Carrie Skow was the oldest child of Peter Skow, a Danish emigrant, who settled in Kansas and raised large family. Somehow Waller Boyd met her while in the west, some say while serving in the army. They apparently married and she had a daughter, Alicia Boyd, in 1899. The marriage did not last long since in 1907 she married a Swedish emigrant named Walter Matson. Thereafter she lived for a while in Kansas and Nebraska with him and her widowed mother, but by 1930 she and Walter had moved to Roseland, Nelson Co., Va. There they were recorded on the same census page as her daughter and her family with Robert Bryant by my great uncle's wife Mrs. Price Gantt. Walter was working as a farm hand. Three years later she died at age 62 and was buried at Jonesboro. Her husband then returned to Nebraska where he died in 1957. Carrie's headstone did a wonderfully job of providing her full name including that of both her first and second husbands. I do not know if the Boyd name would have been used if she had been buried in Nebraska and without it we may never have been able to connect all these stories.
It is interesting that some census records incorrectly refer to Waller Boyd as Walter so that both of her husbands had the same first name. It is doubly interesting that her name was Carrie as was the name of Waller's mother and a sister. The sister was born a few years earlier and thus has led to much confusion in non family genealogists in even identifying this monument as being for Waller's wife and not his sister. The sister's grave is not identified in Findagrave. It may be one of a number unidentified in the small Blue Rock Cemetery.
Carrie's great granddaughter, Elizabeth Dunn Bailey, added that Carrie had two sisters whom her mother often mentioned. Their names were Eleanora and Eugenia. One of them, who she believes was Eleanora was a concert Harpist and Pianist. She also add that Waller Massie Boyd Sr. was misrepresented in his Lynchburg Obituary as Walter and this could be part of the confusion that has been carried forward for both he and his son Waller Massie Boyd Jr.
It is interesting that some census records incorrectly refer to Waller Boyd as Walter so that both of her husbands had the same first name. It is doubly interesting that her name was Carrie as was the name of Waller's mother and a sister. The sister was born a few years earlier and thus has led to much confusion in non family genealogists in even identifying this monument as being for Waller's wife and not his sister. The sister's grave is not identified in Findagrave. It may be one of a number unidentified in the small Blue Rock Cemetery.
Carrie's great granddaughter, Elizabeth Dunn Bailey, added that Carrie had two sisters whom her mother often mentioned. Their names were Eleanora and Eugenia. One of them, who she believes was Eleanora was a concert Harpist and Pianist. She also add that Waller Massie Boyd Sr. was misrepresented in his Lynchburg Obituary as Walter and this could be part of the confusion that has been carried forward for both he and his son Waller Massie Boyd Jr.
Carrie Skow was the oldest child of Peter Skow, a Danish emigrant, who settled in Kansas and raised large family. Somehow Waller Boyd met her while in the west, some say while serving in the army. They apparently married and she had a daughter, Alicia Boyd, in 1899. The marriage did not last long since in 1907 she married a Swedish emigrant named Walter Matson. Thereafter she lived for a while in Kansas and Nebraska with him and her widowed mother, but by 1930 she and Walter had moved to Roseland, Nelson Co., Va. There they were recorded on the same census page as her daughter and her family with Robert Bryant by my great uncle's wife Mrs. Price Gantt. Walter was working as a farm hand. Three years later she died at age 62 and was buried at Jonesboro. Her husband then returned to Nebraska where he died in 1957. Carrie's headstone did a wonderfully job of providing her full name including that of both her first and second husbands. I do not know if the Boyd name would have been used if she had been buried in Nebraska and without it we may never have been able to connect all these stories.
It is interesting that some census records incorrectly refer to Waller Boyd as Walter so that both of her husbands had the same first name. It is doubly interesting that her name was Carrie as was the name of Waller's mother and a sister. The sister was born a few years earlier and thus has led to much confusion in non family genealogists in even identifying this monument as being for Waller's wife and not his sister. The sister's grave is not identified in Findagrave. It may be one of a number unidentified in the small Blue Rock Cemetery.
Carrie's great granddaughter, Elizabeth Dunn Bailey, added that Carrie had two sisters whom her mother often mentioned. Their names were Eleanora and Eugenia. One of them, who she believes was Eleanora was a concert Harpist and Pianist. She also add that Waller Massie Boyd Sr. was misrepresented in his Lynchburg Obituary as Walter and this could be part of the confusion that has been carried forward for both he and his son Waller Massie Boyd Jr.
It is interesting that some census records incorrectly refer to Waller Boyd as Walter so that both of her husbands had the same first name. It is doubly interesting that her name was Carrie as was the name of Waller's mother and a sister. The sister was born a few years earlier and thus has led to much confusion in non family genealogists in even identifying this monument as being for Waller's wife and not his sister. The sister's grave is not identified in Findagrave. It may be one of a number unidentified in the small Blue Rock Cemetery.
Carrie's great granddaughter, Elizabeth Dunn Bailey, added that Carrie had two sisters whom her mother often mentioned. Their names were Eleanora and Eugenia. One of them, who she believes was Eleanora was a concert Harpist and Pianist. She also add that Waller Massie Boyd Sr. was misrepresented in his Lynchburg Obituary as Walter and this could be part of the confusion that has been carried forward for both he and his son Waller Massie Boyd Jr.
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Carrie Skow
Boyd Matson
1871 1933
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