Martha Pearl Spencer

Pearl, as she was known, was born in the spring of 1886, to parents Samuel G. Spencer (from Pennsylvania) and Martha A. Lowery (from Indiana). The Spencer family had 10 children and lived in McDonald County, Missouri. Pearl was married in Winfield, Crowley County, Kansas at the age of 17 to David Edgar Boyd in 1903. The couple soon moved to Lincoln County, Idaho before settling in Jerome County, Idaho, where they lived with their 9 children (7 sons & 2 daughters). When Pearl's youngest son was just 1 year old, her husband died of a ruptured appendix. She and her brood had to work hard taking care of the family homestead after that time. She continued to live in Jerome County surrounded by family, until her death in 1960.