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Dallas Morning News
21 Aug 1951 page5
Dies at Age 106
Services planned for former slave.

     Dinah Boyd, a former Kentucky slave, will be buried Tuesday near Whitewright, Grayson County. She died Saturday in Dallasat the age of 106.
     Born of freed slave parents in Canada, she was stolen in a park one day when she was ten. By covered hack she was carried to Kentucky and was sold seven times before the slaves were freed.
   She was married at an early age before the Civil War. After the war  she and her husband, Jerry, came to Texas with a group of pioneering families and helped settle the community of Kentuckytown, which thrived until the coming of the railroad to Whitewright, three miles east.
     She worked for the Hamilton family  in Kentuckytown and Whitewright from 1874 until she retired in 1929. Then she lived with a daughter, Mrs. Carrie McLemore in Dallas, for a number of years and later with a grandson, Walter E. Boyd, at 4207 Canal (in Dallas) where she died.
     Tuesday's services for the former slave will be held at the Whiterock Church near Whitewright.
 

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* Just a note to family researchers, Kentuckytown was settled in the early 1850's so I am not sure why the reference to it in the article. Perhaps she came earlier as wagon trains did arrive just to settle that town in 1852. It had some earlier residents but a push for settlements by wagon trains was in 1852...? By the Civil War it was a bustling town, one of the largest in Grayson Co.