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Jesse Boyd ~ Matilda Voyles

Montgomery County, IL

Jesse Boyd, farmer, P. O. Walshville, was born in Franklin County, Virginia, August 22, 1810; son of Henry and Ellender (Woods) Boyd. Henry Boyd was born in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1789, and died in Montgomery County, Illinois, March 25, 1877. His wife, a native of Virginia, was born in 1789, and died in Montgomery County in 1872. Our subject, the second of a family of nine children, received his education in Warren County, Kentucky. He also attended school at Staunton, Macoupin County, Illinois. He has followed the occupation of a farmer in Macoupin and Montgomery Counties for the last fifty years. In Macoupin County, Illinois, in 1832, he married Matilda Voyles, born in Pendleton County, North Carolina, in 1811, daughter of Robert and Hester (Morris) Voyles. From this union they have had twelve children, six of whom died in infancy. Those living are: Hester R. Boyd, William J. Boyd, Ellender M. Boyd, Martha A. Boyd, Robert H. Boyd and Jessie S. Boyd. Mr. Boyd is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the A., F. & A. M. He is a Republican in politics.


 

Source: History of Bond and Montgomery counties, Illinois by William Henry Perrin; Chicago : O.L. Baskin, 1882. FHL Film 934970

 

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