Third Generation

25. Hiram BOYD was born on May 4, 1795 in , , Maryland. He died on Aug 25, 1850 in Mendon, Mercer Co., Ohio. He was buried in Idleman Cem., Marion Co., Ohio. Married Matilda Harbaugh. "My great-grandfather. He was a miller by trade as his grandfather, Joseph Scott, had been. As a young man, he moved to Fountaindale, PA, which is located just over the Maryland line. We can only assume that he went there hoping to pursue his work as miller. I have notes in my mother's handwriting stating that he ran a store there, which he later sold to go to work for the local railroad. April 5, 1831 he married Matilda Harbaugh, daughter of Jacob and Mary Harbaugh, in Harbaugh Valley. This settlement is on the line between Maryland and Pennsyvania. The Mason-Dixon line, which is the border between the two states, runs through the house in which my grandmother was born. Since the bedroom was in the rear of the house, she always gave Adams Co., PA as her place of birth. Hiram and Matilda Boyd lived in Fountaindale, where their first three children were born. Later they moved to Harbaugh Valley where Matilda kept house for her father. After Jacob Harbaugh's death Dec. 12, 1842 Hiram and Matilda started for Ohio, where the Hiram's father, Joseph Boyd, had moved with his second family. Matilda died in childbirth April 22, 1843 in Cumberland, Maryland. She was probably buried there, as well as the infant, Hiram Boyd, junior. Hiram returned to Baltimore, where he left Susan Catherine and Martha Ann to be raised by his sister, Eleanor Boyd and his aunt, Ann Scott Livingston. When he reached Ohio, Hiram, for some reason, did not settle near his father. Perhaps he could not find work there as a miller. The family went to Mendon, Mercer County, where Hiram went to work at the Hamilton Mills. Cholera struck there and Hiram died April 23, 1850 while caring for the two children of his employer. He was buried in an unmarked grave on the banks of the St. Mary's River. Since Joseph Boyd, junior had passed away, John Wesley Boyd went to Mendon and brought Hiram's three orphaned children to live with him."-E. Berkshire
Compiled Records of boyd Family by Myrna Boyd Williams notes Hiram as dying on 25 Aug 1850 not 23 Apr 1850 as noted by E. Berkshire.
He served in French war of 1799 - Brumbaugh, 1985, Genealogical Publishing Co. was a private.
Annals of Boyd Family state that he was a miller by trade and that he died of Cholera and was buried on the "banks of river by Mr. Hamilton for whom he work."

Hiram BOYD and Matilda HARBAUGH were married on May 5, 1831 in Harbaugh valley, , Maryland-Penn.. Matilda HARBAUGH (daughter of Jacob HARBAUGH) was born on May 28, 1810 in Cumberland, , Maryland.¹⁵ She died on Apr 22, 1843 in Cumberland, , Maryland.¹⁵ Annals of Boyd Family state that she died at Cumberland, Md. 1844, and that she is buried there. Info from E. Berkshire Hiram BOYD and Matilda HARBAUGH had the following children:

49	i.	Mary Ann BOYD was born in 1832 in Gettysburg, , Pennsylvania. Info from E. Berkshire. Died in infancy.
+50	ii.	Joseph John BOYD.
+51	iii.	Mary Ellen BOYD.
+52	iv.	Susan Catherine BOYD.
+53	v.	Henry Livingston BOYD.
+54	vi.	Martha Ann BOYD.
55	vii.	Hiram Jr. BOYD was born on Apr 22, 1843 in Cumberland, , Maryland. He died on Apr 22, 1843.