Robert Stewart Boyd and Catherine Mershimer

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Husband Robert Stewart Boyd ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Jun 1833 - Slippery Rock Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Boyd (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Dorcas McWilliams (      -Aft 1888) 2 3

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Wife Catherine Mershimer ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Shenango Twp, Lawrence Co, PA
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         Father: Adam Mershimer (1790/1791-1865) 2 4 5
         Mother: Catherine Stickle (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M Joseph H. Boyd ²

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           Born: 2 Oct 1858 - Slippery Rock Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Mary E. Sechler (1863-      ) 6 7
           Marr: 9 Feb 1862 - Princeton, Lawrence Co, PA 6

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Stewart Boyd

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He passed his boyhood as did the sons of that day, and eventually learned the carpenter's trade. For years he followed his vocation in Lawrence, Butler and Mercer Counties, and became a tiller of the soil on a small farm in Slippery Rock township, Lawrence County.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1159.

2 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 307.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1035.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1059.

5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 510.

6 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 308.

7 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 389.