CHIEF:  Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd 7th Baron Kilmarnock

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Dr. J. R. Boyd ~ Marion H. Carter

 Portage County, OH to IA 

Erastus CARTER, farmer, P.O. Ravenna, son of Erastus, Sr., and Lois (FULLER) Carter, was born May 25, 1808, in Ravenna Township, this county.  He shared the usual lot of pioneer boys and attended the limited schools of those early days.  He married, in January 1832, Miss Hannah SKIFF, who died in May 1837, aged twenty-five years, leaving three children now living in Iowa:  Ira R., Julius E. and MARION H. BOYD, WIFE OF DR J.R. BOYD.  Mr. Carter then married, July 2, 1838, his deceased wife's sister, Miss Delia Skiff, born in Litchfield County, Conn, August 20, 1816, and who came to Shalersville, this county, in 1825, with her parents, Julius and Julia Skiff, of whose ten children but three are now living:  Mrs. Abbie Beazell in Ravenna, Frank B. in Iowa, and Mrs. Erastus Carter.  Mr. Skiff died May 11, 1852, aged sixty-six; his widow April 10, 1855, in her seventieth year. Since their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Carter have resided in Ravenna Township, this county.  Here they own a fine estate of about 500 acres of well-improved land, and to them have been born the following children: Myron H. and Mrs. Ellen Gillett in Ravenna Township, this county, and Addison S. in eastern Iowa.  Mr. Carter is a life-long Democrat, having voted for Andrew Jackson in 1832 and for every Democratic nominee for President since.

Source: "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers Chicago, 1885"

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