John Finley Boyd and Mary Jane "Mollie" Cullar
Husband John Finley Boyd 1
Born: 10 May 1842 - Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas Co, OH 1 Christened: Died: 21 Jul 1910 - Monrovia, Los Angeles Co, CA 1 Buried: - Butler, Bates Co, MO
Father: John D. Boyd (1806-1889) 2 Mother: Kerenhappuch Parrish (1810-1858) 2
Marriage: 13 Nov 1872 - Butler, Bates Co, MO 1
Wife Mary Jane "Mollie" Cullar 1
Born: 3 Aug 1850 - Abingdon, Washington Co, VA 3 Christened: Died: 3 Jul 1890 - Butler, Bates Co, MO 3 Buried: - Butler, Bates Co, MO
Father: John Wesley Cullar (1827-1900) 3 Mother: Nancy Jane Perry (1830-1904) 4
Children
1 F Cora Cullar Boyd 3
Born: 3 Oct 1873 - Butler, Bates Co, MO 5 Christened: Died: Aft 1935 Buried:
2 M Edwin Everett Boyd 3
Born: 23 Apr 1875 - Butler, Bates Co, MO 5 Christened: Died: Aft 1935 Buried:
3 M Scott Lee Boyd 3
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M Clyde Hiram Boyd 3
Born: 23 Jun 1884 - Butler, Bates Co, MO 6 Christened: Died: Aft 1935 Buried:
5 M Wallace Warfel Boyd 3
Born: 19 Nov 1886 - Butler, Bates Co, MO 6 Christened: Died: Aft 1935 Buried:
6 M Francis Eugene Boyd 3
Born: 22 Dec 1889 - Butler, Bates Co, MO 6 Christened: Died: Aft 1935 Buried:
General Notes: Husband - John Finley Boyd
In 1856 he moved with his parents in covered wagons to McLean County, Illinois, near Bloomington, where they lived on a wheat farm until the Civil War broke out. His brothers, Albert and Hiram, enlisted, and John, not being able to obtain his father's consent, decided to run away and join the army. He was intercepted, however, and persuaded to return to the farm, where his help was needed.
In 1864 he left the farm, taking a position as clerk in a mercantile store in Centralia, Illinois, and in 1865, after the war was over, he worked his way to Georgia.
In 1869 he joined his father's family, which was now established on the Boyd farm, a few miles northeast of Butler, Bates County, Missouri.
In 1870 John moved into Butler, and went to work in the general store of John Wesley Cullar, whose daughter Mary (Mollie) Jane, he married in 1872.
In 1871 he took a position as clerk in the lumber yard of H. C. Wyatt, and in 1874 he was taken in as a partner, and the firm name was changed to Wyatt & Boyd. This firm continued until about 1893.
In 1879 he moved his family to Appleton City, Missouri, where the M. K. & T. Railway was putting through a railroad, and he established a lumber yard there, with his brother, Hiram Clyde Boyd, in charge. This firm also started the first lumber business in Rich Hill, Missouri, when the city was in its infancy.
In 1880 he moved back to Butler, Missouri, where he built a large family home and where the last four of his children were born. The compiler of these records, Scott Lee Boyd, was the first child born in this home. This was maintained as the family home until his removal to California in 1899.
In 1888 he moved his family temporarily to Clinton, Missouri, where he had previously established a lumber business.
In 1889 he moved back to the family home in Butler.
In 1890 his wife died very suddenly in Butler, where she was staying with the younger children while he was on a trip to the Colorado Mountains with Cora and Ed, the two older children.
In 1891 he moved to Appleton City, Missouri, to look after his lumber business there.
In 1893 he moved back to Butler, where he sold his interests in Wyatt & Boyd and established May 1, 1893, a new corporation called the J. F. Boyd Lumber Company, of which he was President and General Manager. His associates in this business were a group of friends and prominent men of Bates, and the adjoining counties of St. Clair, Cedar, Cass, Vernon and Henry. These men were as follows: Judge J. N. Ballard of Montrose, Judge S. S. Cowan of Shell City, Samuel Cotton of Appleton City, and J. P. Edwards and I. N. Mains of Butler.
The headquarters of this new firm was at Butler, Missouri, and they established a line of retail lumber yards in Rich Hill, Butler, Oceola, Collins, Foster, Clinton, Harwood, Shell City, Appleton City, Lowery City, Eldorado Springs, Nine Wonders, Walker, Montrose, Passaic, Rockville, and others, all in Missouri.
Butler and Rich Hill being on the Missouri Pacific Ry. served as distributing points, from which places lumber was hauled overland to many other towns where they had yards.
In 1899 John consolidated his lumber business with that of the Logan-Moore Lumber Company, and formed the Logan-Moore-Boyd Lumber Company. He retired from active management in May, 1899, and moved his family to California.
In 1900 (Jan.) he purchased an 80-acre orange ranch, north of Redlands, California, which he sold in 1904.
In 1902 he sold his interests in the Logan-Moore-Boyd Lumber Company in Missouri.
In 1902 the Imperial Valley was just beginning to attract attention, and on Dec. 1st of that year, he established the J. F. Boyd Lumber Company in Holtville, Calif. The following year he established a second yard in Imperial, Calif. In these enterprises his sons, Ed and Scott, were his associates. He operated these yards until about 1905 or 1906, when they were sold.
In 1907 John moved his family from Redlands to Monrovia, Calif., where his son Scott had established a new lumber business, called The Boyd Lumber Company. [The Boyd Family, 40]
1 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 39.
2 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 38.
3 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 41.
4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 41, 241.
5 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 62.
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Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 63.
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