CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

Jasper Newton Boyd, M.D. is a son of Rev. Redmond Boyd and Susan (Taylor) Boyd, and was born in Johnson county, Arkansas, August 14, 1842.   Rev. Redmond Boyd entered the ministry at the age of twenty and has devoted his whole life since then to the cause of Christ.  For twenty years he was president of the Methodist Protestant conference, and still survives at the age of sixty years.  The family are of Welsh and Irish extraction, but for several generations have been natives of this country, as will be seen by the following record:  The paternal grandfather of Jasper N. Boyd was Andrew Boyd, a native of Missouri, and a minister of the gospel;  the paternal grandmother was Sarah Andrews, also a native of Missouri;  the paternal great- grand- father, John Boyd, was from Kentucky;  the maternal great-grandfather was Joseph Martin, of Virginia;  the maternal grandfather was Isaac Taylor, of Tennessee, and the maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Martin, also of Tennessee.

Jasper N. Boyd is the eldest in a family of eight children, the other seven having been born in the following order: Sarah Elizabeth Boyd, Isaac Archibald Boyd, Martha Jane Boyd, Samuel Green Boyd, Mary Shephard Boyd, John Humphries Boyd and William Haywood Boyd.  Jasper N. Boyd came to Texas in 1865, taught school, and the same year began the study of medicine under Dr. Edwin Pinckney Becton, ex-president of the State Medical Society.  In 1868 he began practice in Hopkins county;  in 1869 he moved to what is now Delta county, and, while still engaged in the practice of his profession, also conducted a drug store;  in 1886 he bought the Delta Courier, which he has since edited with ability and marked success.   John H. Boyd, his brother, is the business manager and local editor of the journal, and under his management the financial prosperity of the concern has been assured.

Dr. Boyd has had his military experience, which extended from the opening of the late war until the close.  In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, First Arkansas mounted riflemen, and the first year of the war served in Arkansas, Missouri and the Indian Territory;  afterward in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky.  He was in numerous fights, the principal ones being Oak Hill, Missouri;  Elkhorn, Arkansas;  Farmington, Mississippi; Richmond, Kentucky;  Perryville, Kentucky;  Murfreesboro, Tennessee;  siege of Jackson, Mississippi; Poison Springs, Arkansas;  the terrible battle of Chickamauga, and was with Price on his noted raid in Missouri.  He was captured in the battle near Fort Scott, Kansas, with General Cabell, and was taken to Rock Island prison, where he was kept until the surrender.  Dr. Boyd was wounded four times during the war, and four honorable scars he will carry with him to the grave.  

On May 20, 1869, the doctor married Miss Amanda Viola Ewing, daughter of William M. Ewing, a leading lawyer of Sulphur Springs, Texas.  Five children have blessed this union, namely: William Marshal Ewing Boyd,  Emma Boyd,  Alice Boyd,  Ernest Boyd,  Edwin Vernon Boyd and Norman Boyd, the last two deceased.

Dr. Boyd is one of Delta county's wealthiest and most influential citizens.  He is a public-spirited man, and has done a great deal toward building up Cooper and Delta county.  He uses the columns of the Delta Courier for that purpose, and his contributions to public enterprises are among the largest figures.  He is truly a valuable citizen.

The Jasper N. Boyd House

Source: Biographical Souvenir of The State of Texas, F.A. Battey & Company of Chicago,1889: containing biographical sketches of the representative public, and many early settled families. Includes index.    FHL Film #547587

 

William Marshall (Ewing) Boyd (1873-1962) - Harris County, Texas - Judge 1918-1962.   Photo possession of Hannah Sands Lee, Spring Green, Wisc.

William Marshall Ewing Boyd, son of Jasper Newton Boyd and Amanda Viola [Ewing] Boyd, was my father. He was born May 3, 1873, and died August 15, 1962. He was survived by two sons: Walter Boyd, an attorney practicing in Houston, and H. C. Boyd, of Ruidosa NM, and a daughter Alice Boyd [Mrs. Milton] Bohannon.

I was born to Miss Velma Sands of Baytown, Texas, and Judge  William M. E. Boyd on June 17, 1944 (Judge Boyd was apparently a man of considerable stamina; I learned from the Harris County Bar Association Journal that he ran for his first Judgeship in Harris County in 1918, and was still serving on the bench--Harris County Circuit Court, Branch 55) at the time of his death. I never met Judge Boyd.

My mother was a public health nurse for Harris County for many years. Judge Boyd helped her to enter Vanderbilt University in 1942 or 1943. She later attended the University of Houston.

I attended the University of Houston and Louisiana State University, and later the University of Wisconsin--Madison. I now live in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and enjoy working as a docent at Taliesin, the home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright--who was almost an exact contemporary of my father.

I hope this information is helpful to anyone seeking this Branch of Boyds. I would love to hear from you if you have more information about my father.

Sincerely,

Hannah Sands Lee 

Spring Green, Wisconsin

According to his Houston Chronicle obituary, Judge Boyd died on August 
15,  1962. He was survived by his wife Willie (who passed away in July 
1968), his son Walter, a Houston attorney, another son, H.C. Boyd, who lived in Ruidosa, N.M., a daughter, Mrs. Milton Bonhannon, of Houston, four
grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The obituary does not  specify his
 place of burial, but it does comment that "funeral arrangements are "pending"
 at George H. Lewis and Sons Funeral Home."

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