Son of James Haywood Bledsoe and Dorothy "Dollie" Putnam, Boyd attended McLemoresville College, McKenzie, TN graduating in 1854
Boyd taught Greek & Latin @ Bellevue Female College, Collierville, TN and per his granddaughter (KCP) he also at some point ran a nursery school.
In the War Between the States he enlisted 15 Sep 1862 at Senatobia, Miss., as a Pvt in Co. C, Ballentines Regt. of Cavalry officially designated 2nd Regt., Mississippi Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. Captured & placed in Old Irving Block Prison, Memphis, TN, he was paroled 1 Apr, 1865 on account of the deaths of his wife and four (3?) children from diphtheria.
An active Mason he was a member of F&AM Lodge No. 152. & served in 1868 as Jr. Warden of Collierville, TN., Masonic Lodge
He served in the Tennessee state legislature as either a Representative or a Senator (?) for Shelby Co. in 1880-81. He was survived by his third of three wives having had children by them all.
He was given a Masonic Funeral by Lodge #152 F&AM in Collierville.
Boyd taught Greek & Latin @ Bellevue Female College, Collierville, TN and per his granddaughter (KCP) he also at some point ran a nursery school.
In the War Between the States he enlisted 15 Sep 1862 at Senatobia, Miss., as a Pvt in Co. C, Ballentines Regt. of Cavalry officially designated 2nd Regt., Mississippi Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. Captured & placed in Old Irving Block Prison, Memphis, TN, he was paroled 1 Apr, 1865 on account of the deaths of his wife and four (3?) children from diphtheria.
An active Mason he was a member of F&AM Lodge No. 152. & served in 1868 as Jr. Warden of Collierville, TN., Masonic Lodge
He served in the Tennessee state legislature as either a Representative or a Senator (?) for Shelby Co. in 1880-81. He was survived by his third of three wives having had children by them all.
He was given a Masonic Funeral by Lodge #152 F&AM in Collierville.
Son of James Haywood Bledsoe and Dorothy "Dollie" Putnam, Boyd attended McLemoresville College, McKenzie, TN graduating in 1854
Boyd taught Greek & Latin @ Bellevue Female College, Collierville, TN and per his granddaughter (KCP) he also at some point ran a nursery school.
In the War Between the States he enlisted 15 Sep 1862 at Senatobia, Miss., as a Pvt in Co. C, Ballentines Regt. of Cavalry officially designated 2nd Regt., Mississippi Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. Captured & placed in Old Irving Block Prison, Memphis, TN, he was paroled 1 Apr, 1865 on account of the deaths of his wife and four (3?) children from diphtheria.
An active Mason he was a member of F&AM Lodge No. 152. & served in 1868 as Jr. Warden of Collierville, TN., Masonic Lodge
He served in the Tennessee state legislature as either a Representative or a Senator (?) for Shelby Co. in 1880-81. He was survived by his third of three wives having had children by them all.
He was given a Masonic Funeral by Lodge #152 F&AM in Collierville.
Boyd taught Greek & Latin @ Bellevue Female College, Collierville, TN and per his granddaughter (KCP) he also at some point ran a nursery school.
In the War Between the States he enlisted 15 Sep 1862 at Senatobia, Miss., as a Pvt in Co. C, Ballentines Regt. of Cavalry officially designated 2nd Regt., Mississippi Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. Captured & placed in Old Irving Block Prison, Memphis, TN, he was paroled 1 Apr, 1865 on account of the deaths of his wife and four (3?) children from diphtheria.
An active Mason he was a member of F&AM Lodge No. 152. & served in 1868 as Jr. Warden of Collierville, TN., Masonic Lodge
He served in the Tennessee state legislature as either a Representative or a Senator (?) for Shelby Co. in 1880-81. He was survived by his third of three wives having had children by them all.
He was given a Masonic Funeral by Lodge #152 F&AM in Collierville.
Gravesite Details
Shared stone with (next side) Agnes Cash Bledsoe, (next side) Bettie Dumas Bledsoe, (next side) Mattie D. Bledsoe
