Tombstone Tuesday ~ Boyd Family Monument, Londonderry, New Hampshire

This monument was photographed at the Glenwood Cemetery in Londonderry, New Hampshire, located on Mammoth Road, near the town common and Mack's Apples.

WILLIAM W. BOYD

BORN

MARCH 26, 1845

DIED

DEC. 10, 1928

COL. CALVIN BOYD

BORN

MARCH 5, 1818

DIED

FEB 8, 1850

HIS WIFE

CHARLOTTE W. SHEPARD

DIED JAN 10, 1900

FRANK BOYD

MAY 15, 1850

DEC 14, 1910

FLORENCE F. BOYD

AUG. 25, 1853

MARCH 1, 1931

Colonel Calvin Boyd was born 5 March 1818, the son of William Boyd and Martha Dickey.  He married Charlotte Webster Shepard.  She was born 26 August 1814, the daughter of William Blair Shepard and Lucy Hart Beck.  William Blair Shepard was an ancestor of the astronaut Alan B. Shepard of Derry, New Hampshire.  Colonel and Mrs. Boyd had four children:

  1. Lucy M. Boyd, b. 11 Oct. 1846 m. Solon S. Gould
  2. William Henry Boyd, b. 26 March 1848, d. 10 Dec. 1928  (named William W. above)
  3. Frank F. Boyd, b. 15 May 1850, d. 14 Dec. 1910
  4. Florence E. Boyd, b. 25 August 1853, d. 1 March 1931

I have previously blogged about some of the Boyd family from Londonderry.  I live near the corner of Boyd Road in South Londonderry, where some of the Boyds used to have a dairy farm.  You can see the portraits of Robert and Mary Boyd at this link:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/09/1851-portraits-of-mr-and-mrs-robert.html
and their land here at this link:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/10/history-in-my-own-backyard.html

To see Alan B. Shepard's lineage please click here:
http://www.cowhampshireblog.com/2007/02/08/derry-new-hampshire-astronaut-rear-admiral-alan-b-shepard-jr-1923-1998/

My Tombstone Tuesday post of the Alan Shepard family plot at Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry:
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/05/tombstone-tuesday-alan-shepard.html

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