The Boardman Family of Derrick City, Pennsylvania

The family of Boardman had its origin in England from William, surnamed “Le Bois de Main,” or “of the wooden hand,” a Norman and a follower of William the Conqueror. This William had a grant from his monarch, of two knight’s fees of land in the county of Suffolk, as is mentioned in “Domesday Book.” From him descended Sir Andrew Boardman, the favorite of King Henry VIII., who gave him in marriage the hand of his ward, Lady Katherine Howard, daughter of the Earl of Berkshire, and ultimately sole heiress of her father. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, two of the sons of Sir Andrew Boardman held command under the Earl of Leicester in the expedition to Ireland, against “the Desmond,” one of them having a grant of forfeited land, settled there, and was the progenitor of the Irish line of Boardmans. The English branch of the family is settled in Suffolk. Arms: Argent a chevron vart bordered, gules, ducally gorged and chained or. The chevron shows that he to whom the arms were granted had been present at the siege of a city, the lion in the crest shows that he commanded, and that the enemy retreated leaving him master of the field, and the ducal coronet shows that the enemy was one of the sovereign Dukes of France, and that he or one of his family had been taken prisoner is shown by the chain. The arms of Boardman were all quartered with those of Howard in right of the wife of Sir Andrew. By this marriage they are descended from Edward the Confessor, Hugh Capet, King of France, and Rudolph, the first Emperor of Germany.

The American history of the family begins in 1635. The name in early colonial records is spelled Boreman, Borman, Bordman, Bourman and Boardman. Two of the English emigrants, Thomas and Samuel, were of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1635. They are not known to have been related.

(I) Samuel Boreman

Samuel Boreman, the progenitor of the line herein recorded, moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he was a man of importance, eighteen times elected deputy to the general court and held many other offices. He died aged fifty-eight years, in April, 1673. His widow, Mary (Betts) Boreman, survived him eleven years and died in August, 1684; ten children.

1. Ten children. Names not given.

(II) Nathaniel Boreman

Nathaniel Boreman, son of Samuel Boreman, was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, April 12, 1663. He married, late in life, April 30, 1707, Elizabeth Strong, born February 20, 1670, daughter of Lieutenant Return Strong; one child.

1. One child. Name not given.

(III) Sergeant Nathaniel (2) Bordman

Sergeant Nathaniel (2) Bordman (as he spelled the name), only child of Nathaniel (1) Boreman, was born February 19, 1711-12. His father died when he was nine months old, in 1712, making provision in a hastily drawn will of three days before that his wife should bring up his son “to good learning”. The widowed mother married, two or three years later, Captain William Warner, and is found again a widow in 1726. Sergeant Bordman’s home was the farm, one and one-half miles west of Rock Hill, Connecticut. He died of pleurisy, May 12, 1776. His widow, Ruth (Parker) Bordman, died May 17, 1799, aged eighty-four years; five children.

1. Five children. Names not given.

(IV) Nathaniel (3) Bordman

Nathaniel (3) Bordman, son of Sergeant Nathaniel (2) Bordman, was born at Rocky Hill, Connecticut, January 25, 1734, died May 4, 1776, of pleurisy, eight days prior to the death of his father of the same disease. He married Mabel Holmes, born September 16, 1736, died November 14, 1777, leaving eight children, the youngest an infant.

1. Eight children. Names not given; the youngest was an infant.

(V) Levi Boardman

Levi Boardman (as he spelled the name), son of Nathaniel (3) Bordman, was born at Rocky Hill, Connecticut, September 21, 1759, died January 16, 1818. He married, January 4, 1789, Rachel, daughter of David and Rachel (Curtis) Riley, who died in 1847, at the home of her son Eleazer in New York state; four children. In this generation the spelling became Boardman in this branch.

1. Four children. Names not given.

(VI) Eleazer Boardman

Eleazer, son of Levi Boardman, was born March 24, 1794. He settled in New York state, where he married and reared a family, his wife being a woman of Scotch descent.

Children of Eleazer Boardman

1. John Boardman.
2. Polly Boardman. Died in Freehold, Pennsylvania; married Amos Carpenter, a farmer. Children:
   1. Lucy Carpenter. Deceased.
   2. A son. Deceased.
   3. Adelbert Carpenter. Living in the west.
   4. Velorous Carpenter. Deceased.
3. Levi Boardman. Died in Freehold, a farmer; married and left a family:
   1. Children. Names and number not given.
4. Sarah (Sally) Boardman. Died in Lottsville, Warren county, Pennsylvania; married Jared Lathrop, a farmer; no issue.
5. Lovena Boardman. Married a Mr. Sweetland and left three sons:
   1. William Sweetland. Now living at Bear Lake, Pennsylvania.
   2. Josiah Sweetland. Died in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, where his widow and children reside.
   3. Jeremiah Sweetland.
6. Samuel Boardman. Killed in battle during the civil war; he served in a Pennsylvania regiment with his two sons and brother Jared, the latter being the only one who returned from the cruel struggle between the North and South. Sons:
   1. Two sons. Names not given; both served with their father.
7. Jared Boardman. Of whom further.

(VII) Jared Boardman

Jared, son of Eleazer Boardman, was born in Cherry Valley, New York, September 8, 1817, died in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1882. He grew up on the home farm, and on arriving at man’s estate came to Pennsylvania, settling in Wrightsville, Freehold township, Warren county. He was a farmer all his life and a man of considerable importance. He enlisted and served three years in the civil war in a Pennsylvania regiment, receiving honorable discharge in 1864. He received injuries that incapacitated him for field service, but was assigned to lighter duty at Fortress Monroe during the remainder of his term of enlistment. At the time of Lincoln’s assassination he was in Pittsfield, Pennsylvania, and walked six miles to Wrightsville, carrying the sad intelligence to that village, there being then no telegraph communication. After the war was over he returned to the farm at Wrightsville, continuing its cultivation until his death. He was a Republican in politics and for many years served as school director. In religious faith he was a Methodist as was his wife.

He married Viletta Wyman, born in New York state, April 11, 1819, died October 21, 1892, at Derrick City, Pennsylvania, daughter of Eli Wyman, born 1796, died in Wrightsville, Freehold township, Warren county, Pennsylvania, September, 1872. He was a farmer, and during all his later years an elder of the Presbyterian church. He married Polly Heather, born in Vermont, 1797, died in Wrightsville, 1884.

Children of Eli and Polly (Heather) Wyman

1. Alzina Wyman. Born 1816, died 1903; married Samuel Boardman, a farmer, who died in the Union army during the civil war. Children:
   1. Andrew Boardman. Now living at Columbus, Warren county, Pennsylvania.
   2. Polly Boardman. Now living at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania.
   3. Charles Boardman. Died in the army.
   4. Eli Boardman. Died in the army.
   5. George Boardman. Now living in Corry, Pennsylvania.
   6. Minerva Boardman. Now living in the west.
   7. Byron Boardman. Now living in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania.
   8. Bruce Boardman. Now living in Columbus, Pennsylvania.
2. Viletta Wyman. Of previous mention, married Jared Boardman.
3. Horace Wyman. Born 1821, died in Greeley, Colorado, in 1909; he was engaged in mercantile business; married Fidelia Mead, of Youngsville, Pennsylvania. Son:
   1. Frank Wyman. Now a jeweler of Warren, Pennsylvania.
4. George Wyman. Born 1823, died in Greeley, Colorado, where he was engaged in merchandising; he married Algiva Hubbard, of Ohio. Children, all living in Greeley:
   1. Fred Wyman.
   2. Iva Wyman.
   3. A son.

Children of Jared and Viletta (Wyman) Boardman

All were born in Warren county, Pennsylvania.

1. Betsey Boardman. Born August, 1845, died in Wrightsville in 1884; married Philander Wright, now a retired merchant of Seattle, Washington. Children, all born in Wrightsville:
   1. Clara Wright. Born July, 1866, married William Wilcox, a merchant of Corry, Pennsylvania. Children:
      1. Mary Wilcox. Born October, 1886, in Wrightsville.
      2. Donald Wilcox. Born 1891, in Corry.
   2. Mary Wright. Born March, 1875, died January, 1882.
   3. Charles Wright. Born April 24, 1878, now a watchmaker and jeweler of Seattle, married and had a son:
      1. Lester Wright.
2. Alphonso Marcellus Boardman. Of whom further.
3. Horace Edgar Boardman. Born August 20, 1850, now proprietor of a bakery in Bolivar, New York; he married Mary Price. Children:
   1. Belle Boardman. Born February 2, 1876, married Elmer Krugh, of Sistersville, West Virginia, a merchant. Child:
      1. Alice Krugh. Born January, 1907.
   2. Fon W. Boardman. Born June 3, 1884, married Lena Steinberger and is a baker in Bolivar. Child:
      1. Fon Boardman. Born June 28, 1911.
4. Artemesia Boardman. Died in infancy.
5. Arthur W. Boardman. Born August 3, 1860, now manager of the Gas Company at Sheffield, Pennsylvania; married Mattie Blood. Children, all living in Sheffield:
   1. Fred Boardman. Born September 12, 1884.
   2. Ora Boardman. Born June, 1887.
   3. Lottie Boardman.
6. Mary Boardman. Died in infancy.

(VIII) Alphonso Marcellus Boardman

Alphonso Marcellus, eldest son and second child of Jared and Viletta (Wyman) Boardman, was born in Wrightsville, Freehold township, Warren county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1848. There his early years were spent and his education secured in the public schools. After completing his years of study, he engaged in farming. In 1871 he secured a lease on the Beatty farm at Fagundus, Warren county, and there for seven years was engaged in oil production. He then for two years was engaged in the grocery business at Fagundus, then for five years, beginning in 1880, he conducted a grocery store in Allegheny county, near the McKean county line at a place called State Line. In 1885 he sold his store and purchased land, oil and gas leases at Four Mile, New York, remaining in business there two years. His daughter having arrived at an age that her education became an important consideration he purchased a home at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, and made it his residence while she attended the excellent seminary located there. In the autumn of 1890 he moved to Derrick City, Pennsylvania, and spent the ensuing nine years in the management of his oil properties. In addition to his private oil interests he formed the mercantile firm of Boardman & Johnson and conducted a profitable general merchandising business. In 1899 he was elected commissioner of McKean county and during his three years in that office resided in Smethport, the county seat. In July, 1902, he located his residence in Bradford where he established and has ever since conducted a most profitable insurance business.

He is a Republican in politics, and besides his three years as county commissioner served as supervisor for five years and school director four years, being secretary of the board for three of these years. He was made a Mason in Olean Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, in 1884, demitting in 1899 to Bradford Lodge, No. 334. He is also a member of Coudersport Lodge of Perfection, and Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, holding the thirty-second degree. He is also a noble of Ismailia Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, located at Buffalo, New York. His other fraternal orders are: Tent, No. 1101, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Derrick City; Fosterbrook Lodge, No. 11, Knights of Pythias, at Gilmore, Pennsylvania, and the Protected Home Circle, No. 68. His religious faith is Presbyterian, as is his wife, who belongs to the Eastern Star.

He married, August 5, 1869, Alice Kay, born in Sugar Grove township, Warren county, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1849, and there educated in the public schools, daughter of William and a granddaughter of John Kay.

Children of Alphonso M. and Alice (Kay) Boardman

1. Lida Pearl Boardman. Born at Stetson Hill, Pennsylvania, October 23, 1872; married George Washington Jude, born at Findlay Lake, New York, February 22, 1866, now a lawyer of Jamestown, New York. Child:
   1. Robert Boardman Jude. Born in Bradford, November 8, 1906.
2. Dora Boardman. Born in Fagundus, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1876, died at State Line, New York, November 17, 1881.
3. Earl W. Boardman. Born in Fagundus, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1878, died December 11, 1881.
4. Rhea Kay Boardman. Born at State Line, New York, February 12, 1885, now a teacher in Jamestown, New York.

The Kay Line

(I) John Kay

John Kay, born near Manchester, England, died at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. He married —– —–.

Children of John Kay

1. William Kay. Of whom further.
2. Robert Kay. Born 1812, died in Manchester.
3. James Kay. Born in Manchester, 1815, died in Ashville, New York, being then a retired farmer, married without issue.

(II) William Kay

William, son of John Kay, was born at Oldham, near Manchester, England, July 17, 1809. He came to the United States in 1846, settling in Pennsylvania in Sugar Grove township, Warren county. He there built a saw mill, superintending its operation until his death, April 2, 1895. He married Mary Hilton, born March 27, 1815, in Oldham, England, came to the United States with her husband, died in Sugar Grove, January 5, 1892.

Children of William and Mary (Hilton) Kay

1. Thomas Kay. Born in England, May 8, 1835, now a retired miller of Youngsville, Pennsylvania; married Lizzie Gray, born in England, deceased. Children:
   1. Charles Kay. Born September 27, 1860, lives in Youngsville.
   2. Frank Kay. Born May 16, 1862, deceased.
   3. Christy Kay. Born November, 1863, deceased.
   4. Fred Kay. Born June 17, 1865, lives in Youngsville.
   5. Edward Kay. Born December 31, 1868, deceased.
2. Ann Kay. Born March 14, 1837, now living in Jamestown, New York; married Jeremiah Nuttle, of English birth, a farmer of Sugar Grove. Children:
   1. Ina Nuttle. Born June 5, 1865, married Levant Ricker and lives in Jamestown, New York.
   2. William L. Nuttle. Born February 2, 1869, lives at Findlay Lake, New York, married (first) Grace Duryea, (second) Ruth Campbell.
   3. Grace Nuttle. Born June 7, 1878, married Elmer Wilson and has two children:
      1. Gladys Wilson.
      2. Helen Wilson.
3. Mary Kay. Born February 16, 1839, lives at Ripley, New York; married her cousin, James Kay, deceased, and settled in Chautauqua county, New York. Children:
   1. Nellie Kay. Born November, 1861.
   2. William Kay. Born May 8, 1865, deceased.
   3. Sophrona Kay. Born March, 1876.
4. Elizabeth Kay. Born May 1, 1845, died April, 1909, in New York City; married David N. Stilson, of Warren county, Pennsylvania, a merchant of Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. Child:
   1. William Earl Stilson. Born Stetson Hill, Warren county, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1870, married Amy Short, daughter of a prominent banker of Sugar Grove. Children:
      1. Alden Stilson. Born January 15, 1901.
      2. Earl Stilson. Born May 1, 1907.
5. Alice Kay. Of previous mention, wife of Alphonso M. Boardman.
6. Eliza Kay. Born January 20, 1851; married G. Wallace Shutt, of Warren, Pennsylvania, a farmer. Children:
   1. Mary Shutt. Born September 30, 1875, married William Bovee, an oil contractor of Grand Valley, Pennsylvania.
   2. Broe Shutt. Born August 30, 1880, now a store manager, married Bess Daley and lives in Sugar Grove.
7. Melvina Kay. Born October 5, 1854, died March, 1855.
8. Armina Kay. Born May 18, 1856; married George Murray, born 1850 in Glasgow, Scotland, now a retired merchant in Bradford. Children:
   1. Maud Murray. Born May 25, 1879, married Frank Demmick.
   2. Stuart Murray. Born February 1, 1884, married Jennie Thompson.
   3. Stanley Murray. Born March 4, 1887, now a chemist of Utica, New York.

The last four of these children were born at Stetson Hill, Warren county, Pennsylvania.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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