SAMUEL PERRY BOYD

 

IT'S PEOPLE THAT MAKE NOLAN COUNTY GREAT
 
It's people that make the Nolan County story great....here is one such story.
 

Samuel Perry Boyd came to Nolan County with his parents about 1880.  He bought Bitter Creek land in 1905 and that same year married Ethel Duncan Parks.

Samuel P. farmed and ranched and drilled water wells.  He worked on the old Abilene highway with a team of mules and wagon, hauling gravel.  A.J. Roy was his foreman.  He was paid $3.11 a day for himself and 3.00 a day for his team and wagon.  Son Vivian worked as water boy for $1.00 a day.  That portion of the road was built about 1917.

S.P. Boyd's cattle brand, Rafter 3 was registered in 1902.  This same brand was registered to grandson Bill Boyd Briggs in 1974.  The land Mr. Boyd bought in 1900 is still owned by his children.  Mr. Boyd died in 1934.
 
Contributed by Cate-Spencer Funeral Home Quiad Richburg


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 SWEETWATER DAILY REPORTER
 Sweetwater, Texas   Friday Evening,  August 3, 1934

UNCLE PAT BOYD IS DEATH VICTIM
 
Lake Sweetwater Resident Came To This Section 54 Years Ago
 
S.P. (Pat) Boyd, long-time resident of Nolan County and a member of one of the oldest pioneer families in this section, died at his home in the Lake Sweetwater community at 6:45 Friday morning.  He had been in ill health for several months, but became seriously ill last Sunday.

Mr. Boyd was born in Cooke County Sept. 15, 1875.  He came to Nolan County while but five years old, his father, "Uncle Henry" Boyd of the Lake Sweetwater community being one of the first settlers in this part of the country.

The death Friday morning, incidentally, marks the first in the family in half a century.
 
Known as "Uncle Pat"
 
Death took one of the most familiar characters of the Lake Sweetwater community and he affectionately was known by his many friends as "Uncle Pat".

Survivors include his widow, six children and a grandson, who are Vivian Boyd and Mrs. Boyd, Iona, Jessie Lee, Melva, J.P., Bobbie and Billy Boyd Briggs.
 
Other survivors are his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Boyd. Brothers include Charley Boyd, George Boyd, Bill Boyd of Sweetwater; Jess Boyd of Petersburg, Tex.; John Boyd of Mertzon; Joe Boyd of Alma, Kan.; and Bud Coffee of San Angelo.  Sisters are Mrs Lou Brown, Mrs. M.D. Chitwood, Mrs.. Nick Williams, Mrs. Gerald Witt, Mrs. C.H. Rasberry of Sweetwater and Mrs. D. Rounsville of Kemp, Tex.

Funeral services are to be conducted at 3:00 p.m. Saturday from the Sweetwater Church of Christ.  Arrangements are in charge of Johnston's Funeral Home.  Burial is to be in charge of Masons at the Sweetwater cemetery.
 
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 FUNERAL NOTICE
 
 MR. S.P. BOYD
 Age 59 years
 

       Funeral services will be held at the Church of Christ at 3:00 today, Saturday afternoon, conducted by Batsel Baxter of Abilene Christian College assisted by Frank L. Cox, Pastor.
 
       Interment will follow in the City Cemetery
 
       Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend.
 
Sweetwater, Texas
August 4, 1934

 

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