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Carrie C Skow Boyd Matson

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Birth	:	Sep 1871 Riley County, Kansas, USA
Death	:	1933 Roseland, Nelson County, Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Jonesboro Cemetery, Jonesboro, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.7825012, -78.9800034
Plot	:	Section 7 Block 20 Lot 9 Grave 8
Inscription	:	Carrie Skow Boyd Matson 1871 1933
Description	:	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... Read More	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.

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Where is Carrie C Skow Boyd Matson's memorial?
Carrie C Skow Boyd Matson's memorial is located at: Jonesboro Cemetery, Jonesboro, Nelson County, USA.
When did Carrie C Skow Boyd Matson death?
Carrie C Skow Boyd Matson death on 1933 in Roseland, Nelson County, Virginia, USA
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Latitude: 37.7825012
Longitude: -78.9800034

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Walter Matson

(1874 - 1957)

Waller Massie Boyd Jr.

(1868 - 1927)

Siblings

Children

Alicia Boyd Bryant

(1899 - 1958)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Jonesboro Cemetery
Jonesboro, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7825012, -78.9800034

2. Whitehead Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7845423, -78.9720055

3. Blue Rock Cemetery
Jonesboro, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7772280, -78.9742970

4. Stratton Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7715500, -78.9864740

5. Jones - Clarkson Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7943760, -78.9852970

6. Wood-Hudson Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7783510, -78.9543270

7. Bethlehem United Methodist Church Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7597008, -78.9805984

8. Mahone Family Cemetery
Massies Mill, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8025000, -78.9950000

9. Oak Hill Memorial Gardens
Massies Mill, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7782550, -79.0089940

10. Thacker Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7579710, -78.9847090

11. Zion Hill Baptist Church Cemetery
Bryant, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8026830, -78.9531050

12. Bethel Family Cemetery
Massies Mill, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7881012, -79.0196991

13. Carter-Johnson Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8154590, -78.9871420

14. Hill-Coffey-Lunsford Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8169930, -78.9881620

15. Mount Rouge Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7482860, -78.9682550

16. Massie Family Cemetery
Tyro, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8113320, -79.0074060

17. Gleason Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7465270, -78.9999560

18. Level Green Estate Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7841900, -79.0299500

19. Parrish Cemetery
Massies Mill, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8269880, -78.9854630

20. Lawhorne Family Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8270340, -78.9850460

21. Stevens-Showalter Family Cemetery
Lovingston, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7674500, -78.9266100

22. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8265960, -78.9954570

23. Clarkson-Meeks Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.8301300, -78.9825360

24. Claypool Cemetery
Roseland, Nelson County, USA
Coordinate: 37.7414582, -79.0138455