SAMUEL BOYD - DARKE COUNTY OHIO

Among the first settlers of Greenville was Azor Scribner. Late in 1806 or early in 1807, he came to Greenville with a small stock of Indian goods, including tobacco and whisky, and began business in a cabin built by a Frenchman who had deserted the same two years before because of the thieving depredations of the Indians.  He did not bring his family, consisting of a wife and two daughters, from Middletown until 1808, but what time of the year is not known.  It is conceded that the first white man who, with a wife and children, emigrated to the county and settled in Greenville township was SAMUEL BOYD, who came in 1807 and built himself a cabin about two and one-half miles north by east of the site
of Fort Geenville on the bank of a branch that yet goes by the name of Boyd's creek. Boyd was a native of Maryland, had lived in Kentucky, and was probably married there before he emigrated to Ohio and had, as far as we are able to learn, stopped one or two years near the Miami in Butler county, before emigrating to the wilderness, that, two years afterward, created the county of Darke.  Boyd lost his wife about 1816, and she was the first person buried in the old graveyard below the railroad bridge; the early settlers having previously used as a cemetery the lot on which the Catholic church is erected, but during the
occupancy of the fort by General Wayne's's army his hospital was located on the lot now occupied by Judge George A. Jobes, while his graveyard was located upon the lot now occupied by the dwelling house of R.S. Frizell.  Boyd died in 1829 or 1830; one of his daughters, the wife of John CARNAHAN, had died in 1821 or 1822; and another, the wife of Robert MARTIN, lived until about thirteen years ago, recognized as the oldest inhabitant of the county at that time. 

Source: A Biographical History of Darke County Ohio, published in Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Company, 1900. 

Addenda:  From IGI Marriages:
John CARNAHAN m.  Hester BOYD  08 Jan 1818  Darke Co; Ohio 
Robert MARTIN  m. Dorcas BOYD  24 Apr 1828  Greenville, Darke, Ohio 
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