ARKANSAS
History & Bios - BOYD
Eastern Arkansas History
WHITE COUNTY:
MOLLIE BOBBITT, bn Gibson
County, Tenn., daughter of T.J. and
Elizabeth (Wallace) Bobbitt,
wife of WILLIAM BOYD, an editor of Seneca,
Mo.
MONROE COUNTY
MARY V. DIAL, daughter of
J.H. DIAL and Letitia Caulfield of Greene
Co;Ala, WIDOW OF DR C.H. BOYD,
of Holly Grove, Ark.
Source:Biographical and Historical
Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas. Chicago:
Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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CRAIGHEAD COUNTY:
Surveyor, T.M. BOYD, 1880-82;
1884-86.
RANDOLPH COUNTY:
LEM BOYD
INDEPENDENCE COUNTY:
ELVIRA F. DENTON, daughter
of William F. Denton and Margaret F. Desha,
wife of J.P. BOYD.
JACKSON COUNTY:
CAPT. GEORGE W. HURLEY (retired).
Newport, Ark. His birth occurred in
Frederick County, Md., on
the 1st of May, 1829, and he is the son of
Morris and Catherine Hurley,
both natives of County Clare, Ireland. The
parents were married in their
native country, and in about 1829
emigrated to America. His
marriage to MRS MARY L. BOYD occurred in 1858
Jackson, Tenn., removed with
his family to White-County, Ark one child,
now deceased, was the result
of this union.
T.J. WATSON, a retired and
highly respected merchant of Jackson County,
was born in Hickman County,
Ky., on the 8th of December, 1845, and is a
son of E. L. and Mary (James)
Watson. Mr.Watson was but nine years old
when he came to Jackson County,
Ark., with his parents. Mr. Watson was
married in 1869 to Miss Elizabeth
Boyd, of Jackson County, by whom he
has had five children: Kate
M., Lucy, Elbert L., Bessie and Fannie.
Source: Biographical and Historical
Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers,
1889.
Northwestern Arkansas History
History of Benton County:
RELIGION
page 298
G.BOYD - pastor of The Elm
Springs Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
J.T.BOYD - pastor of Friendship
Baptist Church.
T.BOYD - preacher, Mount Vernon
Baptist Church
POST-OFFICES.
page 323
FRANCIS M. BOYD, December,
1886; discontiuned September, 1887;
re-established May, 1888,
FRANCIS M. BOYD.
SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT.
page 335
Early Settlers: JOHN BOYD,
one of the teamsters, is commonly given the
honor of having driven the
first team into Carroll County.
page 336
JOHN, ALEXANDER and BRUCE
BOYD, and Elijah Hulsey, brother-in-law to the
two last named, removed from
Crowley's Ridge, near Helena, Ark.,
in 1832, and settled on Long
Creek below Carrollton.
Early Mills: JOHN BOYD built a mill on Long Creek about 1836.
EUREKA SPRINGS: Ladies' Furnishers: MRS.M.E.BOYD
ERA OF SETTLEMENT:
First White Settler.- DAVID
BOYD first set foot on the site of Van Buren
in 1818, when cane-brake covered
it, and bear, deer and wild turkey were
to be seen.
MILITARY ANNALS:
J.S. BOYD
A.J. BOYD
EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT.
page 609
JAMES BOYD
S.P.BOYD 1840
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
EDNA P. HASH, daughter of
Fielding Hash and Nancey C. Counts, wife of
WILLIS BOYD
CARROLL COUNTY.
page 1061
KIMSEY HULSEY, born in Hall
County,Georgia June 14, 1830. A son of
Armistead Hulsey (native of
Georgia) and FRANCES BOYD, (native of
Virginia). The family resided
in Georgia until 1833 when they removed
to Arkansas, and located in
what is now Boone County.
MADISON COUNTY.
page 1090
ALEXANDER DORSEY,one of the
oldest and most prominent citizens of
Richland Township, Madison
Co., Ark., was born in Warren County, Tenn.,
in 1830, January 29, a son
of Bennett and Ann (Dennis) Dorsey, who were
natives of North Carolina
and Tennessee, respectively. Alexander made
his home with his parents
(Madison Co;Ark.) until his marriage to Lavina
Hillis in 1854. She was born
in Tennessee, and died about 1858, leaving
two children, Mary E. and
Joseph. December 29, 1859 Mr. Dorsey married
ELIZA BOYD, and their marriage
resulted in the birth of four sons and
four daughters.
MADISON COUNTY.
page 1114
LEVI W. ROUTH was born in
Lincoln County, N.C., February 18, 1833, his
parents being Jacob and Sarah
(Perkins) Routh. The father was born in
Germany in 1788, and when
a year old was brought to America by his
parents, and spent his entire
life in the State of our subject's birth,
dying in Catawba County in
1848. The mother was of English descent, born
in Lincoln County about 1800,
and died in Catawba County in 1866. At the
age of nineteen Levi left
home and worked at the carpenter's trade in
Texas. Two years later he
returned to North Carolina, married, MARTHA
JOSEPHINE BOYD September 20,
1857. She was also born in Lincoln County,
N.C., her birth occurring
June 28, 1837. She is of English and German
descent. He farmed there from
1856-71. He next located at Hindsville,
Ark., where he kept hotel
and farmed nine years. He finally purchased
his present farm of John Carroll,
and is now the owner of 244 acres, 215
being in valley land on War
Eagle, two miles east of Huntsville.
Children: Allie S., wife of
W. T. Brooks; Edgar A.; Cora N.;Avery L., of
California; Minnie E., Charles
M. (deceased), Myrtle A., Nora S., Elmore
(deceased) and Retta I. (deceased).
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
page 1192
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON SHIBLEY,of
the firm of Shibley, Bourland & Co.,
was born in 1840 in Ralls
County, Mo., a son of HENRY and ELIZA ANN
(BOYD) Shibley. Henry, the
father of our subject, was born in 1815, in
Montgomery County, N.Y., in
1839 married Miss E.A.M. BOYD, and reared a
family of seven sons and one
daughter. Our subject accompanied his
parents to Crawford County
in 1860.
SEBASTIAN COUNTY:
C.M. BARNES, general fire
and life insurance agent, of Fort Smith, was
born in Livingston County,
N.Y., August 25, 1845. His father was a son
of Henry Hogan, who was paymaster
in the United States army, and was
lost at sea during the War
of 1812, after which he was adopted by Gideon
Barnes, and was known as Henry
Hogan Barnes. He was married to SAMANTHA
BOYD, a native of Massachusetts,
where Mr. Barnes' ancestors had located
prior to the Revolution. Mr.
Barnes, the father of our subject, was a
farmer and merchant by occupation.
C. M. Barnes grew to manhood in
Calhoun County, Mich.
In 1876, he then located permanently in Fort
Smith, where he became one
of the leading citizens.
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SEBASTIAN COUNTY.
page 1379
MRS. MARCUS BOYD, step daughter
of Thomas E. Wilson of Kentucky.
Source:
History of Benton, Washington,
Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and
Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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