{"id":347,"date":"2018-07-11T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:17:41","slug":"octi-boyd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/octi-boyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-348\" src=\"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/octiboyd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/octiboyd.png 290w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/octiboyd-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Anderson Boyd (Oktibbeha County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House:\u00a0<\/strong>1874-1875<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:<\/strong> February 1835 in South Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Enlisted in the 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry on November 20, 1863. Appears with wife Hester and various children on the 1870, 1880, and 1900 census in Oktibbeha County.\u00a0In his\u00a0<em>Historical Sketches of Oktibbeha County<\/em>, Thomas Battle Carroll mentions that Boyd served as a justice of the peace for Beat 5.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4659\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4659\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/boyd.png\" alt=\"Signature of Anderson Boyd\" width=\"500\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/boyd.png 544w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/boyd-300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signature of Anderson Boyd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5968\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/shirley-2\/jan2474petition1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5968\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5968\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jan2474petition1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Petition of legislators, Jan 24, 1874\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jan2474petition1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jan2474petition1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petition of legislators, January 24, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4657\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/robert-gleed\/petition-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4657\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/petition-150x150.png\" alt=\"Petition signed by 8 legislators, Mar 21, 1874\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/petition-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/petition-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petition of legislators, March 21, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson Boyd (Oktibbeha County) State House:\u00a01874-1875 Born: February 1835 in South Carolina Enlisted in the 3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry on November 20, 1863. Appears with wife Hester and various children on the 1870, 1880, and 1900 census in Oktibbeha County.\u00a0In his\u00a0Historical Sketches of Oktibbeha County, Thomas Battle Carroll mentions that Boyd served as a justice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/octi-boyd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anderson Boyd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions\/6002"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}