Samuel K. Boyd ~ (1) Martha Lewis (2) Bethany Ladd

Samuel K. Boyd, son of Samuel Boyd, and early settler in Harrison, was born in Kentucky, June 29, 1794, and removed with his father to that township in 1811. He was married in 1817 to Martha Lewis, daughter of John Lewis, of Green, and settled one and a half miles northeast from Williamsburg, where he lived until his removal to Centerville a few years ago, where he now resides. He had by this wife five daughters: Priscilla Boyd, who married James Clemens and resides at Linnville, Randolph County; Narcissa Boyd, who married John Chamness of Williamsburg and is deceased; Sarah Ann Boyd, who married Joseph Lomax a lawyer at Kalamazoo, Michigan; Evelina Boyd, who married William A. Peelle, Centerville; Martha Boyd, wife of Winston W. Harris and resides at Somerset, Wabash County.

After the death of his wife, Mr. Boyd was married in 1828, to Bethany Ladd, by whom he had ten children, five sons and five daughters, of whom six were married: Isabella Boyd to Thomas Fagan of Williamsburg; William L. Boyd to Rebecca Martin and resides at Chester; Catharine Boyd to William Goodrich and resides at Dunkirk, Jay County; Mary Boyd who married John Keever of New Garden, where she died in 1861; Bethany Boyd and Samuel K. Boyd. unmarried. Of the other four: James Boyd, John Boyd and Amanda Boyd died young; and Joseph L. Boyd, in 1865, the day of his discharge form the United States army in Texas.

Source: History of Wayne County, Indiana from its first settlement to the present time: with numerous biographical and family sketches; embellished with upwards of fifty portraits of citizens and views of buildings; by Andrew White Young; Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1872. - FHL Film 934923 Item 1

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