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John Boyd was born on August 7, 1796 in Nashville, Tennessee. His father was Abraham Boyd and his mother, Nancy Linn.
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He then served in the Texas Revolution. Boyd served as a Senator in the Congress of the Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1845. In 1845, he moved to Limestone County, Texas, where he staked a claim near the Tehuacana Hills, northwest of Tehuacana.
From 1862 to 1863, Boyd served in the Texas Senate.
By then, he had become a secessionist, in favor of the Confederate States of America. Boyd was also a landowner in Nashville.
Boyd donated 1,100 acres of land as well as financial assistance for the establishment of Trinity University. Boyd died on May 4, 1873.
He was buried at the Tehuacana Cemetery in Mexia, Texas.
They built a house, Old Central, which was later acquired by Vanderbilt University, on whose campus it still stands today.
