Carl Stanley Boyd -- Mechanic

 

Carl Stanley Boyd

Carl Stanley Boyd was born on April 17, 1930 in the Maple Grove Community of Trigg County, Kentucky.  He was the son of Otis Taylor Boyd and Dora Virginia Bridges Boyd.  Taylor was a carpenter and a native of Lyon County, Kentucky.  Virginia was born in Trigg County and a great granddaughter of William Bridges and Mary Thomas Bridges.  Carl was the only child of Taylor and Virginia that grew to adulthood.  He had two brothers, Ernest Ragon, who was born in 1926 and died in 1931 and Louard Cash who was born in 1928 and died in 1928.

Carl started his education in the one-room Maple Grove School near his country home where he graduated from the eighth grade in 1946.  He then attended Trigg County High School in Cadiz.  He excelled in football playing center for the Trigg County Wildcats during his high school years. He graduated from TCHS in 1950.

After his graduation from high school, Carl enlisted in the United States Air Force.  He served three years in Europe as a special engineer mechanic.  He was discharged from the Air Force in 1954 after serving for four years.

On June 12, 1959, Carl married Audrey Faye Fisher.  Faye was born on April 14, 1942 in Pleasant Ridge, Alabama.  She was the daughter of Clifton Clay Fisher, a native of Franklin County, Alabama and Eula Ivalee Frederick Fisher, a native of Marion County, Alabama.  Carl and Faye became the parents of three children, Alan Gene Boyd, born on February 9, 1960; Dora Ivalee Boyd, born on July 17, 1961 and Clifton Taylor Boyd, born on November 13, 1973.

Carl continued his career as mechanic which he had started in the Air Force by working at Wayne Supply in Bowling Green, Kentucky and later at Rish Equipment Company in Cleveland, Ohio.  He then returned to Trigg County  where he worked for  the Kentucky State Highway Department;  Noel Concrete in Cadiz; Case Equipment Company in Christian County, Kentucky; the Tennessee Valley Authority in the Land Between the Lakes in Trigg County and Averitt Lumber Company in Trigg County.  His wife, Faye, worked for over twenty years for the Trigg Knit Manufacturing Company in Cadiz.

Carl and Faye lived and raised their three children in their home in the Maple Grove Community near where Carl was born and grew up.

Carl died on Tuesday, February 18, 1997 at his home at the age of 66.  He was buried in the Drury Bridges Cemetery in Maple Grove.  His wife, Faye died at the age of 65 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at a nursing home in Cadiz, Kentucky.  She was buried in the Drury Bridges Cemetery next to her husband.

 Tombstone of Carl and Faye Boyd

LINEAGE:  (Carl Stanley Boyd was the son of Otis Taylor and Dora Virginia Bridges Boyd.  Virginia was the daughter of John Trice and Maggie Dora Cunningham Bridges.  John Trice was the sixth child of Cullen T. and Martha Ann Virginia Thomas Boyd.  Cullen was the twelfth child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges.  William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.  Martha Ann Virginia Thomas was the third child of Peyton and Sarah Ethridge Thomas.  Peyton was the third child of Cullen and Elizabeth Futrell Thomas.  Cullen was the first child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)