Boyd, Robert

BOYD, PETTCOCK

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Date: 12/4/2008 at 07:32:58

BOYD, Robert
Farmer; S. 4: P. O. Greencastle; born in Muskingum Co., Ohio in 1825; came to Jasper Co. in 1863; has 336 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. Married Miss Martha A. PETTCOCK in 1846. She was born in Virginia in Dec. 1826. They have five children - Parker, Eli, Francis E., James and Lucinda. Members of the M. E. Church; Republican. Has held the offices of Township Trustee, School Director; member of A., F. & A. M. Lodge, No. 59, Newton; also Sons of Temperance. Officiates as local preacher in their church. Formerly dealt quite extensively in stock feeding and selling.~ "Poweshiek Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)