Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Eli Wilson Boyd and Sarah Shaw




Husband Eli Wilson Boyd 1 2

           Born: 17 Oct 1837 - North Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: Aft 1889 - Irwin, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Father: Thomas Boyd (1795-1869) 2 3
         Mother: Sarah Wilson (1804-1859) 2 3


       Marriage: 1 Nov 1859 2 4



Wife Sarah Shaw 1 2

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         Father: David Shaw (1803-1888) 1 5 6
         Mother: Lydia Stewart (      -      ) 1 6




Children
1 F Lily S. Boyd 1

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         Spouse: John S. McIntosh (      -      ) 1 7


2 F Sarah W. "Sadie" Boyd 1 8 9

           Born: 16 Sep 1862 - Patton Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 9
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           Died: 27 Jan 1897 - Braddock, Allegheny Co, PA 9
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         Spouse: George Eddy Franklin Gray (1856-      ) 1 8 10
           Marr: 14 Jan 1886 8 9


3 M David Shaw Boyd 1 2

           Born: 1865 2
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         Spouse: Liddia Shaw (      -      ) 2


4 F Margaret Brown Boyd 1

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5 M James Kelso Boyd 1

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6 F Martha Gray Boyd 1

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General Notes: Husband - Eli Wilson Boyd


He was reared a farmer, and completed his education by a year each at Madison and Irwin Academies. He married and engaged in farming in his native town. Three years later he moved to Patton township, Allegheny County, where he then resided. He had a fine home, embracing three and a half acres near Turtle Creek, three farms covering 330 acres, and was a two-fifths owner in the Spring Hill coal-mines, of which he was superintendent.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 693.

2 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 81.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 461, 693.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 723.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 616.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 145.

7 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 83.

8 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 231.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1211.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1210.


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