the Boyd family

Reflections of Grand River, Iowa 1881-1981", p. 195
The Boyd Family
The ancestors of the first Boyds to live in the Grand River area were from Kilmarnock, Scotland. John Boyd, one of six children, came to Iowa from Ohio in 1852, locating in Wapello County and later in Decatur County in 1856, where he farmed and taught school. He married Elizabeth Anne Bullock; and they had seven children: Henry, Curtis, Frank, Laura, Ida, Nora and Mattie. Curtis married Susie Fear.










ramblin' with jennie by jennie vertrees
in the February 12 1930 issue of the TELEGRAPH was a list of the committee chair persons and the responsible person in each of the rural schools who were given the task of collecting books and then getting the word out to the schools that the library was free and for everyone in the county. this list included the following (it is a long list):.......Odd Fellow Lodge, FRED BOYD


From: Without Sanctuary by James Allen:
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries an average of 2-3 blacks were lynched weekly in the South. 1890s out of approx. 140 lynchings, 3/4 were black.
{re: sanford boyd's brother being hung as mentioned by va. matson?????}


from rootsweb.com
BOYD, LONG. Covers the line of John BOYD who married Margaret (Ginny) LONG in 1731 in Boston, Massachusetts and follows his descendants on their westward migration to Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, and further points west. New obituaries, pictures, and data have been added. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~confido/bkindex.htm






from virginia matson:
Debbie:this is some of what I have.
John Boyd b. abt. 1772 Md. Dorcus Hendrix they had 13 children.
1. John H.
2. William
3. Andrew
4. Meosis - I was wondering if this could be our Thesphlius, Census people didn't alway spell things right.
5. Washington
6. Mary
7. Elizabeth
8. Jacob
9. Nancy
10. Albert
11. Roland
12. Unknown
13. Unknown
I think I received this from Barry West
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John H. Boyd b. 1800 Md. Polly Hendrix b. 1804 they had 9 children
1. James b. 1826
2. Lorenzo b. 1828
3. Garrett b. 1832 Md. Martha Thurman b. 1844 They lived in S. Mo. around Conway,Mo.
4. Martha b . 1833 Md. Alfred M. Burke b. 1831 one of their daughter, America md. John Peterson of Lindley twp., Mercer Co., Mo. Martha and Alfred lived in Lindley twp.also.
5. Elizabeth b. 1834 this is not sure of but found in Marriage records of Ind. she md. Thomas Sutherlin 4/1/1862 Bk.5 pg.265
6. Wesley b. 1836 md. Sarah E. Yates b. 1849. In 1900 I found him living with a son & family in OK Indian Terr. Census.
7. Amanda b. 1838 md. Lewis Harrison Grimes b. 1828. They lived around Clio, Iowa and they our buried at Cilo cemetery. Lot #51 Row 15 Stone #16.
8. John Jr. b. 1840
9. Frances b. 1843
2nd wife- of John H. Boyd md. Lucy Ann Perks b. abt. 1826 I found in the Democrat newspaper of 8/24/1905 in Clay twp. news that grandma Boyd died Aug. 10. 1905. She is buried at Fairview north of Cainsville, Mo. but there is no stone for her.
John H. is suppose to be buried at the Lebanon, Mo. C emetery we were down there and could not fine any record but his daughter Alfred Lafollette told me she remember her dad Alfred (Pete) Boyd going down to Lebanon to see the grave.
John and Lucy children
1. William F. b. 1854 md. Rebecca Gray b. 1858 she is related to the Gray on the Elliott side also.
2. Sanford Boyd b. 1858 md. Susan Elizabeth Elliott b. 1864
3. Alfred Walter (Pete) Boyd b. 1866 md. Nancy (Frakes) Johnson b. 1879. Pete married Nancy late in life so his dau. Alfred was b. 1922. I graduated with her oldest daughter.
4. Unknown baby. Their was a small infant that died when John H. died in abt. 1867
Hope you can find more info from this. Virginia
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Transcribed 21 December 2005 by Stacey McDowell Dietiker
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Death and notices June 1, 2005 Leon Journal-Reporter [barry west]
Grant Charles Boyd born to my cousin Warren Lee and Cindy Boyd and Aunt
Nadine Boyd of Leon.

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iadecatu posting
Alohawahine75@aol.com
Hello,

Can you help Sue?

Deborah

Sue Hunt writes:

Thank You so very much, The twins Lloyd and Floyd were born to my Gr.
Grandparents. I knew there were twins, but knew not the birth date. But could you
possibly help me with one more family rumor? These twins were supposed to have
died at birth. Could you help me prove or disprove it?

Leon Reporter-Iowa
Thursday, March 3, l92l

List of Births Filed for Record With Clerk Officer During February (l92l):

LLOYD and FLOYD BOYD, twin boys, Feb. 2, to MR. and MRS. ELMER BOYD, Grand
River.



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p.292 KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS LODGE NO. 191 at princeton org. april 13 1891, chartered oct 22 1891charter members...JW BOYD
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p. 15 mercer co pioneer traces history book
donald clifford and gladys alfred (boyd) lafolette family
gladys alfred boyd was born march 29 1922 to AW 'pete' and nancy ann (frakes) johnson boyd. pete came in 1869 to the saline missouri community from greencastle indiana by covered wagon when he was 3 years old, with his mother and two brothers bill and sant. pete's father had died in lebanon mo. on the way. nancy ann was born in 1879. she told the story her dad had told her when she was a young girl of how he was reared by the indians. when he and his brother clay were young men they wanted to leave. the indians pursued them, and they jumped into a large river. when the reached the other side they had gotten separated and never saw each other again. and he never knew if clay had survived or been taken back by the indians. nancy did not know how long or how far her father had traveled; however he settled in mercer county in the mercer-alvord area. he married martha overton and reared a family of four girls and three boys.
as an adult pete owned a restaurant in saline where he sold groceries and lunches. in 1921 at the age of 55 he married mrs nancy ann frakes johnson. mrs johnson had 5 children from a previous marriage: 3 daughters ona, clara, and nellie, and 2 sons, george and bob.
nancy operated the farmers exchange telephone switchboard in saline until it was removed. they then moved to goshen where she operated the switchboard until it was removed in 1931. alfred attended the squires school near goshen and then the center school when they moved back to saline.
on march 25 1942 alfred married donald clifford lafolette. they were both 20 years old. donald's parents were james marley and winnie may (johnson) lafolette who lived on a farm just north of saline. james was an orphan reared by marian and lucy osburn. donald had 4 brothers, doyle, vernon, gary and james.
donald and alfred have 5 children: connie and gilber easton, centerville, ia; donnie lafolette, kc, mo; jean and bill lewis, fayette, mo; and kim lafolette, kc. they have 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
donald and alfred reside on a farm northwest of princeton, mo., where they have lived all their married lives.
the family heritage is mixed. donalds family is french candian. alfreds father was english, and her mother was american indian. donald served in WWII and was a decorated veteran who participated in several battles including the battle of the bulge.
submitted by gladys alfred lafolette.
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p.139 Harry Norcross, a lad of sixteen, was dragged to death by a horse, when, in falling from the animal's back, his foot caught in the harness, July 19, 1910. the accident occurred at the home of his cousin, J.N. Boyd, five miles southwest of Princeton.
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On August 2nd 1902 there was an electric storm of great severity. Lightening struck in several places in the east part of the county, particularly in the Collings neighborhood...Robert Boyd's house was struck.
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p.227
p.241 The Victor School, six miles southeast of Princeton, was organized May 24 1883, JM Pitman acting as chairman and A Brackett as secretary. The building committee consisted of ....R.M. BOYD.
A site was purchased from Robt. Boyd....

p.243 the Keller School House is located 4 miles ne of Cainsville. the building was erected in 1868 was later moved away and in the summer and fall of 1899 the present structure was erected by WS Kirkpatrick. Building committee, and board of directors....S.C. BOYD
p.251 THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AT MERCER present officers: E.H. BRYANT, trustees
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NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS AND TRAGEDIES
RIVER DROWNINGS
01 January 1840 - 30 June 1881
The following are taken from the "Return of Names of Persons Drowned in New Zealand" from the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, (commonly known as the AJHRs) and also (those in italics) have been sent in by relatives or from other sources. If you would like to add a death from a river drowning in New Zealand please let me know.
The AJHR returns are as follows:
- 01 January 1840 to 30 June 1870 - AJHR Vol III 1870 Section D46 - 1115 deaths. "Considerable pains have been taken to make this return as complete as possible, but I (G S COOPER, Under Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office) regret to say that, from the imperfect state of the old records, it is still far from being an accurate statement of persons drowned in New Zealand Rivers. Names of persons ascertained to have been drowned in harbours, wells, waterholes, swamps and in the sea have been excluded from this return. Cases of drowning in the River Grey are sometimes stated to have occured in the Province of Nelson and sometimes the in the County of Westland. This is accounted for by the inquests being held on either side of the river."

- 30 June 1870 to 30 June 1875 - AJHR F-J Vol II 1875 H37 - 375 deaths.

- 01 July 1875 - 30 June 1877 - AJHR Vol II Part 2 H42 1877 - 179 deaths.

- 01 July 1877 - 30 June 1881 - AJHR Vol II Part 2 1881 H41 - 240 deaths. Unfortunately the names were only given an initial instead of the full name as in earlier returns.
The * denotes the date the body was found. Please note that there are many rivers in New Zealand with the same name (Wai means water in Maori). Province's are no longer used in New Zealand so access to a good gazetteer is recommended or the book "Wises NZ Index to Every Place in New Zealand" be consulted.
For those marked # further information is on http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/index.htm.



DATE SURNAME FORENAME RIVER PROVINCE



1864May17 BOYD Hugh Hurunui Canterbury
1865Mar08 BOYD Samuel Wanganui Wellington