Albert Mason Boyd and Melissa McBurney

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Husband Albert Mason Boyd ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Aug 1874 - Upper Tyrone Twp, Fayette Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: James Smith Boyd (1846-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Susan Catharine Detwiler (1852-      ) 2 3

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       Marriage: 19 Sep 1907 1

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Wife Melissa McBurney ¹

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           Born:  - Franklin Twp, Fayette Co, PA
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         Father: Robert McBurney (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Susan Bute (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Susan Mildred Boyd ¹

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           Born: 15 Sep 1908 1
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2 F Grace Antoinette Boyd ¹

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           Born: 7 Nov 1911 1
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General Notes: Husband - Albert Mason Boyd

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He was born near Morgan Station in Upper Tyrone township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He was a year old when his parents moved to Detwiler's Mills, where his boyhood days were passed and his early education acquired at the Gault school in Buckskin township. He was ten years of age when the family moved to Kansas, where he completed his studies in public schools. His father then was cultivating about six hundred acres of land, and as the eldest son, Albert M., soon became his valued and trusted assistant. He, however, insisted upon having an education, attended Cawker City high school, where he was graduated in 1894. He then attended Kansas State Normal at Emporia, and taught school for three terms. He returned to Fayette county in 1898 and entered the employ of the Union Supply Company at Leisenring No. 3, remaining eleven months. He then engaged with the W. J. Rainey Company in their store at Elm Grove, Fayette County, as meat cutter. After two years he was appointed payroll clerk, serving as such eleven months, then became yard boss at the coke works, continuing one year. In June, 1903, he was appointed manager of the Elm Grove store. His home was in Elm Grove, and he also owned a tract of 320 acres in Kansas. He was a Republican in politics and served as school director. He was a Mason of high degree, belonging to James Cochran Lodge, No. 614, Free and Accepted Masons, at Dawson; Connellsville Chapter, No. 283, Royal Arch Masons; Uniontown Commandery, Knights Templar; Uniontown Lodge of Perfection, and Pittsburgh Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he held the thirty-second degree. He was a member of Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church and interested in all the work of his church.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 358.

2 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Brief History of John and Christian Fretz (Elkhart, IN: Mennonite Publishing Co., 1890), Pg 452.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 357.