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John Hill Boyd (1830-1861) was one of four sons
of George D. Boyd, a legislator, justice, merchant, mill owner and
planter. The Boyds resided about five miles south of Wentworth, NC
at The Hermitage plantation. John Hill Boyd died of typhoid fever
while serving in the Confederate Army in Richmond, VA in 1861. He is
buried, along with two of his brothers who also died in the Civil
War, in the Wentworth Methodist Church Cemetery, Wentworth,
NC.
