Dr. Alfred Boyd ~ Carrie Ann Jones

Dr. Alfred Boyd.- Capt. Archibald Boyd, father of Dr. Alfred Boyd, was a native of South Carolina and was a successful merchant and farmer at Prosperity, Newberry district, that state. He was the father of two sons, Alfred Boyd and Joseph Boyd, and two daughters, Eliza Boyd and Polly Boyd. Dr. Alfred Boyd was born in Newberry district, S. C., began his school days at Prosperity, and completed his literary education at Lexington, S. C. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was married to Carrie A. Jones in December, 1834, and in 1835 they went to Fayette county, Tenn., to spend a few months with relatives, but about this time the Indians began hostilities and they were compelled to remain much longer than they at first intended, and he therefore began teaching as principal of the school at Somerville, his wife assisting, and they occupied themselves in this way for two years. During this period the two important events, both to the country and to them occurred - the removal of the Indians west of the Mississippi river, and the birth of a son, Caspar W. Boyd, the eldest of a family of eleven. Caspar was educated at Tuskegee, Ala., and in 1861, enlisted in the southern army to defend the cause of the Confederate States. He was at this time preparing for the practice of medicine. He was ordered with the Fifteenth Alabama infantry to Virginia and there served faithfully in Jackson's army until the battle of Port Republic, June 8, 1862 in which he fell mortally wounded. Of the other ten children, three girls died in infancy. Following are the names of the other sons who grew to maturity: James P. Boyd, who enlisted in August 1862, and died at home in 1864 from exposure and disease contracted in the army; Joseph A. E. Boyd, enlisted November 1862, and died at Chattanooga, Tenn., of injuries and exposures in the early part of 1865; Hansford D. Boyd enlisted at a youthful age in April 1865, but was soon discharged because of the termination of the war. He is now, and has been for twenty-five years, a practicing dentist of reputation at Troy, Ala.; was one of the originators of the Alabama Dental association in 1869, and has been many times honored by election to important offices in the association; Milton P. Boyd died at the age of eighteen years, a bright and promising young man; William P.Boyd, now a successful merchant and planter at Nevada, Tex.; Archibald J.Boyd, who was a practicing dentist for several years and did at Chipley, Fla., in May 1891; Clary L. Boyd the youngest of the eleven children, is a dentist of eight years practice, residing at Eufaula, Ala. He was born February 11, 1860, at Dublin, Ala. The father of these children, Dr. Alfred Boyd, had no political aspirations. He was a royal arch Mason, and a loyal and pious member of the Baptist church. Socially and other wise he was a citizen worthy of all respect. After leaving Tennessee in 1837, he settled with his family in Pike county, Ala., and taught school at Orion and at Troy until 1844. He then took up the study of medicine and went to Charleston, S. C., where he attended the medical college during two regular winter courses, graduating in the spring of 1846. He immediately returned to Alabama, locating at Dublin, Montgomery county, and during his first years residence both he and his wife taught school, he at the same time building up his medical practice. At the expiration of this first year his practice had become so extensive that he was under the necessity of devoting to it his entire time, and followed it closely and exclusively until 1862, when he removed to Ramer, in the same county, and here had a large practice until 1869. In this year he removed to Troy, Pike county, soon building up fine practice which he followed until broken down by overwork and age, when he died of general debility September 21, 1882, being within a few months of sixty-nine years of age. In his nature he was most humane, and dispensed to the suffering poor much service and medicine free. He lived the life of a devout Christian, with character un-assailed and un-impeached. He was encouraged in his life work by a devoted and pious companion, and his children were reared to maturity as models of respectability and piety. Many incidents connected with his forty-eight years of married life might be related which would be of great interest to his posterity, but such a relation would seem out of place in a work of this kind. A few sentences are added in reference to his youngest son, Clary L. Boyd. The education he received at the common schools of Ramer, Montgomery county, and Troy, Pike count, was supplemented by a short course at Hickory Withe high school, Fayette county, Tenn., and in 1889 he graduated from the dental department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. In April of the same year he located at Eufaula, where his office is elegantly fitted up with all the modern appliances of his profession. He is a member of the Alabama Dental association, and is now its president. He is also a member of the Baptist church, a Knight of Pythias and a democrat. He was married October 13, 1886, at Pine Level, Montgomery county, to Miss Willie L. Crow; daughter of William L. and Mattie E. Crow. To this union have been born three children: Molena Boyd, who died at the age of three months; Willie Wray Boyd (son) and Artie Lynn Boyd (daughter. Few, if any, dentists in the state stand higher in their profession than Dr. Boyd. Carrie Ann Boyd, relict of Dr. Alfred Boyd, died at Nevada, Tex., July 23, 1892, at the mature age of seventy-three years and three months. She was as lovable a character as a human could be; she was a persistent and consistent Christian, exerting always an influence for good on those with whom she came in contact.

Source: Memorial Record of Alabama: A Concise Account of the States Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together With the Personal Memoirs of Many of its People. 2vols. Madison, Wis.: Brant and Fuller, 1893. - FHL book 976.1 H2m; film 934817; computer number 254144.

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