Oliver Bovard

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Husband Oliver Bovard ¹

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Children

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1 M Oliver Bovard ²

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           Born:  - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Mathilda S. Farr (      -      ) 2

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2 M John Bovard ¹

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           Died:  - ? South Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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3 M Robert Bovard ¹

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He died in consequence of having eaten wild parsnips under the impression that they were sweet myrrh. His father had also partaken of the vegetables, but having eaten only a small quantity, he recovered from the effects. This happened after the removal of the family to South Huntingdon township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

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General Notes: Husband - Oliver Bovard

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The earliest ancestors of the Bovard family were Huguenots who were driven from France by religious persecution, and on coming to the new world settled in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

He came from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, to Westmoreland County, and settled on a farm in what is now Mount Pleasant. The town growing up around him was first known as Helltown and later as Slabtown, and it was through his efforts that the name was changed to Mount Pleasant. Being one day at a gathering in the tavern, Mr. Bovard rose and went out with a bottle of wine in his hand, and breaking this against the side of the house he at the same time uttered the words, "I christen thee Mount Pleasant," thus conferring the name upon the town. In 1814 Mr. Bovard sold his Mount Pleasant land and moved to South Huntingdon township, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres near the farm later occupied by one of his grandsons, Robert Oliver Bovard. Here he spent the remainder of his life. During the night following that on which he took possession of his Mount Pleasant home, the Indians stole some of his horses, and the next day one of them was found shot dead, it having probably refused to leave its mate.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 324.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 325.