Allen County OhArchives Obituaries.....Boyd, Henry  May 16, 1864
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.): July 06, 1864
Died May 16, 1864, at the residence of his son, Abram Boyd, in Shawnee Twp., Allen
Co., Ohio, Mr. Henry Boyd, in the 84th year of his age. Mr. Boyd was born November
19th, 1780, in Westmoreland County, Pa. March 13th, 1804, he married Margaret Bier,
who still survives him. A few days subsequent to his marriage, he removed to
Allegheny County, Pa., and settled upon a small farm; but, after having made
considerable improvement, during several years of toil and effort to secure a home,
he was compelled to leave it in consequence of worthlessness of title; when losing
all, he removed to Trumbull County, Ohio, in the Spring of 1812. In the Fall of the
same year he was called into the service of his country against Great Britain. In
1813 he was elected and ordained elder in the Presbyterian church of Ellsworth. In
1845 and 1846 he served as a member of the Legislature from Mahoning County, during
which period be was noted for his conscientious regard for what he deemed right,
regardless of partizan preferences. He came to Allen County in the Fall of 1862,
that intending, as has occurred, that the remainder of his days should be spent
among his children, the majority of whom live in the, vicinity in which he died.
Father Boyd was one of a large family of children, seven of whom were sons; and of
these, four were ministers in the Presbyterian Church, men who spent their lives in
laboring in what was to them the new country: one in Kentucky another in Western
Pennsylvania, a third in Eastern Ohio, and a fourth in Indiana. The remaining sons
of his father's household, like himself, were elders in the churches with which they
were connected, emphatically a Presbyterian family. When called to part with earth,
Fatter Boyd welcomed the messenger death, as one sent to introduce him to a long
sought home. His end was peace. 

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