Subj: Mecosta Co. Boyds
Date: 99-04-13 00:29:37 EDT
From: SSHEAL
To: RBOYD1033
Hi Richard, saw you query and wondered if you knew that there
were Boyds in Mecosta Co. MI. My MI Gross and Stropes are
buried in Boyd Cem., Deerfield Twp, Mecosta Co. Further, I
have the following extract from my notes for Orsemus Gross my
Ggrandfather who fought in the civil war. He applied for a disability
pension and needed affadavits : "He enlisted 15 June, 1861 in
the
5th but pensions papers note he first served in the 34th Inf.
Dis-
charged 15 June 1863 at Harpers Ferry. He claimed he enlisted
in the 34th Jan/Jun 1860. Was reassigned/detailed to 5th Cav.
28
Feb. 1862. D.S. for 31 Dec. 1861. Also noted Osmer Gross as AKA.
Affidavit by M.H. Boyd, Supervisor of Deerfield Twp., aged 66 stated
he was acquainted with claimants for 34 years and had been acquainted
with Orsemus Gross 10 years longer. This was dated 14 June 1901.
Subtracting 44 years results in1857 and Boyd must have known Orsemus
in NY/PA." A Myron H. Boyd is listed in the index of Chapman's
Portraits
and Biographical Sketches, Chapman Bros., Chicago , 1883. I have
the
book but the page he is given on (182) appears to be the only one missing
(A heirloom copy from my Grandma with various child notes of
my mother
and aunts). I have been meaning to get a copy of that page.
The Lansing
Historical Library has both original texts and also have them on microfilm.
I understand that our Macomb Co. Lib. Gen. Room also has the microfilms.
I have been lazy I guess since I haven't gone out there to get a copy
of this
page. I have some interest in where Melvin was at and some other signers
of affadavits in that Orsemus left home in Otsego Co. NY at age 15
and went
to work at farming and lumbering in PA. I haven't the foggiest
idea where.
He then went to work on the canal. I don't know which one but
assume
the Eire. After discharge he immediately came to Michigan..
Sam
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Richard, I have not as yet found a Boyd surname in my Gross line.
That doesn't
mean there isn't one there as I don't have the husbands of some of
the ladies.
Maybe there is some clue in the missing page. I suspect that
the Boyd Cem. is
on land once owned by Myron don't recall a Boyd being buried there.
It was
associated with the Methodist Church at one time. Would you like
a more exact
location? My De Lorme software has it in the wrong place.
Would you like a from
the road picture? I don't know that I have one for that cem.
but can get you one
Memorial Day. Incidently, I went to Ancestry last night
and found a Gedcom for
Myron that goes back to one of the names you mentioned in your Query.
I didn't
look for a Gross in it tho and probably should have. If you spot
a Gross (there
are various spellings of this name such as Gros, Groce, etc.).
I have them back to
before the Rev. War. and they came from Britain. There is a claim
by one researcher
that it was La Gross and Le Gross way back and might indicate they
were one of
William the Conqueror's gang. I haven't really got into
that yet as I haven't had the
time to put in all the material I have on the US ones. I have piles
and piles of material.
Our whole DR is now filled with files, bookcases, cabinets, etc. and
there isn't one
bare top surface except for the computer desk itself which I try my
best to keep clear.
I have found the searching to be so much more fun than entering the
data that I am
inclined to keep looking for more information on those off the direct
line which I have
all the way back to England.
Another Orsemus? Good Grief!!! Do you know the location
in NY of the uncle Myron?
or of Myron Holly? Maybe in PA? How about Orsemus Boyd?
Maybe I better check
the Censi Index's for them. Also I wonder if Myron was in the
same unit of the Civil War.
You mentioned that your Orsemus went off to fight Indians.
Henry Stope, my grandfather,
buried at Boyd, was with Sherman. My Grandmother Ella Gross Strope
was his second wife
and considerably younger. My Aunt Dorothy was born when Grandpa
was about 70 and
grandma was about 50! At the close of the war he was sent to Louisville
Ky and his unit was
to go West to fight Indians. The army changed its mind and discharged
his unit.
By the way, other signers of affadavits for my Orsemus were A.C. Ellsworth,
age 62, and knew
him for 50 years, and Cheney O. Pemberton, aged 60, and knew him for
40 years and had
worked with him and was a neighbor before he went into the army.
I give you these names as they
also must have known Myron Holly Boyd and might be related.
Sam SSHEAL@Aol.com