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The biggest heartbreak for the Boyd family is that after years of struggle and bearing fourteen children, the beloved wife of Capt. L.A. [Alex] Boyd, Olive Clara passed away Sept. 7, 1897 at age 43 years, after struggling with "a complication of diseases" according to an obituary in a local paper at the time. Alex had been elected to the office of Skagit County Clerk with the Peoples Party in 1896, the office itself was only for a term of two years, but the income was $100.00 a month, a phenomenal amount of money during a time of economic depression.
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