West Virginia Pioneers
Family: Patrick Board / Mary Kyser (F1300)
m. Abt 1790-
Father | Male
Patrick Board
Born 12 Jun 1750 York County, Pennsylvania, USA 
Died 6 Nov 1839 Roane County, West Virginia, USA Buried Mt Olive Cemetery, Spencer, Roane Co, WV Married Abt 1790 York County, Pennsylvania, USA Father John Board | F3442 Group Sheet Mother Ann Bryant | F3442 Group Sheet
Mother | Female
Mary Kyser
Born 1771 Little York, PA Died Abt 1859 Roane County, West Virginia, USA Buried Father Jacob Kyser | F3443 Group Sheet Mother
Child 1 | Female
Mary "Polly" Board
Born 27 Oct 1792 Frederick Co, VA Died 14 Feb 1866 Roane County, West Virginia, USA Buried Stewart Cemetery aka Reedy Cemetery, Roane County, WV Spouse William "Old Billy" Stewart | F1314 Married 23 May 1816 Wood County, West Virginia, USA
Child 2 | Male
John William Board
Born 14 Nov 1795 Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA Died 14 Aug 1875 Buried Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Spouse Nancy 'Ann' Parsons | F1228 Married 10 May 1821
Child 3 | Male
George Board
Born Abt 1803 Wood County, West Virginia, USA Died Abt 1862 Buried Spouse Elizabeth 'Betsy' Parsons | F1025 Married 10 Mar 1825 Mason, Mason County, West Virginia
Child 4 | Male
Thomas Board
Born Nov 1811 Virginia, USA Died 18 Aug 1869 Buried Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Spouse Sarah Harpold | F1391 Married 14 Jun 1836 Jackson County, West Virginia, USA
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Notes
1840 JC
Mary Board
1f 10-15 [grandchild?]
1f 60-70
next is William
1m 20-30
1f 15-20
House "Pioneers"
Keenan Farm
Who next lived on this farm is not given, all being blank until some time in the early thirties, when it passed into the hands of Thomas Bord, who had married a daughter of John Harpold, who lived at the ford above Ripley.
Bord was a son of Patrick Bord, the pioneer of Reedy, being 4 years old at the time of the emigration from Greene County, PA, to the wilds of western VA.
He lived on this farm several years, and was one of the most ingenious blacksmiths, gunsmiths and mechanics ever in Jackson county.
It is said he experimented a long time with the problem of perpetual motion, and there used to be a story extant that he once constructed a flying machine, withwhich he rose from the top of a neighboring hill and soared majestically over Ripley, unfortunately breaking his machine.
From a habit of always expressing assent to a proposition by a phrase "that's a fact, sure", he was known every where as "Fact Tom" or Fact-sure Tom bord", which served to distinguish him from two others of the same name.
He was born in November 1811, and died in the summer of 1869.