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George K. Boyd
~ Sarah Kerr
Hookstown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
George K. Boyd, son of James Boyd by his first marriage (Miss Scott), was
born near Hookstown, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, about 1830, the exact
date of his death unknown, probably 1865. He was reared in his Beaver
county home and there married, later taking his wife and children to Indiana, settling near Oxford. When active warfare between the north and south began in 1861 he enlisted in an Indiana regiment of infantry. He survived the first three years of the war, but toward the end of the conflict met with a fatal mishap, in all likelihood falling before the fire of the enemy. His body was never recovered and his family was deprived of even the sorrowful privilege of visiting his grave and there according him the honors that his upright, manly life deserved. After the death of Mr. Boyd his wife was stricken with a serious illness, her sister-in-law, Cynthia Boyd, bringing her to Hookstown, where her death occurred not long after. Prior to her death she had secured good
homes for her children and the assurance that they would be well and
carefully provided for. George K. Boyd married, at Hookstown, Pennsylvania, Sarah Kerr, born in Ireland about 1832, died in Hookstown about April, 1866,
daughter of Irish parents. She was reared the Catholic faith, but after her immigration to the United States and her marriage, embraced Protestantism, an act that estranged her entirely from her family. Children of George K. and Sarah (Kerr) Boyd: (1)James K., a resident of Knoxville, Pennsylvania; (2) Emma, married Owens Wilson; their home is in
Hookstown, Pennsylvania. (3)Elizabeth, married Hugh Ross; lives in Cleveland, Ohio; her husband played a prominent part in the labor difficulties at Homestead, and was debarred from membership in the union of steelworkers, an occupation that he was compelled to forsake. (4)Harry C; (5) Belle, deceased, married Samuel
Calhoun.
Source: Vol. 2 Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania; editor-in-chief, John W. Jordan. Imprint: New York : Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915.
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