Historical records matching Captain Orsemus Bronson Boyd
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About Captain Orsemus Bronson Boyd
Orsemus Bronson Boyd was a graduate of West Point. He moved from one duty station to another, making a home for himself and his wife, Frances Anne Mullen, and their three children, at frontier posts in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Boyd's military career spanned the post-Civil War Indian wars, years when travel was dangerous and living conditions primitive.
In December 1875 Mrs. Boyd and their daughter and son accompanied Lieutenant Boyd to a new assignment at Fort Clark, Texas. The post, located forty miles from the Rio Grande near the site of present-day Brackettville, guarded the San Antonio-El Paso road. For six months in 1879–80 the Boyds lived at Fort Duncan, a small garrison at Eagle Pass, where troops patrolled the international boundary. After two of the children were stricken with malaria in 1881, Frances Boyd took them all back to New York. The family remained separated while Boyd served at various stations. In 1885 Frances returned to Fort Clark, her husband's current post. Boyd was soon ordered to New Mexico, where he died, on July 23, 1885.
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Captain Orsemus Bronson Boyd's Timeline
| 1844 |
July 1844
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Croton, Delaware County, New York, United States
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| 1866 |
1866
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1870
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1872
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| 1875 |
1875
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| 1877 |
September 4, 1877
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Kinney County, Texas, United States
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1877
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1880
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| 1885 |
July 23, 1885
Age 41
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Grafton, Sierra County, New Mexico, United States
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