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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/18/2025)
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Notes
THE PARIS NEWS, Friday, November 1, 1918: "Mrs. A. P. Boyd received a message late yesterday afternoon bringing to her the news of the death of her third son, Dr. Hugh Boyd, who died earlier in the day. His remains will be brought to Paris today at noon over the Texas Midland. Dr. Boyd was born in Paris forty-five years ago, but has been away from this city practically all the time sine he became a man. He was a very brilliant and highly educated man, having graduated with honors in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. he served in the Spanish - American War and was afterwards sent by the Government to do hospital work in Honolulu. While on duty there he suffered a nervous collapse and received an honorable discharge. Dr. Boyd was married in Louisville, Ky., where two children survive him. He leaves his mother, two brothers, Major Arthur Boyd, stationed at Taliferro Field, near Fort Worth, and Sayers Boyd, publisher of the Paris Morning News; also three sisters, Mrs. Murray Easton, Mrs. Henley Ballinger, both of this city and Mrs. Altha Thomas of Talihina, Okla. The funeral will be conducted from the home at noon and burial will take place in Evergreen Cemetery by the Rev. R. P. Shuler."
Information from Charlie Boyd, Prior Lake, MN, chasboyd1@aol.com, 04/27/2013: Hugh Boyd's parents were Austin Pollard Boyd (b- 1843 MS) and Mary Ann (Boyle) Boyd. Hugh is buried near his brother and sister in law Arthur & Rhue (Croxton) Boyd.
Buried next to Dr. Arthur J. Boyd.
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