Posted onJanuary 31, 2015February 4, 2015 by Boyd Atha Garner When Boyd Atha Garner was born on September 12, 1920, in Perry, Tennessee, his father, Samuel, was 29 and his mother, Ada, was 25. He had one son and two daughters with Mattie Elizabeth Westbrooks. He died on April 30, 1965, in Perry, Tennessee, at the age of 44, and was buried there.