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Edward
Steele Boyd/Helen Amanda Shove
Edward Steele Boyd, son of Rev. Pliny Steele Boyd and Mary J. ALLEN, was born 8 September 1867 at
Shelburne Falls, Mass. He graduated, in 1890, from Amherst College and was given a degree in A.M. in
1893. He taught school from 1890 to 1898 and since 1898 has been superintendant of schools of
Woodbury, Connecticut. He was a member of the Connecticut legislature in 1911. He married at Woodbury,
20 August 1895, Helen Amanda SHOVE, born at Washington, Connecticut 7 April
1865, daughter of Burton SHOVE and Sylvia PLATT.
Photos of Edward S. Boyd and wife Helen Shove Boyd
Copy of letter to Edward S. Boyd February 18, 1945
(Edward)
Your grandfather, Thomas Parsons Boyd, was born August 18th, 1809. He was the son of Thomas Boyd and
Susannah Smith. The Boyds, for two generations before Thomas, were farmers and lived up on old Shelburne
Hill, Massachusetts. Thomas was named for his father and Beulah Parsons.
Thomas Boyd with his children including Thomas Parsons, when Thomas Parsons was 14 years old, removed
from Shelburne to York, New York having married Miriam Allis after the death of Susannah. They are buried in
the Griegsville Cemetery. I am of the opinion that Griegsville is but a post office and village in the township of
York, but am not sure.
About 10 years after going to NY State grandfather married Anna Steele who was in East Bloomfield, New York
a little east of Griegsville. She was the daughter of Sergt. Elisha Steele of Bethlehem, CT. Thomas Parsons
was quite lame after I began to know him. Sometimes he used a cane.
He went south to Florida, bought land there and planted it with oranges. About the time they got to bearing a
heavy freeze wiped the orchard out and he gave up although I think he spent several winters in Florida.
There was a chapel at Griegsville or near there where grandpa was very much interested and I should say he
was interested in the church. I think Grace De La Vergne could tell you more about that. Her address is: Mrs. M.
De La Vergne, 46 Wyndham Rd., Rochester 12, NY.
A part of his Florida experience was to bring up some Osage Orange slips or young trees which he planted on
each side of the lane from the Griegsville Highway to the house and through the farm as division fences, where
there were no stone walls, and believe me they made a real fence.
Neither horses, nor cattle or pigs tried to go through them and Will had many scars when he tried it. No short
cuts by trying to get over the fence. The hedges grew so tall that when riding on loads of hay or wheat we could
just see over the tops of them. He told me I could remember the size of his farm by the number of days in the
year - 365 1/4 acres, but never could explain to me where the 1/4 acre came from.
He was a well read man and full of humor. I remember once when a very small fellow he had me worried. He
had been digging potatoes in the garden back of the house and my job was to fill the basket, a bushel, and
carry it into the kitchen. He had me pile on more potatoes and cautioned me not to let them fall off and he didn't
see how I was to do it. Another time he asked our father if we were disturbed by his music during the night. He
had heard some fellows rustling among the grape vines on the wide verandah back of the house and he took
his melodian and carried it out on the verandah and entertained them for several hours with gospel hymns. It
was a bright moonlight night and they could be seen when outside the arbor, being hidden when inside the
arbor. Towards dawn he shut up his melodian and told them they could go home but he would rather if they
needed grapes to have them come and ask for them and he would give them all they wanted". Children of Edward and Helen:
1. Harmon Shove Boyd b. 24 Sep 1896 d. 14 Mar 1980
m. 1st Elizabeth Ryder HOLDEN 4 Oct 1919 daughter of Wm. HOLDEN and Eliza RYDER. She was born 7
November 1893 in Ashburnham, MA and died 5 February 1939 from tuberculosis.
He m. 2nd Estella S. ISHAM daughter of Austin ISHAM. She died 17 Mar 1989 in Orlando, FL of a heart attach.
Harmon and both wives are buried in South Cemetery, Woodbury, CT. [JBD]
2. Anna B. Boyd b. 30 Sep 1898 d. 1989 Florida m. Payl Hyde HARBACH 1 Mar 1923 Meriden, CT of Southbridge, MA
3. Burton Steele Boyd b. 28 Aug 1903 d. 5 Sep 1978 Died in Southington, CT and buried in Rocky Hill, CT m. Gertrude Viola LEARNED 14 Feb 1925
(one son: Edward Boyd)
Photos and data from Jane Boyd Drury janed4 at
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