"DIED.
Timothy Boyer died at this home 2 miles west of Virgil, on Feb. 23, of pnuemonia, aged 70 years.
Mr. Boyer or as he was more familliarly known, "Uncle Tim" was born in Herkimer county, N.Y., just seventy years ago to a day. While young he removed with his parents to the the wilds of Michigan, and helped to carve out of the virgin forest, one of the first and finest farms in Eaton county: here he married a Miss Mary Dean, with whom be lived happily for nearly forty years, and now he sleeps by her side. The result of this marriage was five children, four of whom survive.
All the children have risen to some prominence as musicians. Silas is a band instructor in eastern Missouri. Timothy is following the same vocation in Michigan, and John is serving his fourth term of enlistment as Band Master at Ft. buford in North Dakota, and the daughter is a composer of some note.
While conducting a jewelery store at Macomb, Ill,. Mr. Boyer heard the call to arms and he laid aside the burin to take up the bugle at the column head of the 24th Ill., and was with that crack regiment to the end. When the war was over he engaged in buying and selling tobacco for a few years, at Newport, Ky., with indifferent success, and in '70 moved to Kansas and homsteaded the farm on which he died. His first wife having died five years ago, he was married last March to Mrs. Robinson. The deceased was a consistent member of the U.B. church, quiet and unassuming in manner, was a fine musician, and a great lover of the rod and gun. Uncle Tim rounded up the allotted three score and ten, loved and respected by all. He was buried on the 25th from the U.B. church; Rev. Strope conducting the exercises. A large number, among whom were his son Silas, from Mo., A.F. Jensen and Mrs. Kinsel, (nephew and niece) attended the funeral."
[Eureka Herald Newspaper (Kansas), 1890]
Timothy Boyer died at this home 2 miles west of Virgil, on Feb. 23, of pnuemonia, aged 70 years.
Mr. Boyer or as he was more familliarly known, "Uncle Tim" was born in Herkimer county, N.Y., just seventy years ago to a day. While young he removed with his parents to the the wilds of Michigan, and helped to carve out of the virgin forest, one of the first and finest farms in Eaton county: here he married a Miss Mary Dean, with whom be lived happily for nearly forty years, and now he sleeps by her side. The result of this marriage was five children, four of whom survive.
All the children have risen to some prominence as musicians. Silas is a band instructor in eastern Missouri. Timothy is following the same vocation in Michigan, and John is serving his fourth term of enlistment as Band Master at Ft. buford in North Dakota, and the daughter is a composer of some note.
While conducting a jewelery store at Macomb, Ill,. Mr. Boyer heard the call to arms and he laid aside the burin to take up the bugle at the column head of the 24th Ill., and was with that crack regiment to the end. When the war was over he engaged in buying and selling tobacco for a few years, at Newport, Ky., with indifferent success, and in '70 moved to Kansas and homsteaded the farm on which he died. His first wife having died five years ago, he was married last March to Mrs. Robinson. The deceased was a consistent member of the U.B. church, quiet and unassuming in manner, was a fine musician, and a great lover of the rod and gun. Uncle Tim rounded up the allotted three score and ten, loved and respected by all. He was buried on the 25th from the U.B. church; Rev. Strope conducting the exercises. A large number, among whom were his son Silas, from Mo., A.F. Jensen and Mrs. Kinsel, (nephew and niece) attended the funeral."
[Eureka Herald Newspaper (Kansas), 1890]
"DIED.
Timothy Boyer died at this home 2 miles west of Virgil, on Feb. 23, of pnuemonia, aged 70 years.
Mr. Boyer or as he was more familliarly known, "Uncle Tim" was born in Herkimer county, N.Y., just seventy years ago to a day. While young he removed with his parents to the the wilds of Michigan, and helped to carve out of the virgin forest, one of the first and finest farms in Eaton county: here he married a Miss Mary Dean, with whom be lived happily for nearly forty years, and now he sleeps by her side. The result of this marriage was five children, four of whom survive.
All the children have risen to some prominence as musicians. Silas is a band instructor in eastern Missouri. Timothy is following the same vocation in Michigan, and John is serving his fourth term of enlistment as Band Master at Ft. buford in North Dakota, and the daughter is a composer of some note.
While conducting a jewelery store at Macomb, Ill,. Mr. Boyer heard the call to arms and he laid aside the burin to take up the bugle at the column head of the 24th Ill., and was with that crack regiment to the end. When the war was over he engaged in buying and selling tobacco for a few years, at Newport, Ky., with indifferent success, and in '70 moved to Kansas and homsteaded the farm on which he died. His first wife having died five years ago, he was married last March to Mrs. Robinson. The deceased was a consistent member of the U.B. church, quiet and unassuming in manner, was a fine musician, and a great lover of the rod and gun. Uncle Tim rounded up the allotted three score and ten, loved and respected by all. He was buried on the 25th from the U.B. church; Rev. Strope conducting the exercises. A large number, among whom were his son Silas, from Mo., A.F. Jensen and Mrs. Kinsel, (nephew and niece) attended the funeral."
[Eureka Herald Newspaper (Kansas), 1890]
Timothy Boyer died at this home 2 miles west of Virgil, on Feb. 23, of pnuemonia, aged 70 years.
Mr. Boyer or as he was more familliarly known, "Uncle Tim" was born in Herkimer county, N.Y., just seventy years ago to a day. While young he removed with his parents to the the wilds of Michigan, and helped to carve out of the virgin forest, one of the first and finest farms in Eaton county: here he married a Miss Mary Dean, with whom be lived happily for nearly forty years, and now he sleeps by her side. The result of this marriage was five children, four of whom survive.
All the children have risen to some prominence as musicians. Silas is a band instructor in eastern Missouri. Timothy is following the same vocation in Michigan, and John is serving his fourth term of enlistment as Band Master at Ft. buford in North Dakota, and the daughter is a composer of some note.
While conducting a jewelery store at Macomb, Ill,. Mr. Boyer heard the call to arms and he laid aside the burin to take up the bugle at the column head of the 24th Ill., and was with that crack regiment to the end. When the war was over he engaged in buying and selling tobacco for a few years, at Newport, Ky., with indifferent success, and in '70 moved to Kansas and homsteaded the farm on which he died. His first wife having died five years ago, he was married last March to Mrs. Robinson. The deceased was a consistent member of the U.B. church, quiet and unassuming in manner, was a fine musician, and a great lover of the rod and gun. Uncle Tim rounded up the allotted three score and ten, loved and respected by all. He was buried on the 25th from the U.B. church; Rev. Strope conducting the exercises. A large number, among whom were his son Silas, from Mo., A.F. Jensen and Mrs. Kinsel, (nephew and niece) attended the funeral."
[Eureka Herald Newspaper (Kansas), 1890]
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