WAYNE COUNTY OHIO 
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Submitted to the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Name: B.J. Leonard
Email: leonard4@flash.net
Date: September 2002
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"History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers 
to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass


Thomas Boydston settled in Greene township as early as the spring of 1811.  He 
was born in Green county, Pa, in December, 1786, and married Emily Burress, of 
Monongalia county, Virginia, the following children resulting from the first 
marriage:  Boaz, Mary, Charles, Belinda, Presley and Enoch.  His wife Emily 
dying May 24, 1824, in East Union township, he was married a second time to Mary
 Brakefield, of Greene township, who died without issue.  A third time he was 
married to Elizabeth Steel, of East Union township, of which union the following
 children are living:  Solon, Sarah, Emily, Minerva, Eunice.  He died in 
Orrville, August 22, 1863, his wife still surviving him.