Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, McLean Co.

JOHN W. BOYD, McLean County, is the eldest of two children, and is the 
son of James and Senora (Sharp) Boyd, and born May 2, 1843, in Ohio 
County, Ky.  He was but two years old when his father died; his mother 
afterward married George Dodson, by whom she had six children.  After 
her second husband's death she married Dr. George Chapman.  John W. 
Boyd received a limited education, and in August, 1862, at Hartford, 
enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Kentucky (Federal) Calvary, and 
participated in all the engagements of the regiment during his term 
of service; he was discharged in one year as brevet second lieutenant.  
He afterward re-enlisted in the Seventeenth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, 
at Owensboro, and served until September, 1865, when he was discharged 
at Louisville, Ky.  He then returned home, and engaged in farming, and 
in 1867 located where he now resides, on 114 acres of land, which he 
has improved; he now owns 187 acres of good land.  He was married in 
February, 1869, to Fannie Waltrip, of this county, a daughter of 
William and Susan (Hoover) Waltrip, natives of Breckinridge and Ohio 
Counties.  They have had five children, four of whom are living, as 
follows: Valeria, William L., Lonada, Daisy P.; James R. is dead.  
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian and 
Baptist Churches, respectively; he is a Democrat in his political 
sentiments, but gave his first presidential vote in 1864, for 
Abraham Lincoln.

Boyd Sharp Dodson Chapman Waltrip Hoover
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Ohio-KY Breckinridge-KY

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