James H. Boyd ~ Frances P. Griffith

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James H. Boyd ~ Frances P. Griffith

Columbus, Ohio

James H. Boyd born Aug ? 1830 in Pa. Wife: Frances P. Griffith born Dec ? 1837 m Oct 1, 1855 Franklin Co., Columbus, Ohio. Don't know where they lived in Ohio. Went to Des Moines, IA. was there when daughter Ida Boyd was born in 1857; son William Lincoln Boyd was born in 1859 ;and son Frank Boyd born 1862; daughter Dessa Frances Boyd was born Jan 14, 1867, James Boyd was a cabinet maker then. They all went to Chicago, Ill. and another daughter Lilly Boyd born in 1872. He was a coffin manufacturer in Chicago. They all went to Boulder CO in 1874. James built the first smelter of gold and silver there. Don't have their death dates, or James parents or Frances Parents. I only have children of Dessa's none of the other Boyd children. Dessa Frances (Boyd )Newman was my grandmother, married George Newman lived all there married life in Denver, CO. Frank Boyd m Mary Kirkbride in Boulder., children ??

I did find a James Boyd 19, born Pa. a chair-maker, living in Cincinnati in the 1850 census living with a Joseph Clark a chair-maker, several people lived with Clark including a Lutisia Boyd 40 years old born OH, no other Boyds there, her name right after James. Don't know what happened to her. That is all I know of the Boyds so far. That could have been my James H. Boyd, no proof. 5 years later he could have went to Franklin, co. Oh. Who was Lutisia, his mother??

Dessamae Curry (Email link not current)

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Rich, thank you so very much for the info on James H. Boyd. Francis P.
Griffith was the daughter of my GGG grandparents on my Fathers side,
their names was James B. Griffith, b. 4 Aug. 1805 Pa. and son of Jacob
Griffith, and Rebecca Foster, (I think on the Foster part) b. April 4, 1810 Pa., don't know her parents for sure. I believe in 1850 census Columbus, Ohio James P. Boyd is living in same house with Griffith family, with quite a few other workers, and it states James Griffith was a shoemaker. I am taking that this is my James H. Boyd. In 1850 or so the Griffith family lost 4 or 5 children to cholera there, and then soon moved to Polk Co. IA. at a town E. of Des Moines called Rising Sun. Not much there, but James died July 28, 1857 and is buried in the cemetery there. I also live in a suburb n. w. of Des Moines, and I go the cemetery. and as I also have in the same family, names, Jennings, Boyd, Griffith, Hawley, Waller, Mathaney, McConnaughey, and others. But this James H. Boyd has been hiding from me. So I am so happy I contacted you, I didn't know I had so many Scotch, Irish, and Scotch-Irish people in my family.

Other family names are Hill, Foster, Griffith, Hawley, Waller, Burr, Walton and Jennings who are married into this family.

Shirley Johnson

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