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Samuel H. Boyd (1831-1861) 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,
N.C., at The Hermitage plantation. Samuel Boyd was killed while
serving in the Confederate Army near Spotsylvania Courthouse 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, N.C.