{"id":3144,"date":"2022-01-10T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:28:14","slug":"boyd-d-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/boyd-d-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyd, D. A."},"content":{"rendered":"

D. A. Boyd<\/strong>, a farmer of Lauderdale County, is a son of George and Mary
\n(Halley) Boyd. His father was born in Halifax County, Va., in 1800, and his
\nmother in Mecklenburg County, Va., in 1801; they were married about 1825, and
\nseven sons and two daughters were born to them. Mr. Boyd, Sr., was in the war
\nof 1812, was not connected with any church, in politics was an old line Whig,
\nand died in 1855. Mrs. Boyd was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church; she
\ndied in 1870. Our subject was of Scotch-Irish descent, born in Halifax County,
\nVa., in February, 1830, was raised on a farm, and received a good education.
\nMarch, 1850, he married Miss Mary Gravatt, who was born in Halifax County,
\nVa., in 1835. Nine of the twelve children born to this marriage are living. In
\n1857, he moved to Haywood County, Tenn., and in 1862 to Lauderdale County,
\nwhere he has since engaged in farming. Mrs. Boyd is a Primitive Baptist; he is
\na member of the Methodist Church South. Before the war Mr. Boyd was a Whig,
\nand has since been a Republican. In 1881, he represented Lauderdale County in
\nthe Legislature, serving two years. He owns 275 acres of good land, and also
\nruns a cotton-gin. As a farmer he has been quite successful, and is considered
\none of the substantial and enterprising citizens of his district. He is a
\nmember of the Masonic lodge.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

D. A. Boyd, a farmer of Lauderdale County, is a son of George and Mary (Halley) Boyd. His father was born in Halifax County, Va., in 1800, and his mother in Mecklenburg County, Va., in 1801; they were married about …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-boyd"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}