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John M.
Boyd ~ Minerva West
Carroll County, Ohio
John M. Boyd, having by persistent energy, keen foresight, and wise investments accumulated a fine property, John M. Boyd is now living in Carrollton, Ohio, retired from active business cares, and is enjoying to the fullest extent the reward of his many years of assiduous toil. He was born, November 23, 1851, in Morrow Township, Carroll County, of Virginia ancestry.
His father, John Boyd, was born in West Virginia, at Carters Station, and as a young man migrated to Ohio, settling in Carroll County in pioneer days.
Taking up a tract of wild land in Morrow Township, he cleared and improved a valuable homestead, on which he spent the remainder of his long life of seventy-five years. He was at first identified with the republican party, but subsequently became an ardent prohibitionist. Both he and his wife were
active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Matilda McQueen, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, where her parents, John and Margaret (Crozier) McQueen, were veritable pioneers. She preceded him to the life beyond, dying on the home farm in April, 1878, when but fifty-one years of age. Seven children were born of their union, as follows:
Amanda Boyd, James
Boyd, John
M.
Boyd, Mary
Margaret
Boyd,
William
Boyd,
Anna
Boyd, and
Frank
Boyd.
Gleaning his early knowledge of books in the rural schools of Morrow Township, John M. Boyd grew to manhood on the home farm and under his father's instructions obtained a practical knowledge of general agriculture as then carried on. He subsequently made use of his native mechanical talent, being especially handy in the use of tools, and for many years was engaged in carpentering. In October, 1918, Mr. Boyd moved to Carrollton, where he is living retired. A man of excellent business ability and judgment, he has accumulated considerable valuable property, owning a farm of 214 acres in Morrow Township, and one of ninety-four acres in Monroe Township. He is a staunch democrat in politics, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Boyd married, December 24, 1874, Minerva West, who was born in Carroll County, Ohio, January 9, 1852, a daughter of Michael C. West, and grand-daughter of Charles and Margaret West, early pioneers of Monroe Township, where they cleared and improved the homestead on which they spent their remaining years. Michael C. West grew to manhood on the home farm in Monroe Township, and was later engaged in mercantile pursuits in Leesville, where during the Civil war he raised Company A, Eightieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to the front as captain of that company. After receiving his discharge, he settled on a farm, and there resided until his death, in 1875, when fifty-one years of age. Michael C. West married Susan James, a daughter of Thomas James. She survived him many long years, passing away in September, 1918, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years. Michael C. West was a steadfast republican in politics, and an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd, six children have been born, namely:
W. V.,
Boyd, a street car man in Canton, Ohio, married Bessie True, and they have one child,
Virginia Boyd; Anna Matilda Boyd , who married Charles Owens, died in 1911, at the age of thirty-two years, leaving two children, Anna Belle
Owens and Charles Owens, the former of whom married Benjamin Barker, and has one child, Charles Barker; Daisy
Lelia Boyd, wife of Henry Merriman, has one child, Blanche Minerva
Merriman; Jason Roy Boyd, of Canton, Ohio, married Jessie Belknap, and they have one child,
Helen Boyd; Pearl Grace Boyd, wife of Joseph Smith, of Canton, has two children, Roy Harvey
Smith and Wilson Emerson Smith; and Harvey Bradshaw Boyd, now serving as mayor of Carrollton, married Ethel Long, and they have one child, Kenneth
Wilson Boyd.
Source: Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Harrison and Carroll, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many early settled families; Chicago : J. H. Beers, 1891
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