George W. Boyd

George W. Boyd (Warren County)

State House: 1874-1875

Born: c. 1821 in Tennessee

Member of the Warren County board of supervisors.

“A farmer at Davis Bend, Mississippi, Boyd was a member of the board of arbitration elected by the freedmen there in 1866 under Freedmen’s Bureau auspices.”
(Eric Foner, Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction, 1993)

Signature of George W. Boyd
Signature of George W. Boyd
Vicksburg Daily Times, January 4, 1872
Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 12, 1874
Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 12, 1874
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, Aug 7, 1875