Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....Alfred Boyd about 1814 - September 21 1882
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    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 and Joseph,
and two daughters, Eliza and Polly. 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 ancestory. 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
there was born to them a son, Caspar W., the eldest of a family of eleven.
Caspar W. 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., who enlisted in
August, 1862, and died at home, in 1864, from exposure and disease contracted in
the army; Joseph A. E., enlisted November, 1862, and died at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
of injuries and exposures in the early part of 1865; Hansford D. 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. died at the age of eighteen years, a bright and promising
young man; William P., now a successful merchant and planter at Nevada. Tex.;
Archibald J., who was a practicing dentist for several years and died at
Chipley, Fla., in May, 1891; Clary L., 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 otherwise 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 year's 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 a 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 unassailed and unimpeached. 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 county, 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, who
died at the age of three months; Willie Wray (son) and Artie Lynn (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.



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