Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Boord, Elijah 1801 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

  Elijah Boord, farmer, Stone Bluff, is among the pioneers of Osborn's prairie.
He was born in the first year of the present century, in the State of Virginia.
His mother died when he was a prattling babe. Soon after his father, George
Boord, emigrated to Ohio, where Elijah remained till 1828, when he came to
Fountain county. His father emigrated to Illinois, where he died. Elijah Boord
and Nancy Crane, daughter of Johathan Crane, were united in marriage in 1828,
previous to his coming to Fountain county. They raised a family of eleven
children, six of whom are, at the present date, citizens of this county. Two of
his sons, George and Joseph, died in the late war. The former belonged to the
15th Ind. Vols., and died at Columbus, Ohio. The latter was found dead in the
mountains. Elijah Boord died in 1855. He was an old soldier of the cross in the
New Light Christian church. Johnathan Boord, son of Elijah, was born in 1832, in
Warren county, Ohio. He was married in 1842 to Marinda Dudley, native of Butler
county, Ohio, daughter of Job and Sarah (Marshton) Dudley, both natives of
Maine, and pioneer settlers of Ohio. By this marriage he has eight children,
five sons and three daughters: Joana, Elijah M., Ira A., John S., Nancy,
Elizabeth E., Joseph, George W., and Jasper. Elijah M. was a drummer in 154th
Ind. Vols. Mr. Boord was justice of the peace in Van Buren township from 1854 to
1860. By trade he is a mason. At one time he was engaged in the drug and
hardware trade, in Covington, afterward in the same business in Hillsborough,
Cain township. Where he resides he has a farm of fifty-two acres, and owns forty
acres of land in Iroquois county, Illinois. He and his wife were early members
of the New Light Christians, at Osborn's chapel.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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