{"id":3146,"date":"2022-01-10T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:29:13","slug":"boydstun-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/boydstun-william\/","title":{"rendered":"Boydstun, William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Boydstun<\/strong>, an enterprising farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in<br \/>\nCampbell County, December 1, 1816. His father, Thomas Boydstun, was born in<br \/>\nNorth Carolina, and came to Tennessee before the organization of the State,<br \/>\nsettling in the eastern part. He was married in North Carolina to Elizabeth<br \/>\nNewport, daughter of Rev. Richard Newport, a farmer and native of Virginia.<br \/>\nFive sons and six daughters were born to this marriage, our subject being the<br \/>\ntenth child. He is of English-Irish descent. His mother was born in Virginia,<br \/>\nand died in Lauderdale County, March 6, 1862; his father was a Democrat and a<br \/>\nfarmer, and died March 21, 1835. Our subject was raised on a farm, and<br \/>\nreceived only a limited education in the country schools, but by persistent<br \/>\napplication has since acquired a great deal of general information. Mr.<br \/>\nBoydstun was married in this county, August 29, 1838, to Mary Lusk, a daughter<br \/>\nof James Lusk, a farmer and school teacher. Two sons and three daughters were<br \/>\nborn to this marriage; only one is now living, Martha P. (Moore). The mother<br \/>\nof this family was born in Williamson County, January 11, 1839. Our subject is<br \/>\na State&#8217;s rights Democrat, and used his influence to aid in the Confederacy.<br \/>\nHe enlisted in H.C. King&#8217;s battalion (infantry), afterward in the First<br \/>\nRegiment of Cavalry, as first lieutenant, and was in the battle of Paris,<br \/>\nTenn., and after a service of one year, resigned on account of ill health. The<br \/>\nBoydstun family was represented in the Confederate Army by ten members in<br \/>\nactive service. Our subject has a farm of 312 acres, four miles north of<br \/>\nRipley, and is an enterprising, progressive farmer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Boydstun, an enterprising farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in Campbell County, December 1, 1816. His father, Thomas Boydstun, was born in North Carolina, and came to Tennessee before the organization of the State, settling in the eastern part. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/boydstun-william\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":"no","_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":[76],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-boydstun"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}