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Ward Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1835?

McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Linn E. Boyd. Father of Ward Boyd, Felix Boyd, and Butler Boyd. Attorney in McCracken County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in McCracken County in 1860. Appointed deputy postmaster in Paducah, Kentucky in 1860. Declined a commission as Major in the 40th Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) in January 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District No 2, p. 97.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 13.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, vol. 11 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1887), 242.

KYR-0002-009-0010.

Citation

Boyd, Ward. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211702 (November 12, 2026).

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