{"id":1309,"date":"2016-06-25T23:25:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:06","slug":"marcellus-boyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/marcellus-boyd\/","title":{"rendered":"BOYD, Marcellus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marcellus BOYD<\/strong>, ex-clerk of the county court of Haywood Co., was born in Brownsville, Jan. 23 1839, and is the son of <strong>Alexander and Anna L. (HARRISON) Boyd<\/strong>, the father being a native of Virginia and the mother of North Carolina. His father came to Tennessee in 1832, locating at Woodville, Haywood County, where he was a merchant until he moved to Brownsville in 1838, continuing his business; but a few years before his death he moved to a farm in the county, where he died in 1846.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject was raised and educated in Haywood County and for a number of years was a book-keeper, being in the employ of <strong>R. Y. LONGLEY<\/strong> about six years prior to the war. In 1861, May 19, he married <strong>Myra HAY<\/strong>, of his county, and they have nine children living: <strong>David H., Susan, Charles A., William S., Lucian B., Frank H., Dora A.,<\/strong> <strong>Myra B<\/strong>., and <strong>Mary A<\/strong>. In 1865 he was deputy county court clerk; then moved to his farm four miles south of town, where he has since resided.<\/p>\n<p>In August, 1878, he was elected county court clerk, which he held by re-election, two terms of four years each, the last term expiring in September, 1886, and made a most efficient officer. He has always been a Republican. Mr. Boyd has conducted his farming interest very successfully and justly earned the reputation of being of Haywood County&#8217;s most reliable and public-spirited citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Pub. Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood and Crockett Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcellus BOYD, ex-clerk of the county court of Haywood Co., was born in Brownsville, Jan. 23 1839, and is the son of Alexander and Anna L. (HARRISON) Boyd, the father being a native of Virginia and the mother of North Carolina. His father came to Tennessee in 1832, locating at Woodville, Haywood County, where he &#8230; <a title=\"BOYD, Marcellus\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/marcellus-boyd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about BOYD, Marcellus\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1403],"tags":[4572,4578,4576,4582,4581,4580,4571,4584,4583,4577,4579,4573,4575,4574],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haywood","tag-boyd-alexander","tag-boyd-charles-a","tag-boyd-david-h","tag-boyd-dora-a","tag-boyd-frank-h","tag-boyd-lucian-b","tag-boyd-marcellus","tag-boyd-mary-a","tag-boyd-myra-b","tag-boyd-susan","tag-boyd-william-s","tag-harrison-anna-l","tag-hay-myra","tag-longley-r-y"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}