JACOB BOYD was born in Franklin county, Ohio, October 30, 1807. His father, John Boyd, and his mother Susannah (Hyner) Boyd, was born in Virginia, December 22, 1780; they were married June 26, 1802, and had nine children. They moved to Ohio about the year 1806, and to this county in 1819; they came with a wagon, camping out and doing their own cooking. The father was frozen to death in the great snow storm of 1830, as he was returning from work at a mill on the north fork. He was a millwright by occupation. Jacob has always been a farmer, and had limited school advantages. He was married December 1, 1833, and by this marriage there were seven children - four sons and three daughters. The sons are all farmers. Mrs. Boyd's father was named Thomas Boyal, an Englishman by birth; he settled in Ohio, and came to this country in 1824. His first house was a log cabin, sixteen by sixteen, with a puncheon floor; the furniture was home made. Springfield was the first town where there was a store.