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Richard G. Boyd

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Alexander Boyd  ~ Elizabeth Dinsmore

PA to OH to Indiana

ALEXANDER BOYD was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., February 08,
1811, one of twelve children born to HUGH and ELIZABETH (GEORGE) BOYD, natives of the South, but married in Pennsylvania, where Hugh followed his trade of tailoring till his death.  When fourteen years of age, our subject left his home and went to work by the month on a farm, also on the Erie Canal, and the National pike; also on the first waterworks in Pittsburgh, and for a while on a steamboat on the Ohio River.  He was married, April 29, 1830, to ELIZABETH DINSMORE, born in Westmoreland County, PA  January 07, 1810, dau. of Robert and Esther (MCCOY) Dinsmore. 

Mr. Boyd then farmed on shares till 1835, when he moved to Wayne County,
Ohio, where he worked on shares till 1844, and then came to this township and bought eighty acres of wild land, and settled in a log cabin among the Indians and wolves, both of which were sometimes unwelcome visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are the parents of eight children, viz.: HESTER, who married H. GRAVES, and who died in 1862; CATHERINE, who died in her tenth year; JAMES; ELIZABETH, now Mrs. W. S. KEISER; NANCY J., now Mrs. Curtis KEISER; MARTHA A., now Mrs. James GRAVES; JOHN E. and GEORGE.  Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics Mr. Boyd is a Democrat. 

Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana Historical and Biographical by Weston A. Goodspeed and Charles Blanchard; Chicago: F. A. Battey and Co., Publishers 1882; ISBN-0-8328-2571-9; Union Twp. Sketches Section, Page 355 

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