Jefferson Wiseman Boyd

b. 1 December 1823, Jackson Co., TN
d. 28 April 1891, Putnam Co., TN
Wife: Mary Ann "Polly" Jared md 12 July 1846
Father: John Boyd, s/o William Boyd
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Leath, d/o Ephraim Leath & Nancy Jones.
Buried: Boyd Family Graveyard, Putnam Co., TN located on Rock Springs Rd.
in lower end of Putnam Co. nr. the head of Rock Springs Valley,
on the hill across the road from the dragstrip.

Ernest Boyd writes: My grandfather, Jefferson W. Boyd, was badly wounded in battle during the Civil War and was imprisoned in the Federal War Prison at Rock Island, IL. He remained there until the end of the war because he refused to take the oath of allegiance. He had a wife and four young children at home. While in Rock Island War Prison, he had smallpox and nearly died. One of his children, John Jefferson Boyd, was born after the Civil War.