Son of:
John Boyer
Kate Hoilman
Husband of:
Gertrude Boyer
Death Certificate: 6010
Residence:
Loudon County, Tennessee
Age: 73
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Male
Race: White
Funeral Home: McGill-Karnes
Rev. Sanders Stephen Boyer was born in the Summerfield Community, Grayson County, Virginia, September 14, 1876. He was the son of John Walter and Kate Stewart Hoilman Boyer. The impress of the devout Christian life of his parents was upon him from his earliest days. He united with Summerfield Methodist Church November 27, 1888, under the pastorate of Rev. George R. Maiden.
He attended the public schools in his home community and at Spring Valley and attended a County Normal School at Independence. He taught school in Virginia and later in Loudon County, Tennessee.
He was licensed to preach at Ebenezer Church, July 1898. He united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and was ordained in that church in which he served for a few years as pastor, at Sweetwater. On October 13, 1906, he was received into Holston Conference, as a traveling preacher, as an ordained minister of the Knoxville Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A., without the imposition of Hands (Journal). He served the following charges: Riceville, Holston Orphanage, Charleston, Ridgedale, Fries, Loudon, Niota and Philadelphia. He was appointed as Field Secretary for Sunday schools in 1916 and continued in that office for fourteen years. The record of his faithful and efficient and untiring labors is shown in the development and growth of the Sunday Schools in Holston Conference.
Teacher training was in its infancy in those years. Brother Boyer organized many schools and started training classes and training schools throughout Holston Conference. The first training school which he started was the eighteenth such school held in the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
He had infantile paralysis when he was ten months of age; and he carried the crippling effect of that affliction through life; but he was so radiantly cheerful and active that no one ever thought of him as a cripple. He rode his circuits and traveled to do his work with never a word of complaint. He was a preacher of power and a pastor whose friendly sympathy and interest in others made him a welcome visitor in many homes.
He married Miss Gertrude Gibson, Lenoir City, December 6, 1899. They had no child. Their adopted daughter Eugenia married E. E. Edgar and lives in Norfolk, Virginia.
He was a member of the Sunday School Board, for twenty years; and was a trustee of the Holston Brotherhood. Like Peter, he liked to "go a fishing."
He retired in 1941after thirty-five years of effective service; and gave and nine remaining years to supply work. He died at Bacon Hospital at Loudon, Tennessee, on March 25, 1950. Tender services were held in the Methodist Church at Philadelphia, attended by a multitude of his friends among whom he had spent the last happy years of his life.
The services were conducted by Dr. I. P. Martin, Rev. H. E. Lovelace, and Rev. John Tillery. Interment followed at Lenoir City.
"When our work is done, and the life crown is won,
And all our trouble and trials are o'er;
All our sorrows will end, and our voices will blend
With the loved ones who've gone on before."
Submitted by: I.P. Martin – Holston Conference Journal – 1950 – Pages: 174 - 175
Son of:
John Boyer
Kate Hoilman
Husband of:
Gertrude Boyer
Death Certificate: 6010
Residence:
Loudon County, Tennessee
Age: 73
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Male
Race: White
Funeral Home: McGill-Karnes
Rev. Sanders Stephen Boyer was born in the Summerfield Community, Grayson County, Virginia, September 14, 1876. He was the son of John Walter and Kate Stewart Hoilman Boyer. The impress of the devout Christian life of his parents was upon him from his earliest days. He united with Summerfield Methodist Church November 27, 1888, under the pastorate of Rev. George R. Maiden.
He attended the public schools in his home community and at Spring Valley and attended a County Normal School at Independence. He taught school in Virginia and later in Loudon County, Tennessee.
He was licensed to preach at Ebenezer Church, July 1898. He united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and was ordained in that church in which he served for a few years as pastor, at Sweetwater. On October 13, 1906, he was received into Holston Conference, as a traveling preacher, as an ordained minister of the Knoxville Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A., without the imposition of Hands (Journal). He served the following charges: Riceville, Holston Orphanage, Charleston, Ridgedale, Fries, Loudon, Niota and Philadelphia. He was appointed as Field Secretary for Sunday schools in 1916 and continued in that office for fourteen years. The record of his faithful and efficient and untiring labors is shown in the development and growth of the Sunday Schools in Holston Conference.
Teacher training was in its infancy in those years. Brother Boyer organized many schools and started training classes and training schools throughout Holston Conference. The first training school which he started was the eighteenth such school held in the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
He had infantile paralysis when he was ten months of age; and he carried the crippling effect of that affliction through life; but he was so radiantly cheerful and active that no one ever thought of him as a cripple. He rode his circuits and traveled to do his work with never a word of complaint. He was a preacher of power and a pastor whose friendly sympathy and interest in others made him a welcome visitor in many homes.
He married Miss Gertrude Gibson, Lenoir City, December 6, 1899. They had no child. Their adopted daughter Eugenia married E. E. Edgar and lives in Norfolk, Virginia.
He was a member of the Sunday School Board, for twenty years; and was a trustee of the Holston Brotherhood. Like Peter, he liked to "go a fishing."
He retired in 1941after thirty-five years of effective service; and gave and nine remaining years to supply work. He died at Bacon Hospital at Loudon, Tennessee, on March 25, 1950. Tender services were held in the Methodist Church at Philadelphia, attended by a multitude of his friends among whom he had spent the last happy years of his life.
The services were conducted by Dr. I. P. Martin, Rev. H. E. Lovelace, and Rev. John Tillery. Interment followed at Lenoir City.
"When our work is done, and the life crown is won,
And all our trouble and trials are o'er;
All our sorrows will end, and our voices will blend
With the loved ones who've gone on before."
Submitted by: I.P. Martin – Holston Conference Journal – 1950 – Pages: 174 - 175
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