Boyd Chapel Community
Settlements began to develop in Jones County by the mid-1800s,
first around the abandoned Fort Phantom Hill site and then around
ranches founded in the 1880s and farms established shortly
thereafter. At this site in 1895, Reese Davis, Joe Swent and Alex
Boyd built the Boyd School. The community that developed nearby
came to be known as Boyd Chapel.
Over the next decades, Boyd Chapel was shaped by early area
landowners. These included Guy Arthur Hillier, a New York native
who herded sheep from south Texas to this area, where he met and
married Minnie Estes. Alexander Brown Young and his wife came to
this area in 1897 from east Texas. They settled in the Boyd Chapel
community with five sons, including their oldest, Thomas O. Young,
who had a wife and family of his own. The Young family deeded land
for Methodist and Baptist churches, and a tabernacle, school and
teacherage. Judge L. Crow and his wife Dora built a unique house on
a rise, using concrete, as well as stone gathered from around the
U.S.; they cultivated an orchard and berry fields. In 1916, Raymond
Young built a general store and gas station, the only one in Boyd
Chapel.
As the farming community grew, cotton became its primary crop.
As in much of rural Texas, World War II greatly impacted the
community's population, with young adults serving in the Armed
Forces or finding work in urban centers in support of the war. In
1947, the school consolidated into the Anson school district.
Today, only burials in the nearby Neinda Cemetery link the
present agricultural fields to the community known as Boyd Chapel.
(2006)
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