CHIEF:  Dr Robin Boyd, MA (Oxon); MB BS; LRCP, MRCS; DCH; AFOM, 8th Baron Kilmarnock

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John Boyd ~ Sarah Stewart

Allegheny Co.,Pa to Vermillions Co., IN

John Boyd was born Jan/1796 in Barony of Ards, County Down, N. Ireland. He arrived in Philadelphia 10 Aug 1819 aboard the ship Sailor Boy.  He was a farmer. At some point he settled in Baldwin Twp outside Pittsburgh about five miles in Allegheny Co., PA and married on 28 March 1826 in Baldwin, Sarah Stewart born about 1803 in Allegheny County. Her parents were John and Sarah (Montgomery) Stewart. John and Sarah Boyd were in the census of 1830 as being in Deer Township, Allegheny County, PA.  John Boyd died in 1853 in Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN and buried in Hughes Cemetery in Perrysville, Vermillion Co., IN.  Their eight children were: 

1. Robert Boyd born 26 June 1827 (of whom more).

2. Josiah W. Boyd born 16 Nov 1828 married Amelia Holdaway. Died 19 Feb 1880 Eugene Twp, Vermillion County, Indiana.

3. Elisa Jain Boyd born 30 Aug 1830, PA.

4. Mary Ellen Boyd born 10 May 1832 Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN.

5. Sarah Ellen Boyd born 21 Dec 1833 Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN married Seth S. Spencer 4 July 1849 Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN and died 10 Sept 1913, Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN.

6. John Boyd b 10 Oct 1835 Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN married Rachel Shaw 13 May 1860 (may have died in Civil War, Rachel was to marry two more times, but did have a son William Boyd b. about 1861 in Indiana). Rachel died in 1866.

7. Alvirah Boyd born 9 Feb 1839 Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN died 1920.

8. Guilime Boyd born 8 Jan 1841 Eugene Twp, Vermillion Co., IN.

Robert Boyd (#1 above) was born 26 June 1827 in Allegheny Co., PA married 27 Feb 1853 Margaret (Maggie) Highes born about 1827 Point Pleasent, (W)

Virginia to William Hughes and Barbara Mackley (Magli Swiss family). Robert Boyd died in Aug 1913 and is buried in the Niccum Cemetery Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, IL.  Their children:

1. John Calvin Boyd born 7 Mar 1855 Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, Illinois, died 6 Feb 1881.

2. Mary Ellen Boyd born about 1857 Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, IL., married Silas Underwood.

3. Melvin Boyd born about 1861 in Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, IL.

4. James T. Boyd born 15 Oct 1863 and died in September 1944 (Lower Mound Cemetery) Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, IL., married Florence Patrick 28 Oct 1906, Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, IL.

John Calvin Boyd was born 7 March 1855 in Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, IL and died 6 Feb 1881 in Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermilion county, IL., and buried in the Niccum Cemetery.  He married Anna Bunkruff  (Brinckerhoff, father changed spelling when coming to Indiana in 1824).  Children:

1.  Edward B. Boyd born 25 July 1877 Georgetown, McKendree Twp., Vermillion county, IL., died 10 Jan 1956 in Danville, Vermilion county, IL., married 15 Aug 1904 in Perrysville, IL., Sarah May Beck, daughter of Andrew Jackson Beck and Nancy Ann Shaw. Children:

1. Carl Boyd stillborn 4 Sept 1908-2 Sept 1909 (premature)

2. Richard Elden Boyd born 28 Dec 1911 in Danville, Vermilion county, IL.

3. Willard Boyd born about 1913.

4. Charles Boyd born about 1915.

I would like to submit my direct line of Boyds, since they are from the family bible records written and kept by Sarah Stewart Boyd, wife of John Boyd.  Her bible was small and well used, not a big ornate one, and it was printed in 1815 in Philadelphia, PA and on the fly leaf it is stated that it was printed by the permission of the "Kirk of Scotland".  I have included her line only as far back as the Stewarts. Actually it is through her mother that I trace my line back to the Kilmarnock Boyds, since it was her Montgomery family that married into the Boyds to abate the terrible "Blood feud" that existed between the Earls and the later lairds on Eglington and Brigend (my line) settled in New Jersey in 1700.

I hope this will be of use to your membership and anyone with the name of Boyd that has their ancestry in this Central area of Illinois and Indiana and the natural dividing line that is the Wabash River.  The river separated the two counties with the same name but spelled differently; i.e. Vermilion, IL and Vermillion, IN.

Ronald Eugene Boyd

Santee, CA

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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