Rev. James Boyd and Isabella Craig

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Husband Rev. James Boyd ¹

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           Born: 1774 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Mar 1813 - near Warren, Trumbull Co, OH 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Father] Boyd (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 1807 1

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Wife Isabella Craig ¹

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           Born: 1782 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 1872 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: Capt. John Craig (1753-1845/1852) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Martha Clark (      -      ) 2 6 7

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Children

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1 M John Boyd, Esq. ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 28 Apr 1808 10
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Nov 1880 10
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Nancy Morrison (      -1862) 10
           Marr: 6 Oct 1829 10

         Spouse: Jane J. Hall (      -      ) 9 10
           Marr: 7 Jan 1864 10

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2 F Mary Boyd ¹¹

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           Born: 22 Jan 1810 11
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 May 1876 11
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Abraham Boyd (      -      ) 11
           Marr: 11 Apr 1833 11

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3 M James Boyd ¹²

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           Born: 15 Dec 1811 12
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Mar 1860 12
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Sarah Beale (      -      ) 12
           Marr: 12 Nov 1835 12

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. James Boyd

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He became a missionary among the Indians in the Western Reserve near the present Warren, Ohio. There were only two other white families in that region and the nearest was six miles from their log cabin home. Mrs. Boyd owned the only darning needle there and these white people would borrow it. Once the fire of the Boyd's went out, and they had no means to rekindle it, and Mr. Boyd had to go six miles to obtain a shovelful of coals, which he kept replenished by the way until he reached home.
Mrs. Boyd was much afraid of the Indians. Once when Mr. Boyd was away for supplies of food, their oldest little boy\emdash a fair complexioned child with long white curls\emdash was playing before the door, and she saw two Indians with him examining his curls. She was greatly alarmed, as she thought they might scalp him, and as quickly as she could she gathered all the eatables she could find and motioned to them to come and eat, which they did, and after eating departed, but she still feared they might return and kill them. A short time after, when Mr. Boyd was at home, they did return, but they brought a deer which they had killed and gave it to "the white squaw who had fed them when they were hungry."
After almost six years labor among the Indians Mr. Boyd died and was buried near Warren, Ohio, and Mrs. Boyd returned to her father's home near Freeport, Pennsylvania. On her return trip, Mrs. Boyd and her three little children were accompanied by one of the white men of the neighborhood and a friendly Indian. She was a widow for about fifty-nine years.

1 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 28.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 409.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 315.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 684.

5 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 16, 23.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 685.

7 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 24.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1009.

9 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 582.

10 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 29.

11 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 31.

12 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 32.