Lamar-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Boyd, Mary Guerry May 21, 1962 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elaine Turk Nell http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004116 December 20, 2005, 12:41 am Unnamed, undated newspaper clipping Mrs. Boyd, 103, Was Buried in Americus Mrs. Mary Guerry Boyd, 103, widow of the late Mr. John Robert Boyd, died late Monday afternoon at a nursing home in Tucker, Ga., where she had been just a few weeks. Mrs. Boyd was born in Americus, Ga., but had made her home in Lamar County since 1912. She was the daughter of the late William Barnett Guerry and Mrs. Sarah Amanda Dixon Guerry, one of the pioneer citizens of Sumter County, member of the French Huguenot Society and a graduate of Furlow Masonic College in Americus. Mrs. Boyd was a member of Prospect Methodist Church, the Woman's Society of Christian Service and the Redbone Woman's Club. She was one of Redbone's most beloved and refined women for many years. She was a sister of the late Dupont Guerry, who was a former president of Wesleyan College, and also the late LeGrand Guerry, who was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning at 10:00 o'clock from the First Methodist Church of Barnesville. Elder David Payne, the Rev. Ellis Holden, Jr., and the Rev. Sam Coker officiated. Interment services were at 2:00 p.m. at the Oak Grove Cemetery at Americus. The survivors include, Mrs. Edna Boyd Barwick, of Barnesville, where she had been making her home; two sons, Robert Montgomery Boyd of Amorilla, Texas and Will Guerry Boyd of Gastonia, N.C.; 13 grandchildren, 25 great- grandchildren and 10 [great-great-grandchildren]. The grandsons were the [pallbearers]. [The lines about the GG-grandchildren and the grandsons were reversed in publication, but what was intended to be written was clear so submitter has taken the liberty to correct them for ease of reading.] Haisten Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/lamar/obits/b/boyd7852ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb