U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bolyard, Daniel (1826-1906) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 345 Daniel Bolyard, born in Barbour in 1826, son of Jacob and Sarah (Poling) Bolyard, was married in 1849 to Sarah, daughter of Gilbert and Nellie (Goff) Boyles. Children, Ann Eliza, John Wesley and James. He is a Democrat, living on Sugar Creek, where he owns 76 acres, nearly all improved. When sixteen years of age he injured his right leg by jumping off a fence, and it became necessary to amputate it five years later, and he learned the shoemaker trade. He worked in Philippi eighteen months and received as pay a set of shoemaker's tools, consisting of one hammer and a pair of pincers. He then worked a few months near Rowlesburg, and then went to Fellowsville. He afterwards married and settled at Gourdtown, now Kalamazoo, where he worked till the close of the war and then moved to where he now lives, and has been working ever since. "Uncle Dan Bolyard's" shoes and boots are very much in demand. His daughter, Ann Eliza, married Bedford Bryan; John W. married Genettie Sturm, and moved to Tucker County in 1893, and three years later was elected Justice of the Peace on the Democratic ticket; James married Elizabeth Hersh, and spent four years in the West before marrying, and after his return engaged in threshing, having bought the first new steam thresher east of the Valley River, in the county. His children are Gilbert, Maude, Claude, Cayton, Elcey and Walter. He owns 58 acres, all cleared. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH-REGISTER, Barbour County WV Page 8, Line 20 Daniel Bolyard died Oct 1, 1906, age 82 years Cause: Dropsy Occupation: Shoemaker Marital-status: Widower ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------