Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Mr. H. Boyd

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Mr. H. Boyd, a farmer of Lee's Creek Township, was born January 1, 1837, in 
Floyd County, Ky., and is a son of James and Mary (Wood) Boyd, natives of 
Virginia. The father has always been a farmer, and in 1835 moved to Kentucky, 
where he has since lived with the exception of about five years, which he spent 
in Crawford County, Ark. He is now a resident of Floyd County, Ky. The 
grandfather, William Boyd, was of English descent, and lived in Virginia. He 
served in the Revolutionary War seven years, and died in 1868. Our subject had 
but few educational advantages when a youth, but became a well-informed man. In 
1856 he married Miss Lucinda M. Branham, daughter of Isham and Lucy (Hatcher) 
Branham, and born in 1836. This marriage has been blessed with nine children, 
five boys and four girls, all save one girl now living. Mr. Boyd farmed upon 
rented land until 1879, and then purchased his present farm, which contains 400 
acres, upon which he has erected a cotton-gin, grist and saw-mill. One of the 
natural wonders of Crawford County is a natural dam upon this farm, which runs 
across Mountain Fork of Lee's Creek, and is of hard granite, eight feet high and 
seventy yards wide. The pond above is six feet deep at low water. Mr. Boyd has 
been a Mason for seven years. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion a 
Methodist.