Thomas Boyd ~ Mahala Norrick

Thomas Boyd, farmer and wool grower, Brown township, post office Jelloway, son of James and Nancy Boyd, born in Leesville, Carroll county, Ohio, January 13, 1828. At the age of six months his parents died and he lived with Archibald Elliott until he was thirteen years old. Thomas then worked among the farmers until he arrived at the age of sixteen, when he entered into a contract with David Copper to work for five years for the sum of one hundred dollars and a freedom suit. After that he followed farming and dealing in stock. On the twentieth of March 1850, at the age of twenty-two years, he married Miss Mahala Norrick, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Morrick, born in Harrison county, January 13, 1828; after his marriage he moved to Brown township, Know county, where he purchased forty acres of land and there located and reared his family. In 1851 he bought fifty-three acres of woodland adjoining him; and in about three years bought thirty-three acres more. In addition to that, he in 1862 bought seventy-five acres, and in 1871 fifty acres more, making in all two hundred and forty-eight acres. In 1871 Mr. Boyd erected a very fine dwelling, which with other buildings to correspond, make a very desirable and comfortable home. Formerly Mr. Boyd followed buying and shipping stock in connection with farming, but is at present giving his attention to raising fine sheep. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are the parents of eleven children, viz: James W. Boyd, Hezekiah F. Boyd, Elizabeth J. Boyd, Emelia U. Boyd, Daniel W. Boyd, Jemima A. Boyd, Thomas M. Boyd (died August 27, 1867), Olive B. Boyd, Ettie P. Boyd; one died in infancy, leaving nine living. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are consistent members of the Wesleyan Methodist church of Shadley Valley.

Source: History of Knox County, Ohio, its past and present : containing a condensed, comprehensive history of Ohio, including an outline history of the Northwest; a complete history of Knox County; its townships, city, towns, villages, schools, churches, societies, industries, statistics, etc; a record of its soldiers in the late war; portraits of its early settlers and prominent men; views of its finest buildings; miscellaneous matter; map of the county; biographies and histories of pioneer families; etc. by N. N. Hill, Jr.; Micro- reproduction of original published: Mt. Vernon, Ohio : A. A. Graham, 1881. - FHL Film 599259

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