John Boyd and Susan Scott
JOHN
BOYD, son of Samuel Boyd, Sen., settled,
in 1812, on
Green's Fork, two miles east
of the present town of
Jacksonburg. He married, in
1819, Susan Scott, daughter of
Alexander
Scott, and is the father of thirteen children:
Samuel
Scott., Sarah A., Nelson, Cynthia, who died in infancy;
William
A., who, as Major of the 84th Indiana volunteers,
was killed in the late war,
at Tunnel Hill, Georgia; Eliza
J.,
John F., James W., Joseph L., a private soldier in the
57th Indiana volunteers, who
died soon after the battle of
Pittsburg Landing, from exposure
in the field; Oliver C.,
Mary,
Martha, and Susan; all of whom were married, except
Oliver C., who still resides
with his parents. In 1857, John
Boyd sold his farm and removed
to Dublin, where he and his
wife now reside, aged, respectively,
82 and 71 years. Four
of his sons and two sons-in-law
enlisted in the Union army
during the late war; and three
of the number, two sons and
one son-in-law, laid down
their lives in defense of their
country.
SAMUEL SCOTT BOYD,
son of John Boyd, was born
March 31, 1820, in Jackson, now
Harrison township. Laboring
on the farm nine months of each
year until he was twenty-two
years of age, his education was
limited to the branches usually
taught in those times during
three winter months. At the
age of nineteen, he was promoted
to teacher in the school-house
in which he had finished his
education, under the instruction
of George W. Julian, of
Centerville. In 1843, he and
a brother-in-law bought and
rebuilt the McLucas mills
on Green's Fork, two miles east of
Jacksonburgh. He was married
October 14, 1844, to Monimia
Bunnell,
daughter
of Dr. William Bunnell, of the town of Washington.
His health failing, he commenced,
in 1846, the study of
medicine with his father-in-law.
In March, 1849, he
graduated in the Ohio Medical
College, and in April located
in Jacksonburgh, where he
continued practice until the death
of his wife, an excellent
woman, and the mother of four
children, of which three are
living. Immediately after this
event, which occurred January
7, 1862, he removed to
Centerville. In September
following, he was commissioned
surgeon of the 84th Indiana
Volunteer Infantry, and remained
in the army until the close
of the war, sharing the many
trials and triumphs of that
regiment. In 1865, the doctor
located in Dublin, where he
is still engaged in the practice
of his profession. On the
5th of September of that year, he
was married to Louisa
E. Vickroy, of Pennsylvania. He has
been a contributor to various
papers and periodicals from
early manhood, and has taken
an active part in promoting the
causes of temperance and antislavery,
and in efforts for the
moral, social, and intellectual
improvement of the community.