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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Lincoln County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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William Boyd, senior partner of the firm of Boyd & Bro., at Cornersville, Lincoln County, Ark., was born in Greene County, Ala., on April 18, 1851, being the son of William and Jeannett W. (Miller) Boyd, natives of South Carolina. His parents were married in South Carolina and moved to Alabama, locating in Greene County. There the mother died while the subject of this sketch was a very small boy. The father was a merchant and planter, and died in Lincoln County in the year 1875. He belonged to the Presbyterian Church. William was the eighth of nine children born to his parents, and passed his youth in this county, and here received a fair education. His first business venture was farming, but in 1883 he commenced a mercantile business with Robert Boyd as partner, a partnership which still continues to meet with great success. He was, in 1886, appointed justice of the peace. In 1883 Mr. Boyd married Miss Flora Dodd, daughter of William P. Dodd, and they have been blessed with three children, viz.: Jesse B., Maggie J. and William H. Both Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which the former is an elder. The subject of this sketch belongs to the class commonly termed “self-made men,” having won success and wealth by his own exertions, and superior judgment.

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This family biography is one of 44 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Lincoln County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Lincoln County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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