History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 180.      [Cadiz Precinct]

THOMAS BOYD was born January 28, 1826, Halifax County, Va.  He is the
youngest of a family of four children born to Thomas and Elizabeth (Stamps)
Boyd, also natives of Virginia.  His father died when the subject was quite
young, and in 1838 the mother emigrated with the family to Trigg County
where she died in 1877, at the hale old age of eighty-six.  The subject of
this sketch was raised on his mother's farm where he remained until the age
of twenty-six, and then purchased a farm of 127 acres and commenced life
for himself.  Through his own exertions he has since increased his farm to
500 acres, where he now resides, and also owns 250 acres elsewhere in the
county and 180 acres in Caldwell County.  The home place is considered to
be one of the best in the county, and he now devotes his main attention to
the raising of live stock.  He now has from fifty to seventy-five head of
short-horn cattle, forty to fifty hogs and about 150 head of sheep on his
place.  At present his son Charles manages the farm, which lies eight
miles northeast of Cadiz.  On January 10, 1881, he was appointed to fill
the vacancy of Sheriff, and in the following August was elected to fill the
office.  He had prior to this time collected the taxes of 1879.  In August,
1882, he was re-elected, and has since filled the office.  Mr. Boyd was
married on October 1, 1850, to Miss Martha, daughter of Major George
Daniel.  Mrs. Boyd is a native of Trigg County, and is the mother of ten
children, six of whom--five sons and a daughter--are living.

Boyd Stamps Daniel
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Caldwell-KY Halifax-VA

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