George Boyer (USA)

• Census: 1850 George Boyer, Hanover Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States
• Census: 1850 John Boyer (45), Winslow, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States
• Census: 1860 George Boyer (50), Winslow Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States
• Census: 1870 George Boyer (62), Pottawatomie Township, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States

"George Boyer was born August 28, 1810, Hanover Township, Dauphin County PA. During the 1850 Census he was residing in Winslow Township, Jefferson County, PA. He had married Sarah Moore in Harmony, Butler County PA, before 1832.

"His first wife was Sarah (Moore) Boyer. Sarah died January 24, 1848 and is buried in the Beechwoods Cemetery, Falls Creek, Jefferson County, PA. They had three daughters, Sarah, Diana and Rachel, and three sons, Jacob, Samuel, and Elias Boyer. Diana and Rachel married brothers, Solomon Dickey and William S. Dickey. Diana first married Daniel G. Carl.

"On January 1, 1850 he married Anne (Scott) Patterson, in Jefferson County, PA. "Anna" was born February 17, 1819 and died August 31, 1894, Boyer Family homestead, Goltry, Alfalfa County, OK. George and "Anna" had one son, George W. Boyer who married Nellie Irene Allen, and two daughters, Ellen Elizabeth Boyer and Phoebe Anne Boyer. These two daughters married brothers, Sylvester King and Wesley Marion King, sons of John Wesley King and Pleasant (Wright) King, who had been working on the farm of George Boyer before he died. Phoebe and her husband are buried in the Blankenship Cemetery, Butler County, KS, even though Phoebe died in Cherokee, Alfalfa County, OK on an extended visit to her daughter, Avis Effie (King) Slack and her husband, Walter Slack.

"His second wife, Anne "Anna," had two daughters from her previous marriage to John Patterson, Isabella S. (Patterson) Mc Sparrin, wife of William Mc Sparrin and Mary Jane (Patterson) Catheart Guthrie, who was the second wife of Joseph Guthrie. Mary Jane and Joseph are buried in the Vandervort Cemetery in Summerville, Jefferson County, PA.

"In the 1870 Census George Boyer was residing in Pottawatomie County, KS. George died July 22, 1876, Council Grove, Morris County, KS, burial in the Greenwood Cemetery, Council Grove, Morris County, KS."

Inscription: Co. I. 105th PA. Inf.

Note: Bowl inscription: Erected by the W.R.G

Sources

• 1850 Census
• Findagrave: George Boyer
• Updated from RootsWeb's WorldConnect via father Abraham Boyer by SmartCopy: Nov 9 2015, 16:23:49 UTC