History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 263.   [Wallonia Precinct]

JOHN M. BOYD was born April 2, 1846, in Trigg County.  He is the eldest of
a family of nine children born to William and Harriet (Gray) Boyd.  The
father was born in Halifax County, Va.; he died November 18, 1877, aged
sixty-three.  The mother was born in 1826, in Tennessee, and is now living
in this precinct.  John M., in 1869, secured a position as clerk in a
warehouse at Canton, where he remained about one year.  He then bought an
interest in a saw-mill in Canton, and operated it about four years; after
which, a grist-mill was attached and run about three years.  He then
engaged in merchandising about four years.  In September, 1882, he removed
to his present locality, having built a grist-mill that fall at a cost of
about $6,000.  Mr. Boyd was married, in 1871, to Miss Marion Hopson, of
Trigg County.  This union has been bless with two daughters.  Mr. and Mrs.
Boyd are members of the Baptist Church.

Boyd Gray Hopson
=
Halifax-VA TN

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