NOTE: Robert may be buried here but that has not been confirmed yet.
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One of the younger sons of Col. George Boyd and Harriet (Johnson) Boyd. Nephew of President John Quincy Adams. Robert was born in Washington, D.C. about 1819.
In December 1818 his father had received the appointment by President James Monroe as Indian agent at Michillimackinac. Colonel Boyd left for his post early in 1819 and returned to take his wife and children to Michigan Territory in the Spring of 1820 when Robert was about 1 year old.
On the 1830 U.S. Federal Census Robert [age about 11] was probably the boy enumerated as under 5-9 or the boy 10-14 years old in his father's household at Michilimackinac.
Robert must have settled in La Pointe, Wisconsin in the 1840's. Robert married Julia Ann Cadot/Cadotte on August 26, 1847 at Lapointe and was clerk of the court under Judge David G. Fenton.
Robert Dundas Boyd was shot and killed while playing cards in a bar as he defended his dog who had been kicked by a man. [see microfilm of Herbert Battles Tanner papers, reels 14 and 15 at Wisconsin Historical society] He died about 1858 at LaPointe, Madeleine Island, Ashland Co., Wisconsin.
"Robert Boyd was shot and killed by Henry Cross, which occurred on January 10, 1858. While in a fit of intoxication, Boyd approached Cross with a drawn butcher knife, in a threatening manner, as if about to strike, when Cross drew a revolver and fired two shots, one entering Boyd's heart. Cross was arrested and acquitted. [Source: History of Ashland County, Wisconsin]
NOTE: Robert may be buried here but that has not been confirmed yet.
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One of the younger sons of Col. George Boyd and Harriet (Johnson) Boyd. Nephew of President John Quincy Adams. Robert was born in Washington, D.C. about 1819.
In December 1818 his father had received the appointment by President James Monroe as Indian agent at Michillimackinac. Colonel Boyd left for his post early in 1819 and returned to take his wife and children to Michigan Territory in the Spring of 1820 when Robert was about 1 year old.
On the 1830 U.S. Federal Census Robert [age about 11] was probably the boy enumerated as under 5-9 or the boy 10-14 years old in his father's household at Michilimackinac.
Robert must have settled in La Pointe, Wisconsin in the 1840's. Robert married Julia Ann Cadot/Cadotte on August 26, 1847 at Lapointe and was clerk of the court under Judge David G. Fenton.
Robert Dundas Boyd was shot and killed while playing cards in a bar as he defended his dog who had been kicked by a man. [see microfilm of Herbert Battles Tanner papers, reels 14 and 15 at Wisconsin Historical society] He died about 1858 at LaPointe, Madeleine Island, Ashland Co., Wisconsin.
"Robert Boyd was shot and killed by Henry Cross, which occurred on January 10, 1858. While in a fit of intoxication, Boyd approached Cross with a drawn butcher knife, in a threatening manner, as if about to strike, when Cross drew a revolver and fired two shots, one entering Boyd's heart. Cross was arrested and acquitted. [Source: History of Ashland County, Wisconsin]
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