1ST BOYD CONVENTION 1881

                       SEPTEMBER 7th, 1881.

            DEAR FRIENDS AND KINDRED 

The undersigned committee extends its fraternal greetings to all the Sons and Daughters and Grand Children, their Husbands and Wives, of the Boyd Family mentioned on the previous page, and does most cordially invite them to meet in Convention for the purpose of strengthening family ties; the gathering of historical material; social enjoyment, and if thought advisable, the organization of a Family Association.

The time and place designated, it is thought, will be convenient for the greater part of the connection.

We desire the presence of as many as can possibly be present, feeling confident that the occasion will be one of rare enjoyment. 

            COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS 

DR.  J. P. WILSON, Youngstown, 0h.

M. HILLIS BOYD, ESQ., FREEPORT, P.

Gen. J. F. BOYD, CHAMBERSBURG, P.

REV. J. F. SHIELDS, ST. LOUIS, Mo.

REV. A. F. BOYD, Bellevernon Pa.

ABRAM BOYD, ESQ., LIMA, 0h.

MB. J. W. JOHNSTON JACK, Industry Pa,

ROBEBT G. BOYD, Esq., MARION, 0h.

                          APPOINTMENTS.
                        Reception Committee

DR. THOMAS G. BOYD, Black Hawk, Pa.
MR. J. W. JOHNSTON JACK, Industry, Pa.
MR. J. C. DINSMORE, Enon Valley, Pa.

ORATOR: REV. T. S. NEGLEY, East Brady.Pa.
POET: REV. J. S. BOYD, Kirtsville, Mo.
HISTORIAN: REV. J. F. BOYD, Steubenville, 0h.
CHAPLAIN: J. H. SHIELDS, St. Louis, Mo.
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: PROF. J.S. BROWN, Slate Lick, Pa.

                    Post-Prandial Committee

REV. A. F. BOYD. Bellevernon, Pa.
DR. L. C. ROSE, Palmyra, 0h,
MR. J. H. BOYD, Lawrence, Kansas
 

                           PROGRAMME
                                First Day

1. MORNING
RECEPTION OF FRIENDS BY COMMITTEE, GREETINGS AND A GOOD TIME IN GENERAL UNTIL EVENING.
 

2. EVENING 7:30
(a.) SERVICE OF SONG.
(b.) ADDRESS Blest be the tie that binds
(c.) EVENING DEVOTIONS.

                                Second Day

1. MORNING: 8:30
(a.) PRAISE SERVICE AND MORNING DEVOTIONS.
(b) READING OF LETTERS FROM ABSENT FRIENDS.
(c) HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
(d.) POEM
(e.) FAMILY RECORDS.
(f.) BUSINESS

2. EVENING
(a.) BANQUET.
(b.) P0ST-PRANDIAL SPEECHES.
(c.) BENEDICTION.
 

                    Historical Address   

As to John and Benjamin and James Boyd, I have been able to obtain very little information, except what is given by Dr. Eaton in his history of Erie Presbytery. And lest you weary with my rhyme, and some may not have that history, I will here give the principal facts in prose.   (The dates, etc., found in the Family Record, prepared with so much care by Cousin M. H. Boyd, Esq., and to be published, I omit.).                                   

But little is known of the early life of John, the oldest son. His studies were pursued under the direction of Rev. John McPherrin. his pastor. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Redstone, April 23, 1801. At the first meeting of Erie Presbytery he and his brother Abraham were both received and taken under its care, April 13, 1802. At that same meeting they both preached, each his trial sermon, for ordination the text given to John was John vi., 53: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." The one to Abraham was James iv., 17: "Therefore to him that knowest to do good and doeth it not, it is sin." John was ordained June 16th, at Union church, and installed as Pastor of Union and Slate Lick churches, Armstrong County. Pa. Rev. William Wick preached the sermon, from 2 Cor., iv., 5: ".Now He that hath wrought us for the self same thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." .Rev. Samuel Tait delivered the charges. Abraham was ordained the next day, at Bull Creek church, and installed as Pastor of that and Middlesex church, the former in Allegheny and the latter in Butler County, Pa. 

John Boyd's first pastorate continued almost eight years, when, at his own request, he was released. At the meeting of the General Assembly in May, 1809, the year before he was released, there occurs this record in the recommendation of the appointment of missionaries: The Rev. John Boyd, a missionary for two months on the headwaters of the Allegheny and the borders of Lake Erie." For a short time he supplied the churches of Amity and West Liberty, now Harrisville, Butler County, Pa. I have often passed the house where he then lived. It was pointed out to me by Hon. J. B. Harris, an elder in the church, when I was there, who, when he was a young man, helped to move the family there. His health having failed, he was dismissed to Lancaster Presbytery, now Zanesville. Shortly after this, he preached at Wills Creek, in southeastern Ohio, probably to the congregation now known as "The Two Ridge" about eight miles from Steubenville. Afterwards he became Pastor of the churches Red Oak and Straight Creek, in the Presbytery of Chillicothe. The cause of his leaving those churches was signing a petition for, and. advocating for the stopping of the mails on the Sabbath. 

But, for his noble efforts for the honor of God and His day, he was branded by some of his elders and people as a traitor to his country.  

He next settled as the first pastor of the church of Bethel in the Presbytery of Oxford, and was said to be the first Presbyterian preacher west of the Miami River. Five months after he was attacked by bilious fever, and died at Indian Creek near Hamilton, Ohio.  Just before his death says a writer in The Weekly Recorder “He was blessed with a transporting view of the Gospel.  On the Sabbath evening just before, some of his neighbors having gathered in, he raised up on his couch and said to them: "I have been in congregations where I was afraid to preach Christ, but if all the world were here, I would speak to them of the preciousness of the Gospel, and the ability and willingness of Christ to save all who comes to Him. His remains were interred in the graveyard of the Bethel church. He left a widow and four sons and four daughters. His eldest son James died just as he was entering the ministry. 

Benjamin Boyd studied far a time with his Pastor, John McPherson and was among  the first graduates at  Jefferson College.  He was taken under the care of the Presbytery of Erie, as a  candidate for ministry, June 22, 1803.  He was licensed to preach October 24, 1804. In the fall of 1806 he accepted calls from the congregations of Trumbull, Beulah and Pymatuuing  the last in Mercer  County, Pa. (near the place now called Transfer), and the others in the edge of Ohio. Romans x. 4: was assigned for a trial sermon: “For Christ is the end of the law for high righteousness to every one that believeth".   

He was ordained and installed at Trumbull church November 12. This relation continued about three years. In 1811 he removed to western Virginia, and in the war of 1812 was Chaplain under Gen. Leftridge in that State. In 1814 he removed to Mason County, Kyentucky and in 1827 he was a member of the Presbytery of Cincinnati. He preached for a time at Round Bottom, Cheviot and Harrison, Ohio. He also preached for a time at Dunlapsville   and West Liberty, Ind. In 1836 he removed to Newport, Ky., where he was engaged in teaching. In 1834 and 1835 he was a member of the Presbytery of Madison, and preached at Pleasant Church, Indiana. In 1836 he returned to Newport, Kentucky where spent the remainder of his days. His death was the result of old age, hastened, perhaps, by a severe fall. His remains rest in the cemetery at Newport. Dr. Eaton says: "His mind was probably not as well balanced as that of his other brothers, yet, in many respects, he was an earnest and good man. His was a life of grievous burdens and great conflicts, and the peace and the rest of the Good Laud would be most grateful to his spirit." I heard his brother Abraham say that he was the brightest and quickest learn of all of them, and was the best scholar. After he commenced a course of study, he taught most of the time, and yet was foremost, or among the foremost, in his class. He often studied the greater part of the night, after teaching during the day. His| brother thought that thereby his mind was in some measure overtaxed. He spoke of him with great tenderness and deep affection.  

James Boyd was the last of the four brothers to enter the ministry. He studied for a time with his Pastor, and then completed his classical studies at Jefferson College. He studied theology with Dr. McMillan, and was taken under the care of Erie Presbytery 4 April 10. 1806 was licensed to preach April 22, 1807. In the autumn of 1808 he accepted calls from the churches of Newton and Warren, and was ordained and installed at Warren October 10, 1808. The next day he was dismissed to become one of the original members of the Presbytery of Hartford, afterwards Beaver, and now those churches are in Mahoning Presbytery. They were his only charge. His ministry was brief. The purpose of his heart and the labor of his hands were accepted, and he was called to a higher service. He died and was buried at Newton, Ohio, where some of the friends, on their visit to this Convention, visited and read the inscription on his tomb. 

It is said that the four brothers, all preachers, on a certain occasion occupied the pulpit together in Bull Creek church, and Robert, another brother, who led the singing, as the custom then was, had a seat in the pulpit also and as the most of the rest were then  members of that church, that they all, or most of them worshipped together on that day.

3RD REUNION 1885

 THE BOYD ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

REV. J. S. BOYD, PRESIDENT, MINNEAPOLIS, MN

REV.  J.H. SHIELDS, VICE PRESIDENT, ST LOUIS,  MO.

DR. J. F. WILSON, SEC and TREASURER, YOUNGSTOWN, OH

Committee of Arrangements for Reunion of 1888

ROBERT G. BOYD.  MARION, OH
ABRAM BOYD,  LIMA, OH
DR. J. F. WILSON, YOUNGSTOWN, OH
H. S. SMITH, FREEPORT, PA
BENJAMIN J. BOVD, OXFORD, OH.
MRS. MARY B. McKOWN, PITTSBURG, PA
MRS. S. A. HENRY, ST. CHARLES, OH

Historical Committee.

REV. J. H. SHIELDS, CHAIRMAN
MRS. S. A. HENRY
HON.F. A. BOYD
W. H. LEARD, ESQ.
MRS. S. C. BERRYMAN
MR. ROBT. G. BOYD
MR. M. HILLIS BOVD, SEC'Y
C. N. BOYD, ESQ.
REV. J.S. BOYD
MISS CLARA McCONNELL
MRS. JULIA F. SCOTT
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            NEW MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION

The following names have been added to the list of members since the publication of last report:

Joseph Earhart, Mrs. F. M. Leard,
Frank Coe, J. S. Adams,
Miss Emily Coe, Mrs. E. J. Brown,
Mrs. Boyd Scott, E. F. Firth.
W.H. Leard, Mrs. Agnes E. Firth,
Mrs. M. B. Smith, Geo. J. Boyd,
Wm. M. Negley, Mrs. Eleanor B. Maheffey,
Boyd S. Henry. J. S. Leard,
Lizzie B. Henry. Mrs. E. M. Leard,

 ROLL OF THIRD REUNION

E. F. Firth, Worthington, Pa.
Agnes E. Firth, Worthington, Pa.
Lizzie Boyd Bottenfield, Marion, 0H.
H. S. Smith. Freeport, Pa.
Mary B. Smith, Freeport, Pa.
Sallie C. Berryman, Lima, 0H.
M. Hillis Boyd, Freeport, Pa.
Elizabeth F. Boyd, Freeport, Pa.
Master Joseph Hillis Boyd, Freeport, Pa.
J. L. Leard, Pittsburg, Pa.
F. M. Leard, Pittsburg, Pa.
M. B. Black, Lima, 0H
0. H. Black, Lima, 0h.
Abram Boyd, Lima, 0h.
Emma H. Brown. Slatelick, Pa.
J. S. Brown, Slatelick, Pa.
J. W. Brown, Slatelick, Pa.
S. A. Henry, St. Charles, 0h.
Jennie Miller, Freeport, Pa.
Amy Miller, Freeport, Pa.
Mary B. McKown, Pittsburg, Pa.
Hattie B. McKown, Pittsburg, Pa.
Master Willie R. McKown, Pittsburg, Pa.
William McKown, Pittsburg, Pa.
Blanche Humes, West Newton, Pa.
Mrs. R. D. Humes, West Newton, Pa.
Walter S. Boyd. McVille, Pa.
Mrs. M. Randolph, Natrona, Pa.
Annie S. Boyd.'Tarentum, Pa.
Maria Miller, Tarentum. Pa.
Thomas Miller, Tarentum, Pa.
Mrs. M. Robertson. Allegheny City, Pa.
Kattie Robertson, Allegheny City, Pa.
J. S. Adams, Lawrenceville, Pa.
Mrs. Boyd Scott, Blairsville, Pa.
John Jack, Industry, Pa;
John S. Coe, Tarentum, Pa.
Hannah J. Coe, Tarentum,
Frank Coe, Tarentum, Pa.
Emma Coe, Tarentum, Pa.
Jacob B. Negley, Pittsburg, Pa.
Geo. J. Boyd, Black Hawk, Pa.
Anna S. Boyd, Freeport, Pa.
E. Agnes Smith, Freeport, Pa.
A. Boyd Smith, Freeport, Pa.
A. H. Boyd, Slatelick, Pa.
W. H. Leard, Craigsville, Pa.
Mrs. E. M. Leard, Craigsville. Pa.
Royal Boyd Leard, Craigsville, Pa.
C. N. Boyd, Somerset, Pa.
Rev. James H. Shields, St. Louis, Mo.
Samuel G. Shields, St. Louis Mo.
James Brown, Slatelick, Pa.
Mrs. James Brown, Slatelick, Pa.
Maggie J. Brown, Slatelick, Pa.
J. A. Boyd, Slatelick, Pa.
Boyd S. Henry, Kittanning, Pa.
Agnes A. Hill, Freeport, Pa.
Mrs. J. S. Hyle, Indiana, Pa.
Mrs Eliza Boyd, Slatelick, Pa.
M. Bella Christy, Tarentum, Pa.
Nannie H. Cox, Slatelick, Pa.
E. H. Cox, Slatelick, Pa.
W. Freddie Cox, Slatelick, Pa.
Annie S. Mclntyre, Freeport, Pa.
Master Charley Boyd Mclntyre, Freeport Pa.
Carrie Law, Freeport, Pa.
Robert J. Law. Freeport, Pa.
Jane B. Law, Freeport, Pa.
Elma Law, Freeport, Pa.
W. M. Boyd, McVille, Pa.
H, P. Boyd, McVill, Pa.,
Miss Mary Lizzie Boyd, McVill, Pa.
Mary J. Fye, St. Charles, 0h.
Joseph Earhart, Karns City, Pa.
Mrs. M. J. Earhart, Karns City, Pa.
Olive Gertrude Earhart, Karns, City, Pa.
Frank Elizabeth Earhart, Karns City, Pa.
William M.Negley,-Pittsburg, Pa.
James P. Leard, Pittsburg, Pa.
Maggie B. Leard, Pittsburg, Pa.
Mary H. Boyd, Freeport, Pa.
Eleanor B. Mahaffey, Altoona, Pa.
Robert G Boyd, Marion, 0h.
James Boyd, Slatelick, Pa.
Nancy E. Boyd, Slatelick, Pa.
Master Theodore Boyd, Slatelick, Pa.
Mrs. J F. Wilson, Youngstown, 0h.
Master Charles N. Wilson, Youngstown, 0h.
Dr. J. F. Wilson, Youngstown, 0h.
Mary Wilson. Youngstown, 0h.

FRIENDS NOT OF THE KIN.

Silas Coe Fulton. Livermore, Pa.
Mary A. Fulton, Livernore, Pa.
Joseph Boyd, Sandy Lake, Pa.
Wm J. McGaw, Youngstown, 0h.
Aggie E. Lintner, Blairsville, Pa.
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                Committee on Necrology report

                         LIST OF DEATHS

It is our sad duty to record the death of fourteen members of our family since reunions have been held. In this number were included the aged as well as the child and middle aged. Two were called from one family, a husband and father and little child.


Descendants of Rev. John Boyd,—Mr. Samuel A. Walling 12/20/1881, fourth generation. Mrs. Carrie M. Boyd, obit 1/16/1882, fourth generation.

Descendants of Rev. Abram Boyd.—Mrs. Ardella G. Boyd, obit 4/16/1882, fourth generation. Miss Alice Fulton Dinsmore, obit 11/10/1883, fifth generation. Mr. Joseph C. Dinsmore, obit 11/21/1883, fourth generation. Mr. George G. Negley, obit 3/26/1884, third generation.

Descendants of Mary B. Shields.—Master Edwin Hall Adams, obit 5/29/1883, fifth generation. Master Charles H. Minteer, obit 8/10/ 1883, fifth generation. Miss Jessie Minteer, 3/15/ 1884, fifth generation. Miss Mary Eleanor Noble, obit 8/2/1884, fifth generation. Mr. Chambers Foster, obit 3/15/1884, fourth generation.

Descendants of Henry Boyd.—Mrs. Lovina D. Boyd, ob. 11/22/ 1883, fourth generation.

Descendants of Joseph Boyd.—Miss Hattie Boyd, obit 6/10/1884, fourth generation. Miss Flora Shirley Otis, obit 8/1884, fifth generation.
 

                 5TH BOYD REUNION  

                  THE BOYD ASSOCIATION.

                           ———————                       

                             OFFICERS. 

REV. JOSEPH N. BOYD............... .PRESIDENT

CHICAGO, ILL.                     

M. HILLIS BOYD, ESQ. ........VICE PRESIDENT

KREEPORT, PA.                    

DR. J. F. WILSON ….. ACTING SEC'Y/ TREAS

POULAN, GA.                       

MISS MARY H. BOYD.......ASSISTANT SEC'Y

FREEPORT, PA. 

      COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS

            FOR REUNION OF 1890. 

ROBERT G. BOYD, Marion, 0H.        

LEROY CODDING, Woodland, 0H.

ABRAM BOYD, Lima, 0H.   

MRS. KATE MINTON. Millville, 0H.

MRS. M. A. ROSE, Palmyra, 0H. 

               HISTORICAL COMMITTEE 

REV. I. H. SHIELDS, CHAIRMAN.  

MR. M: HILLIS HOYD, SECRETARY.

MRS. S. A. HENRY.             

C. N. HOYD, Esq.

HON. F. A. BOVD.              

REV.  J. S. BOYD.

W. H. LEARD. ESQ.           

MISS CLARA McCONNELL

MRS. S. C. BERRYMAN.         

MRS. JULlA A. SCOTT

MR. ROBERT G. BOYD

                       TRUSTEES

ROBERT G. BOYD, Marion, 0H Term expires 1890

JAMES F. WILSON, Poulan, Ga......"    "   1890

A. FULTON BOYD, Poland, Ohio . "     "   1892

R. D. HUMES, West Newton, Pa....... "     "   1892

J. F. BOYD, Chambershurg, Pa.......... "     "   1894

CHAS. N. BOYD, Butler, Pa.............. "     "   1894

                     THE BENDING OF A TWIG. 

          BY A CHIP FROM THE OLD BLOCK. 

                   DR. JAMES F. WILSON 

    FIFTH BOYD CONVENTION, PITTSBURGH, PA.

                        September 6th, 1888.

MY FRIENDS:—This fifth Convention of our kindred, so pleasant in anticipation, and enjoyable in actual experience, will soon be a cherished memory to those of us who are present in person, while the published proceedings will swell the archives of the Association, and hand down to succeeding generations the record of this meeting. 

Your officers in following the established custom of appointing someone to edify, entertain or instruct the gathered kin by the delivery of a formal address which could be given a place in the Proceedings, began, a few months ago, to look around for a suitable stick to be used on this occasion. 

Whatever their efforts may have been in searching for the stick, you have observed by the program that they finally settled down on a chip from the old block, instead. It was urged that our fine timber which has been finished up into Presbyterian Clergymen, had been heavily drawn upon for previous conventions, and that the supply was not equal to the demand; hence the necessity of opening up a new source of supply, however, it was not an easy matter to make a selection, for the woods were found to be full of the material from which the choice was finally made and as your speaker appeared to be within reach the committee, rather than particularly promising for the service, he was forthwith put into the harness, just as some of you, my Friends, are liable to be drafted for future necessities.

My theme is a small one, but if our twig does not suffer from an untimely blight, it may develop into a respectable size, and prove to be of considerable importance. It may be well, however, for us to look after the chips awhile, previous to our consideration of the twig.

                 _______________________

         REPORT OF HISTORICAL COMMITTEE.

                    LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

FKEEPORT, PA., Sept. 14th, 1888. DR. J. F. WILSON, Sec. B. A., Youngstown, Ohio:

DEAR COUSIN : I herewith enclose you report of Historical Committee of Boyd Association, as has been reported to me by the different members of said Committee.

While we have reason to rejoice that so many have been added to the family by Birth and Marriage, and some very interesting. history of the family has been added since our last report, yet in the midst of our rejoicing our hearts are made sad at the thought of so many being called from our midst in the past two years.. Some were called to suffer long and severe; others given but one or two days warning, and one taken in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. We feel sad because of our loss. But may we not rather rejoice, when we know that the 28 that have been called from our homes have gone to a better country, that is an Heavenly, I often think of the joy that must fill their hearts as they constantly look, upon the blessed Saviour, and fully realize what He suffered for them. Should not we be admonished by these dispensations of God's providence, to be ready also? for in such an hour as we think not the Son of man cometh.

Your Cousin,
M. Hillis Boyd, Sec. Historical Committee

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                               NECROLOGY

 REPORTED SINCE THE REUNION AT HAMILTON

 NAME               DATE       GENERATION   DESC. OF

 Mary B. Christy   10/15/1886         4^th         Abraham Boyd

Susan Hoover     10/30/1886           4^th          Henry Boyd 

Robert Shields     11/26/1886           3^rd          Margaret B. Shields

Mary Johns         12/22/1886           3^rd           Joseph Boyd

Wm. J. Miller        01/6/1887            4^th          Robert Boyd

Sarah A. Longsdorf   01/26/1887       4^th          Robert Boyd

Olive McCIatchy   02/15/1887           5^th        Margaret B. Shields

Jane Thom            03/24/1887            3^rd          Mary B. Cole

Florence Thom      03/31/1887             5^th          Mary B. Coe

Flora Walling               04/21/1887        5^th         John Boyd

Chester Arthur Leard 05/01/1887         5^th     Margaret B. Shields

Dillie May Leard          05/02/1887       5^th      Margaret B. Shields

Christina Tamplin        07/09.1887         4^th         Henry Boyd

Freddie E. Boyd           08/11/1887       5^th         Abraham Boyd

James Shields             08/30/1887        3^rd     Margaret B. Shields

John Jack                     10/03/1887         3^rd         Robert Boyd

Harvey Brown        10/23/1887              4^th    Margaret B. Shields

Thos. G. Boyd           12/05/1887           3^rd       Joseph Boyd

J. Johnston Rea         12/13/1887            4^th      Abram Boyd

Mary E. Cathcart         03/18/1888          4^th         Robert Boyd

Ophir Smith                 04/02/1888          6^th         John Boyd

James Boyd                  06/15/1888          3^rd         Robert Boyd

Milton McGeary          07/23/1888          5^th         Abraham Boyd

Geo. Dwight Fry          07/27/1888           6^th        James Boyd

David Shields          07/28/1888               3^rd   Margaret B. Shields

Margaret A. Boyd         08/14/1888          4^th         Robert Boyd

Rebecca H. Boyd          08/25/1888          3^rd          Joseph Boyd

Wm. J. H. McCinnell   08/31/1888           5^th         Mary B. Coe

                              OBITUARIES.

          DIED—October 15th, 1886, near Tarentum, Pa.,

         MRS. MARY B. CHRISTY, aged 39 years.

Mrs. Christy's maiden name was Boyd. Born and reared in a Christian home, she early made a profession of her faith in Christ by uniting with the Presbyterian Church of Bull Creek, Pa.. where her father, William S. Boyd, now deceased, was for rnany years a ruling elder, and her grandfather, Rev. Abraham Boyd, was the honored pastor for so long a time. The last five years of her life was lived through patient suffering, and none knew better than she the comfort the religion of Christ gives under such trials. The love and affection of husband and children could not stay the hand of death, and she passed sweetly away, mourned by all who knew her. The kindness shown by the entire community in which she lived bore testimony to the esteem in which she was held as neighbor and Christian woman.                              

MRS. FLORA E. WALLING, wife of Clinton E. Walling, was born October 14th. 1865, and died April 21, 1887, aged 21 years 6 months and 7 days. She with her husband joined the Method

Church at Colter's Corners, under the pastorate of Rev. Geo. W Wilson, just before their marriage.

She lived a consistent Christian life. From early childhood she was a Sabbath School scholar and took an active part in all Sabbath School work, doing cheerfully whatever was given her to do For the last few months she was not permitted to meet with us on account of her affliction. The community and church will miss he but nowhere will she be missed as in the home. She leaves a sorrow-stricken husband, father, mother, sisters and brothers, and a large circle of friends to mourn her death. She has gone to reap the reward of the righteous with Christ in the home of the blest Her funeral services conducted by the pastor were largely attended on the Sabbath, April 24th. She was buried at College Corner.   

Text. Isaiah 64, part of 6th verse.                           

   RESOLUTIONS OF COLTER'S CORNERS SABBATH   

                                SCHOOL.   

WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from our midst, Sister Flora Walling, and desiring to manifest our sympathy upon the occasion of this bereavement, therefore be it    Resolved, That we as a Sabbath School have lost a ready, willing and earnest worker, and every good cause a faithful friend.

 Resolved, That we offer our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved husband, to those who belong to the house in which she spent her childhood, and to a host of loving friends. Be it further Resolved, That while we humbly submit to the will of Him who doeth all things well, that we show due respect to the memory of our departed sister, that we try to emulate her virtues, and that we be more faithful and zealous in our Sabbath School work than ever before.            

 IN MEMORIAM.—Action of the Session of New Salem Church, Presbytery of Allegheny, on the death of THOMAS G. BOYD, M. D. WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from our midst by death Dr. Thomas G. Boyd. who was for 16 years a member of this Session; therefore, Resolved, 1st. That while we bow in submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well, we hereby express our deep sense of loss and bereavement in the death of Dr. Boyd, and our high appreciation of his exemplary Christian life, and his efficiency as a member of this Session.

 2nd, That in his sudden removal while yet seemingly in possession of unabated strength, and having promise of years of usefulness before him, we are admonished to he also ready, for at such an hour as we think not the son of man cometh.  

 3rd, That we tender our sincerest sympathies to the family of the deceased, commending them to the care of an ever faithful God who maketh all things to work together for good to them that love, him. 

 4th. That these resolutions be recorded in our minutes, that a |copy be sent to the family of the deceased, and that they be published in the Presbyterian Banner, Argus and Radical.

 JAMES BOYD

DIED.—At Tarentum, Pa., June 15, 1888, JAMES BOYD, in his 86th year.

Born in Wilmington, Del., the greater part of his life was spent  Tarentum and its vicinity. He married Sarah Boyd. To them twelve children were born. Six of these and his wife preceded him into the valley of the shadow. Of the rest, three have their home in the West and three in this vicinity. One is Rev. J. F. Boyd, of Steubenville, Ohio. In early life Mr. Boyd connects himself with the church. He was one of the original members Westminster Church, Butler Presbytery. At its organization he was elected an elder, which office he held until he removed from its bounds. In late years the infirmities of old age made deep inroads upon his health. While the outer man was perishing the inner man was renewed day by day. The summons found him waiting hopefully, for he believed with his heart, if the earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 

JAMES SHIELDS 

DIED—At his late residence near Srader Grove Church, Armstrong Co., Pa., Aug. 30. 1887, MR. JAMES SHIELDS, in the 81st year of his age. 

Mr. Shields was born in Sugar Creek township, Armstrong county Pa., May 31, 1807. Being the son of devoted Christian parents, father being Mr. Joseph Shields, for many years a ruling elder Union Presbyterian Church, he enjoyed the advantages of a Christian training from a child, and at an early age gave himself to  Saviour, uniting with the church of Union, where he continued member until he removed to the farm on which he died, when he became a member of Slate Lick Presbyterian Church. Afterwards he changed his membership to Freeport, where he became a ruling elder. In 1871, the church of Srader Grove being organized, near his home, he joined there, being one of its original members, and from the time of its organization to his death was an elder in the church.                                               :\

He was twice married. First to a daughter of Rev. John Reddick, and afterwards to Miss Rebecca Ewing, a sister of Rev. T.  Ewing, D. D., President of Parsons College. Two children survive him, a son, Rev. James H. Shields, of St. Louis, Mo., and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas J. Hill.                                   

Mr. Shields was careful, industrious and  thrifty in his business and a man of unswerving loyalty to the church. He always rejoiced at the prosperity of Zion, and was interested in, and  ready to do his part in carrying on her work, and in the final disbution of his property he did not forget her, especially the home of Home and Foreign Missions. 

The Session of Srader Grove Presbyterian Church, of which was so long a member, feeling keenly the great loss they sustaining in his death, unanimously adopted the following preamble and resolutions:

WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God in his infinite wisdom to remove from among us Mr. James Shields, a highly honored and efficient member of this Session from its first organization, be it therefore, Resolved, 1st. That in his death this Session has lost one of its most judicious counsellors and this Church one of its most worthy and useful members. 

2nd, That we treasure the memory of his blameless Christian life, his wise counsels, his zeal for the cause of Christ, and his constant interest in the welfare of this church in particular. 

3d, That we tender our earnest and heartfelt sympathies to the family of the deceased, and commend them for consolation to Him who orders all things for the best, and whose chastisements are dealt by a loving hand. 

4th, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the .deceased, and that the same be recorded in the minutes of this Session.

                                     REV. JOHN C. McCRACKEN, Mod.

 M. HILLIS BOYD, Clerk.

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Mr. JOHN JACK DIED—At his home, near Industry, Pa., Oct. 3d, 1887, Mr. JOHN JACK, in the 83d year of his age. 

Father Jack, as he was familiarly called by his neighbors, was  born in Allegheny-county, Pa., in the bounds of Bull Creek church in 1805. He was early dedicated to God, and was carefully brought up. At the age of 17 he connected himself with the church, then under the care of Rev. Abraham Boyd, and when 22 years he was elected ruling elder, which office he held for over 60 years. In April, 1887, he paid his 6st subscription to the Presbyterian Banner. Mr. Jack descended from good old Scotch-Irish Presbyterian  stock of purest blood. At the time of the persecution in Scotland in the l7th century, his ancestors were obliged to flee to the North of Ireland, leaving their estate and all their valuables with a Catholic servant. When liberty was established and peace restored, |they returned to their home. The servant returned the estate on the pledge that- his name (Patrick) should be perpetuated in the family. Faithful to their promise it has been handed down ever since.

Mr. Jack was not only a devoted father, but in all his relations of life he exemplified the highest traits of character. His pastor always found him a safe counsellor. When the temperance movement was started in the church, he was the first to take the pledge. It was his greatest pleasure as well as his constant aim to fulfill the duties and discharge all the obligations which go to round out a true Christian life. It was in the church and in the home that he found his life work, and no Christian labored more faithfully and more conscientiously to make his influence felt in these spheres activity.
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He bore his sufferings with that patience and resignation which are the fruits of an abiding faith in the precious promises of the gospel of Christ. To the very last he kept up his interest in every person and thing about him. Only on that great day when the Book of Life is opened and the starry crowns placed, will the gentle, kindly nature of that dear old father be clearly understood. His resignation to God's will, his patience and endurance of suffering his Christ-like gentleness of spirit as he lay waiting at the gates of the beautiful city, were evidences of his readiness to be with Christy When asked by his son if he had any doubts or fears, he faintly whispered," Nothing but peace." When at length the gates opened he passed into the city so gently that it was hard to realize he had gone.

The funeral services were held at his home, Oct. 4th, conduced by Revs. M. A. Parkinson and S. George. On the morning of the 5th the remains were taken to Bull Creek church, where service were again held. It seemed rather a singular coincidence that just ten years ago, at that very hour, 11 A. M., on the same day of the same month, his beloved wife was laid to rest in that old grave yard.

MARGARET (BOYD) JACK
DIED.—October 3rd, 1877, at the residence of her husband, near Industry, Beaver county, Pa., Mrs. MARGARET (BOYD) JACK, in the 72nd year of her age.

Mrs. Jack was a daughter of Robert Boyd, Esq., and descended from a Godly ancestry, many of whom were the early ministers and founders of the Presbyterian Church in Western Pennsylvania. She was early dedicated to God and carefully brought up in the religious faith of God's Word, and at the age of 18 connected herself with Bull Creek Church, then under the care of Rev. Abraham Boyd, of blessed memory. Her Christian love and faith early developed in work and activity in the church. She was the first Sabbath school teacher in Bull Creek church and afterward for forty years she was actively engaged in this work. The interest of the church and dying souls lay near her heart, and she ever encouraged by her counsel and prayers, every good work.

Her death came in a peacefulness that was a fitting close to her peaceful and beautiful life. Never a summer day more quietly and restfully sank amid its shadows than did her life here pass into the unseen glories of the life beyond the grave. Her resignation to God's will, her patient endurance of suffering, her Christ-like gentleness of spirit, and her serene Christian hope, as she lay waiting at the gates of the Beautiful City, are evidences of her readiness for the Kingdom, and are sweet consolation to the loved ones; and when at length the gates were opened, she slipped into the' city with movement so gentle it was difficult to realize she was gone. Calmly did she meet the last of foes, and found him unarmed, robbed of his terrors and only a friend in disguise. Dying was but going home. Death was but a calm, peaceful sleep. "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep." "Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for her, but for yourselves and for your children." Truly, her children will rise up and call he blessed."
Blessed sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep. Sure we shall meet as heretofore, Some summer morn.

 

REBECCA H. BOYD                                                       DIED—At her home in Pleasant Township, Marion County, Ohio, August 25th, 1888, REBECCA H. BOYD, aged 72 years, 3 months and 11 days.

The deceased was born at North Springfield, Ohio, May 14th 1816, and was the eldest daughter of the late John and Jane S. Hall of that place. She was married to Robert G. Boyd, Feb. 8th, 1841.

She united with the Presbyterian Church at the age of 16 years, of which she remained a faithful and consistent member during a period of 56 years, when the Master called her home.
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Her sufferings, which continued over a period of nearly nine, months, often intense, were borne with remarkable Christian fortitude and submission. When asked, near the closing moments her life, if Jesus was precious to her in her hours of suffering, replied, "Yes, I am not afraid to trust Him." Thus, peaceful and hopefully she passed away, trusting in that God who had been her guide even from her youth. On the morning of the 27th, followed by a large concourse of mourning relatives and friends, laid her away in the silent grave in sure and certain hope of a glorious resurrection.

Her life was one of great activity and usefulness in the family, in the community in which she lived, and in the Church. The cause of Home and Foreign Missions, and of the education of the Freed men, lay near her heart. The Foreign Missionary Society of the Pisgah church, of which for many years she was the honored am worthy President, and which office she held at the time of her death, will sadly miss her wise counsels as well as her liberal contributions. Her deep interest in the cause of the education of the freedmen was manifested by her annual contributions to Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, and to several institutions in the South for educating and Christianizing the colored race; and in the final disposal of her property the four different objects above mentioned were remembered. She will be missed most of all by her bereaved
companion, whose house is now left desolate in his declining years.


       TAKEN IN WISDOM AND IN LOVE.                            

                        BY REV. J. S. BOYD.

GEORGE DWIGHT FRY and CHARLES LUTHER  FRY
Removed from the parental arms on earth to the Father's house above, after a short illness with cholera infantum, July 27, 1888, GEORGE DWIGHT, the tender, bright, happy babe of Mr. and Mrs. LUTHER CAI.VIN FRY, late of Hannibal, Missouri, now of Minneapolis, Minnesota, aged 8 months and 5 days. March 9, 1881, their equally precious child, CHARLES LUTHER, I was, after much suffering, called back to Him who gave, at the age of 19 months and 8 days. Two children in heaven! What a treasure! How are the parents honored!
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                            MARRIAGES 

    REPORTED SINCE REUNION at HAMILTON, OH  

Names                                             Date          Desc. of

Sarepta E. Foster/Harvey Brown,  2/12/1887  Margaret B. Shields

Lyda M. Boyd/Thomas B. Frees    8/22/1887  Abraham Boyd.

Harry Coe/Carry Hoppy,             9/14/1887    Mary B. Coe

Elizabeth J. Boyd/Hugh Harkins   11/2/1887     Joseph Boyd.   

Boyd S. Henry/Eliz. Campbell      12/15/1887   Abraham Boyd.  

Cath. J. Earhart/Donald M. Hunter, 2/14/1888   James Boyd.

Shields Coe Boyd/Jessie Ross        2/22/1888     Robert Boyd

Eliza J. McConnell/G. T. McDonald  4/3/1888     Mary B. Coe.   

Agnes C. Rea/Milton McGeary       5/15/1888    Abraham Boyd. 

Rose Noble/Wm. Curtis Bowser  5/24/1888    Marg. B. Shields

Adaline Furrer/Harry C. Duncan      5/24/1888    Mary B. Coe 

                                BIRTHS

     REPORTED SINCE REUNION at HAMILTON, OH  

Name                                      Born             Desc. of

James H. Boyd...............  10/17/1886       Henry Boyd.

John E. Canning ..............10/31/ 1886      Robert Boyd.

Francis Catharine Coe  ….11/16/1886      Mary Boyd Coe

John Shields McNeal ……12/ 30/1886     Joseph Boyd.

Paul Miller Laizure ..... ….01/14/1887      Robert Boyd.

Fannie Belle Rea .............. 03/10/1887     Abraham Boyd.

Omer Smith ................……03/ 22/1887    John Boyd.

Ophir Smith............ ……..03/22/1887       John Boyd.

Dorothy Thom ................. 04/22/1887       Mary Boyd Coe.

Mary Myrtle Fye ..............0 4/10/1887      John Boyd.

F. Deroy Thom ......... ……04/12/1887      Mary Boyd Coe.

Bertha Boyd............ ……..05/26/1887      Henry Boyd.

Earl Stanley Whyte........... 07/20/1887      Abraham Boyd.

Alfred Boyd Shields.......... 07/21/1887      Margaret B. Shields

Willis Ralph Bricker.......... 08/2/1887        Joseph Boyd

George Dwight Fry .......... 11/22/1887      James Boyd.

Robert Leard Hindman.. ….12/12/1887    Margaret B. Shields.

James Johnston Rea..... …..05/8/1888       Abraham Boyd.

Helen Isadore Leard.......... 05/22/1888      Margaret B. Shields.

Florence Kinnedred Firth ….05/23/1888    James Boyd.

William McCullough..... ….06/21/1888      James Boyd.

Norman Scott McConnell. ..07/3/1888      Henry Boyd. 

Ida Jane Kirk...  ..................07/24/1888     Abraham Boyd.           

                        CONVENTION NOTES.

The Fifth Reunion came fully up to the most sanguine anticipations of the officers and friends, who had looked forward to a joyous meeting. 

The number present was much larger than at former gathering and presented an appearance which merited the complimentary remarks of a number of visitors who paid their respects to the tribe.  The prattling squads of little Master Boyds and the sprightly troupe of little Miss Boyds filled the hotel corridors with life and in the forks of the Youghiogheny River. They all came to America in 1772 (?). James and Robert had come the year before, Robert remaining while James went back for the family. Our great-grandfather, aged probably 55 or 60 years at that time, came with them. Our great-grandmother also came with them. Her maiden name was Margaret Guthry. They shipped at Derry, Ireland, for New York, but owing to misfortune were 16 weeks on the ocean, and landed at Baltimore. They settled first in the region midway between Mt. Pleasant and West Newton, in Westmoreland county, Pa.

Grandfather came to the farm at New Derry between the years 1770 and 1780, buying the land directly from the State, 261 acres, to which he afterwards added 57 acres, bought from John McCready.

Previous to this, he and his brother Robert had bought land near Clarksburg, Indiana county, Pa., where they lived for one or two, years, their mother and their sister Margaret keeping house for them. Lived there during the noted hard winter snow four feet deep for six weeks. Sold out there and came to the farm near Derry, patent taken out in grandfather's name. dated 1780.

Grandfather had eight sons, (one died in infancy), named Benjamin, Henry, Joseph, Abram, Moses, James and Robert; three daughters, Margaret, Elizabeth and Jane. Grandfather's brother Henry never married served in the Revolutionary war and subsequently died away from home. His death caused great sorrow the family.

Great-grandfather's name was Abram. He and his wife buried in the country church-yard near Mt. Pleasant, Pa. Grandfather took no part in the whiskey insurrection; his brother James did. His sons (our uncles) Benjamin, Joseph and Abram settled in Ohio; Henry settled in West Newton, Pa.; Moses, James and Robert in Westmoreland county, Pa., near New Derry Margaret married Ebenezer Shane and settled in Ohio; Elizabeth first married Samuel Shields and settled in Armstrong county, Pa. After his decease she married Robert Elder, of Indiana county. Pa Jane married Samuel McConaghy and moved to Ohio. Henry was led to settle in West Newton from having learned his trade, that of a tanner, with his half-brother John Lamb, on the Perry Fulton farm (the homestead of great-grandfather), where he first set up afterwards moving to town.
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Grandfather and grandmother were both members of the Presbyterian Church, grandfather an elder for many years. They suffered many privations from the Indians. They are buried at Salem Church, Derry township, Westmoreland county, Pa. Grandfather was 19 years of age when he came to this country. Died in 1835, aged 85 years. Grandmother died in 1826, aged about 70.

 LIST OF NEW MEMBERS OF BOYD ASSOCIATION.
 

Kate Hillis Boyd. John Alfred Whyte.
Joseph F. Boyd, Jr. R. F. Cathcart.
Mary Ellen Negley. Harry J. Duncan.
Mary J. Miller. Mary McConnell.
J. F. McConnell. Mrs. J. B. Negley.
Annie S. Mclntyre. M. Y. Robertson.
Frank F. Mclntyre. Mrs. C. C. Blaine.
Sadie R. Whyte.

    LIST OF VISITORS AT PITTSBURGH REUNION.

Mrs. W.L. Black, Pittsburgh, Pa. John. L. Boyd, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa. Max M. Boyd, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Boyd, West Virginia. Miss Lizzie Brown, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. J.E. Carson, Connellsville, Pa. Abraham Fulton, Latrobe. Pa. Dr. Henry W. Fulton, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Jennie B. Fulton, Pittsburgh, Pa. James Fulton, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Agnes Fulton, Allegheny City, Pa. George Hill Fulton, East Liberty, Pa. Dr. J.A. Fulton, New Florence, Pa. Dr. R. H. Gilliford, Allegheny City, Pa, Jennie W. Jeffery, Allegheny City, Pa. Mr. McDonnald, Rochester, Pa. W.J. McKown, Freeport, Pa. Annie McClelland, Allegheny City, Pa. J.C. Morrison, Oxford, Ohio. Perry J. Slater, Pittsburgh, Pa. Rankin Stewart, Imperial, Pa. Mrs. Sarah Vernon, Allegheny City, Pa.
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             ROLL OF PITTSBURGH REUNION 

1. Adams, James S., East End, Pittsburgh, Pa.                             

2. Adams, Mrs. J. S.,    "         "     "

3. Adams, Pearl,           “         “     “

4. Adams, Jas. C.,         "        "    “

5. Adams, Wm. E.,   168 Carver St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

6. Adams, James F., Slate Lick, Pa.

7. Adams, Mrs. J. F., Slate Lick, Pa.

8. Boyd, Joseph F., Chambersburgh, Pa.

9. Boyd, Kate G.,         "        "       (Mrs. J. F.)

10. Boyd, Grace G.,     “        “

11. Boyd, Mary Fulton,    "        "

12. Boyd, Abram, Lima, Allen county, Ohio.

13. Boyd, Robert G., Marion, Marion county, Ohio.  More Data

14. Boyd, James, Slate Lick, Pa.

15. Boyd, Nancy E., "     " (Mrs. James)

16. Boyd, Wm. M., Freeport, Pa.

17. Boyd, Hannah, P., "    " (Mrs. Wm. M.)

18. Boyd, S. Angeline, Eldora, Iowa.

19. Brown, Margaret J., Slate Lick, Pa.

20. Barnes, Olive A., Beaver Falls, Pa.

21. Boyd, C.N., Butler, Pa.

22. Boyd, Joseph N., Chicago, IL

23. Boyd, Joseph EL, Tarentum, Pa.

24. Boyd, W. Theodore, Slate Lick, Pa.

25  Boyd, A. H., Indiana, Pa.

26. Boyd, Jane H., Ann Arbor, Mich.

27. Boyd, Jennie,   "    "     "

28. Boyd, Geo. J.,   "    "     "

29. Boyd, A. Fulton, Poland, Ohio.

30. Boyd, John H., Freeport, Pa.

31. Boyd, Mary L.,    "     "

32. Boyd, Vinton W., Pittsburgh, Pa.

33. Boyd, Lulu, Tarentum, Pa.

34. Boyd, Agnes C. "    “

35. Boyd, Elmer E., Slate Lick, Pa.

36. Boyd, John B., 124 Rebecca St., Allegheny, Pa.

37. Boyd, Clara A., Freeport, Pa.

38. Boyd, Thomas F., Freeport, Pa.

39. Boyd, M. Hillis,     "     "

40. Blaine, James, Champaign, IL.

41. Blaine, Catharine C., Champaign, IL

42. Brown, J. Wilbert, Slate Lick, Pa.

43. Boyd, John E.,       "      "

44. Bassford, Frank, Pittsburgh, Pa.                       

45. Bassford, Agnes, L., "     "                          

46. Bassford, Frank, Jr., "      "                       

47. Bassford, Harry,        "      "

48. Bassford, Edna,          "     "

49. Christy, Maggie F., Tarentum, Pa.

50. Christy, Cora E.,      "       “

51. Cathcart, Margaret, Wilkinsburgh, Pa.

52. Cathcart, Robert F.,       "       "

53. Cathcart, Wilson Boyd, White Ash, Allegheny Co., Pa.

54. Coe, Hannah J., Tarentum, Pa.

55. Dickey, Bella,        "     "

56. Duncan, Harry J., Ingram, "

57. Duncan, Ada,       "     "    (Mrs. Harry J.)

58. Eward, Samuel, Springdale, "

59. Fye, Mary J., St. Charles, Butler Co., Ohio.

60. Firth, Ed. T.,   Clarion, Pa.

61. Firth, Agnes E.,    "    "    (Mrs. Ed. T.)

62. Firth, Anna A.,     "    "

63. Firth, Jessie D.,    "     "

64. Firth, Roberta L.,  "

65. Firth, Mary B-,

66. Firth, Florence K., "    "

67. Gledhill, Mary C., Pittsburgh, Pa.

68. Gledhill, George H.,   "     "

69. Hill, Thomas J., Freeport, Pa.

70. Hill, Elizabeth,     "     "    (Mrs. T. J.)

71 Hill, J. Harvey,     "

72. Henry, Lizzie J., Poland, Ohio.

73. Hindman, Robert, Walk Chalk, Armstrong Co., Pa.

74. Hindman, Sarah,     "          "       " (Mrs. Robt.)

75. Hindman, Margaret F., "           "        "

76. Hindman, Robert L., "          "       "

77. Humes, R. D., West Newton, Pa.

78. Humes, Jennie S.,   "       "    (Mrs. R. D.) 

79. Humes, Blanche, West Newton, Pa.

80. Humes, Pearle,       "         "   .

81. Hughes, Winona A., Marion, Ohio.

82. Jack, Johnston W., Industry, Beaver Co., Pa.

83. Law, Carrie, Freeport, Pa.

84. Law, Elma,

85. Law, Robert J., "

86. Linton, Sarah I., Salem, Ohio.

87. Linton, Edith B.,  "

88. Leard, J. Shields, Hulton, Pa.

89. Leard, Flora M,    "     " (Mrs. J. S.)

90. Minton, Kate, Millville, Ohio.

91. Mahaffey, Eleanor, Springdale, Pa.

92. Mahaffey, Maggie,      "      "

93. Mahaffey, Mary E.,     "     "

94. Miller, Maria, Tarentum, Pa.

95. Miller, T. Culbertson, Allegheny, Pa.

96. Minteer, Wm. A., Worthington, Pa.

97. Minteer, Leila, Wilkinsburgh, Pa.

98. Minteer, Clara M.,

99. McConnell, Mary, 161 Liberty St., Allegheny, Pa.

100. McConnell, Clara F.,      "         "      "

101. McConnel1, Margaret E.,  "         "      "

102. McConnell, J. Fulton, 100 Ridge Ave., Allegheny, Pa. ,

103. McConnell, Ellen R.,        "          "      " (Mrs J.F

104. McConnell, John,           "          "      "

105. McConnell, Clyde,         "          "      "

106. Miller, Mary J., Allegheny City, Pa.

107. Miller, Mary B.,      "         "

108. Miller, B. F.,          "

109. McKinnell, Agnes I., Pittsburgh, Pa.

110. McKinnell, Thos. S.,    "      “

111. McClatchy, Rose Z., Slate Lick, Pa.

112. Mclntyre, Frank, Freeport, Pa.

113. Mclntyre, Annie S., ':     ''                   "

114. Mclntyre, C. Boyd, "     "

115. McKown, William, 302 Locust St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

116. McKown, Mary B.,      "           "     " (Mrs. Wm)

117. McKown, Hallie B.,    "          "     "

118. McKown, J. Boyd,     "           "     "  

119. McKown, Margaret J.   "            "           

120. McKown, Wm. Reid, 302 Locust St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

121. Negley, Wm. M., Walnut  St., E. E., Pittsburgh, Pa.

122. Negley, Bella, " " " " "        (Mrs. Wm.)

123. Negley, Sadie B., " " " " "

124. Negley, Harry B., " " " " "

125. Negley, Oliver J., " " " " "

126. Negley. Theodore S., Wilcox, Pa.

127. Negley, Susie C., " " (Mrs. T. S.)

128. Negley, Geo. D., " "

129. Negley, Jeannette B., " "

130. Negley, Henry Hillis, East End, Pittsburgh, Pa.

131. Negley, Jacob B., East End, Pittsburgh, Pa.

r32. Negley, Cynthia N., " " " (Mrs. J. B.)

133. Robertson, Milton Y., Allegheny, Pa.

134. Robertson, Emma, " " (Mrs. M. Y.)

135. Robertson, Margaret J., " "

136. Robertson, Margaretta B., " "

137. Robertson, Effie, "

138. Robertson, Allen, "

139. Robertson, Lilian, " "

140. Robertson, Harriet, 22 Vickroy St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

141. Rea, Emma E., Slate Lick, Pa.

142. Randolph, Margaret,. Butler, Pa.

143. Scott, Stewart, 167 Arch St., Allegheny, Pa.

1.44. Scott, Julia A., " " " (Mrs. S.)

145. Scott, Marion H., " " "

146. Staley, Martha A., Parnassus, Pa.

147. Staley, Howard, P., " "

148. Sheridan, H. M., Stewart, Pa.

149. Sheridan, Wm. I., " "

150. Smith, H. S., Freeport, Pa.

151. Smith, Mary B., " " (Mrs. H. S.)

152. Smith, E. Agnes, " "

153. Smith, Abram Boyd, Freeport, Pa.

154. Wilson, Dr. James F., Youngstown, Ohio.

155. Wilson, Mary A., " " (Mrs. Dr.)

156. Wilson, Charles N.,

157. Wilson, Bessie G., " "

158. Whyte, John A., Glenwood, Pittsburgh, Pa.

159. Whyte, Sarah R., " " " (Mrs. J. A.)

160. Whyte, Launcelot A., Glenwood, Pittsburgh, Pa.

161. Whyte, Earl S., " "

162. Wolfe, A. C., Bennett, Pa.

163. Wolfe, Fannie, " " (Mrs. A. C.)

    6th Annual Boyd/Fulton Reunion Booklet Marion, Ohio.

                  John Boyd Mary Fulton Boyd Family

Obituaries

Bennie Boyd
Died January 16th, 1889, Bennie, aged 24 days, beloved son of Wm. S. and Julia Boyd, at their home in Baldwin City, Kansas.

Ellen Boyd
Died March 17th, 1889, near Rochester, Indiana, Ellen, beloved wife of Henry E. Boyd. The circumstances surrounding this death were peculiarly trying. They had sold their farm and her husband had gone to Washington to seek a home, to which he expected to remove his family as soon as practicable. A fortnight after his departure she was taken violently ill with typhoid pneumonia and died within a week. Four little children, the elder, Nellie, aged twelve; the younger, Maggie Beer, a sweet child of three, were left desolate indeed. Her husband returned and marked her lonely grave by a simple stone and took the little ones, motherless, to the far western home. She was a fond and tender wife and mother.

Ann Lazarus Boyd
She was born in Deerfield, Portage Co., Ohio, January 26, 1811. Her grandfather, John Hartzell, was instrumental in building up the Presbyterian church at Deerfield. He was inspired by a sermon preached in the neighborhood by Rev. James Boyd, of sainted memory. She united with this church in her youth. March 16th, 1837, she married to John Boyd. The early years of their married life were spent on a farm near Deerfield and their four children were born there. In 1854 she, with her family, removed to Allen county and settled upon a farm four miles from Lima, Ohio where the remainder of her life was spent. She was one of the mothers whose heart-breaking privilege it was to give up the son---the only one---to her country. He enlisted in the 99th O.V.I. in 1862 and only served a few weeks ere his body was brought home and laid to rest in our peaceful “grave yard.” Two daughters preceded her to the “home over there” in quick succession, while she herself was an invalid and patiently awaiting the final summons, which came January 18th, 1889. She was patient and cheerful and bore the many afflictions with Christian resignation and passed away peacefully one week before her 79th birthday.

Mary (Boyd) Wilson
Died At Palmyra, Ohio August 29th, 1889, Mrs. Mary Wilson, aged 75 years, 5 months and 9 days. Mary was the only daughter of Henry and Margaret Beer Boyd, and was born in Ellsworth, Ohio, March 20, 1814. Her parents had been in Ohio about two years. Three brothers older and one younger than herself constituted the family. The mother being a delicate woman, the labors and cares incident to pioneer life were laid upon her in her early years. In 1833 the family removed to the adjoining township, Berlin, Mahoning county, and settled on the farm on which she spent the greater portion of her life, within the bounds of what was then called Deerfield, but now North Benton, Presbyterian Church. She was married October 22, 1840, to Joseph Wilson of Salem, Ohio. She united with the church in early life and ever adorned her profession. She was the worthy daughter of her godly parents. After nearly twenty years of widowhood she was suddenly called to go up higher on the early morning of August 29th, 1889.

Mary (Boyd) Black
Died April 16th, 1889 in Shawnee, at the old Boyd homestead, Mary, beloved wife of J.W. Black and youngest daughter of Abram and Maria Hover Boyd. Mary was born May 18, 1849 near the same spot where her life went out almost 40 years later. Here her childhood was passed and her she was married Sept 14, 1871. Most of her married life was spent in Lima until failing health in both husband and wife caused them to feel that a change was desirable.

They went first to Colorado and then to Rochester, Indiana where they lived four years, forming many pleasant friendships and associations. But disease had an unyielding hold upon her and as the end drew near, her heart yearned for the old father, old home and old friends. Arrangements were accordingly made and time set for returning home, but there was still a work for them to do in Indiana. Her brother’s wife sickened and in one short week died, leaving four small children to look to Mr. And Mrs. Black for home and care, their father being absent in the far West. But the cares of life, the sore need of motherless children could no longer detain her. She felt that she was sinking fast and with unwavering desire to die at home she made the weary journey eight days before she died. To her it was a great pleasure to meet the many friends who called to see her. She could not talk much, but for all she had a pleasant smile. Loving hands and sad hearts ministered to her few earthly needs and went with her to the very verge of the valley of the shadow of death. She was not loathe to go, having been a member of a church militant, she felt confident of an abundant entrance into the church triumphant. A great sufferer for many years she was willing, nay impatient to go home to the father. She said: “Time’s up, let me rest a little and I will go on,” and so painfully and consciously she closed her eyes in the sleep that knows no waking upon the shores of time, and her tired, troubled heart was at rest. An aged father and a brother and sister remained to mourn with the sorely bereaved husband and three sons the severing of one more earthly life.

Lewis Edwin Walling                                                                     He was born near Mt. Carmel, Indiana September 23, 1850 and departed this life June 24, 1889, aged 38 years, 9 months, and 1 day. He was the son of Louis and Eliza Boyd Walling and a grandson of Rev. John Boyd. He was left at the age of sixteen without a mother’s care and went out to battle with life, determined to honor her memory by his worthy efforts. How successful he was, his many friends can testify. He was of a very amiable disposition and none knew him but to love him. In 1881 he went to California. In 1882 he was married in San Francisco to Miss Etta Rafferty. They lived near Inglenook, California and it was on the morning of June 24th that he, in company with his brother-in-law, went to the mountain to haul, their team became frightened and he was thrown from the wagon and fatally injured. In a few hours he quietly passed over the boundary line between this life and the resting place of God’s children, with the dying words: “I am not afraid to die.”

THE BOYD ASSOCIATION

                              7th Reunion officers.

REV. T. S. NEGLEY, .......PRESIDENT,  KENNETH,  PA.

REV. J. N. BOYD, .......... VICE PRESIDENT, CHICAGO, ILL.

DR.J.F. WILSON, ........... SECRETARY AND TREASURER, POULAN, GA.

DR. GEO. J. BOYD, ....... ASSISTANT SECRETARY. BLACK HAWK, PA.

                        HISTORICAL COMMITTEE.

 MRS. S. A. HENRY.............................Term expires 1894

MRS. JULIA A. SCOTT...................................."    "   1894

MR.ROBT.G.BOYD..........................................."   "    1894

MRS. FLORENCE WOODS............................."    "   1896

REV. J. S. BOYD............................................... "    "  1896

MR.J. H.THOM...................................................."    "  1896

MRS. S. C. BERRYMAN.................................  "     "  1898

MR. C.N. BOYD................................................"    "   1898

MRS.J.S. BROWN..........................................  "     "   1898

                       STATISTICAL COMMITTEE.

 REV. A. F. BOYD ............................... Term expires 1894

MISS LEILA B. BOYD.....................................  "    "   1896

MRS. S. C. BERRYMAN...................................."    "   1898 

         Committee of Arrangements for 1894 Reunion. 

MRS M.A. ROSE, Palmyra, 0H,  H. H. NEGLEY, Pitts. PA                       LEROY CODDING, Woodland, 0hio.

                                      TRUSTEES 

ROBERT G. BOYD, Marion, 0H............. Term expires 1896

JAMES F. WILSON, Poulan, GA..........  ..........   “   “   1896

A. FULTON BOYD, "Poland, OH........................ “   “  1898

R.D. HUMES West Newton, PA............................."   "  1898

From 7th Annual Boyd/Fulton Reunion Booklet, Pittsburgh, PA.
                               

                              NECROLOGY.
                                JOHN BOYD

It becomes our sad duty to record the passing away of one of the few that remain of the third generation.

"Uncle John" passed from labor to rest March 21st, 1892, aged 84 years, 4 months, 17 days. He was the dearest old man—so gentle, kind and affectionate, a living example of "growing old gracefully." One could associate naught but pure and unselfish thoughts and deeds with the fresh, kindly countenance in its setting of abundant white hair and beard.

John Boyd was second son of Henry and Margaret Beer Boyd, was born Nov. 4th, 1807, in Allegheny county, Pa., within the bounds of "Bull Creek" congregation. His parents moved to Trumbull county, Ohio. in 1812. He united with the Presbyterian church in 1833 and continued faithful until death. He was twice married, and was the father of six children. At his death only one of his family remained, Mrs. Maria Wolf, the others having all preceded him to the spirit world. He came to Allen county, Ohio, in 1854, and settled upon the farm where he continued to live until the summons came to come up higher. I have many recollections of that home. .Uncle John, Aunt Anna, Frederick, Susan, Maria and Christina—it was a privilege often experienced to join them in their joys and sorrows, their toil and recreation. But, they have passed out of our lives, leaving a precious memory. Uncle John was a man of sterling integrity, a kind and loving father, a true and faithful husband, and a good, obliging neighbor. His life was one of Christian character, worthy the admiration of all. Religion, with him, was not a secondary matter, but was the great object of his life.

I am ready when Jesus comes." He was in the full possession of his faculties, a cheerful, contented old man. The last meal I ate with him, a few days before his death, I was so impressed by the simple, earnest trust and thanksgiving expressed in the well chosen words, when he returned thanks. When death came he was all ready to go to Kansas, where his daughter's family were about to locate; but a cold aggravated a chronic kidney trouble, and after a few days of suffering his gentle spirit took its flight. When he bade me good bye he said: "Oh, these partings! When next we meet it will be where there are no more partings."

James H. Boyd
James H. Boyd was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, March 15, 1847 and died in Baldwin, Kansas November 6, 189, the second son of Henry Fulton Boyd and Mary P. Henry, and grandson of Henry and Margaret Beer Boyd. His mother died when he was a lad of 12 years. He came to Lawrence, Kansas in 1868, where he remained until 1885 when he became a resident of Baldwin. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his departure.

Mr. Boyd had been a sufferer for the past year with the dreaded disease, consumption, but never once was he heard to complain.

He was a charter member of the A.O.U.W. lodge and Select Knights, of Lawrence, and was very popular with the members and all who knew him in that city.

Rev. Goodale preached the funeral sermon Sunday at 10 o'clock, after which, the remains were taken to Lawrence where the A.O.U.W. lodge of that place conducted the burial services. In the death of Mr. Boyd, Baldwin loses a good citizen and an honest, upright man. The Ledger extends its sympathy to the family in this their hour of bereavement.

The subject of this notice was the second son of Henry Fulton Boyd and Mary P. Henry, and grandson of Henry and Margaret Beer Boyd, of the second generation. His mother died when he was a lad of 12 years. That this most worthy and genial member of our family may be known to us and that we may profit somewhat by his example in the crucial hour of a soul's experience, I will copy a few extracts from a letter written by his beloved wife Anna.

We have three bright and beautiful children: Jammie, Fred and Edna. Jammie (probably James Jr.) is so much company for me now. James was taken sick in March, 1891. In August his throat became very sore, and oh! how he did suffer, He would say: I. cannot go and leave my family! I must live to see them grown. On the last Friday in October he drove .to the barber shop. Little-Edna went with. him. When. he came back he said he felt so well and had a .good appetite for supper, But first he would have a drink. Fred gave it < to him and it seemed like his throat closed up. We thought he was dying. Saturday he was very weak. Sunday was dressed and sat in the rocking chair His brother Will came in just as dinner was ready and drew him up to the table, but he was so tired he couldn't eat. That was the last time he was at the table with us. Monday he was a little better and spent some time making out accounts and advising me what to do when he was gone. It seemed just like he was getting ready to go on a journey. He said he didn't dread it any more than he would a trip to the next town. For the last month he spoke only in a whisper. Wednesday he had another choking spell and from that on until .the end his sufferings were very great coughing Friday all day long. It was so hot and windy and it was so hard for him to get his breath; but he was so patient. At 5 in the. evening he said "I am going now". At 8PM: "My cough has stopped now and if you will put them all out of the room and sit by me as you do every night. I think I can sleep". He slept a little while and then he asked me to take one pillow after another from under his head until he lay flat. He said: "Give me more light and began to choke. His death struggle was very hard, but he closed, his eyes himself and we cannot doubt, opened them upon the blessed light of Heaven.

Margaret Boyd Davison
Died at her home in Seneca, Illinois, April 4th, 1891, of apoplexy, after an illness of only three hours. She was the oldest daughter of James and Mary Doud Boyd, and granddaughter of Henry and Margaret Beer Boyd and was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, Aug. 13 1837; removed with her father's family to Allen county in 1854; married Geo. L. Davison Sept. 20, 1858. Six children blessed their union, all of whom are living. Her husband wrote me: "One of the greatest consolations to me is that she was permitted to live to see our children all grown to man and womanhood, and that she has left so much of the impress of her character upon them all." She united with the Presbyterian church when but 13 years old, and ever observed a consistent deportment.

She was possessed of a liberal education and taught several terms of school in her girlhood. As a child and young woman she was closely associated with her grandfather Boyd. The tie that bound them was very tender. Of this she has written: "I used to think I loved him better than my own parents. Sometimes, when I am thinking of loved ones on the other shore, I feel as if I could hear him singing in Paradise. I think when I pass to the other side he will be the first to greet me; he always greeted me with such a hearty welcome on earth, I know he will do so when we meet in heaven. "During the civil war she gave her husband and brother to the Union army, and passed through that trying time with Christian fortitude, true to the Union cause. She strengthened their hands by frequent and brave letters, and by careful care of the home. Her husband has every letter she wrote him during this period. In one dated May 16th, 1864, she wrote: "I have been all this forenoon with Grandpa. He is almost gone and can survive but a few hours at most. He spoke of you, sent his dying love to you, and "wished all his friends to live so that they may meet him in heaven. Henry has just come to tell me he is dead. He has gone to rest like a shock of corn fully ripe. “Oh! what a blessed sight when the Christian dies. How calm, how heavenly everything appears. May we so live that our last end may be as was his."

It was the dead of night when the death angel called for her. Her departure was as peaceful and quiet as is the slumber of a babe upon its mother's bosom. Her suffering was of momentary duration and she died as she had lived, a devout and earnest Christian woman. One who knew her well wrote: "I feel that my acquaintance with her gives me the right to say that, all things considered, she had few equals in merit as a true woman, dutiful, brave and affectionate wife; kind, gentle, patient mother; always true to every trust and faithful to every conscientious duty. She was what I call an every-day Christian, and if there be different degrees of blessedness, or if there be any graded seats inside the portals of Heaven, while she will be content through her modesty to accept the lowest, she will be promptly called to the higher and be seated with those around the great white throne, to join the throng in singing the songs of Redemption." S.B.C
 

Walter Skelton Boyd

The subject of this notice was the eldest son of William Morrison and Hannah McFarland Boyd, and was born in Kittanning, Armstrong County Pennsylvania, Oct. 25, 1864. His parents shortly afterward returning to the former home in the vicinity of old Slate Lick, where so many of his kind of four or five generations had their homes, he spent the earlier years of life in that quiet, thrifty. God-fearing community, enjoying excellent local advantages of schools and churches, and so he grew up into young manhood, genial, energetic, the object of warm parental affection and of ardent hope. Early in the year 1886 he set out to seek fortune in "the West," a name suggestive of enterprise and opportunity, and so strongly appealing to youthful imagination and ambition. About a year was spent in or near Topeka, Kansas and another year in Colorado. He then went to Albuquerque, New Mexico where for about four years he was employed in a foundry and machine shop being regarded by his employers as one of their most faithful and efficient workmen. While employed there he was prostrated by an attack of intermittent fever, and though tenderly nursed by the friends whom he had made in about two weeks, far from home and kindred, his young life had its end. During the time of his absence he had been almost invariably in good health and his letters to friends at home were cheerful and full of hope.

He evidently had won his way into the confidence of those who knew him as the local papers in their notices of his death and funeral contain appreciative references to his character and life. He was a member of Albuquerque Lodge, I.0.0.F., and was the recipient of their care during the time of his fatal illness. He was also a member and officer of the Ferguson Hook and Ladder Company, of that city. In the minutes of the company in regard his death they speak of him as "a worthy and efficient member, efficient member, one who stood High among his fellow firemen as well as in the community." In their hall his body lay in state four hours, where many came to take a last look at the young face upon which had fallen the pallor of death. From the hall the body was borne to the Presbyterian church, where services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Beattie, of the Congregational church. A report in a local paper said: "He referred in touching words to the cross and wreath of flowers on the coffin, and spoke grandly of the Christian life led by the deceased. Mayor Saint and other members of the city council were among the mourners. A report in another paper said that "In Fairview Cemetery all that was mortal of an esteemed and estimable young man was laid to rest forever.

The cortege was one of the longest that has ever followed a hearse to this cemetery, and contained, besides the members of the orders above mentioned, many of Albuquerque's most prominent citizens.
As his parents and immediate friends were denied the privilege of being with him during his illness and of seeing his body committed to its last earthly resting place, these and other similar testimonials to his character and the esteem in which he was held seem as soothing balm to their wounded hearts. They hear no more his familiar football on the threshold of his earthly home, but faith looks expectantly forward to the Father’s house above, in which all His children, though widely separated on earth and for a time parted by death, shall meet at length in glad and enduring reunion.

Mrs. Sarah Agnes Graff Earhart
(From the following "In Memoriam" notice, written by her pastor, Rev. A. W. Ringland, D.D, Duluth, Minnesota, it is difficult to omit anything without marring the consistency and continuity of the whole, so tersely and beautifully expressed.—J. S. Boyd)

Sarah Agnes Earhart was born December 16, 1853. She was married to Philip Melancthon Graff, October 15, 1872. She entered into rest November 20, 1889.

It was my good fortune to know her quite intimately, as her pastor, from February 9, 1884, to the day of her death. When it became evident that she must soon be taken from us, we began to understand how large a space she had occupied in home, church and community.

Mrs. Graff will be remembered as a woman of commanding presence, which presence was thoroughly sustained by her powers of mind and heart. She always gained on your admiration and esteem, by acquaintance. Her mind was keen, quick, searching and aggressive. It had been judiciously developed, thereby quickening and enhancing all that was hers by nature's gift. She had not exaggerated any one side of her character. She grew up symmetrically, without hobbies and without loss of womanly worth. One who saw much of her learned to trust her purposes without debate, and to .rely upon her judgment as being always in close touch with a tenderhearted, benevolent wish.

She drew about her many friends and admirers. She was a showy woman without knowing it. She attracted to herself, by her sterling powers of womanhood, but never seemed to know either the fact or the explanation. If she had enemies, they were never known to her pastor while she lived, nor did they reveal themselves to him after her death. Behind qualities of both head and heart, upon which I cannot dwell, and which were a mighty working capital, she had great energy, quick perception and a thorough business instinct. She was always competent as housewife, mother, public servant, and was always in demand. She was widely known in her city, in her church, and among the needy. She was a queen presiding over important destinies, and freely giving her head and heart to them. She early attached her realm as a province to the realm of King Jesus. His law was her meditation. She paid tribute to Him. She did service at His court. She looked upon His word as the only true measure of human life and human purposes.... She was, therefore, regular at the Sabbath services, at the midweek prayer service and at the Missionary meetings. She left only one far-reaching request with her husband, and that was with reference to carrying forward her missionary projects after she was gone.' Her Bible shows how perpetually she kept company with it interspersed among its leaves were the few requests which she left for her funeral. They were found there without announcement from her. There were the names of the 'pall bearers. There was the request that the funeral service should be in the simple language of Scripture, without one word of eulogy. She wished God to speak and man to keep silence before Him, and in the presence of death. She wished long-tried friends, whom she named, to sing "Abide with Me" and "Rock of Ages." She wished the two youngest children, as she expressed it, "on no account to be at the service—either one." She wanted them to think of a living mother, and to save their young minds the struggle with that terrible mystery which we call death.
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All these requests were fully carried out, though the pastor would gladly have spoken to so fair a practical evidence of Christianity.

In her room, for many months, there had hung the gift of a friend, a roll of Scripture Texts arranged for each day, and labeled, "Daily Comforting Four-fold Links." Each of these pages contained a prayer, a promise, a precept, and an ascription of praise. On the morning of her last day she was unable to turn the roll, and it rested, most suitably, at the prayer "Forsake me not, 0 Lord, 0 my God; be not far from me." Psalm 38: 21 At the promise He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake the Hebrews 13. "And even to your old age, I am He and even to hoar hairs will I carry you; I have made and will bear; even I will carry and will deliver you."' Isaiah 46: 4. The precept: "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life Jude 1: 21. The praise: "I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Thy faithfulness to all generations."' Psalm 89: 1 That Scripture was fulfilled that day. God did not forsake her. She passed away in the love of God, and went to the King's presence to sing of his mercies and His faithfulness to all generations.


Mrs. Graft's. Bible was, only yesterday, just as she left it. In it was a sheet of paper upon which were spread "Crumbs of Comfort," such as these:
“Ask and it shall be given you."
"God is love"
"Now. is the accepted time."
"Early will I seek thee."
“Suffer little children to come unto me."
“Vow, and pray unto the Lord."
“If ye love me, keep my commandments."
" Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."
"God so loved the world that he gave his only Son"
"I love them that love me"
“Now is the accepted time."
"In the Lord put I my trust."
"Add to your faith, virtue," &c

The initials give the name of her fourth dear child— Agnes Virginia.
The scheme for the “Bible and Prayer Union" daily readings was also there. “The Westminster Leaflet, was there. Her favorite lines: 

"Build a little fence of trust around today, Fill the space with loving works and therein stay; Look not through the sheltering bars upon tomorrow, God will help thee bear what comes, if Joy or Sorrow."

These lines were written on the 20th of October, exactly a month before God took her. Her husband has built a little fence of trust in the sanctuary of God, and embalmed her memory with these words upon the fence. It is a beautiful memorial window which perpetually looks toward the setting sun. Near the top, and through the rift of blue cloud, is a star that never sets; and near the base of the window, in crimson-tinted glass, are the words of trust on a monument. Over this monument is a beautiful wreath of trailing arbutus girdling the words, "In Memoriam, Sarah Agnes Graft."

She is not dead, but sleepeth. Her name lingers as a sweet perfume to memory. Although her sun went down before the clock of her life had struck high noon, yet while she tarried she did what she could.

She left behind her, in her immediate home, her husband and five children. She had very much to live for; but grace triumphed, and her heart gave up this earth, though so very dear, and she died leaning upon the word of Him she loved. Thus she entered into the Godly fellowship of God's ancient worthies of whom the world was not worthy.

See more on Sarah plus a stained glass window in a church in Duluth, Minnesota. http://tinyurl.com/3rdgbp

                 Boyd Association Publications (1892)
                    John and Mary Fulton Boyd line

1. The Family Record. Printed on a large card suitable for framing. Containing all the names of the first, second, third and fourth generations of the Boyd kin. Price $2.50

2. Proceedings of Beaver Reunion in 1881. Contains valuable information regarding the initial Reunion and how it was brought about, and all the addresses and poems delivered there, with other matters of interest. Price, 15 cents per copy.

3. Proceedings of the Lima Reunion in 1883 (2nd). A 48-page pamphlet. Contains the first written Constitution of the Association, with a full report of the 2nd gathering of the Boyds. 20 cents.

4. Proceedings of the Kiskminister Reunion in 1884 (3rd). 36 pages, and contains important Biographical sketches. Price, 20 cents.

5. Proceedings of the Hamilton Reunion in 1886 (4th). 32 pages of interesting history. Price, 20 cents.

6. Proceedings of the Pittsburg Reunion in 1888(5th). 60 pages, with full report of the largest gathering, addresses and sketches, with reports. Price, 25 cents.

7. Proceedings of the Marion Reunion in 1890 (6th). Contains report of Committee on Incorporation, with proposed Constitution, addresses and sketch of M. Hillis Boyd. Price, 25 cents.

8. Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Reunion in 1892 (7th). President’s Address, Rev T.S. Negley, Obituaries, Constitution of Boyd Association, adopted at Pittsburgh, 1892, list of attendees.

                                 10th Boyd Reunion

Note: These publications are rare and hard to find. I would appreciate copies for publication on this web site. Richard G. Boyd, P.O. Box 332., Rogers City, Michigan 49779

Henry F. Boyd
Honorary Clan Piper of Clan Boyd Society, International.

Autobiography:
I was born 14 February 1927 in Western Pennsylvania of direct Scottish descent within 50 miles of “Derry Settlement” at which place my GGG Grandfather and family chose as their first homestead upon arrival in the “Colonies.”

As a small child, I well remember, that each summer the entire family would go to a large picnic attended by MacClellands, Boyds, Robertsons, MacEntires, Pattersons, Craigs, McClures, Kirks and on and on. It was obviously not known as such but without a doubt it was a clan gathering. At about age eight, on hearing bagpipes, I told my parents that I wanted to learn the pipes. By age twelve I had saved enough money so that I sent off to Hugh MacPherson in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada for a practice chanter and a tutor book. I quickly learned that to be self taught at that age was nearly impossible.

A few years later, with time in the U.S. Navy during WW-2, followed by Electrical Engineering with four years at Penn State, I ended up in Philadelphia to be taught piping by the Ulster Scottish Pipe Band.

I have now consumed 47 years in teaching students (many) and playing pipes at hundreds of events, concerts, parades, weddings, funerals, parties and Games for lots of great enjoyment.

I assume that I will spend the next 25 years happily piping at many more Games and parties. On the net I am known as the “CeilidhPiper”. Henry F. Boyd, P.O. Box 290604, Port Orange, FL 32129-0604 Phone 386-295-9859.

Henry Foland Boyd’s family line goes like this:

John Boyd 1734/1740-1817 + Mary Fulton N. Ireland
Joseph Boyd 1793-1847 + Jane Glass
Thomas G. Boyd 1821-1887 + Jane Jeffery
Thomas H. Boyd 1855-1931 + Mary Foland
Estes J. Boyd 1885-1961 + Mary Marquis
Henry Foland Boyd 1927

More about Henry's lineage can be seen on this page:
http://www.clanboyd.info/state/Pennsylvania/famhist/john2/

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