Robert G. Boyd - Rebecca Hall, Marion County, Ohio

ROBERT G. BOYD (Pleasant Township) is one of the pioneer settlers of Marion County. He was born in Allegheny County, Penn., August 30, 1816. He is a son of Joseph and Jane Boyd, who came to Delaware County, Ohio, in 1817, and January 20, 1821, settled in what is now Pleasant Township, Marion County, where Mr. Boyd bought land. He increased his farm to 380 acres, and after clearing sixty acres died in 1847, aged fifty-four years. His widow survived him until 1869, when she died at the age of seventy-eight. They raised a family of eight children, four of whom are living at the present time. One son, Thomas G. Boyd, a physician in Beaver County, Penn., and Joseph F. Boyd, Superintendent of the Cumberland Valley Railroad (Penn.). Robert G. Boyd is of a strong and healthy family. His grandfather came from Ireland in 1771, and was a soldier of the Revolution. His Uncle, Henry Boyd, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and with four brothers were, ministers of the Presbyterian Church. His father and two brothers were Justices of the Peace, and also Elders in the same church. At a reunion of the Boyd family at Beaver, Penn., in 1881, sixty relatives attended, one-third of whom were teachers, and about fifty members of the Presbyterian Church. The family, from our subject's grandfather, numbered, in 1881, 621, which does not include the fifth and sixth generations. Mr. Boyd, the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm, and obtained most of his education in a log schoolhouse, 12x16 feet in size. In 1838, he purchased eighty acres, to which he added eighty acres more. He also owns 240 acres of farm land in Nebraska and two lots in Lincoln, that, State. In 1860, he erected a substantial brick residence on the homestead, at a cost of $1,500. February 8, 1841, he married Miss Rebecca Hall, a daughter of John and Jane (Shields) Hall, by whom he has had eight children. viz., John H. Boyd, who was killed at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain in 1864; Jane E. Boyd, wife of Ezekiel Hughes; Mary M. Boyd , wife of W. H. McNeal; Joseph S. Boyd, died in 1881; Harriet E. Boyd; Sarah A. Boyd, wife of P. H. Otis, and Ella A. Boyd who died in 1874. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Boyd was a member and an Elder at the organization of that Church at Prospect.

THE HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY, OHIO 1883 - By Leggett, Conaway & Co. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

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