Cornelius Boyd ~ Martha Jacobs

Cornelius Boyd is a prominent farmer of Niles Township, Delaware County, and a native of Monongalia County Virginia, born April 16, 1830. He is the son of William and Rebecca (Austin) Boyd, the father a native of New Jersey, and the mother of Maryland. William Boyd went from New Jersey to what is now West Virginia in 1811, and there lived with his father on a farm, after which he married and died there. He became the father of the following children: Jane, wife of Benjamin Felton; John, William and James, farmers; Sarah, wife of Thomas Hatfield; Mary; Elizabeth, wife, of Andrew Frume; Cornelius, Laverna, wife of Alta Stelle, and Margaret. The father of these children had two sisters and two brothers, namely: Archibald, Andrew, Catherine and Margaret. Mrs. Rebecca Boyd had six brothers and two sisters, namely: James, Hannah, Cornelius, Daniel, Hugh, William, Jesse and Emily.

Cornelius Boyd was married at the age of twenty-four to Martha, daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Doolittle) Jacobs; her parents were of German and French descent, and born in West Virginia, where they grew up, married, reared a family, and died. Their children are named as follows: Joseph, Raleigh, John Jacob, Benjamin and Thomas, farmers; Susan, wife of Michael Smell; Jemima, wife of Thomas Tarlton; Martha, wife of Cornelius Boyd; Rebecca, wife of. Edgar Stephen, and Nancy.

When Cornelius Boyd came to Delaware county he chopped wood for two years; then engaged in farming seven years, at the end of which time he went to Kansas; a short stay satisfied him and he was willing to come back to Indiana. He rented a farm in this county and lived on it for one year, after which he purchased, in 1883, a farm of 120, acres in and near Granville. Mr. Boyd came to Indiana in March, 1864, being compelled to leave Virginia on account of the war, he having been treated as a bushwhacker. The first year Mr. Boyd lived in Indiana he cleared $800 by chopping wood. Early in life, he followed teaming, working at it for fourteen years, and driving a six-horse team the entire time. Mr. Boyd was the second man that drove a team in what is known as the Big tunnel on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and his entire load consisted of shovels, picks and wheelbarrows. Mr. Boyd has always been a hard workingman, and very kind to his neighbors and to the poor. Eight children have been born to him and his wife, namely: Olive M., died September, 1863; Nancy, wife of Riley Stafford; Rebecca F., wife of Rolly Wright; Susan; William, a farmer; Nora; and Malinda, who died in September, 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are active and pious members of the Methodist church. He is a member of the order of Red Men, in which body he is much esteemed. In politics, he is a republican, and votes the straight ticket of that party every time.

Source: A Portrait and biographical record of Delaware and Randolph counties, Ind. : containing biographical sketches of many prominent and representative citizens; Chicago : A.W. Bowen, 1894. FHL Film 934902

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