Third Generation

20. John Wesley BOYD was born on Oct 15, 1817 in , Licking Co., Ohio.¹³ He died on Jun 14, 1891 in Prospect, Marion Co., Ohio. He was buried in Prospect Cem., Marion Co., Ohio. BR: 1-History of Marion Co., 1883, Bio of John Wesley Boyd MR: 1-History of Marion Co., 1883, Bio of John Wesley Boyd

DR: 1-LAB info 2-Tombstone, Prospect Cem. 3-Compiled Records of Boyd Family by Myrna Boyd Williams notes month and date of death.

"The year he died he had the measles and he was recuperating. He insisted on getting out on the porch where it was cold. Someone told him to get in before he caught cold and he told them to mind their own business. He ended up getting pneumonia or something that took him off."-LAB

"JOHN WESLEY BOYD, farmer, was born in Licking County, Ohio, October 5, 1817, and is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Devol) Boyd, both born near the Potomac River in Maryland, who came to Ohio about the year 1814, and located in Licking County, and in 1825 or 1826, came to Marion County and entered eighty acres of land three miles north of Waldo. They subsequently bought 160 acres of land in Pleasant Township, some three or four miles west of their first farm. The father died on the old farm in 1846 and his wife died at the same place four years afterward (1854?). They had four children-Edwin, Sylvester, John W., and George. Previous to his marriage to Sarah, he was married to Miss Scott, by whom he had the following children: Joseph, Hiram , William, Eleanor, Ann and Mary, all deceased. He was an old line Whig in politics and served the township as Justice of the Peace for two terms. John Wesley Boyd, the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm, and when twenty-one years of age his father deeded the 160 acres in Pleasant Township to him and his brother Sylvester, where he resided for the next tem or twelve years. During this time, he was married to Isabel M. Davids, daughter of William and Margaret Davids, of Pleasant Township. The ceremony was performed April 21, 1845. From this marriage there were two children: one, C.J. Boyd, married Christina Smith, and died January 19, 1883, leaving four children; the other one is deceased. Mr Boyd's wife died in 1857, and he was again married January 10, 1861 to Mary E. Roads, daughter of John and Margaret (Winegardener) Roads; by the last marriage there were six children-Mary E., Alice K., Henry H., Lousia, Wilson G., and Frank E., who died in infancy. In 1852, Mr. Boyd bought the 100 acres of land where he resides at $14 per acre. It is now valued at $100 per acre. It was then nearly all wild land; at present it is all improved except fifteen acres of timber. His present residence was built in 1877. It is one of the finest farm residences in the township. The farm lies two miles east of Prospect Village. Mr. Boyd is a Republican, and although this is a Democratic Township, he has been elected and served as Trustee two terms; also as Judge of elections. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd and their two eldest children are members of the Baptist Church."-From "History of Marion County, Ohio", Leggett Conway and Co., Chicago, 1883.

"When John Wesley Boyd was twenty-one years old his father deeded to him and his brother Sylvester one hundred and sixty acres. He lived there about ten years before moving to another farm, which was always referred to in the family as "the new farm". April 21, 1845, John Wesley Boyd married Isabel Davids, daughter of William and Margaret Davids. In 1850, they brought into their home the three orphaned children of his half-brother, Hiram Boyd. While I was growing up my grandmother spoke often with great love and respect of Uncle Wesley Boyd and the many happy hours she had spent at his home."-E. Berkshire

John Wesley BOYD and Isabel M. DAVIDS were married on Apr 21, 1845 in , , Ohio. Isabel M. DAVIDS died in 1856. parents are William and Margaret Davids. May have died in 1856. She was the daughter of William and Margaret Davids of Pleasant Township, Ohio. John Wesley BOYD and Isabel M. DAVIDS had the following children:

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Cassius J. C. BOYD.

John Wesley BOYD and Mary Elizabeth ROADS were married on Jan 10, 1861. Mary Elizabeth ROADS (daughter of John Quincy ROADS and Margaret Elsie WINEGARDNER) was born on Nov 7, 1834 in , Licking Co., Ohio. She died on Jan 27, 1922 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. She was buried on Jan 28, 1922 in Prospect Cem., Prospect, Ohio. All info from LAB and E. Berkshire "When I was a child, she lived with her daughter Alice Boyd Brown. She passed away at the home of her son Wilson Boyd in Columbus, Ohio."-E. Berkshire

Died of inoperable breast cancer. (Leland Brown) Death info from death certificate. (MB) John Wesley BOYD and Mary Elizabeth ROADS had the following children:

41	i.	Mary E. BOYD.
42	ii.	Henry H. BOYD.
+43	iii.	Mary Ellen BOYD.
+44	iv.	Alice Kempton BOYD.
+45	v.	Henry Herbert BOYD.
+46	vi.	Louisa BOYD.
+47	vii.	Wilson Grant BOYD.
48	viii.	Frank Elmer BOYD was born on Nov 14, 1876 in Prospect, , Ohio. He died on May 9, 1879 in Prospect, Marion Co., Ohio. He was buried in Prospect Cem., Marion Co., Ohio. BR: 1-Marion County Birth Records 2-History of Marion County, 1883, Bio of John Wesley Boyd DR: 1-E. Berkshire