Fourth Generation

54. Martha Ann BOYD was born on Apr 26, 1841 in , Adams Co., Pennsylvania. She died on May 15, 1875 in Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. Married Harvey Peters. Elinor Pease Berkshire's ancestor. "My grandmother was raised by her aunts in Baltimore, moving to Marion in 1857. She married Harvey Peters, son of Nathan and Alice Peters, on December 29, 1864 at the home of sister, Mrs. Edward Palmer, in Baltimore. Harvey Peters conducted a drug store with his older brother, Wilson Peters, until selling the business in 1881 because of ill health. Considering the fact that she raised her family on a very limited income and that she had been separated from her brothers and their families at such an early age, I marvel that she always managed to maintain such close family ties and instilled in us a great sense of family togetherness. Until her death, we spent all of our summer vacations and Christmas holidays in her spacious home in Marion and I have thousands of happy memories of these visits."-E. Berkshire

"We knew her as "Aunt Pattie' and many times visited in her home on South Prospect Street. It was there that we became acquainted with Fanny Peters and the five Pease 'cousins'".-LAB

Martha Ann BOYD and Harvey PETERS were married on Dec 29, 1864 in Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. Harvey PETERS was born on Mar 4, 1828 in Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. He died on Jan 1, 1883 in Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. See notes for Martha Ann Boyd, his wife. Info from E. Berkshire. Martha Ann BOYD and Harvey PETERS had the following children:

+122	i.	Fanny PETERS.
123	ii.	Walter Boyd PETERS was born on Aug 14, 1869 in Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. He died on Dec 30, 1952 in Cincinnati, , Ohio. ran a truck farm in Marion until 1935. Lived on southeast corner of Forest lawn blvd. and Center Streets "Never married. He lived at the southeast corner of Forest Lawn and Center streets in Marion, but had a large truck farm on Pennsylvania Avenue. About 1935 he moved to Cincinnati and lived with his nephew James Lewis Pease until his death."-E. Berkshire "Cousin Walter, a bachelor, lived in a small cottage in the midst of a wooded lot adjacent to the Forest Lawn School which I and my siblings attended. Many times I visited him in his home. His twenty acre market garden was across from our house."-LAB
124	iii.	Fred Wilson PETERS was born on Jan 5, 1871 in Marion, Marion Co., Ohio. He died on Oct 20, 1955 in Dayton, , Ohio. "He had a small insurance business in Marion and served as a captain in the Spanish American war. His first wife was Lillian West, from whom he divorced. Later he married Margaret Mereness. They moved to Cleveland in 1917, later going to Dayton, Ohio. Margaret Mereness Peters was born Oct 1 1878 and died Feb 1, 1953. They had no children."-E. Berkshire "My only memory of him was a train trip to Columbus with him to see his oculist. For some reason my mother thought I needed a second and better opinion about my eyes than I could get in Marion. It was my first train ride."-LAB