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Alfred John BOYD
1802–1874
✦ direct ancestor — Owen's 4×-great-grandfather · Plunkett line
Life
- Born
- 9 Oct 1802 · Canton, Trigg, Kentucky, USA
- Died
- 17 Nov 1874 · Mayfield, Graves, Kentucky, USA
Parents
Marriage & children
Timeline
- 12 Oct 1824MarriedLucy Amis HARRISON — Caldwell, Kentucky, USA
Records behind this page
Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (1878), p. 764
page 764
Quoted as reported: "Agnes, daughter of Alfred Boyd, brother of Hon. Lynn Boyd, Speaker...". ⚠️ AGENT-READ, not personally verified. ⛔ THIS DOES NOT MAKE ALFRED ABRAHAM'S SON. That remains an inference chaining two informants (Alfred is Linn's brother; Linn is Abraham's son), and Find a Grave's Abraham lists only four children with Alfred not among them. No proof flag is set.
Ewing, Presley K. and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing. The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches (Houston: Hercules, 1919)
pp. 45-46
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Presley K. Ewing and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing, The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches (Houston, 1919), pp. 45-46; read in the archive.org text (item ewinggenealogywi00ewinrich), personally re-verified 3 Aug 2026 with controls (running heads pp. 45/46; Boyd x12, Ewing x825 in the same file). Verbatim: "SIDNEY ANN EWING, daughter of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born in Bedford County, Va.; died prior to the death of her father; married Adam Linn. Issue: (i) Nancy, married Abraham Boyd, 1796. Issue: 1ST. John, born Nashville, Tenn., about 1798; married Betsy McLean ... several times elected to the Congress of the Republic of Texas; he was one of the founders of Trinity University ... 2ND. Linn, born Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 28, 1800, died Paducah, Ky., Dec. 16, 1859 ... Speaker of the House, 1850-4; he was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1859 ... 4TH. Alfred, married Lucy Harrison, Issue: John, an attorney-at-law, married Sarah Cook; George, a physician, unmarried; Abraham, an attorney-at-law, married Miss O'Bannon; Agnes, married Mr. Grimes, of Paducah, Ky.; Adeline, and Martha, married Mr. Small. 5TH. Rufus, married Eliza Bennett." CORROBORATES the tree's existing chain joint for joint: [1668] Abraham Boyd x [1669] Nancy Linn (m. 1796) -> [1670] John, [1671] Linn (the Speaker), [1632] Alfred x [1633] Lucy Amis Harrison -> [833] Abraham "attorney-at-law" x Miss O'Bannon = [834] Fannie, with siblings Adeline = [1634] Adaline Linn, Agnes [1635] and Martha [1636] (F520/F516/F348 match the printed structure exactly; note [833]'s middle name HARRISON is his mother's maiden name, and [1634]'s middle name LINN her grandmother's). GRADE: compiled secondary — the book's own p. 45 footnote acknowledges reliance on F. M. Cockrell "without opportunity to verify"; treat as corroboration, not proof. CONFLICTS RECORDED, NOT RESOLVED: Ewing prints Linn's birth Nov. 28, 1800 where the tree (cited elsewhere) holds 22 Nov 1800; Ewing's "about 1798" for John vs the tree's 7 Aug 1796 — see the Audited note on [1670]. Working: agent-report-boyd-trigg-2026-08-03.md (agent draft; this passage spot-verified in-session).
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.
Research note · 23 Sep 2026
PROOF CLASS: BOTH PARENTS = INFORMANT (insufficient), Owen 11 Sep 2026, flags stay 0/0 - two compiled statements (cit 6975, 7008) make Alfred a son of Abraham Boyd; cit 6975 itself says it does not. Reopens on Abraham Boyd's Ky. estate.
DECLINED 11 Sep 2026 - BOTH PARENTS, graded by Owen on the ring-6 E2 card (ancestry/E2-ring6-triage-2026-09-08.md s.15). IDENTITY is not the problem: the Alfred Boyd of Mayfield, d. 17 Nov 1874 (K244, the printed death notice), is this man. THE CHAIN - Alfred, brother of Linn Boyd, Speaker of the House, son of Abraham Boyd - rests on two compiled statements, citation 6975 ('Agnes, daughter of Alfred Boyd, brother of Hon. Lynn Boyd, Speaker') and citation 7008, neither of which is a record; citation 6975's own limits read 'THIS DOES NOT MAKE ALFRED ABRAHAM'S SON', and Find a Grave's Abraham lists four children without Alfred. One informant class, uncorroborated: the flags stay 0/0 and the link is DECIDED, not open. Ring 5 declined [833] on this same corpus (K517), so declining one generation up keeps the two consistent.
REOPENS ON: a Trigg or Christian Co., Ky. record - Abraham Boyd's estate (he d. after 1839) or a land or tax entry naming Alfred as his son.
AUDITED 3 Aug 2026 - BIRTHPLACE CONFLICT, RECORDED NOT RESOLVED. The tree holds b. 9 Oct 1802, Canton, Trigg, Kentucky. Trigg Co. was not formed until 1820 (from Christian and Caldwell), and his nearest brothers were born in Davidson Co., Tennessee - [1670] John (7 Aug 1796) and [1671] Linn Boyd (22 Nov 1800, per the Congressional Biographical Directory B000719, which also says the family moved to "New Design, Trigg County, Ky." - New Design, NOT Canton - without dating the move). The deciding number is the family's Kentucky arrival, and two published sources flatly contradict: The Daily Union (Washington), 6 Mar 1852 - "the father moved with his family, in 1803, to Christian (now Trigg) county" - puts Alfred's 1802 birth in TENNESSEE; Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky (1884) puts the arrival in 1799, keeping the birth in KENTUCKY. Both are secondary; neither is a record; NOT averaged, NOT resolved. What would settle it: a Christian/Trigg Co. land or tax record placing his father Abraham Boyd in Kentucky 1799-1803. Do NOT overwrite Canton with New Design or Tennessee - that swaps one unevidenced place for another. (Queue entry 2 Aug 2026.)
23 Sep 2026 - A THIRD COMPILED STATEMENT, UNREAD (round-5 triage C1, Owen). The round-5 dossier on [1633] (agent-report-1633-lucy-amis-harrison-2026-09-23.md) reports, from a web-search snippet of Civil War Governors of Kentucky entry N00011341 - whose page returned HTTP 404 when re-fetched on 23 Sep 2026, so it was NOT read here - an Alfred Boyd of Trigg Co. with parents 'Abe' and 'Nannie Sim' and a wife 'Elizabeth F.', daughters Lucy C., Agnes J., Adaline and Martha. If that is this man, 'Nannie' would be [1669] Nancy Linn ('Sim' perhaps a misreading) and Elizabeth F. a wife after Lucy's death in 1847. [1635] Agnes (b. 1835) and [1636] Martha (b. about 1840) were born before 1847, so a later wife is not their mother. The 11 Sep decline at the head of this note STANDS: an unread compiled snippet does not reopen it.
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