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Delilah Boyd ~ (1) Elias Shaffer (2) James Edinger (3) Jacob Lear 

Darke County, Ohio

Generation No. 1

 1.  Delilah1 BOYD was born Abt. 1824 in Pa..  She married (1) Elias SHAFFER Bef. 1850.  She married (2) James EDINGER 7-June-1855 in Darke Co. Ohio.  She married (3) Jacob LEAR 12-September-1876 in Darke Co. Ohio by A.G. Clark J.P..

Marriage Notes for Delilah BOYD and James EDINGER:
James Edinger to Delilah Shaffer on 7 June 1855 by Mahlon Martin, J.P.
Licence issued on 4 June 1855. This would be Delilah's second marriage.
 

Marriage Notes for Delilah BOYD and Jacob LEAR:
Darke Co. Marriages 1851-1898
Delilah Edinger married Jacob Lear  12 Sep 1876  by  A. G. Clark, JP
 

Children of Delilah BOYD and Elias SHAFFER are:
             2 i. Margaret "Maggie" Elizabeth2 SHAFFER, born 19-August-1851 in Erie, Erie Co., Pa.; died    22-November-1937 in Osgood, Darke Co., Ohio.
She married Jacob Washington BOYD 10-May-1868 in Webster, Darke Co., Ohio, USA.

Notes for Jacob Washington BOYD:
Jacob W. Boyd was born 27 May 1843 at Montgomery Ferry, Perry Co. PA. he was the son of Joseph Wesley Boyd Sr. and Catharine (Bair) Boyd. Jacob, along with his family, left Perry Co. PA. in 1853 for Darke Co. Ohio. Settled in York Township near the town of Brock, Ohio. At the age of 18, he served 3 years in the Civil War. Jacob, with his brothers, Joseph, Isaac and father, Joseph Sr., muster- ed in the Civil War together in the same Company. Jacob was a private in Co. E 40th. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. and in December 1864 was transferred to Co. E 51st. Ohio Veteran Volunteers. He was discharged in 3 October 1865 at Victoria, Texas. Jacob W. Boyd was 5 feet, 5 1/2 inches tall and had dark complexion, gray eyes and brown hair.

In the 1870 Darke Co. census, list his occupation as a laborer, most likely a farm laborer. Jacob W. Boyd married on the 10th. May 1868 at Webster, Ohio to Margaret Elizabeth Shaffer, daughter of Elias & Delilah (Boyd) Shafer. In the 41 years of marriage, they lived in the counties of Darke, Mercer and Paulding. The only land found that they had owned was in the towns of Payne and Osgood, Ohio. The house and lot in Payne, Ohio was traded to his sister & brother-in-law, Susannah & Elijah Shook, for the lot that they had owned in Osgood, Ohio. Jacob & Margaret E. Boyd lived out the remainder of their lives in Osgood, Darke Co. Ohio. Jacob W. Boyd died on the 1 Feb 1909 and Margaret Boyd died  25 Nov 1937, Osgood, Ohio. Both are buried at Yorkshire (Mendenhall) Cemetery, Darke Co. Ohio.

Jacob Washington Boyd & Maggie (Shaffer) Boyd
Notes & Comments on their Bible
By: Michael O. Reck
September 8, 1998
 

The Bible of Jacob & Maggie Boyd was given to me by my Grandmother, Margaret E. (Pearson) Reck about 10 years ago (ca. 1989). The Bible was worn and with no cover. The entries made in the Bible was from my Great-great grand-father, Jacob W. Boyd. Three pages contained information that was incomplete. The pages are faded and also worn from age and from mishandling of the Bible through the years.

The Bible has no forward to tell of the year it was published. It was no ordinary Bible. It was called "A Complete Analysis Of The Holy Bible". It had 1,056 pages before it came to the written information of the Boyd Family.

Page 1: Family Record    Births

The first page is incomplete. Written in Jacob's hand, in ink, list his name and birth.
Jacob W. Boyd, born May 27th. AD 1843
Second is his wife, Margaret Elizabeth (Shaffer) Boyd's name and birth in ink.
Maggie E. Boyd, born Aug. 19th. AD 1851
Next list their firstborn child:
Armenta May Boyd, born Jan'y. 1st. 1869
Next written in pencil and faded and hard to read, list second born
daughter:
Ida Belle Boyd, born March 7th, 1871
Written in Ink, is the next child: a daughter:
Norah Jayne Boyd, born April 12th., 1873
In faded pencil is written the first son born:
Harry Alberta Boyd, born May 9th., 1875
Jacob & Maggie had five (5) more children but were omitted from the Bible Record.
See below:
Nellie S. Boyd, born Nov.4th, 1880
Catharine Delilah Boyd, born Jan. 24, 1883
Charles Franklin Boyd, born Sept. 18, 1885
Arthur Boyd born Sept 29, 1888
Florence M. Boyd, born Dec. 15, 1891
There may have been another child in between Harry & Nellie. No proof has been documented as of 1998.

Page 2: Marriages

The only marriage listed is for Jacob & Margaret Boyd.
Jacob W. Boyd and Maggie E. Shaffer was married May the 10th. 1868 by Nathan Hole, Esqr.

Page 3: Deaths

There were only two entries made in this section. The first done in ink and the last in pencil, which my grandmother said that Florence (Boyd) Geiger made this entry in pencil with no date. Possibly years after Arthur Boyd died.
Armenta May Boyd died December AD 1871
Arthur Boyd died

 3 ii. Lewis SHAFFER, born Abt. 1854.

Child of Delilah BOYD and James EDINGER is:
             4 i. Hannah2 EDINGER, born 1859.

William Boyd of Darke Co. Ohio
From: Michael O. Reck
 

Descendants of William BOYD
 

Generation No. 1

 1.  William6 BOYD  (Thomas5, Thomas4, John3, Samuel2, John1) was born 1813 in Perry Co. Pa..  He married Mary Jane EDINGER Abt. 1838 in Miami County, Ohio..

Notes for William BOYD:
William & Mary BOYD were members of the Methodist Church at Brock, Ohio.
William BOYD donated land for the Old Brock Cemetery (Also known as BOYD
Cemetery.). It is located in the southwest quarter of section 33, York Twp. State Rt. 127 adjoins it on the west (1 mile west of Brock, Ohio) Darke Co. Ohio Deeds records, Vol. N-2 page 55, Oct. 6, 1851. In 1840 & 1850, William & Mary BOYD lived in York Twp., Darke Co. Ohio. In 1860, Mary & William lived in Richland Twp., Darke Co. Ohio, and had a Beamsville, Ohio post office address. Property value $3,360.
 

Children of William BOYD and Mary EDINGER are:
 2 i. Thomas M.7 BOYD, born 1839 in Miami Co. Ohio. He married Sarah E. SHAMO.

Notes for Thomas M. BOYD:
Thomas M. Boyd, son of William and Mary Jane:
farmer, Sec 10: P. O. Dexter; owns 80 acres of land; born in Miami
county, Ohio, in 1839; came to Iowa in 1865; married, in 1865, Miss Sarah E.
Shamo, of Pennsylvania; has five children living; Mr. Boyd is a man of considerable prominence in his neighborhood; has been constable two years.
 

 3 ii. John BOYD, born 1842.
 4 iii. Susannah BOYD, born 1844.
 5 iv. Abagail BOYD, born 1846.
 6 v. William H. BOYD, born 1848.
 7 vi. Franklin BOYD, born 1849.
 8 vii. James C. BOYD, born 6-September-1855 in
Darke    Co. Ohio; died 18-October-1878 in Age: 23 yrs. 1 mo.    12 days.

Notes for James C. BOYD:
Cemetery Inscription:
Boyd, James C. Died Oct. 18, 1878 Age: 23 yrs. 1 mo. 12 days
Burial: Old Penn Ct., Penn Twp, Madison County, Iowa

"Remember youth as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
So prepare to meet in Heaven with me."
 

 9 viii. Joseph BOYD, born 1854; died 1874 in age: 21 yrs 6    mo. 2 days.

Notes for Joseph BOYD:
Cemetery Inscription:
Boyd, Joseph G. Died       19, 1874 age: 21 yrs 6 mo. 2 days
Burial: Old Penn Ct., Penn Twp, Madison County, Iowa

 10 ix. Martha J. BOYD, born 1855.

Michael Reck

NOTE: Use this data as a finding tool, just as you would any other secondary source. When you find the name of an ancestor listed, confirm the facts in original sources.

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