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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779
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CHIEF: Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock |
Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd 568 W. Friedrich Street Rogers City, Mich. 49779
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Elizabeth "Bettie" Boyd / John S. Taft Pitt County, North Carolina Letter from John S. Taft to Elizabeth "Bettie" Boyd, 1860 Miss Bettie, I love you New York, Dec the 22nd, 1860. Miss Bettie, Yours were gladly
received and diligently perused two days ago, and now in response I will
try to interest, or absorb your attention for a few moments. For
the last week we have had considerable excitement at the University of
New York, the college I am in; many wanting to remove to some southern
college, and some in favour of remaining until the 4th of March; the
latter predominated in number consequently we will remain until the
examinations at which time I expect to receive my diploma, and then will
be free. You asked when I expected to return? I will be free
to returne any time after the 4th of March. Thank you for your
wish of engagement, and I will assure you, it seems impossible almost
for one to become lonely or dull, in this metro- polis; where he can see
something new every minute, curiosities of all kinds, in fact I may say
the city is a world within itself. You may suppose the different scenes
of this city, has a tendency to throw a shaddow of insignificance over
the passed (past), and cause one to forget those who he has left behind;
it may be so to some extent, but, there is one who finds a place in my
mind, and is a topic of my imagination. That one is to me as an
angel, and at night she finds the way to my bedside, speaking soothing
& pleasant words which make me one of the happiest of beings, when I
wake I find it's all a dream and am only sorry because it's not
real. Was I with you, wonder if I could tell you without blushing,
the one to whom I allude, the boon of my affection, is you. A trip
sometime not far distant I will have the pleasure of showing you some of
the curiosities & scenes of this metropolis. But now I must
tell you what I have wished you to know for some time, that is, I love
you; and believe you, are the only requisite necessary to make me happy;
and believe, I can make you happy, at least I would do all one could do,
to promote your happiness. In response to this, tell me if you
will become my owne, my bride, in life or death your place shal be by my
side, and say you claim me as yours. I guess you can imagine how I
will feel until I receive an answer, and not keep me waiting very long,
be considerate and not doom me to misery in your answer to this.
Write soon. Miss Bettie's admirer was 22 year old John Sullivan Taft who was born September 10th, 1838 in Pitt County, NC, the son of Louisa (Stancil) and Arnold Taft (5) (Thaddeus (4), (Aaron (3), Joseph (2), Robert (1). Bettie was Elizabeth Boyd, probably daughter of Iram and Sarah Boyd, born in NC about 1839. She and John S. Taft were married in Pitt County, North Carolina according to the International Genealogical Index. Their children were: Lena, born 1864; Minnie L., in 1867, John E. Born 1869; Emma Jean (1871- 1945) and Ella (Ethel), born 1875. Emma Jean Taft and her husband Lincoln Lesh were parents of the late Charles Lincoln Lesh, who, with his wife, Mary Bird Phillips Lesh have been long-time members of the Taft Family Association. And it is to Mary we are indebted for this most interesting letter. From "Taft Tree
Talk" Number 40 of May 2001, Newsletter of the Taft Family
Association. Original letter in possesion of Mary Bird Phillips
Lesh, widow of Charles Lincoln Lesh. NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.
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