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).

Ancestry.com, Arkansas, Death Certificates, 1914-1969 (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019)

Arkansas Department of Vital Records; Little Rock, Arkansas; Death Certificates; Year: 1942; Roll: 2

Ancestry.com, Kentucky, U.S., Birth Records, 1847-1911 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007)

Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives; Frankfort, Kentucky; Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910)

Dodd Jordan, comp, Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001)

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 · 7 Sep 2026

PROOF CLASS: BOTH PARENTS = INFORMANT (insufficient), reviewed 7 Sep 2026, flag stays 0/0 - Ewing 1919 p. 45 names the filiation, but its own footnote admits reliance on F. M. Cockrell "without opportunity to verify". Reopens on Alfred's Ky. estate. AUDITED 7 Sep 2026 - ring-5 E2 triage (register K517). This person had NO Audited note; the assessment was already sitting in a CITATION, not in a note. WHAT IS IN HAND. Citation 7008 carries a 2,143-character read of Presley K. and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing, The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches (Houston, 1919), pp. 45-46, re-verified with controls 3 Aug 2026. It prints the filiation outright - "4TH. Alfred, married Lucy Harrison, Issue: ... Abraham, an attorney-at-law, married Miss O'Bannon" - and it matches F520/F516/F348 joint for joint across three generations. This person's middle name HARRISON is his mother's maiden name, and his sister [1634] Adaline's middle name LINN is her grandmother's. WHY IT DOES NOT CARRY. The book's own p. 45 footnote acknowledges reliance on F. M. Cockrell "without opportunity to verify" - the grade was written into the citation by whoever read it, and it is the right one. It is ONE compiled source, so no correlation of two independent records is available, and the tree holds no second witness to this filiation. THE PARENTS' OWN SOURCES WERE CHECKED, because for a parentage question the corpus is the child's sources UNION both parents' (K508). [1632] Alfred John Boyd carries a second citation, 6975, from the Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky - but that passage reads "Agnes, daughter of Alfred Boyd, brother of Hon. Lynn Boyd", which is about the generation ABOVE and says nothing about this person. It is agent-read and not personally verified, and it carries an unresolved conflict of its own: Find a Grave's Abraham lists only four children with Alfred not among them. [1633] Lucy Amis Harrison carries only the same Ewing citation. DATA DEFECT, RECORDED AND NOT FIXED HERE. Three of his five citations cannot be about him. Citations 4638 and 4641 are Arkansas death certificates, "Year: 1942", against a death of 10 Mar 1900 - and 4641 hangs on his BIRTH event. Citation 4640 is Kentucky birth microfilm 1852-1910 against a birth of 26 Jan 1830. All three are already reported by research-board.py section D-cov as impossible person-source pairs; they should be detached or re-pointed in a sweep, not here. WHAT WOULD REOPEN THIS: a RECORD rather than a compilation naming him as Alfred's son. Alfred John Boyd's Kentucky estate, guardianship or land papers are the obvious place to look.

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