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John Lewis Boyd


Biography
Born 03/19/1842
Birth Location Russell Co.
Died 06/20/1919
Death Location Russell Co., VA
Father Jonathan Boyd
Mother Mary Burnett
Married 11/27/1861
10/24/1885
Spouses Catherine Remins
Martha A. Grizzle
Military Units
22nd Cavalry
2nd VSL
CSR, Pension, and Miscellaneous Images
22nd Cavalry
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Misc
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Pension
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Widows Pension
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Miscellaneous Information:

Filed pension: 1916, Russell County
Widow filed pension: 1926, Russell County
Appears on 1909 pension list: Under act of 1917
Appears on pension applications for: Oscar Whitt widow, 1903. John Griffith, 1903. W. C. Richardson, 1904. C. L. Samples, 1913. Robert A. Boyd widow, 1917.

Newspaper mentions:
Primitive Baptist Monitor, 7/1919
Lebanon News, 6/27/1919

Notes: Reverend in obituary.

Obituary online

Military Information:

Compiled Service Record
Card 1
3 Sergeant, Company D, Bowen's Regiment Mounted Riflemen, 22nd Virginia Cavalry

Appears on a muster roll for To Oct. 31, 1863 (Dated Oct. 31, 1863)

Enlisted:
When: May 1, 1863
Where: Russell Co., Va
By whom: Capt. Ball
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 2

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 2 Qr., 1864

Card 3

Statement of Service Reference Slip.
Dept. Confed. Mil. Records, Va

John L. Boyd
Co. B, 22 Reg't Va. Cav.

Not found as per call,
3rd Sgt.

John L. Boyd, Co. D, 22nd Va. Cav.
Enl. May 1, '63,
Oct. 31, '63 last roll on file, present.
No P. or W. Record found.
VV.
H.W.D.
J.E.D.
6-24-16
12.20

P. & E. Sir
Nothing addl. found.
Harley

6-26-16
9.55

Card 4

June 26, 1916.

Respectfully returned to

Col. Jos. B. Bidgood,
Sec'y, Department Confederate Military Records,
Richmond, Virginia.

The records show that one John L. Boyd, 3d sergeant, Co. D (not found as of Co. B), 22d Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., enlisted May 1, 1863, and on the company muster roll dated October 31, 1863, the last on file, he was reported present. No later record of him has been found.
[Signature.]
The Adjutant General

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