Harriet Henderson of
Tennessee. He was born September 29, 1838; married August 13, 1865; Edmonia Cannon, of Platte City. He was a young lawyer of ability and untiring enterprise, and a trusted leader of the Radical party. His mother was a Henderson, and her family embraces some of the best citizens of Platte. Her father was John Henderson of Charlottesville, Virginia, a lawyer, who married Anna B. Hudson. The family went to Kentucky and thence on to Platte City.

Charles had one brother, Dr. John R. Boyd, a dentist of Leavenworth. He had two sisters: Georgia A. Boyd who married Stephen Johnston; and S. Emma Boyd who married first a man by the name of Mulhurn and 2nd Perry Keith. Charles' wife Edmonia Cannon was the daughter of Eliza (Beckum) Hodge and William M. Cannon.

Charles M. Boyd was enrolled as an attorney, August 5th, 1862. He lost an election for Treasurer in November, 1864. He lost again in November 1866 to
G.W. Belt, 798 votes to Boyd's 630 votes. The elections were contested: "The
cases of C.M.  Boyd vs G.W. Belt (treasurer), of M. Miles vs Isaac Dean (super- visor of registration), of D.W. Moore vs D.P. Lewis (county clerk), and F. Luthy vs J.A. Stone (assessor), were heard by the circuit court and dismissed."

In 1866, the [Candidate] Registration gives displeasure to both parties. Durbin is condemned more by the Radicals than by the Conservatives. Durbin is a candidate for the Legislature, and charges that his party are conspiring to drop him and take up A.G. Brown. He charges Brown and C.M. Boyd with duplicity.
[Annals of Platte County, Missouri, W.M. Paxton, 1897]

[Now I don't know about anybody else but I think by reading the above that Charles M. Boyd may have been set up and gotten out of the way for political
reasons.  Charles seems to be an honest, upstanding man and it would have been out of character for him to be stealing from Joseph Boyd.] RGB

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