Boyd Families of Illinois

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Chapter 6

The Boyd Families of Illinois 

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bullet1. Wm. Boyd b. circa 1747 m. in Ireland, Margaret Lyons b. 1754. They lived in Ireland for a while, then came to America with some of their children, arriving at Charleston, South Carolina. Moved to the Abbeville District, then to Laurens District, and finally after some time, 2 daughters and 3 sons came to Illinois about 1821-1825. They were Samuel, Wm., Jane and Margaret.
bullet2. Samuel Boyd b. Ireland 10/16/1777 m. after emigrating to America, (1)Nancy Vernor in South Carolina b. unknown d. 1832. Came to Illinois about 1825 and located in section 17, Twp 4 R 5, where he lived until his decease. Married (2)Margaret Skelly b. Chester district, South Carolina 5/14/1802. (Daughter of Wm. Skelly b. South Carolina d. 1823 and wife Jane Blackstock d. Illinois 7/12/1849. She was a native of South Carolina).
bullet 3. Samuel Lyons Boyd b. 9/6/1817 South Carolina d. 3/5/1877 Illinois m. (1) 8/13/1840 Jane Gibson b. 3/31/1823 South Carolina d. 6/27/1870. Both buried in Caledonia Cemetery in Sparta, Illinois. m. (2) 6/15/1871, Jane's sister, Mary E. Gibson b. 6/28/1833 d. 1/10/1913. They had a son b. and d. 1872 buried in Caledonia Cemetery. (Jane and Mary were daughters of Robert and Mary Gibson). (Mary E.Gibson Boyd m. (2) 3/22/1881 in Randolph County, Ill., John Bickett b. 3/28/1836 Ayrshire, Scotland, d. 3/12/1900. This was his third wife. Mary E. is buried in Caledonia Cemetery beside her infant son, Boyd).
bullet 4. Mary Boyd b. 8/17/1841 d. 1/19/1917 buried at Salina, Kansas, m. 11/27/1860 James B. Aitken b. 9/11/1837 d. 9/11/1877 buried in Caledonia Cemetery, Sparta, Illinois. When they m. they lived on a farm in Kansas.
bullet 5. James Alexander Aitken b. 9/16/1861 Gypsum, Kansas
bullet 5. Mary Jane Aitken b. 7/6/1865 d. 1/23/1864 buried Caledonia Cem., Sparta, Ill.
bullet 5. John Boyd Aitken b. 4/22/1865 d. 10/8/1931 m. 11/7/1889 Jane Muir Anderson b. 8/29/1866 d. 2/10/1899. They moved to Kansas in 1899. (She was a daughter of James and Jane Muir Anderson).
bullet 6. Samuel Boyd Aitken b. 6/30/1890 m. 1/29/1917 Henrietta Mae Watkins b. 12/30/1894. He was a postal employee, Gypsum, Kansas.
bullet 7. Ruth Marian Aitken b. 11/21/1918.
bullet 7. John Kenneth Aitken b. 4/8/1920.
bullet 6. Nellie Anderson Aitken b. 11/28/1893 m. 2/4/1920 Jessie Perle Humphry b. 5/24/1895. Lived near Gypsum, Kansas.
bullet 7. Margaret Jane Humphry b. 2/29/1922.
bullet 7. Barbara Lois Humphry b. 9/19/1924.
bullet 7. Bruce Humphry b. 9/5/1926.
bullet 6. Mary Alice Aitken b. 7/26/1896 d. 8/24/1897. Buried Caledonia Cem., Sparta, Ill.
bullet 6. James Wilken Aitken b. 2/10/1899 m. 4/26/1922 Anna Mae Mortimer b. 9/13/1902.
bullet 7. James Dale Aitken b. 1/27/1923.
bullet 7. Joan Gloria Aitken b. 1/13/1932.
bullet 5. Barbara Stevenson Aitken b. 4/26/1867 d. 10/20/1952 Roxbury, Kansas m. 10/26/1887 Wm. Joseph Anderson b. 3/12/1864 d. 1/9/1891 of lockjaw, buried in Caledonia Cem., Sparta, Ill. She moved to Roxbury, Kansas in 1899 where she had lived with her bachelor brother near Roxbury after the death of her husband. She was a member of Jehovah Witness Church.
bullet 6. Edna Boyd Anderson b. 3/20/1890 m 3/10/1915 Mathias Karber b. 4/18/1890 and lived near Gypsum, Kansas.
bullet 7. Robert Edgar Karber b. 5/14/1916 m.5/24/1939 Loretta Bachofer b. 10/13/1918. He served in WW II. Was an electrician, working in Abilene, KS in 1950, when he suffered a broken back in a fall.
bullet 7. Esther Maxine Karber b. 12/31/1919 m. 4/13/1940 Clinton Phillips b. 6/6/1917. He served from 11/13/1944 to 2/28/1946, with the 25th Div. of the 5th army in Phillipines and Japan, WW II.
bullet 8. Sharon Kay Phillips b. 10/11/1942.
bullet 8. Shirley Marie Phillips b. 9/2/1944.
bullet 8. Dena Clinette Phillips b. 12/7/1945.
bullet 5. Janet Gibson Aitken b. 8/24/1869 d. 8/26/1919 m.10/26/1887 George Henry Thompson b. 8/23/1864 d.5/6/1896 Kansas.
bullet 6. Mary Velma Thompson b. 5/31/1889 m. 10/14/1914 John Karber b. 1/26/1892, div. 1917 m. (2) 9/21/1935 Joseph Edgar Daily b. 7/22/1889 Kansas.
bullet 7. Paul Thompson Karber b. 12/9/1915 m. 9/8/1941 Ann Lensch b. 11/9/1913 and lived in Brooklyn, N.Y.
bullet 8. Gary Paul Karber b. 2/1/1945.
bullet 6. Wilford Gilmore Thompson b. 4/19/1891 d.5/29/1925 m. 2/28/1917 Grace Belle Walker b.3/15/1897. (She later was Mrs Bernard Richert of Kansas).
bullet 7. George Henry Thompson b. 2/15/1918.
bullet 7. Janet Mae Thompson b. 11/10/1919 m. 9/10/1941 Clifford E. Patton b. 7/2/1906 and lived in Abilen, Kansas.
bullet 6. Nellie Opal Thompson b. 11/3/1893 m. 1916 Dr. Wm. Lock a DDS, div. m. (2) 6/23/1917 Wm. I.Boyd b. 3/10/1889 Salina, Kansas.
bullet 5. Ella Jane Aitken b. 4/1/1872 m. 11/3/1892 James Henry McKinley b. 12/19/1870 d. 5/9/1956 Marissa, Illinois (son of Robert and Sarah McKee McKinley).
bullet 6. Mary McKinley b. 6/4/1893 m. 4/23/1919 David Webster Blaylock b. 12/22/1888. They lived in Cleveland, Ohio.
bullet 7. David Webster Blaylock b. 10/6/1929.
bullet 4. Robert Boyd b. 11/7/1843. In December 1863, when the Civil War was raging, he enlisted in Co. K 5th Illinois Cavalry, Union Army, and he joined his regiment at Vicksburg, fought under General Custer at the Yazoo River, then was stationed at Vicksburg until the following summer. Then with his regiment went to Tennessee, and engaged in fighting General Forrest, and routing him, went to Memphis, then into Texas where they were detailed to skirmish. He received his honorable discharge in the fall of 1865 and during his service was never wounded or taken prisoner. He d. 1/5/1927 Sparta, lIlinois m. after discharge from service 2/8/1866 Marion Bickett B. Randolph County, Illinois 9/4/1845 d. 11/21/1890 Sparta, Illinois. Both buried Caledonia Cemetery in Sparta (she was a daughter of John Bickett). He a member of the U. P. church and a Grand Army of the Republic with his membership in the Post at Coulterville, Illinois. Also a member of the Prohibition Party.
bullet 5. Mary Jane Boyd b. 8/24/1867 d. 2/3/1948 Sparta, Illinois m. 7/20/1899 Hugh Alexander Easdale b. 7/24/1860 d. 10/3/1917, a farmer. Both buried Caledonia Cem., Sparta, Ill.
bullet 6. Easie Freida Easdale b. 7/24/1900.
bullet 6. Virgil Easdale b. 6/18/1903 m. 11/28/1935 Mary Ann Lynch b. 2/16/1907.
bullet 6. Flossie Mae Easdale b. 11/7/1904 d. 2/17/1905 Sparta, Ill.
bullet 5. Margaret Bicket Boyd b. 6/8/1869 d. 4/26/1958 Berwyn, Ill. m. 11/8/1894 Wm. Martin Ewing b. 4/14/1868 d. 1929. Lived on a farm near Sparta, Ill. Of her late years, she had lived with a daughter in Berwyn, who taught school there.
bullet 6. Dean Ewing b. 8/14/1895 d. 9/23/1958 at Elgin Hospital, buried at Crystal Lake, Ill. m. 8/7/1929 Mary Margaret Cole b. 1907 d.Thanksgiving Day 1949.
bullet 7. Alice Margaret Ewing b. 2/14/1931 m Joseph Brewer.
bullet 7. Wm. Lewis Ewing
bullet 6. Jennie Floy Ewing b. 11/20/1896 d. 7/4/1953 m 3/30/1929 Charles Ira Braden b. 3/3/1884, a farmer (son of Wm O. Braden).
bullet 7. Wm. Charles Braden b. 2/2/1933 m. 10/11/1954 Mary Ann Condrey.
bullet 8. Roberta Ann Braden b. 3/20/1956.
bullet 8. Robert Ewing Braden b. 4/21/1958.
bullet 7. Aletha Jean Braden b. 7/25/1935 m. 10/25/1954 Nevin Kahle.
bullet 8. Jennifer Darlene Kahle b. 1956.
bullet 6. Robert Martin Ewing b. 3/13/1889 m. 6/15/1929 Dorothy Johnson b. 12/19/1904.
bullet 6. Marguerite Boyd Ewing b. 10/5/1908 m. Marvin Cole. She was a teacher in Berwyn, Ill. school.
bullet 5. John Henry Boyd b. 3/7/1871 d. 11/16/1951 Hope, Kansas, m. 3/7/1901 Myrta Wadkins Kegal b. 10/20/1871 of Gypsum, Kansas.
bullet 6. Wm. Leslie Boyd b. 10/3/1905 m. 5/27/1925 Winifred Esther Groves b. 1/13/1902. Lived at Hope, Kansas.
bullet 7. Myrta Mae Boyd b. 2/17/1928.
bullet 5. Nettie Bell Boyd b. 11/4/1873 d. 2/27/1875. Buried in Caledonia Cem., Sparta, Ill.
bullet 5. Samuel Leonard Boyd b. 4/10/1877 d. 9/26/1908 m. 2/13/1907 Sarah Fowler b. 6/16/1881 (she was later Mrs. Haas of Willow, Oklahoma.
bullet 6. Ray Wilbur Boyd b. 9/6/1908 m. 11/22/1939 Mrs. Trudie Mae Chancelor b. 5/18/1913/ Lived in Wichita Falls, Texas.
bullet 5. Robert Edward Boyd b. 3/24/1881 m. 2/12/1907 Eva M. DeBolt b. 7/9/1881.
bullet 6. Irma Edna Boyd b. 2/8/1911 m. 5/25/1941 Abner E. Norland b. 7/16/1909.
bullet 6. Robert Bernard Boyd b. 7/30/1913 m. 5/4/1935 Mildred Annabell Rearick b. 9/18/1911.
bullet 6. Dean Edward Boyd b. 4/24/1918 m. 10/10/1937 Dorothy A. Simmons b. 11/??/1918.
bullet 4. John Boyd b. 11/4/1846 d. 8/15/1864 in Civil War.
bullet 4. Nancy Boyd b. 5/25/1850 d. 1/10/1929 m. 10/26/1870 James McMillan Pinkerton b. 5/4/1849 d. 5/13/1923.
bullet 5. John E. Pinkerton b. 12/20/1880 m. 11/26/1907 Ethel Cochran b. 4/29/1882.
bullet 6. Lucy Mae Pinkerton b. 5/29/1909 m. 11/25/1937 Bruce Bennett Strachen b. 11/19/1903. Lived in Portland, Oregon.
bullet 7. Mary Helen Strachen b. 10/27/1939.
bullet 7. Mark Samuel Strachen b. 9/4/1941.
bullet 6. Vera Grace Pinkerton b. 8/1/1911.
bullet 6. Helen Marie Pinkerton b. 10/22/1913 d.11/8/1927.
bullet 6. Mary Alene Pinkerton b. 9/29/1915 m. 12/28/1939 Thomas Howard Hatfield b. 4/22/1913. Lived in Roseburg, Oregon.
bullet 7. Ruth Carolyn Hatfield b. 5/23/1941.
bullet 5. Samuel Ralph Pinkerton b. 10/21/1886 d. 7/17/1917.
bullet 5. James Ashwood Pinkerton b. 10/21/1886 m.12/11/1913 Florence Bell Lewis b. 11/26/1879.
bullet 6. Ruby Nadine Pinkerton b. 3/29/1915 m. 9/3/1940 Lawrence Earl Hatfield b. 1916.
bullet 4. James Boyd b. 11/22/1852 d. 12/9/1937 Waverly, Ill., and buried there m. 4/10/1873 Mary Ann Bickett b. 5/22/1856 d. 10/18/1941 (she was a sister of Alexander and Margaret S. Bickett).
bullet 5. Mary Jane Boyd b. 3/12/1874 d. 3/21/1943 m. 9/11/1907 George Wesley McDevitt.
bullet 6. Wesley Boyd McDevitt b. 8/30/1908 m. 3/16/1935 Dorothy Hankins b. 1912.
bullet 6. Mary Hannah McDevitt b. 3/23/1911 m. 4/30/1933 George R. Withrow b. 8/14/1910.
bullet 7. Carl Fredrick Withrow b. 12/15/1934.
bullet 6. Dorcas Jean McDevitt b. 5/24/1914 m. 12/27/1941 Kent Burbank b. 1/21/1903.
bullet 6. Rodna Claye McDevitt b. 4/20/1917 m. 12/1/1938 Allen Bickel b. 7/23/1913.
bullet 7. Janet Carol Bickel b. 2/2/1940.
bullet 5. Alice Nettie Boyd b. 6/2/1877 d. 10/11/1878.
bullet 5. Lena Ednaz Boyd b. 3/27/1880 m. 7/31/1908 Chester R. Harris b. 4/29/1872.
bullet 6. James W. Harris b. 8/2/1909 d. 6/??/1936 m. 11/??/1954 Ruth McKillip b. 1909.
bullet 7. Peter Harrison Harris b. 5/10/1936.
bullet 5. Margaret Lorene Boyd b. 2/7/1883 m. 5/22/1901 David Charles Edmiston b. 10/16/1868 d. 10/3/1913 Pekin, Illinois.
bullet 6. Martha Lorene Edmiston b. 11/10/1904 m. 4/15/1933 Ed Cornelius Jackson b. 3/21/1906.
bullet 5. Nora Elsie Boyd b. 7/14/1885 d. 11/??/1924 m. 8/27/1910 John A. Miller b. 11/??/1896.
bullet 6. Robert Boyd Miller b. 3/30/1915.
bullet 6. John James Miller b. 10/3/1921.
bullet 5. John Harrison Boyd b. 12/13/1887 m. 3/1/1912 Alma Moss b. 11/17/1893.
bullet 6. John Harrison Boyd Jr. b. 8/31/1913 m. 11/26/1936 Elizabeth M. Harmon b. 3/15/1910.
bullet 7. John Harrison Boyd III b. 8/1/1939.
bullet 7. Robert Allen Boyd b. 9/14/1940.
bullet 7. Richard Charles Boyd b. 5/7/1942.
bullet 6. Lydia Ann Boyd b. 8/26/1914 m. 10/12/1940 John J. Pellegrine b. 7/12/1908.
bullet 7. Rose Ann Pellegrine b. 11/5/1941.
bullet 6. Wm. Edgar Boyd b. 4/30/1918.
bullet 6. Thomas Arthur Boyd b. 8/31/1919 m. 5/25/1940Mary E. Walker b. 1918. He served in WW II.
bullet 6. Charles Allen Boyd b. 10/17/1925.
bullet 6. Mary Elizabeth Boyd b. 9/3/1927 m. 10/17/1943 Wm. Hennage.
bullet 6. Martha Jane Boyd b. 4/5/1931.
bullet 6. Robert Lee Boyd b. 12/21/1934.
bullet 5. Leonard Gavin Boyd b. 6/22/1892 d. 12/29/1941 m. 5/12/1912 Blanche Edith Shearburn b. 7/4/1892 d.10/17/1937. He is buried at Waverly, Illinois.
bullet 6. Leonard James Boyd b. 12/13/1913.
bullet 6. Lester LeRoy Boyd b. 1/16/1916. Served in WW II
bullet 6. Chester Ray Boyd b. 12/20/1917. Served in WW II
bullet 6. Gavin Robert Boyd b. 10/12/1919. Served in WW II.
bullet 6. Melvin Freeman Boyd b. 6/22/1921.
bullet 5. Nancy Ruth Boyd b. 5/14/1900 m. 2/18/1926 Floyd Wm. Schram b. 5/??/1897.
bullet 4. Samuel Boyd b. 5/12/1855 d. 1/14/1929 m. 11/26/1879 Marion Easdale b. 12/31/1856 d. 3/9/1881 Sparta, Ill. m. (2) 3/22/1883 Janet Easdale b. 1/21/1862 d. 2/18/1936 (they were Easdale sisters of near Sparta.
bullet 5. Edward Boyd b. 3/8/1881 d. 9/??/1881 Sparta, Ill.
bullet 5. Bertha Jane Boyd b. 6/12/1885 Lived in Washington D. C.
bullet 5. James Andrew Boyd b. 1/14/1887 m. 7/13/1918 Ella Ida Zurbuchen b. 2/7/1896 of Kansas.
bullet 6. Marie Janette Boyd b. 2/3/1919 m. 11/26/1936 Wayne Robert Herron b. 6/5/1911.
bullet 7. Dale Robert Herron b. 9/4/1937.
bullet 7. James D. Herron b. 5/1/1940 d. 5/11/1940.
bullet 7. Donald Boyd Herron b. 4/14/1943.
bullet 6. Robert B. Boyd b. 3/5/1921.
bullet 6. Wm. Richard Boyd b. 1/8/1928.
bullet 5. Mary Boyd b. 10/21/1887 m. 12/31/1908 Charles Boots b. 5/2/1885.
bullet 6. Janet Elizabeth Boots b. 1/17/1910 m. 1/19/1927 Charles James Grafe b. 2/6/1898.
bullet 7. Charles James Grafe b. 1/23/1929.
bullet 7. Clyde Samuel Grafe b. 5/31/1931.
bullet 7. Loy Alden Grafe b. 7/30/1933.
bullet 7. Janet Annette Grafe b. 4/15/1937.
bullet 7. Mary Angella Grafe b. 9/21/1938.
bullet 6. Margaret Helen Boots b. 5/5/1915 m 5/13/1937 John A. Cummings b. 1915.
bullet 7. Brian Clark Cummings b. 10/28/1941.
bullet 6. Stella Sarah Boots b. 10/4/1916 m. 10/13/1934 O. A. Piccardo b. 10/??/1911.
bullet 6. Leslie Charles Boots b. 9/21/1918.
bullet 5. Harry Taylor Boyd b. 8/29/1889 d. 9/28/1939.
bullet 5. Stella Pearl Boyd b. 5/21/1892 d. 10/30/1937 m. 8/??/1922 Forrest Mulkins b. 1890.
bullet 6. Mary Eva Mulkins b. 10/1/1928.
bullet 6. Betty Mae Mulkins b. 11/26/1930.
bullet 5. Frank Gibson Boyd b. 8/7/1894 m. 12/30/1919 Irene Mabel Lowry b. 3/??/1900.
bullet 6. Betty Lou Boyd b. Dodge City, KS 1/18/1924.
bullet 5. Helen Florine Boyd b. 5/30/1899.
bullet 4. Jane Boyd b. 12/10/1857 d. 2/10/1938 Sparta, Ill., m. 10/8/1879 Samuel Stewart Taylor b. 9/20/1854 d. 2/10/1924 Sparta, Ill. Both buried in Caledonia Cem., Sparta. Members of the Presbyterian church. (Samuel Stuart Taylor). He, by trade was an auctioneer, and a good one. He taught a large class of men in the Sunday school of the church counting it a privilege (son of Wm. Bryson Taylor).
bullet 5. Dr. John Allard Taylor b. 8/24/1880 d. 6/11/1951 a DDS. m. 12/??/1907 Mary Skinner b. 1888 d. 12/12/1908 m. (2) at Chicago, Ill., 2/12/1912 Laura Margaret Riggs b. 8/29/1890 d. 3/12/1927 m. (3) 8/29/1930 Edna Wilma Combs b. 7/2/1908. Lived in Lowell, Illinois.
bullet 6. John Dawson Taylor b. 12/3/1908 m. 1/9/1928 Genevieve Nedra Wood b. 4/11/1909.
bullet 7. Mary Jacqueline Taylor b. 3/31/1929 m. 8/8/1947 Richard Dale Frahm b. 12/5/1928.
bullet 8. ? Frahm b. 2/??/1948.
bullet 7. Joe Anne Taylor b. 1/5/1930.
bullet 7. Nada Gwendolyn Taylor b. 10/21/1931.
bullet 7. John Dawson Taylor b. 7/12/1935.
bullet 7. Sandra Lynn Taylor b. 12/24/1938.
bullet 6. Margaret Jane Taylor b. 4/1/1914 m. 9/14/1934 Charles Fred Larson b. 5/22/1910.
bullet 7. Charles Fred Larson b. 11/27/1936.
bullet 7. Paul Brick Larson b. 11/20/1943.
bullet 6. Eugene Stuart Taylor b. 6/21/1920 m. 7/14/1945 Evelyn L. Thompson of St. Louis, Mo. b. 3/5/1924.
bullet 7. Allen Joseph Taylor b. 8/26/1946
bullet 7. ? Taylor b. 3/??/1948.
bullet 5. Bertha Taylor b. 3/26 1883 m. 9/27/1905 Wm. Wyman Lynn (by Rev U. B. Scott, minister), b. 10/27/1882. He has been Mayor of Sparta 4 years, 1927-31, an elder in the Presbyterian church, member of Rotary Club, a 32nd degree Mason, a Shriner, and a director in Building and Loan, 1st Federal Bank (son of Robert Lynn). She a D.A.R. and past worthy matron of O.E.S.
bullet 6. Euneva Taylor Lynn b. 7/20/1906 graduated from Lendenwood College with a degree in music, studied voice in St. Louis and New York, Sang in the Municipal Opera St. Louis, Mo., is a skilled organist and violinist m. 7/28/1928 in the Presbyterian church in Sparta, Arthur Summerville Goodall b. 3/10/1898, div. 1936 m. (2) 2/2/1937 Elty Ray Knoll of St. Louis, Mo., b. 4/27/1895.
bullet 7. Arthur Lynn Goodall b. 7/31/1930 m. 10/22/1955 at St. Charles, Mo., Carol Ann Richterkessing.
bullet 6. Alice Lucile Lynn b. 1/30/1910, graduated from Lindewood College in Art, has a soprano voice, is a pianist, m. 12/28/1935 Klondis Richard Pirtle b. 6/13/1906. They are associated with her father in the furnature business in Sparta, Illinois. He served in WW II.
bullet 7. Elizabeth Lynn Pirtle b. in St. Louis, Mo., 4/15/1937 m. 12/30/1956 Larry Partington of Sparta, Ill. Both are working in the city.
bullet 8. Larry Wayne Partington b. 5/22/1958.
bullet 7. Klomdis Thorton Pirtle b. 8/2/1939.
bullet 7. Euneva Carole Pirtle b. 6/25/1944.
bullet 4. Wm. Boyd b. 9/10/1860 d. 1/7/1936 m. 3/17/1881 Sally East b. 10/13/1863.
bullet 5. Maude (Smith) Boyd b. 1884 m. John Arthur Kennedy b. 4/6/1882 Coulterville, Illinois.
bullet 6. Frank Neil Kennedy m. 2/22/1941 Daily Bicket of Coulterville, Illinois.
bullet 7. Terri Lynn Kennedy b. 6/11/1947
bullet 7. Vickie Jayne Kennedy b. 7/11/1949.
bullet 5. Mary Alice Boyd b. 11/2/1886 d. 12/20/1906 m. 5/4/1904 Walter Owen Hamilton b. 12/19/1876.
bullet 6. Mary Alice Hamilton b. 4/8/1905 m. 6/12/1924 John Henry Klohs b. 8/10/1901.
bullet 7. Harriet Alice Klohs b. 4/14/1925.
bullet 7. Johnnie Lee Klohs (girl) b. 4/19/1927.
bullet 5. Robert Williard Boyd b. 10/15/1887 m. 6/24/1914 Clara Bell Stone b. 10/??/1893.
bullet 6. Ada Estelle Boyd b. 8/21/1915 m. 6/11/1939 Wm Wallace Cook b. 7/??/1911.
bullet 7. Ada Estelle Cook b. 6/7/1940.
bullet 5. Nell Boyd b. 6/17/1890 m 8/19/1915 Charles Lewis Brown b. 1889.
bullet 6. Jessie Brown b. 10/31/1918.
bullet 6. Jean Brown b. 7/3/1921 m. 5/7/1938 Loren Wesley Bader b. 1917.
bullet 6. Janice Brown b. 1/1/1923 m. 9/6/1942 Daniel Kona b. 1921.
bullet 7. Kerry Jan Kona b. 6/24/1943.
bullet 5. Edward Vernor Boyd b. 8/22/1893 m. 8/9/1922 Georgia ? b. 6/20/1906.
bullet 5. Wm. Carlton Boyd b. 9/10/1903.
bullet 5. Arthur Lyons Boyd b. 1/1/1906.
bullet 4. Margaret Elizabeth Boyd b. 8/28/1863 m. 11/4/1886 Robert Muir Anderson b. 3/28/1860 D. 7/17/1936 Sparta, Ill., Buried in Caledonia Cem., Sparta. They lived on a farm near Sparta, but of her late years she has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Grace Dunn, Celebrated her birthday 1958.
bullet 5. Nellie Gabrial Anderson b. 6/15/1887 d. 12/5/1889.
bullet 5. Grace Verna Anderson b. 4/4/1892 m. 6/11/1913 James Henry Lynn b. 8/27/1887 d. 12/3/1914 an accident at railroad crossing, m. (2) 11/25/1936 Charles Ervin Dunn b. 2/7/1887 d. 12/4/1952 Sparta, Illinois.
bullet 6. Robert Kenneth Lynn b. 6/27/1914 m. at Fayetteville, N. C. 7/27/1943 Jewell Sitze of Cape Girardeau, Mo., b. 4/7/1921. He served from 11/10/1941 to 11/16/1945 in WW II, was in Germany, France and Austria. Rank of S. Sgt. He teaches in Paducah, Ky. schools.
bullet 7. John Sitze Lynn b. 7/26/1950.
bullet 7. Robert Kenneth Lynn b. 10/29/1947.
bullet 7. Sarah Jewell Lynn b. 11/17/1953.
bullet 7. (twin) Laura Ann Lynn b. 12/20/1958.
bullet 7. (twin) Lisa Jane Lynn b. 12/20/1958.
bullet 5. Bess Irene Anderson b. 10/9/1889 m. 5/16/1916 at Tilden, Illinois, Homer Shaw Kelso b. 5/2/1890, a farmer (son of Tom and Jane Kelso). Member of U. P. church where he was an elder, Sparta, Ill.
bullet 6. Margaret Agnus Kelso b. 12/15/1917 m. 2/7/1942 Charles L. Schettler b. 7/3/1917, a H. S. teacher, Wapello, Ill. Served from 7/8/1942 to 2/15/1946 in WW II in Italy and France.
bullet 7. Charles Lee Schettler b. Sparta, Ill. 10/23/1944.
bullet 7. Tom Kelso Schettler b. Clinton, Ill. 1/12/1949.
bullet 7. Nancy Sue Schettler b. Wapello, Ill. 9/11/1950.
bullet 6. Helen Leontine Kelso b. 2/14/1921.
bullet 5. Kate Dalrymple Anderson b. 8/21/1894 m. 5/30/1924 Franklin Ernest Palmer b. 12/8/1895 a farmer (son of Roy and Blanche Bicket Palmer).
bullet 6. Ernest Beveridge Palmer b. 8/3/1925 d. 4/10/1926.
bullet 6. Nancy Elizabeth Palmer b. ? d. 2/2/1928.
bullet 6. James Palmer b. 11/25/1928 m. 11/6/11949 at Pocahontas, Ark., Dolores Eudene Lowe b. 11/2/1929 Coulterville, Ill.
bullet 7. Pamela Maynon Palmer b. 3/9/1950.
bullet 7. Randall B. Palmer b. 12/6/1952.
bullet 6. Wm. Roy Palmer b. 5/9/1931 d.
bullet 6. Buddie Palmer b. 1/16/1933 d.
bullet 6. Dixie Joyce Palmer b. 2/9/1938 m. 6/20/1958 at Biloxi, Miss., Kenneth Palmer b. of near Carbondale, Ill., (no kin). They met while attending school at Carbondale, Ill., S.I.U. 
bullet 7. Kimberly Renee Palmer b. 6/26/1959.
bullet 3. Mary Vernor Boyd b. 10/2/1816 (tombstone) d. 3/13/1860 m. 11/3/1837 John Strachan b. 1808 d. 4/8/1859. His will names his widow.
bullet 4. Nancy Strachan b. 1839 d. 1865.
bullet 4. Mary Ann Strachan b. 1846 d. 1848.
bullet 4. Eliza Jane Strachan b. 1851 d. 1853.
bullet 3. Agnes Boyd m. Wm. Monroe.
bullet 3. Margaret Boyd m. Samuel Williams.
bullet 3. Abigail Boyd b. South Carolina 11/25/1820 d. Beulah, Kansas 3/16/1885 m. 8/24/1837 John Park Gibson b. S. C. 3/9/1812 d. Kansas 9/17/1886. Went from Illinois to Crawford County, Kansas in 1881.
bullet 4. Nancy Vernor Gibson b. 7/6/1832 d. 1/13/1883 m. 2/28/1856 Robert Martin Kennedy b. 7/6/1832 d. McCune, Kansas 11/7/1905.
bullet 5. Anna Kennedy b. 8/11/1858 d. 1/11/1894 m. in Mexico, Mo., in 1880 Alexander Gemmell b. 9/20/1857 d. 11/26/1833 McCune, KS. She was born in Washington County, Ill. and went to Mexico, Mo. in 1870 where she joined the Presbyterian church in 1871. Her funeral was from that church in McCune. He was born in Ill. and came to Kansas in July 1880, a farmer (a son of Alexander and Margaret Gemmell or Gemmill).
bullet 6. Mabel Claire Gemmell b. 4/16/1881 d. 12/17/1935 at Allenden Park, Colorado m. 7/25/1905 Edward Fred Biddle b. 10/3/1860 d. 7/8/1940.
bullet 7. Morris V. Biddle b. 9/16/1906
bullet 7. Mary Carolin Biddle b. 8/30/1908 m. 11/13/1943 Paul McIlvain b. 11/??/1900.
bullet 7. Elsie Jeanette Biddle b. 7/22/1915 m. 3/26/1939 Victor Deldon Klein b. 10/5/1919.
bullet 8. David Deldon Klein b. 11/13/1939.
bullet 8. Ruth Anna Klein b. 11/29/1941.
bullet 8. Jonathan Phillip Klein b. 6/31/1946.
bullet 8. Jack Victor Klein (twin) b. 8/9/1953.
bullet 8. Jill Jeanette Klein (twin) b. 8/9/1953.
bullet 7. Philip Cuthbert Biddle b. 7/14/1916 m 8/6/1937 Dorothy Gladys b. 7/19/1918.
bullet 8. Phylis Carol Biddle b. 7/3/1941.
bullet 8. Barbara Jean Biddle b. 1/18/1946.
bullet 6. Charles Alexander Gemmill b. 1/29/1882 d. 1/20/1938 m. (1) 9/13/?? Anna Barth Van Tine, div. m. (2) 4/11/1911 Josephine Lea Gentry b. 5/19/1888 d. 6/8/1942 in upland Calif.
bullet 7. John Alexander Gemmill b. 11/1/1912 m. 6/12/1937 Helen Zug b. 6/14/1917.
bullet 8. Katherine Gemmill b. 11/20/1940.
bullet 8. John A. Gemmill Jr. b. 7/9/1942.
bullet 8. Bruce Harold Gemmill b. 3/22/1948.
bullet 8. Charles Edward Gemmill b. 11/15/1950.
bullet 7. Lois Frances Gemmill b. 7/8/1915 m. 7/9/1939 Richard Stephen Boaden b.