CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

Richard G. and Jerri Lynn Boyd

568 W. Friedrich Street

Rogers City, Mich. 49779

Record of the Boyd Family  

Edgar E. Boyd,  Wheeling, West Virginia 1913

 JOHN BOYD OF IRVINE, SCOTLAND AND KINDERHOOK, NY

      Division First: History of the Boyds of Scotland.

The first of the noble family of Boyds to whom Dean (Kilmarnock) Castle and the Barony (Earldom) (1) of Kilmarnock belonged for so many years was Simon, brother of Walter, First High Steward of Scotland. (2)

(1)   The earldom which was created in 1661, many hundreds of years after  Simon, brother of Walter. The Barony was an English title created in 1831 and didn't have anything to do with the Scottish earldom.

(2) Most modern Scottish scholars and historians discount the theory that the Boyds were related to the Stewarts. [RG. Boyd]

His son Robert was remarkable for his fair complexion, hence called "Boyt" or "Boyd", equivalent to "fair" or 'yellow".  Robert was a brave man and distinguished himself in the battle of Largs, 1263.  In 1297 he joined the army of Sir William Wallace. 

The son of Robert, the third Boyd, was Sir Robert Boyd, who joined the standard of the Bruce, and continued until the independence of Scotland was established by the victory of the battle of Bannockburn, in which he was one of the leaders.  He was rewarded by Bruce the lands of Kilmarnock granted by charter in the years 1308 and 1316.  

Sir Thomas Boyd, son of Robert, was also succeeded by his son Thomas, and he again by his son Thomas, Lord of Kilmarnock.  He was distinguished among the nobles in there reign of James I., who was nineteen years a prisoner in England before his succession to the throne in 1424.

His son Thomas succeeded to the title and estate, who slew Sir Allen Stewart of Darnley and was himself slain in revenge in 1439, by a brother of Allen Stewart. 

Robert, the heir of Sir Thomas, was distinguished.  In 1459 he was made lord of Parliament by James II., and married to Margaret (or Mary), the King's sister, and was made Earl of Arran.  James II afterwards became his enemy, and he left Scotland and died in Antwerp.  James, his son, received the title but was slain in 1484.  The estate was afterwards given to Alexander, his son, who was a favorite of James IV.

James V restored to his son Alexander the honours of Lord Boyd, who distinguished himself in battle in Glasgow Field in 1543, and turned the battle in favor of Regent Hamilton.  Lord Boyd died in 1550, and his son Robert became fourth lord Boyd.  He adhered to Mary, Queen of Scots, and fought in the battle of Langside in 1558, and had a commission from the queen to treat with Elizabeth.  He also in 1578 and 1586 obtained favour of James VI, and was one of the commission to form a treaty with England.  A stone preserved from 1589 is placed in the church building erected in 1802 to his memory.

Thomas Boyd was fifth Lord Boyd in 1592.

James Boyd was the eight Lord Boyd , and was a man of great worth and honor.  He supported the unfortunate Charles, for which Cromwell fined him 1,500 pounds.  During his life Dean (Kilmarnock) castle was built.  He was succeeded by his son William, a man of wit and learning, and attached to royalty, for which Charles created him Earl of Kilmarnock, August 7, 1661.

He died in 1692.

His eldest son who succeeded him (William 2nd Earl) died soon after, also, and his son (William) was made Earl in 1699 and attached to the house of Hanover and to George I., who was proclaimed King in Kilmarnock in 1714.  He died in 1717, and his son William, was 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, whose history was fraught with much interest.  He was the last of the Earls to reside in Dean Castle as it was burned in 1735.  He joined his destiny with Charles, the Pretender, which proved disastrous and the Earl was taken prisoner at the battle of Culloden and taken to London, where he was executed August 18, 1746.  His estates, which, by his rebellion were forfeited, were restored to his son James, by the House of Peers in 1752, which afterward sold to the Earl of Glencairn. 

On the death of his aunt, the Countess of Errol, in 1558, he succeeded to the title of Earl of Errol.  The present Earl of Errol, is the direct descendant of the Boyd family in the male line.

John Boyd, born in Scotland (see further---Div. Second), was of this family, and one of the younger sons of the Earl of Errol, but according to another account, was and only son.

DIVISION SECOND:---

History of the Ancestor John Boyd and Descendants in America.

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(First Generation in America)

John Boyd (above called here for convenience the first) was born at Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland 21 January 1739. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, was a lawyer by profession, and was made a notary in 1761. Leaving Scotland 26 February 1770, he came to America with his mother, and settled in Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, later moving to Kinderhook, New York.

He was licensed 26 March 1774, as a lawyer by Colonial Governor John Tyron of the then Province of New York. He married twice, the first time, on 8 December 1772, to a New York lady, name unknown, who died September 1 1773 leaving one child who died five weeks later. On 18 April 1780 he married Miss Christina Van DUSEN of Kinderhook, New York a cousin of Martin Van BUREN,

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 later President of the United States and daughter of Robert Van Dusen (or Van Duesen). According to his grandson's account (John E. Boyd) he is said to have also engaged in the dry goods business in New York and to have failed in 1781 owing to the depreciation of Continental money. After the birth of four sons the family removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then the Nations Capital, where Mr. Boyd obtained a clerkship in Congress.  His wife Christina died 16 September 1797.  He died September 1798 of Yellow Fever.

His wife's line---the Van Duesen---goes back to Holland previous to the year 1640, when the first Van Duesen came to New Amsterdam, now New York

The children of John Boyd and wife Christina were four in number: sons, Robert, William Augustus, John and James Boyd. The John Boyd from Scotland was the Great-grandfather of this compiler (Edgar E. Boyd).

(Second Generation)

ROBERT BOYD, son of John Boyd of Scotland was born 19 Aug 1783 either at Kinderhook, NY or Richmond, Massachusetts.  Little is known of him or his family.  He settled at Port Tobacco, Maryland and is reported to have married a southern lady, name unknown and to have had at least three children, one son and two daughters, as in a letter from him dated 2 July 1830 at Washington City, he speaks of a son Robert, then 18 years of age the previous February, as studying medicine with Dr. Washington of Alexandria and also says that his two daughters are with their aunt in Port Tobacco, MD., calls them "good scholars" that the "oldest daughter, Ann, understands painting and drawing" ---she was 17 years of age last February, and Christina, the younger, is about 14 years of age." The dates of Robert's marriage and death are unknown, but he married prior to his brother, William Augustus. It is said that Robert died at Washington DC, poor and in an "asylum" but was aided financially by his brothers, William A., and James. According to the ages of the above children, as mentioned in the letter from Robert, their names and years of birth are as follows:  1. Robert Boyd born Feb, 1812  2. Ann Boyd born Feb, 1813 and 3. Christiana Boyd born in 1816.

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WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BOYD, (page 6 of original book) son of John Boyd of
Scotland was born in Berkshire County, MA 10 Nov 1785. He was educated in
Philadelphia, PA and Albany, NY. He trained as a merchant in a wholesale dry goods store in Albany and followed that occupation. He later moved to Hartwick, Otsego County, NY, then to Ovid, Seneca County, NY. He married Ruth SEYMOUR of Otsego, in January, 1811. She was born at Berlin, CT on 28 August 1789 daughter of Jonathan SEYMOUR and Abigail HART.

Mr. and Mrs. Boyd removed in the year 1839 to Monroe, Michigan where they
lived the remainder of their life. William A. Boyd died there 26 July 1854 and Ruth died there 6 March 1875. They were actively engaged in the services of the Presbyterian Church. There were three children:
1. William Hart Boyd.  2. Erasmus James Boyd.  3. Mariet Boyd.

William Hart Boyd was born at Hartwick, NY, near Cooperstown Oct 6, 1811.  He received his education at Ovid Academy, Ovid, Seneca County, NY., and was graduated from Rensselar (now Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in the class of 1832.  Two distinguished classmates of his were Prof. James Hall, of Albany, State Geologist, and Hon. S. Wells Williams, LL.D., Missionary to China, Diplomat and afterwards Prof. at Yale College.  Mr. Boyd engaged in the mercantile business with his father at Ovid, NY., a few years, then removed to Monroe, Michigan in the spring of 1836, engaging here in the mercantile business, and for twelve years had three stores in operation, one in Monroe, one in Hillsdale, and a third in Brooklyn, Michigan.  Later he engaged in the hardware business for seventeen years, then taking in two partners, continued business for seven years, then sold out.  In 1868-1869 he was in the oil trade in New York City.  Later he took up produce business in Monroe, Michigan.

He married Miss Lucy Chapell of Monroe, Michigan September 17, 1839.  She was born at Hinsdale, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug 31, 1820, the second daughter of William Chapell Jr., and Lucy Lawrence, who were married at Washington, Mass., in 1815 and who had come west to live in 1827-1828, by the Erie Canal.

Mr. Boyd was a successful and public spirited citizen, a good student and speaker, and with Mrs. Boyd was devoted to the interests of the Presbyterian Church.  He was an elder of the same for nearly sixty years, and super- intendent of the same Sunday school for 33 years.  He died at Monroe Jan 21, 1898 and Mrs. Boyd died there Dec 26, 1903.  There were five children: 1. William Erasmus Boyd, Edgar Seymour Boyd, Irving Payson Boyd, Clara Anna Boyd and Carrie Lucy Boyd. 

William Hart Boyd ~ Lucy Chapel, Monroe County, Michigan

1. William Erasmus Boyd was born at Monroe, MI May 10, 1842 and died there Nov 15, 1847. 

2. Edgar Seymour Boyd was born at Monroe, MI Jan 22, 1848 and died there May 13, 1860.

3. Irving Payson Boyd was born at Monroe, MI April 2, 1851, was educated at Monroe, MI., at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., and Ann Arbor, Michigan University.  He engaged in business in Monroe, Toledo, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois and is now a broker in Produce exchange, New York City.  Residence, Essex Fells, NJ.,  for about 15 years past, near New York. He married Dec 21, 1892, at Winchester, Mass., Miss Mary Adele Thomas, who was born in New York City, and later lived at Hastings-on-the-Hudson, NY the daughter of Cornelius W. Thomas and Margaret Wycoff.  

4. Clara Anna Boyd was born at Monroe, MI., May 30, 1857 and died there May 13, 1860.

5. Carrie Lucy Boyd born 21 Jan 1864 at Monroe, Michigan and was educated at the Monroe, Michigan Young Ladies' Seminary at the Misses Mosters' School, Dobbs Ferry, NY., at Elmira College for Women, Elmira, NY and in New York City, for Music and Normal work.  She resided in Monroe, MI., until the close of the year 1903 and since then she resides with her brother at Essex Fells, NJ.

Erasmus James Boyd was born at Hartwick, New York, Nov 1, 1814.  He was educated at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY and at New York Theological Seminary, graduating from both.  Soon afterwards he accepted the pastorate of a Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, Michigan.  At Troy New York in 1847 he married Miss Sarah Clark, of Troy, daughter of a physician.  She was a graduate of Miss Willard's School in Troy, and later a teacher in Maplewood Seminary, at Pittsfield, Mass.  In 1849 Rev. and Mrs. Boyd went to Monroe, Michigan and established the Monroe Young Ladies Seminary, which they conducted successfully for 29 nine years.  He also engaged in mission work in Monroe among young men of foreign descent.  In the latter part of his life he left the Seminary, and with his family, moved to Laramie City, Wyoming; having accepted a call to a church there.  After a years pastorate he died there suddenly, Nov 23 1881 just having completed the delivery of his Thanksgiving sermon.  Mrs. Boyd died at age 67 years.  There were three girls: Ella Gertrude Boyd, Sarah Florence Boyd, and Anna Louise Boyd.

1. Ella Gertrude Boyd was born at Monroe, MI., in 1850 and died in 1865.

2. Sarah Florence Boyd born at Monroe and in 1885 married Theodore Edward Schwarz of Boston, Mass., a graduate of the Institute of Technology, Boston. Residence is at Brookline, Mass  a suburb of Boston.  Mr. Schwarz is a mining engineer and expert. Three children: 1. Gertrude Florence Schwarz 2. Louis Boyd Schwarz and 3. Dorothy Grant Schwarz.

3. Anna Louise Boyd born at Monroe, Michigan married in 1884, Frederick Kent Copeland of Boston, a graduate of the Institute of Technology and classmate of T.E. Schwarz, above.  Mr. Copeland is president of Sullivan Machinery Co., Chicago, and a manufacturer of mining drills. Three children: Kent Copeland (died in infancy), Margaret Boyd Copeland,  graduate of Bryn Mawr, PA class of 1908, married June 30, 1913, Nathaniel H. Blatchford Jr., of Winnetka,  and Frederick Copeland, graduate of Harvard, class of 1913.

Mariet Boyd, only daughter of William A. and Ruth S. Boyd was born in Otsego County, NY March 10, 1819 married Sept 13, 1843, Charles Pierson Woodruff (born Dec 4, 1810 and died Dec 21, 1901. They lived in Monroe for a while but most of their married life was spent at Detroit, Michigan.  Mrs. Woodruff died May 19, 1909.  There were six children: Alice Woodruff, Cora Woodruff, Charles Boyd Woodruff, Eva Woodruff, Fremont Woodruff, and Russell Coe Woodruff. 

1. Alice Woodruff born at Monroe July 27, 1845 married July 15 1874, Arthur Caleb King of Oxford County, Maine, (he died Nov 5, 1904).  Mrs. King died Dec 27, 1907. Two children: Isabel King born Aug 12, 1875 died Oct 25 1895 and Arthur Woodruff King born Sep 13, 1877 married July 20 1909 Margaret Andrews of Duluth, MN. Two children; Arthur W. King Jr., and Alice King.

2. Cora Woodruff born Detroit, MI April 19, 1848 and died May 3, 1902 unmarried.

3. Charles Boyd Woodruff born at Detroit Oct 8, 1850 and lived at Duluth, MN where he is President of Woodruff Lumber Company.

4. Eva Woodruff born Detroit Nov 25, 1852 lives in Detroit.

5. Fremont Woodruff born Detroit Fed 14, 1857 is a lawyer and married Nov 24, 1890, Miss Annie Stevens, of Detroit. Five children:  Stevens Woodruff born 26 Sept 1892,  Ruth Woodruff born 2 April 1895, Mary Woodruff, Alice Woodruff and Annette Woodruff.

6. Russell Coe Woodruff born Detroit April 4, 1859 married at Salt Lake City, Utah April 27, 1892 Miss Florence Kimball.  He died at Prescott, Arizona, May 24, 1897.  He was a banker, and at the time of his death, a cashier at First National Bank of Prescott, Arizona.  The family now reside at Salt Lake City. Two children:  Russell Kimball Woodruff born Oct 6, 1893 and Adelaide Woodruff born Sept 11, 1895.

 JOHN BOYD, (page 11 of original book) son of John BOYD of Scotland was born at Kinderhook, NY 25 August 1787. He was a playmate of his cousin, Martin Van Buren, afterwards President of the United States.  When a boy he accompanied his parents to Philadelphia, PA later removing to Alexandria, Virginia then a city of the District of Columbia.  He was a saddler by trade, and several of his sons learned the same trade.  He married 1 July 1810 Miss Mary Gough (or Goff) KIRK, born at Philadelphia 3 July 1793, said to have been an only child.  Her parents had emigrated to America from England about four years prior to her birth.  Little is known of her family. (Kirk is a Scottish name).  According to her son Charles Boyd, she had two uncles, William and Thomas KIRK the later born blind.  They moved from Alexandria to Guernsey County, Ohio, thence to some point in Ohio west of Columbus.  Mary's father seems to have come with them, or possibly later, to Guernsey County for he is buried near the village of Antrim in that county.

John Boyd above was a Mason and member of the lodge to which George Washington had belonged in Alexandria.  In the early 1820's the family moved to Washington, DC and about 1830 they moved to Gratiot on the National Road in Licking County, Ohio.  Here he died on 26 January 1862, his wife on 9 December 1868. They were Methodists in religion. John and Mary G. Boyd were the parents of thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy, one of these unnamed. 1. William Alfred Boyd.  2. John Edward Boyd.  3. Mary Emmilene Boyd.  4. Thomas Henry Boyd.  5. Charles Albert Boyd.  6. Sarah Louisa Boyd.  7. Samuel James Boyd.  8. Robert Edgar Boyd.  9. (twins) Leroy Augustus Boyd.  10. Augustus Leroy Boyd.  11. Adelaide Virginia Boyd.  12. George Washington Boyd.

William Alfred Boyd was born at Alexandria, VA., April 2, 1811, married at Akron, Ohio, January 10, 1837, Miss Laura A. Ford.  Laura born March 14, 1820, a daughter of one of Wisconsin's pioneers. While young, William A. worked at his saddler's trade for a short period in a shop at the N.E. corner of Main and 8th Streets, Wheeling, West Virginia. 

Not later than the year 1840, probably earlier, he moved to Wisconsin, and settled on a farm about two miles south of the site of Oshkosh, then a wilderness.  He died January 10, 1889 and his wife died August 9, 1889.

There were five children; Laura Emma Boyd, William Henry Boyd, Charles Edgar Boyd, Mary Louisa Boyd and John Franklin Boyd.

Laura Emma Boyd was born probably in Ohio, May 15, 1839, married at Oshkosh, WI., George Merritt, November 22, 1864.  They lived in Oshkosh. 

Mr. Merritt was born about 1834. There were two children: (1)Gertrude Merrittt was born December 18, 1867, married Dec 12, 1892, Edward Bellmer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who died April 13, 1912.  Gertrude and Edward had four children: Alvin Merritt Bellmer born Dec 13, 1894, Clyde Elmer Bellmer born March 27, 1899,  Ira Edward Bellmer born Dec 19, 1900, and Myron Walter Bellmer born April 13, 1904. (2) Edgar Merritt was born 8 November 1876 and died April 1, 1881.

William Henry Boyd born at Oshkosh, July 10, 1840 has the distinction of being the first white male child born in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.  At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Union army in Co. E., 2nd Wisconsin Regiment, April 15, 1861.  He was badly wounded at Gettysburg the first day of the struggle, July 1st, 1863.  The wound was near the hip joint and prevented travel on his part.  He lay on the field for two days without aid, bleeding incessantly.  A friend had, however, carried him to the shade of a tree.  Henry, as he was known, managed to stop the flow of blood by tying his suspenders around his leg, tightening it with the dry limb of a tree.  On the second night a comrade found him  and dragged him to the Court House, where he waited two days more before his wound could finally receive medical attention.  Fever set in and his case was considered fatal.  Finally after seven months in the hospital he was sent to New York City, and then went to Harrisburg, PA., to "settle" with the government, and then soon went home.

His wound required almost daily attention for the fifty remaining years of his life. He was later elected City Treasurer of Oshkosh.  After his retirement from office he engaged in the flour and feed business, and in 1891 opened a box factory known as Boyd manufacturing Co.  About this time, too, he started his "City Market" store, and engaged in the oyster business, relinquishing it to his son, Roy Boyd, in 1909.  He was a member of Oshkosh Lodge No. 120, of Odd Fellows.  On June 5, 1876, he married, at Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, Miss Libbie Bardon of the place.  There were two children:  Clyde B. Boyd and Roy Bardon Boyd.  Wm. Henry Boyd died April 27, 1913.

Clyde B. Boyd was born May 31, 1878; had a position with the Wisconsin Central Freight depot at Oshkosh; died unmarried, April 23, 1898.

Roy Bardon Boyd was born June 7, 1885 lived in Oshkosh and succeeded to 

his father's business. He married Miss Edith Louise Fuller of Janesville, WI.

They had one child:  Willard Fuller Boyd born July 13, 1913.

Charles Edgar Boyd  was born at Oshkosh, WI., April 9, 1842, enlisted in the Union Army in the late Civil War, and died in service, Jan 17, 1863, unmarried.

Mary Louisa Boyd was born at Oshkosh, WI June 24, 1845 and married December 11, 1877, John J. Merritt of that city, who died May 5, 1882.  He was a brother of her sister's husband.  They lived in Oshkosh and had one daughter, Mildred Emma Merritt, born May 13, 1879. She is a kindergarten teacher in the Oshkosh public schools.

John Franklin Boyd was born at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, May 17, 1852.  He was a machinist and later sold real estate.  He married Miss Annie Jones, of Oshkosh and died there April 22, 1911. They had two children: (1) Ward Franklin Boyd born at Marinette, Wisconsin October 7, 1885.  He is a theological student at Princeton Seminary, Princeton, NJ.  (2) Charles Elmore Boyd born April 7, 1891.

John Edward Boyd was born at Alexandria, November 28, 1812.  When a young man he clerked in the store of his uncle, James Boyd, at Laurens, NY. In 1831 he moved to Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio and clerked for John McCurdy and later went into partnership with a Mr. Stafford. On November 19, 

1834 he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Endly, daughter of Jacob Endly of Washington, Ohio.  About the year 1836 he moved to Cumberland, Guernsey County, Ohio and started a general store. Later he owned several stores in other places besides---in Carlisle (Berne P.O.) Lebanon, Cochransville and Senecaville, Ohio. He did an extensive business in pork packing.

In the autumn of 1849 he removed to Wheeling, Virginia, starting in the wholesale dry goods business, and later associated himself with Samuel Ott, under the firm name of Boyd & Ott.  In November 1860 he removed to Philadelphia, PA and engaged in the banking and brokerage business at 43 South 3rd Street.  He was at one time President of the "Gold Board".  In 1865 he failed at the time of the big fall of gold in value from 250 to 150, within about two weeks; continued the business for a year or more in the name of his Son, George E. Boyd, and failed again.  He later engaged in the retail dry goods business at Rahway, New Jersey and Easton, Pennsylvania and then in 1868 with his brother-in-law, George A. Endly, bought about 2,000 acres of land at what is now Chase City, then a crossroads settlement in Mecklenburg, VA where he conducted a country store.

They partitioned their lands, sold off town lots, and helped in other ways to improve the town, whose former name, John E. Boyd changed to Chase City, naming it after Chief Justice Chase, of the US Supreme Court.  John E. Boyd lived a very active life, and attended to his farm adjoining the town on which he lived until very aged.  His wife, Elizabeth, died February 16, 1897 and he died September 6, 1902 in his 90th year, at Chase City.  There were five children:

John W. Boyd, Mary Ann Boyd, George Edmund Boyd, Oscar Endly Boyd and Ada Virginia.

(1) John William Boyd born at Washington, Ohio, June 24, 1836; married November 23, 1857, Miss Emily P. Botsford of Wheeling, WV.  He was in business for a while in Wheeling, a partner in a firm of John W. Boyd & Co., wholesale grocery.  A few years prior to his death, he resided at Chase City, VA; returned to Wheeling with his family in the latter 1870s, where he died March 7, 1879.  His widow resided in Wheeling for many years thereafter, but a few years ago went to Brooklyn, NY to reside with her daughter, Emma. There were five children one of which died at birth. The other four are: Emma Boyd,  Grace Maltby Boyd, John Kent Boyd and Lambert T. Boyd.

(1) Emma Boyd was born at Wheeling January 1, 1860.  She married at Wheeling, August 18, 1881, Richard Williams, a civil engineer, now in the real estate business and living in Brooklyn.  No children. 

(2)  Grace Maltby Boyd was born at Wheeling, May 19, 1861 and married July 13, 1886, at Wheeling, Samuel L. Carpenter of Denver, Colorado.  He was a lawyer and later a judge.  They resided at Denver until 1908 when they moved to Berkeley, California, and about a year later to South Pasadena, near Los Angeles. They were four children:  Jeremiah Carpenter born  August 18, 1887, Samuel L. Carpenter born April 11, 1888, J. Murray Carpenter born March 6, 1889 married September 6, 1913 Miss Grace Carper at Los Angeles; Kent Boyd Carpenter born March 14, 1892 and died July 13, 1893. 

(3) John Kent Boyd, born at Wheeling, March 24 1874, married July 11, 1899, Miss Flora Pollack, of Wheeling, daughter of Augustus Pollack and moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he is a manager of the warehouse and sales department of the Wheeling Corrugating Co., the works and principal office of which are in Wheeling.  One child: Augustus Pollack born May 3, 1900.

(4)Lambert T. Boyd, born at Wheeling, November 5, 1878, for some years held a position in the Whitaker mill at Wheeling.  He later went south and worked for his brother.  On April 24, 1909 hr married Miss Faery Anna Ritter of Louisville, Kentucky.  They resided at Atlanta, Georgia, Ocala, Florida, and Chattanooga, Tennessee, respectively.  One son: John Kent Boyd born October 17, 1910.

(5) Mary Ann Boyd born at Cumberland, Ohio May 5, 1838 married at Chase City, VA.,  Dr. C.W. Walker of same place October 29, 1873.  There was one child that died at birth.  Dr. Walker born August 16, 1833 and died August 21, 1899.  She resides with her sister in Rahway, New Jersey.

(5) George Edmund Boyd born at Cumberland, Ohio, Dec 29, 1839.  In 1849 he moved to Wheeling with his father and graduated at Washington College, Washington, PA., in 1858, studied law with Hon. Alfred Caldwell of Wheeling. He graduated at the age of 21 at the Cincinnati, Ohio Law School.  On June 18, 1863 he married Miss Annie Caldwell, daughter of A. Caldwell, above.  He 

associated himself with Samuel Ott, under the firm name of Boyd & Ott. He practiced law awhile first in Wheeling, later in New Martinsville, WV and again in Wheeling, in the middle 1860s was in business with his father in Philadelphia.  In 1876 he was elected judge of the county court of Ohio County, serving four years; was elected Judge of the Circuit Court of the first Judicial District of West Virginia in 1880, embracing the four counties of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, and Marshall, and served eight years, after which time he again practiced law and became Court Commissioner, continuing in both at his home in Wheeling until his death June 8, 1913.  His widow resides in Wheeling.

There were three children: Ann Beulah Boyd, George E. Boyd, Jr., and Alfred Caldwell Boyd. 

Ann Beulah Boyd was born at Wheeling March 24, 1864 and graduated at Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio. She taught school and married, at Wheeling, June 3, 1893, Charles M. Ritchie. They lived in Fairmont, WV and at Gassoway, WV.  One child: Jean Boyd Ritchie born March 19, 1894 and is a freshman at Wooster University.

George Edmund Boyd Jr., was born at Philadelphia, PA January 24, 1866. He graduated at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV., practiced law with his father at Wheeling and is United States Commissioner and clerk of the Federal Court at Wheeling.  August 8, 1892 he married Laura Mahone of Wheeling. There were two children; Kathleen Boyd born May 13, 1893 and died May 23, 1893;  Beulah Boyd born August 1, 1894 and is in her freshman year at Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.

Oscar Endly Boyd was born at Cumberland, Ohio March 13, 1842.  He married August 17, 1863, Miss Mary Elizabeth French of Philadelphia, PA.  In the early 1870s he resided with his own family in Wheeling when his daughters were little; later he removed to New York City and was for twenty-six years Recording Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, with Headquarters in that city.  At times he took long journeys for the Board.  His wife had a position as head of the Women's Board of Missions.  He had a home, chiefly a summer residence, in Ocean Grove, NY.

Later he left his position, removing to Virginia, and stayed with his father until the latter's death.  Near the beginning of 1905 the First State Bank of Virginia was formed by his uncle and others, at Chase City, with a branch at Clarksville, Virginia of which he was a cashier until his resignation in August of 1907.  He died December 21, 1907 at the home of his daughter in Oakland, CA., where he and his wife went for a visit.  There were three children:  Annie May Boyd, Mary French Boyd, and James Oscar Boyd.

Annie May Boyd was born at Philadelphia, PA., May 30, 1864.  For a time she was employed in New York in religious work, and in 1903 was engaged in Congregational Church affairs, with offices in the United Charities Building.  April 13, 1904 she married Dr. John Hood Laughlin at Princeton, NJ, a returned missionary from China. With him she was appointed missionary to the Chinese in California, and they resided in San Francisco until after the terrible earthquake and fire in April, 1906 in which they lost heavily.  Later they moved to Oakland and now reside in Berkeley, CA.  There were no children.

Mary French Boyd was born at Rahway, NJ July 2, 1867 and died there May 27, 1881.

James Oscar Boyd, born at Rahway, NJ October 17, 1874.  He graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ and married May 22, 1901 at Logan, Ohio, Miss Bertha Work McManigal of Logan.  He received a degree of Ph. D. from Princeton, June 14, 1905 and for a time taught ancient languages.  On December 17, 1907 he was by the Board of Directors of said institution, installed and inaugurated as Elliot F. Shephard, Assistant Professor of Oriental and Old Testament Literature.  His inaugural address was, "Ezekiel and the Modern History of the Pentateuch" They live in Princeton and have four children: Alden Work Boyd,  born July 12, 1902, Elizabeth French Boyd born May 24, 1905, Anna Laughlin Boyd born December 4, 1906 and died the same day, and Mary Florence Boyd born November 12, 1909.

Ada Virginia Boyd, born at Wheeling Jan 31, 1857 married May 15, 1878 at Chase City, VA.,  Henry M. Woodruff of Rahway, NJ.  He was an officer of the Importers' and Traders' Bank in New York City.  They live in Rahway and have four children:  Henry Boyd Woodruff born March 27, 1879 died Nov 21, 1895; Elizabeth Endly (Elsie) Woodruff born July 20, 1880 married Herbert Mooney, one child Ada Virginia Mooney born July 4, 1910;  Frank Carrington Woodruff born Sept 22, 1883; and  Ada Boyd Woodruff born April 21, 1894.

Mary Emeline Boyd was born November 3, 1814 at Alexandria, VA.  She married Henry Hursey/Hersey of Gratiot, Ohio.  He died and she married, at Clinton, Missouri, Dennis Burris, a widower.  In the year 1880 they were living on their farm in Henry County, some four miles east of Clinton.  Mary died in Clinton on or about Jan 31, 1884. They were no children by either marriage. 

Thomas Henry Boyd was born at Alexandria, VA., January 9, 1817.  At the age of ten he earned his first money as page at the Federal Congress, at the National Capital at Washington, DC.  He learned the trade of shoemaking and on Nov 10, 1834 he moved to Greene county, Illinois and worked at his trade. In 1842 he married Miss Mary Ann Ellis of North Carolina (born February 22, 1822) who died September 10, 1890.  He was County Judge of Greene county, IL in 1847, admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1851, elected County Judge of Greene county in 1859 thru 1866.  He was a member of the Illinois legislature about the years 1870-1872.  He bore a striking resemblance to President Abraham Lincoln, with whom he was well acquainted, and was at times mistaken for him.  For many years and until his death he resided at Carrollton, Greene county, Illinois.  He owned 1,578 acres of Illinois farm land which he personally managed.  November 18, 1890 he was again married to Miss Adrienne Witt, a young lady from Carlinsville, Illinois, aged about 26 years.  Judge Boyd joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at the age of 75, and at 82 became a free mason, being the oldest Mason to join in the United States heretofore.  He died October 10, 1901.  His widow resides at Carrollton, IL. 

He had six children by his first wife, two of whom died in infancy, one named Elizabeth, the name of the other, a girl, is unknown to the writer, and the others are: Ollitippia Boyd, Carrie Boyd, Virginia Boyd and Thomas Boyd.

Ollitippia Boyd born in 1846 married at Carrollton, IL., May 5, 1870, William H. Ainsworth of Roodhouse, IL.  They lived in Roodhouse for a number of years and for a while lived in St. Louis, in 1874, and later at Carrollton and subs- sequently at Whitehall, IL.  There were three children: William B. Ainsworth, Frank Ainsworth, and Henry Ainsworth. Henry married Maud Doyle and had one child, Harry Doyle.

Carrie Boyd born in December of 1848 in Illinois married Cyrus C. Seeley, at Carrollton, IL.  Carrie died in Sept, 1878.  Mr. Seeley died in Auburn, Nebraska

in 1897.  There were two children: Mayme Seeley and Jessie Seeley born 1878 and died a few weeks later.

Mayme Seeley born 1876 married Joseph Elmer Clark in Auburn, Nebraska in February, 1902.  There were two children:  Virginia Elizabeth Clark born November 14, 1902 and Joseph Seeley Clark born Jan 8, 1905. 

.Virginia Boyd born at Carrollton, IL in 1853 married at Carrollton October 5, 1871, Edward F. Hartley (born November 9, 1847).  He was a photographer of Jacksonville, Illinois. They moved to Chicago where he became a prominent

and successful photographer where he had a studio (West Madison St).  He died October 9, 1887 and in 1888 his widow married Luther Raymond Stiles of Chicago and she married thirdly, Clarence Mason Kelsey, April 25, 1895.  Clarence was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade.  There were no children.

Charles Albert Boyd was born at Alexandria, March 17, 1819.  He kept a general store at Cumberland, Ohio in the 1840s, then kept a store at Carlisle (Berne P.O.) Macksburg, Ohio and Lowell, Ohio successively. At Cumberland, Dec 17, 1844 he married Miss Nancy Jett, of that place.  In the spring of 1867 they removed to Clinton, Henry county, Missouri and kept a store there.  For some years they resided on his farm about two miles west of Clinton.  His wife was born June 16, 1816 and died June 26, 1903.  He is still living with his surviving son at his residence in Clinton, Missouri at the advanced age of 94 and 1/2 years (Sept 1913), in perfect contentment with his residence.  There were five children: Albert Boyd, Florence Virginia Boyd, Frances Valeria Boyd, Adolphus E. Boyd and Kate Alice Boyd.

Albert Boyd was born at Carlisle, Noble County, Ohio January 15, 1846 and died at Clinton, Missouri July 18, 1868. 

Florence Virginia Boyd born at Berne, Ohio December 6, 1848 and married at Clinton, MO., May 1, 1871, Dr. William Alexander Buchanan, a physician at

Paris, Illinois. There were two children: Charles Albert Buchanan born March 13, 1876 in Paris and Edwin Boyd Buchanan born February 1, 1878 at Paris became a physician and died in Colorado Springs, CO in 1903.

Frances Valeria Boyd born at Macksburg, Ohio December 7, 1851 and died there November 30, 1854.

Adolphus E. Boyd was born at Macksburg, Ohio January 24, 1854.  He spent some years in the far West.  In 1880 he was connected with the Democrat, a Clinton, Missouri newspaper.  Later, 1904 he was with the Republican, of Clinton as a foreman.  He resides with his father at their home on North Third Street and is unmarried.

Kate Alice Boyd was born at Macksburg, Ohio September 10, 1856 and was living with her parents in Clinton.  She died unmarried May 17, 1904.

Sarah Louisa Boyd was born at Alexandria April 3, 1821 and married at Gratiot, Ohio, William Driggs (widower, and by his first wife the father of the late Judge John B. Driggs, of Bridgeport, Ohio.)  After their marriage they resided on their farm on Duck Creek, Ohio near Carlisle about the year 1852 and about 1852 they moved to a farm near Woodsfield, Ohio, about the year

1867 removed to Clinton, Missouri and lived on a fruit farm on the northern borders of the town.  William died May 29, 1890 and she followed him Dec 19, 1890.  There were seven children: Henrietta V. Driggs, Elizabeth Ann Driggs, Estella Adelaide Driggs, William Alfred Driggs, Sophia Lenora Driggs, Augustus Leroy Driggs, and Mary Frances Driggs.

Henrietta V. Driggs was born near Duck Creek December 2, 1849 and died at the family residence near Woodsfield, Ohio March 10, 1866.

Elizabeth Ann Driggs was born May 1, 1851, near Duck Creek and died May 11, 1851.

Estella A. Driggs was born near Woodsfield, Ohio July 9, 1852.  She married at Clinton, Missouri, on October 9, 1878, John H. Rust, a native of Cambridge, England. They lived on a farm near Altamont, Labette county, Kansas and later moved to Altamont where Mr. Rust engaged in the grain and lumber business.  In November, 1907, they went to Many, Louisiana where he is engaged in the lumber business.  There were four children: William Augustus Rust, Lenora Edith Rust, Milbern James Rust, and Ralph Guy Rust.

William A. Rust was born May 7, 1881 and died July 31, 1882.

Lenora Edith Rust was born in Labette County, Kansas October 12, 1883 and married February 7, 1908 C.G. Call, county treasurer of Labette County.  There are two children: Thela Frances Call  born December 8, 1908 and Ethel Irene

Call born August 18, 1912.  

Milburn James Rust was born July 3, 1887 and married Dec 22, 1907, Miss Lucille Osborn. There are two children: John Howard Rust born October 28, 1909 and Opal Louise Rust born July 19, 1912. 

Ralph Guy Rust was born Dec 3, 1889.

William Alfred Driggs was born near Woodsfield, Ohio September 28, 1854 and married at Clinton, MO., June 14, 1888, Miss Nannie Robertson Holliday of Clinton.  Nannie was born June 12, 1858.  They lived in Guide Rock, Nebraska and then Norton, Kansas.  January 1, 1903, they returned to Clinton, where they keep a store.  There are two children:  Mary Louise Driggs born March 13, 1891 and John Holliday Driggs born November 10, 1892.

Sophia Lenora Driggs born near Woodsfield, Ohio January 14, 1857 married at Clinton, MO., Sept 3, 1890, John Calvin Goodell (a widower) of Kansas. They live on a farm near Angora, Kansas. They had no children.

Augustus Leroy Driggs born near Woodsfield, Ohio, March 2, 1860 married at Clinton, June 29, 1881, Miss Martha May Ogden of Clinton. They lived in Clinton, Ohio, Mound Valley, Kansas, and Baldwin, Kansas.  There ware four children:  Edwin Leroy Driggs, Charles William Driggs, Maggie Louise Driggs, and Frank Howard Driggs.

Edwin Leroy Driggs was born March 25, 1882 and married November 21, 1906, Miss Josephine Jackson of Altamont, Kansas. They lived in Mount Rose, Colorado then went to Manila, Philippines and was a civil engineer.  There are three children:  Edwin Ogden Driggs born, Sept 13, 1907, Hazel Evangeline Driggs born January 31, 1909 and died in June 1, 1910, and Richard Jackson Driggs born February 20, 1912.

Charles William Driggs was born June 3, 1884.  In 1904 he was in business at Mound Valley with his father.  Later he located in Kansas City, Missouri and is an engineer for the M.K & T.R.R. there.

Maggie Louise Driggs born May 11, 1888 married May 31, 1907, Edwin M. Upton, a teacher at the University of Nebraska. There are two children:  Dorothy Driggs Upton born July 16, 1908 and Frances Louise Upton born in May 1911. 

Frank Howard Driggs was born October 25, 1895.

Mary Frances Driggs was born near Woodsfield, Ohio May 3, 1864 and married at Clinton, Missouri, October 3, 1883, E. Lee Redding of Clinton.  They moved to Tacoma, Washington and in 1894 moved to Los Angeles, California he owned a store and Mrs. Redding took up the real estate business. Later they lived in South Pasadena and now reside in San Francisco. There are two children:  Edith May Redding born February 23, 1887 and died February 25, 1887 and William Howard Redding born July 26, 1889 and died May 10, 1895.

Samuel James Boyd was born at Washington, DC Jan 15, 1824 and was a twin brother of Robert E. Boyd.  He learned the saddler's trade and in 1844 he went to his brother William's in Wisconsin.  He kept a store in Cumberland and Senecaville, Ohio.  He married, June 25, 1850, at Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, Miss Sophia Lenora Endly, daughter of Jacob Endly of that town and sister to Mrs. John E. Boyd.  In 1850 he was in the dry goods business in Wheeling with his brother John E. Boyd.  In the autumn of 1855 he engaged in the wholesale hardware business with Morgan L. Ott under the firm name of Ott & Boyd until 1857 when his health failed and he retired from business. The family moved out into the country, and lived first at Pleasant Valley on the National Road , then to Stamm's "Four Mile House," and then in the spring of 1865 to his farm in Pleasant Valley, where they kept house until his return to Wheeling in April, 1867.  In January, 1866, he went into the wholesale boot and shoe business with Martin Wayman, under the firm name of Boyd & Wayman.

He later bought out Mr. Wayman and continued the business in his own name for some years and in November, 1870 buying storeroom, No. 1411 Main Street.  He continued business here until January 1, 1876 when he sold out to his brother George W. Boyd and retired.  

He was one of the founders, and for many years a director in the Fire & Marine Insurance Co. of Wheeling and for some time President of the North-Western Association (Old Fair Grounds on Wheeling Island).  He passed the remainder of his life in Wheeling, until his death, June 21, 1897, resulting from injuries sustained by accidentally falling from the bathroom window in his new house at the NW corner of Chapline and 22nd street.  His wife died February 5, 1910 at the family home in Woodsdale a suburb of Wheeling. There were two children: Rhodolphus James Boyd born at Berne, Ohio February 8, 1851 and died Dec 7, 1851, and Edgar Endly Boyd.

Edgar Endly Boyd * born at the Stamm "Four Mile House" National Road, near Wheeling, Jan 19, 1862; graduated at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA, June 21, 1882; graduated at Columbia Law School, New York City, May 27, 1885; admitted to the Ohio County, West Virginia bar and practice June 20, 1885; commissioned a notary Public by Gov. E.W. Wilson, July 10, 1886 and again by Gov. William E. Glasscock, November 6, 1909; attorney and notary, Wheeling, WV.  Married at Wheeling, Jan 25, 1898, Miss Edith Mary Ewing, of Wheeling.  She was born April 8, 1870, daughter of John H. Ewing.  They resided at the family home on Chapline St., until July 2, 1906 when they moved to Woodsdale, Ohio County, a suburb.  One child:  Samuel James Boyd born April 10, 1902 and died same day.

Robert Edgar Boyd (twin to brother S.J. Boyd) was born at Washington, DC., January 15, 1824.  He removed to Carlinville, Illinois and married Miss Rachel Smock of Carlinsville, December 22, 1847.  He died May 5, 1852 at his residence in Carlinsville.  His widow was still living there in the year 1913. There are two children:  John C. Boyd and Robert Edgar Boyd.

John C. Boyd was born at Carlinsville and moved to Auburn, Nebraska. He was appointed warden at the penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1913.  He married a Miss Seagreaves and had one child Dottie Boyd.

Robert Edgar Boyd was born at Carlinsville, Illinois November 27, 11850 and married at Cairo, Illinois, June 30, 1875, Miss Eva Mulkey of that place.  She was born March 13, 1856, daughter of John H. Mulkey, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois.  Robert is a railway mail clerk in Jacksonville, Illinois.

There are five children:  Mabel Boyd, Bessie Boyd, Clara Boyd, Robert Mulkey Boyd, and Daisy Boyd, all born at Carlinsville, Illinois.

Mabel Boyd born August 24, 1876 married William J. Estes of Metropolis, IL.,

and later Los Angeles, CA., where Mr. Estes is a city salesman for a large hardware store.  One child Eva Lee Estes born October 17, 1897. 

Bessie Boyd born November 28, 1878 married February 27, 1904, Albert Newberry of Quincy, Illinois.  No children.

Clara Boyd born May 22, 1884, married Philip Lowrey of Chicago, IL., and moved to Los Angeles, CA.  Mr. Lowrey is a claim agent of the Los Angeles Interurban R.R.  There are no children.

Robert Mulkey Boyd was born August 30, 1889 and lives at Jacksonville, IL.

Daisy Boyd was born September 15, 1895 and lives in Jacksonville, IL.

Leroy Augustus Boyd was born at Washington, DC., May 7, 1826 and died at Washington, October 4, 1827.

Augustus Leroy Boyd was born at Washington, DC., July 9, 1928 and resided with his parents at Gratiot, Ohio. He died unmarried May 7, 1851 at Berne, Ohio while on a visit to his brother, S.J. Boyd.

George Washington Boyd* was born at Gratiot, Ohio February 23, 1838.  He entered the Union Army at the beginning of the Civil War and was quarter- master in Co. G. 32nd Ohio Regiment, 17th Army Corps and participated in a number of important battles, 1861-1865.  At the close of the war he removed to Wheeling, WV., and worked in Samuel James Boyd's shoe store; for six years; 1876-1881, he was a member of the firm of Boyd and Prather (S.N. Prather), dealing in the shoe and hat business combined; later a member of Boyd & Co., and Boyd, Miller & Co., (J.A. Miller) at different times, 1882-1895, boots and shoes, located in S.J. Boyd's shoe house on Main street.  He married Miss Lou Hoge in 1870 of Belmont, Ohio.  She died in 1888. There are five children: George Leroy Boyd, Annie Boyd, John Ralph Boyd, and two others who died in infancy, one not named and Robert James Boyd born between Annie and John Ralph.

*George Washington Boyd enlisted  01 Aug 1861  Private  23y --
Served Ohio  Enlisted G Co 32nd Inf Reg OH
Promoted to Full Sergt 01 Jan 1864 (As of Co G)
Transferred 11 Jun 1864 from Co G to Co S
Promoted to Full Qtr Master Serg 11 Jun 1864 (As of Co S)
Promoted to Full Quartermaster 18 Nov 1864
(Promoted to 1st Lieut & R.Q.M.)
Mustered Out Louisville, KY  20 Jul 1865

George Leroy Boyd was born at Gratiot, Ohio in October of 1870; clerked in the shoe business at Wheeling, then in the glass business with Edward Muhleman, a manufacturer; in the year 189__ , became manager of the Crystal Glass Co. Works at Bridgeport, Ohio, opposite Wheeling; in 1903 or 1904 he had an official position in the Imperial Glass Works at Bellaire, Ohio; from July 1, 1904 to 1907 had a similar position in Cambridge, Ohio; removed to Wheeling again in 1907 and later returned to Cambridge  and became Treasurer of the Cambridge Glass Company.  He married at Cambridge, June 25, 1913, Miss Lucie Thornberry of that place. 

Annie Boyd was born at Wheeling, February 19, 1873 and married January 8, 1896, William J. Lukens, a jeweler, of Wheeling and lives in Wheeling. There are three children:  Unnamed child died at birth, Robert William Lukens born December 3, 1900 and George Boyd Lukens born July 10, 1904

John Ralph Boyd born at Wheeling, WV.,  October 14, 1880. For some years he had a position with his brother at the plant of the Crystal Glass Co., Bridgeport.  He changed to Imperial Glass Works at the same time his brother did and has become secretary thereof, at Bellaire, Ohio.  At Wheeling he married Annie Sidney McLain of Wheeling.  They first lived in Bellaire but in 1910 removed to Wheeling, their residence now. There are three children:  Thomas McLain Boyd born January 14, 1907, George Washington Boyd born December 19, 1909,  and Donald Hoge Boyd born March 11, 1912.

page 32

James Boyd, fourth and youngest son of John Boyd from Scotland (page 32 original book) was born at Kinderhook, NY in July 1790.  He married a Miss Thayer of Butternuts, Otsego County, NY.  He trained as a merchant and made his home in Laurens, NY.  He conducted a store there and became Justice of the County Court.  About the year 1830, a Mason named Morgan having published a book exposing the secrets of the order, and the Masons being suspected of having killed Morgan---so it was rumored---James Boyd was defeated for re-election to the County Court because he was a Mason. At this time his nephew, John E. Boyd, later of Virginia, was employed in his uncle's store.  James Boyd was at that time in delicate health.

James Boyd and his wife were the parents of two children, who died young, a boy and a girl, names unknown. The parents died some time during the 19th century, but the dates are not known.   --End

Memoranda, Corrections and Additions found after publication of the year 1913. (Made in 1916)

Page 15. John Boyd (our grandfather) was not really in George Washington's lodge but author later found out that he was in Alexandria Brooke Lodge #2 and made so on Oct 1st, 1818. His vouchers were Thomas Tuley and Thomas Tower. Mr. Boyds signature can be seen in the proper book in the lodge room, which is in the building containing the lodge of which Washington was a member.

Page 16. William Henry Boyd had three strokes of apoplexy in the last three months before his death.

Page 17. Ward F. Boyd graduated at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, April 30, 1914. July 21 1914 he married Miss Ellen Gittings Pugh, daughter of John Pugh of Racine, Wisconsin October 1, 1914 at Racine. His brother Charles E. Boyd graduated at University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1914, taking a course in commercial and economic geography.

Page 19. Statement in the Record that Mrs. Mary Walker had had a child is said to be in error.  Lambert T. Boyd has also a second son named Lambert born in 1913.  They reside now (1916) in New Orleans.  He represents Wheeling Corrugating Co.  J. Murray Carpenter has a child born in 1915.  His brother Samuel has also married.

Page 21. Rev. Boyd was installed May 10. 1915, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, called Church of the Redeemer, Paterson, NJ.

Page 22. Herbert Mooney is employed with Nelson Valve Company, 50 Church Street, New York.  Frank C. Woodruff married at Scotch Plains, NJ., near Rahway on June 1, 1916, Miss Ellen Ridley Morgan of Scotch Plains.

Page 23. Henry Ainsworth, the writer was later informed, had been with his father in the mercantile business at Roodhouse, IL from about 1905 till 1913 or later.  They intended going out of business because of ill health of Henry.

Page 24.  The blank in Mayme Seeley's birth year is November 20.

Page 25. Charles A. Boyd died April 30 1916.  His grandson, Charles spent large parts of 1913 and 1914 in London, England in his occupation.

Page 26. Third child, Edmund Rust Call born September 22, 1914. Ralph married December 30, 1914 Miss Ruby Mae Mason of Stroud, OK. Resided in Parsons, Kansas.

Page 27.  Mrs. W.A. Driggs died December 13, 1914. Charles W. Driggs married November 26, 1914 Miss...............unknown.

Page 28. This writer has never heard just whither Louise Upton Driggs moved to from Lincoln, Nebraska.

Page 30.  Dottie Boyd is said to live in Omaha and to have married several years ago. 

Page 31. George W. Boyd died October 29, 1914.  His wife's family name is said to have been spelled Hogue and not Hoge, as in Record.  George Leroy Boyd has two daughters, Jane Louise Boyd born June 15, 1914 and Georgeanna Boyd born in 1915.

 Page 32. James Boyd was born July 7th, 1790, date of month having been omitted by the printer.

8 Oct 1999
Dear Richard

Passed down from my mother I have a small book entitled "Record of the Boyd Family: John Boyd from Scotland and Descendants", written by Edgar E. Boyd of Wheeling, WV in 1913.

My gggg-grandfather, the "John Boyd from Scotland" is described in this book as having been born on Jan 21, 1738/39 in Irvine, Ayr, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was a lawyer and notary who left Scotland on Feb 2, 1770, coming to America with his mother and settling in Richmond, Berkshire Co, MA and later moving to Kinderhook, Columbia Co, NY. He married (his 2nd marriage ) Christina Van Dusen (of Kinderhook), supposedly a cousin of Martin Van Buren.

John and Christina's son, John William Boyd (1787-1862), married Mary Gough Kirk (1793-1868). Their daughter, Sarah Louisa Boyd (1821?-1890), married William Driggs (1813?-1890). Their daughter, Estella Adelaide Driggs (1852- 1930), married John Henry Rust (1851-1921). Their daughter, Lenora Edith Rust (1883-1970), married Clifford Guy Call (1880-1954). Their daughter, Thela Frances Call, was my mother.      More on Boyd/Driggs connection

My little book begins with a description of the descendancy of the Boyds who became Earls of Kilmarnock. The earldom ended with William Boyd, the 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, born May 12, 1705 and beheaded for treason at the Tower in London on Sept 16, 1747.  He left three sons who I have identified from other sources as being William Boyd (b Mar 16, 1724/25), James Boyd (b Apr 20, 1726), and Charles Boyd (b Feb 10, 1727/28). The middle son, James, changed his name from Boyd to Hay when he became the Earl of Errol in 1758.        See Kilmarnock Boyds

My little book, immediately after describing the Kilmarnock/Errol descendancy, continues "John Boyd, born in Scotland, was of this family, and one of the younger sons of the Earl of Errol, but according to another account, was an only son."

I have definite problems with this connection, and wonder whether anyone out there has a way to clarify it -- or to give me other information about the ancestors of my John Boyd.

Problem #1: James Boyd/Hay was born in 1726 so was unlikely to be having
a son in 1738/39.

Problem #2: The family of the Earls of Errol, as I understand it, had the last name Hay, not Boyd.  See Boyd-Hay family

According to the LDS ancestral files James Boyd/Hay married Rebecca Lockhart (c1728-1761) in 1749, but no children are listed. He then married Isabella Carr (1742-1808) in 1762 and a bunch of children are attributed to this marriage, most of them born between 1763 & 1778 (although one is listed as having been born in 1754 so might have been Rebecca's). Most of these children are shown with the last name Hay, not Boyd.  James had a daughter with Rebecca named Mary born 1754. Some of James Boyd-Hay's children were born before James changed his name to Hay, Therefore some of the children may have used the name Boyd instead of Hay. [RG. Boyd]

I suspect that the author of my little book was simply indulging in wishful thinking* that he had illustrious ancestors, but the way he states the connection is so vague that it's possible I'm just not understanding what he meant. (*Actually that statement is quite correct. People of an earlier age were fixated on finding a link between themselves and blueblood or royalty)   [RG Boyd]

Approaching the problem from another direction, I have looked for information about my John Boyd in the IGI records made available on the WWW by the LDS. I have found three different IGIs for the birth of a John Boyd, born Jan 21, 1739 in Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scotland to John Boyd and Janet Dunlop. [Irvine and Kilmarnock are only about 5 miles apart.] These are probably the correct parents of John Boyd in the book. [RG. Boyd]

I also found (1) a marriage of John Boyd and Janet Dunlop on Jan 26, 1732 in Kilmarnock, (2) a birth date for John Boyd (spouse of Janet Dunlop) of 1715, (3) a birth/christening record for a John Boyd (b 1715, ch Aug 21, 1715 in Glasgow [Glasgow is only about 20 miles from Kilmarnock], parents Andrew Boyd & Agnes Davidson), (4) a birth date for Janet Dunlop (spouse of John Boyd) of c1719, and (5) a christening record for Janet Dunlop on Jul 8, 1718 in West Kilbride [about 12 miles from Kilmarnock], parents Adam Dunlop & Elspa Syre).

All of these seem to fit together a lot better than the connection to the Earls of Kilmarnock or Errol do.  But, of course, John Boyd (and Janet Dunlop) are extremely common names, so it may all be coincidence.

Does anyone have any new information about the ancestors of my John Boyd (b. Jan 21, 1739)?   I'd really appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks,

Cathy Howell  (Email address not current)

George Boyd Lukens
GeorgeLukens at att.net

David Weber   (Email address not current)
 

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