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Bettie Burford Murphree was born on May 10, 1876 to Captain James Kemp and Eliza Aadelaide Henderson Murphree.  She was married to Dr. Hansford Dewitt Boyd, Jr.  Mrs. Boyd was a long time employee is the Mutual Life Insurance Company and won many prestigious awards throughout her career.  In the 1950’s, these two articles reported on her accomplishments.

Mrs. Bettie M. Boyd, of Troy, a representative of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, has earned membership in her company’s National Field Club, according to Fred Hardy, manager of the Montgomery agency.

     In order to qualify for the club, she had to meet certain high standards of life insurance service and production.

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Mrs. Bettie Boyd, who celebrated her 43rd year with MONY this month, will have added another remarkable  chapter in  highly prosperous career of life insurance selling.  She capped her greatest production year to date,  (1956—over $700,000), by qualifying for membership in the Top Club Round Table.  She is the first woman from Alabama ever to qualify for this honor. 

A life member of the elite among women of all companies—the Woman’s Quarter Million Dollar Round Table—Mrs. Boyd has been a members of MONY’S National Field Club on 28 occasions and has qualified for the Top Club five times.  Her record for 1956 was number 54 nationally out of over 4000 agents. 

In 1954, she received a citation from the Board of Trustees for her 25th qualification as a National Field Club member—the only woman in MONY history to receive such an honor.  Only 26 men to date can match this record.

An avid agency booster, (quite often during contests she will make long distance calls to encourage other underwriters), she is indeed a true professional in every sense of the word.

Mrs. Boyd contributes her excellent record to the outstanding contracts written by the Mutual Life and to the service rendered to her policy holders.  She looks upon her clientele as part of her family.

She will attend the Mutual Life Convention in New York City on April 1-6.  While there she will be a guest at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

(Parts of this article were taken from the Mutual Life Points Magazine).

All of these articles can be found in previous editions of The Troy Messenger.  Stay tuned for more.  Dianne Smith is the President of the Pike County Historical, Genealogical and Preservation Society.