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.