Andrew T. Boyd,(1) Elizabeth Henderson,(2) L. Curthirell

ANDREW T. BOYD is a son of JAMES BOYD, whose father was a soldier under Gens. George Washington and Nathaniel Greene during the Revolutionary war, in the battles of Monmouth and King's Mountain, and served through the war. James Boyd was born in Davidson County, Tenn., and there married ELIZABETH HENDERSON, a native of North Carolina. The father was a tiller of the soil and departed this life in 1825. The mother was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1860. Andrew T. Boyd began studying' medicine and took a course of lectures at Lexington, Ky. He afterward attended the University of Philadelphia, Penn. He practiced his profession successfully for about twenty years, and then retired from active duties. In 1879 he married MISS L. CURTHIRELL. In the late
war he was surgeon in the Forty-eighth Tennessee Regiment for one year. He is now a Democrat, though formerly a Whig, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity, Royal Arch Degree.

Source: Biographical Appendix - History of Tennessee - Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

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