Jonathan Boyd/Mary Catherine Hunter - Armstrong County,  PA

JONATHAN BOYD, of No. 630 North McKean street, Kittanning, has been a
resident of that borough practically all his life. He was born Feb 21,
1842, one mile from Yatesboro, Armstrong Co; Pa., son of JOSHUA P. and
SARAH(FORRESTER)BOYD, who moved to Kittanning when he was six years old.

Joshua P. Boyd, the father, was born in Armstrong county, son of ISAAC
BOYD, whose wife's maiden name was PIERCE. Both parents went away at the
time of the war of 18I2, never to return, and their son was left to grow
up among friends of the family. He was brought up by "Jake" Baer. Joshua
P. Boyd was brickmaker by occupation,following the old fashioned method
of drying the bricks in the sun. He died in 1886, at the age of
seventy-seven years. In politics he was a Democrat, but not an active
member of the party, and he never aspired to public office. He married
Sarah Forrester, who was born in Philadelphia, daughter of George
Forrester, a native of Germany who taught school in his native land and
also after coming to America. To Joshua P. and Sarah Boyd were born the
following children: George (who is deceased), Racilla, Philip, Frank,
Jonathan, Polly, Jeremiah, Catherine, Manuel, Joshua, Sarah and Emeline,
of whom seven are living.

Jonathan Boyd lived in Kittanning from the age of six years, obtaining
his education there in the common schools. In 1862 he enlisted in
Company M, 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Captain Daily, and served
nearly three years, being mustered out in the fall of 1865,as corporal.
He saw active service in the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar
Creek, Martinsburg, Rocky Gap, Smithville, Lynchburg, and many
skirmishes. Returning to Kittanning after receiving his honorable
discharge, in 1865, he was married the next year. He worked for some
time in the nail mill, making nails by hand, and then entered the employ
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with which he remained for the
next eighteen years, after which he became janitor of the school at
Kittanning, holding that position for fifteen years. He has since lived
retired. He has a comfortable residence on North McKean street, and is
enjoying a well- deserved respite from work. Mr Boyd is a Democrat in
politics. His religious connection is with the Lutheran Church.

On Dec 25,1866, Mr Boyd was married to MARY CATHERINE HUNTER, who was
born Oct 23,1847, at Apollo, Armstrong Co.,Pa., daughter of George A.
and Elizabeth (Jones) Hunter. Mr and Mrs Boyd have had no children of
their own but they reared his niece, MARGARET JANE BOYD, and after her
death raised her son, WALTER BOYD MCMASTER, who is now married to Ruth
Bradfield, of Virginia,and has two children, Rebecca and Boyd Bradfield.
.............

George Armstrong Hunter, father of MRS JONATHAN BOYD, was born in
Armstrong county, Pa., son of Canada and Margaret (Fiscus) Hunter, the
former of Scotch-Irish, the latter of German, parentage. Canada Hunter
was a veteran of the war of 1812. George A. Hunter was engaged as a
boatman on the canal until that mode of transportation and travel was
superseded by the railroad, after which he settled down to farming in
Kiskiminetas township, Armstrong county; he lived retired or many years
before his death, which occurred Feb. 8, 1912, when he was aged
ninety-three years. He was a Democrat in politics. He married Elizabeth
Jones, who came with her parents, Owen and Catherine Jones, from North
Wales, where she was born, and settled at Apollo, Armstrong Co., Pa.,
where they were among the early residents. George A. and Elizabeth
(Jones) Hunter had the following children: Ann Elizabeth; MARY CATHERINE
WIFE OF JONATHAN BOYD; Robert James; John O.; Margaret Jane married
William Tittle and died (leaving four children, Alice, Maud, Anna B.,
and James); George C.; Ellen M.; and William.

Source: Armstrong County, PA., Her People, Past and Present, J.H. Beers
& Co., 1914
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