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     William H. Capron was born circa 1871 in Rhode Island.¹ He was the son of Frank Lincoln Capron and Sarah Flynn.¹

     Hoyle Stephen Spencer was born in July 1819. He married Sarah Elizabeth Gorton, daughter of Hezekiah Gorton and Alpha Capron, on 1 September 1853 in Prob. Spencer, Medina, Ohio. Hoyle Stephen Spencer died on 30 April 1914 at age 94 in Northport, Leelanau, Michigan. He was buried in Northport Cemetery, Northport, Leelanau, Michigan.

     Mary Elizabeth Fray was born on 16 December 1830 in Jordanville, Herkimer, New York. She married Barton Hezekiah Gorton, son of Hezekiah Gorton and Alpha Capron, in November 1852 in Marion, Marion, Ohio.² Mary Elizabeth Fray married Barton Hezekiah Gorton, son of Hezekiah Gorton and Alpha Capron, on 10 November 1852 in Adrian, Lenawee, Michigan. Mary Elizabeth Fray died after 1917.

     Hiram M. Ault was born on 26 October 1831 in Anville, Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Catherine Gorton, daughter of Hezekiah Gorton and Alpha Capron, on 20 March 1851 in Marion, Marion, Ohio.² Hiram M. Ault died on 19 March 1901 at age 69 in Marion, Marion, Ohio. He was buried on 21 March 1901 in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion, Ohio.

     Martha Arnetta McWhirter was born circa 1835 in Marion, Marion, Ohio. She married John Wallis Gorton, son of Hezekiah Gorton and Alpha Capron, on 6 June 1858.¹ Martha Arnetta McWhirter married John Wallis Gorton, son of Hezekiah Gorton and Alpha Capron, on 1 June 1858 in Marion, Marion, Ohio. Martha Arnetta McWhirter died in Marion, Marion, Ohio.
     Martha Arnetta McWhirter was also known as Arnetta C. McWhirter.

     Joseph John Boyd was born on 9 May 1833 in Fountian Dale, Adams, Pennsylvania. He married Evelina Gill Gorton, daughter of Hezekiah Gorton and Alpha Capron, on 13 October 1858, M; Rev. S. D. Bates officiated.^1,2 Joseph John Boyd died on 12 February 1887 at age 53 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado. He was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.

     Willis Gorton Boyd was born on 1 November 1859 in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio.^1,2 He was the son of Joseph John Boyd and Evelina Gill Gorton.¹ Willis Gorton Boyd married Margaret Elizabeth Cross on 28 November 1889 in Thomas Cross Ranch, Larimer County, Colorado. Willis Gorton Boyd died on 14 March 1939 at age 79 in Denver, Denver, Colorado.² He was buried on 18 March 1939 in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.² He was buried on 18 March 1939 in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.

     Harry Barton Boyd was born on 2 December 1862 in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio. He was the son of Joseph John Boyd and Evelina Gill Gorton.¹ Harry Barton Boyd married Laura Richart on 1 February 1893. Harry Barton Boyd died on 4 March 1950 at age 87.¹

     Edwin Boyd was born on 28 August 1865 in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio. He was the son of Joseph John Boyd and Evelina Gill Gorton.¹ Edwin Boyd died on 16 January 1866 in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio.

     Bertha Ellen Boyd was born on 26 February 1867 in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio. She was the daughter of Joseph John Boyd and Evelina Gill Gorton.¹ Bertha Ellen Boyd died on 16 August 1869 at age 2 in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio. She was buried in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion, Ohio.

     Joseph Edward Boyd was born on 6 December 1870 in Prospect Township, Marion, Ohio. He was the son of Joseph John Boyd and Evelina Gill Gorton.¹ Joseph Edward Boyd married Mary Stitt on 5 May 1903. Joseph Edward Boyd died on 27 May 1947 at age 76 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado. He was buried on 31 May 1947 in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.

     Evelyn Gorton Boyd was born on 25 August 1879 in Big Thompson Canyon, Larimer County, Colorado. She was the daughter of Joseph John Boyd and Evelina Gill Gorton.¹ Evelyn Gorton Boyd died on 2 August 1946 at age 66 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado. She was buried in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.

     Margaret Elizabeth Cross was born on 2 June 1862 in Golden, Jefferson, Colorado.^1,2 She married Willis Gorton Boyd, son of Joseph John Boyd and Evelina Gill Gorton, on 28 November 1889 in Thomas Cross Ranch, Larimer County, Colorado. Margaret Elizabeth Cross died on 27 March 1942 at age 79 in Denver, Denver, Colorado.² She was buried on 1 April 1942 in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.²

     Myrna Elizabeth Boyd was born on 4 February 1887 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado. She was the daughter of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross.¹ Myrna Elizabeth Boyd married Horace Stephen Williams on 24 November 1909 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado. Myrna Elizabeth Boyd died on 17 February 1958 at age 71.¹ She was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.

     Raymond Joseph Boyd was born on 5 June 1888 in J.J. Boyd Farm, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado; born on his grandfather's farm, known as the J. J. Boyd Farm, near Loveland Colorado.² He was the son of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross.¹ Raymond Joseph Boyd married Alice M. Lamson on 12 September 1916 in Denver, Denver, Colorado.^1,3 Raymond Joseph Boyd died on 20 October 1971 at age 83 in Arvada, Jefferson, Colorado.^1,3
     

     Biographical Notes for Raymond Joseph Boyd: Letter to his aunt, Evelyn Boyd, living in Marion, Ohio. Postmarked 21 Dec 1895 at Loveland, Larimer, Colorado
Note:
Dear Aunt Eva,

I thought I would give you a Xmas surprise. I thank you for the sled. We have a fine time with it but I do not hitch on wagons for they might go off with it.

I am going to speak "The Bad Boys Christmas Stocking" in school Tuesday afternoon and speak the same piece at the church in the evening. Myrna and I are getting along nice in school. We will go in the second reader after vacation and maybe in the second room too. Miss Getting's is our teacher in the first room. We like her very much. Nellie will start to school after vacation. She has a first reader.

Mamma gave me a nickel and I bought you a handkerchief for Xmas. Myrna and Nellie send you the pin. Mamma has not been feeling well for several days. She felt last night like she might have a fever but is a little better today. I will write again after Xmas and tell you what we all got. We all send a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you all.

Your Loving, Raymond Boyd

Letter to his aunt Evelyn Boyd, living in Marion, Ohio. Postmarked 29 Sep 1896 at Loveland, Larimer, Colorado
Note:
Loveland, Colorado
September 1896

Dear Aunt Eva,

I expect you have been looking for a letter long ago. School commenced September 8. Myrna and I are in the third room. We read in the third reader, books Elementary Arithmetic with a little geography and language which keeps us pretty busy. Nellie is in he first room and in the A grade.

Papa got Andy a little pup, we have lots of fun with it. Papa got me a pony last summer, I wish you was here to ride her. Her name is Nettie and she has a little black colt. What shall we call him? When we fall off of her, she stops for us to get on again.

Mama is going to send a picture of Papa and us children. We will have to go to school in the morning so we will close for tonight.

From your loving, Raymond Boyd
(His mother Margaret Cross Boyd enclosed a letter)


Letter to his aunt, Evelyn Boyd postmarked Apr 1907 Muskrat Creek, , Wyoming
Note:
My Dear Aunt Eva,

I now have in receipt your 2 letters of March 16 and April 4 and will try and make one good letter answering them both as I don't know when I may have a chance to write again. I may not get this to the post office til sometime the last of the week but I must write now while I have the time. We moved out here Tuesday and now have 21 twelve inch tile made and 1 thirty-six inch tile, and will be at it for some time before we get through. Four horses left camp yesterday and Ab Harrison is out after them this morning. It is snowing to beat the and but I think it won't last long.

You had ought to see this neck of the woods. Is It is so dry out here and so much alkali that a snipe won't be caught living in this creek. The only thing that does live out here is rattlesnakes and they don't know any better. The wind blows so hard that they don't put glass in the window and one has to keep dodging to keep from getting knocked down by the cobblestones that blow up and hit you all over. Even the birds look like they were ashamed of themselves for living in a land like this. Shoshonie is about 12 miles south of the Big Horn Canyon which goes through the Owl Creek Range into the Big Horn Basin and I am about 15 miles So. of Shoshonie. Shoeshonie is on the north western line which was built to Lander 3 years ago and runs along the south edge of the Shoeshonie Indian Reservation. The Big Horn River is called the Wind River along the canyon and is that way on all the maps, so you can see how it is. I certainly will go and see the Park if I get a chance and I think I will some time this fall. I am going up to the head of Big Wind River as soon as this job is done and will then see Jackson Hole where all the bandits hold out. I think dad will come up here this fall and then I can show him the range and the farming possibilities on the reservation.

I have made up my mind to be working for Ray inside of 2 years at something of my own. It is almost a sure thing that a sugar factory will be built her in the near future and I am going to either lease a section of Indian land or run a bunch of cattle on Upper Wind River or go to Loveland and start a cement tile and block factory. I think I would like the farming 640 acres much the best but it would take more capital than any one of the others. The tile factory would take the least money but would also be slow to grow into a good paying business. If I could leased 640 acres of Indian land and a factory be built here, I could be a rich man in 10 to 15 years. This stock business would also make one independent in 5 or 6 years and I think the cement business would do almost as well. The chances are good here but it takes a good bit of money or credit and lots of push.

I don't know weather I thanked you for sending that pretty girl or not and she must have been delayed and I didn't get her til just before I left Collins. I think you will have had a picture by the time this gets to you. I had them taken in Loveland and the folks were to send you one.

Now for the next letter. Every one talks about snow, snow, snow and this is the first we have had since I came and it is as bright as can be now, the sun is shining. I suppose you got your bail of cotton from rail car - Saw all OK. When I get settled as I am now, I am out on the block and barrier, alkali wind swept, sand covered, sun choked hills of central Wyoming about 15 miles south of the measly, dirty, unkempt city of Shoeshonie and believe me I do like the country. I am with Aunt Edith's brother Ab Harrison but will go to her place at the head of Wind River as soon as these tile and I am in. I will try and send you a map with this railroad in it sometime soon and make a mark on the hillside to show you where I am.

Talk about delays, this letter may not get to the post office. for 10 days or more but I am going to seal it up and never read it over for if I do, I would think it so crazy that I would banish it and not get another for a month of years started to you. I received a card from Magora the other day but that I don't amount to much and there isn't any girls up here so you see I am lost forever. Will H. is out in Idaho and wants me to come out there to get strong again? I guess not! You want to get over that tired feeling and feel like I do, as happy as a lark and feel as strong as Samson. I don't think I could tell you where I am "at" because I am nowhere or at any rate I think it is nowhere. Next time I write the grass will be growing fine and if the weather is good I will get out on the hills and write you a 14 page magazine and try not say much bad things about the country.

With Love, Ray. Answer soon and will try and do the same.²

     Nellie Eloise Boyd was born on 11 November 1889 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.² She was the daughter of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross.¹ Nellie Eloise Boyd died on 13 February 1988 at age 98 in Colorado.¹ She was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.

     Andrew Frank Boyd was born on 10 September 1891 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.^1,2 He was the son of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross.¹ Andrew Frank Boyd married Lavitha Lava Hull on 23 November 1925 in Greeley, Weld, Colorado. Andrew Frank Boyd died on 25 May 1972 at age 80 in Pico Rivera, Los Angeles, California.^1,2 He was buried on 30 May 1972 in Rose Hill Cemetery, Whittier, Los Angeles, California.

     Louise Charity Boyd was born on 14 July 1893 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.² She was the daughter of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross.¹ Louise Charity Boyd married Anton Charles Timpte on 31 May 1922 in Denver, Denver, Colorado.² Louise Charity Boyd died in April 1996 at age 102 in Colorado.¹

     Zita Peggy Boyd was born on 9 June 1895 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.² She was the daughter of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross.¹ Zita Peggy Boyd married Clement Eugene Wilmont on 18 October 1922 in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado.² Zita Peggy Boyd died on 20 July 1956 at age 61.¹ She was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.

     Horace Stephen Williams was born on 17 December 1874 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana. He married Myrna Elizabeth Boyd, daughter of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross, on 24 November 1909 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado. Horace Stephen Williams died on 11 October 1912 at age 37 in Marion, Marion, Ohio. He was buried on 14 October 1912 in Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion, Ohio.

     Alice M. Lamson was born on 2 July 1889 in Colorado. She married Raymond Joseph Boyd, son of Willis Gorton Boyd and Margaret Elizabeth Cross, on 12 September 1916 in Denver, Denver, Colorado.^1,2 Alice M. Lamson died after 1930.

     Robert Gorton Boyd is the son of Raymond Joseph Boyd and Alice M. Lamson.¹

     Raymond Joseph Boyd, Jr. is the son of Raymond Joseph Boyd and Alice M. Lamson.¹

     A Daughter Boyd is the daughter of Robert Gorton Boyd and Margaret Smith.¹

     A Daughter Boyd is the daughter of Robert Gorton Boyd and Margaret Smith.¹

     A Son Boyd is the son of Raymond Joseph Boyd, Jr. and Erma Lucille Fletchner.¹

     A Daughter Boyd is the daughter of Raymond Joseph Boyd, Jr. and Erma Lucille Fletchner.¹