A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. Page: 336
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the best improved farms in the county.
The last year of the war he entered the
Confederate service, and was with Parsons'
regiment in Louisiana and Arkansas until
the war closed. About 1883 Mr. Davis
served as County Commissioner for two years,
being chosen to this position by his Democratic
friend,. He made an able official and
many improvements were made in the county
while he was in office.
He and his wife are the parents of the following
children: William G., married to
Ella Chambers; Martha Ann, wife of Hainpton
Savage of Grand View, Texas; Mary Edna,
wife of William Harrell, of Grand View; and
Finis E., a farmer and who married Sallie
Wade, a daughter of Squire Wade, of Grand
View, has two children; Eula E. and Henry.
The paternal grandfather, Samuel Davis, was
a Revolutionary soldier and the youngest of
eight brothers. He was married to Jane
Allison, a lady of Scotch-Irish descent, which
blood also coursed through his own veins.
The family worship in the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.
c R. B0Y D, of Hubbard City, Hill
a~ Rcounty, was born in Oktibbeha county,
Mississippi. in 1853, the youngest of
nine children of David Boyd, a native of
South Carolina. The latter removed to Mississippi
in 1835, where he remained until his
death in 1856. He was a farrier by occupation,
and during his residence in Mississippi
he held the office of County Supervisor
of Oktibbeha county. His wife, the motherof our subject, was a Miss Elizabeth Robinson,
of South Carolina, and a daughter of
John Robinson. Only five of the children
of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, besides the one whose
name heads this sketch survive, viz.: Mrs.
Mary Arnold, of Georgetown, Texas; Mrs.
Lucretia Ethridge, of Limestone county; A.
R. Boyd, a physician of Billington, Limestone
county; and T. D. Boyd, a farmer and
stockman at San Angelo, Tom Green county.
The subject of this sketch, aside from his
attendance at the country schools of his
native county, spent three years at Cross
Plains, Tennessee, and later took a one year's
course in Vanderbilt University, at Nashville.
He was a very ambitious boy, but without
sufficient means to procure his education, except
by intervals at work and in school. -Ie
passed the crucial test of a law examination
in Choctaw county, Mississippi, was admitted
to the bar, and located for practice at Chester,
where he continued until 1885. In that year
he came to Texas, locating in Ellis county,
where he engaged one year in merchandising,
and then came to Hill county, where he followed
the same business at Mt. Calm. Two
years later he removed to Hubbard City,
where he now resides, and here he again
resumed the practice of law. In 1890 Mr.
Boyd formed a partnership with T. B. Whorton,
and engaged in real-estate and insurance
business; but Mr. Boyd still continued to
practice his profession. In April, 1890, he
was elected City Attorney of Hubbard City
for a term of two years, is interested in the
Artesian Well Company, in the Building
Association, and is the attorney for both cor336
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Lewis Publishing Company. A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46829/m1/353/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Genealogical Society.