Pike-Lamar County GaArchives News.....Gray Veteran, Barnesville Native Dies November 30 1950
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Lynn Cunningham http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002535 September 25, 2004, 1:40 pm

Barnesville, Georgia, November 30, 1950
Gray Veteran
Barnesville Native Dies

St. Augustine, Fla., Nov 22 (AP)
Robert K. Boyt, 102 year old Confederate Army veteran and St. Augustine’s 
oldest citizen, died peacefully here Wednesday at his home. He would have been 
103 next January 27.

Mr. Boyt was born in Barnesville, Georgia. At the age of seven, he came to 
Florida with his family.

He was only 16 when he enlisted in the Confederate Army at Ocala, Fla., serving 
in the Infantry.

Following the war, he lived at Ocala until 1890 and then moved to Fernandina. 
He came to St. Augustine in 1920.

Despite his age, Mr. Boyt remained active until a fall a year ago confined him 
to his home. Always proud of having served with the “Army of the Gray,” he 
retained many memories of the South’s struggle and credited his long life 
to "clean living."

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. B.M. Hall, Sr., Miss Pauline Boyt and Mrs. 
J.S. Butterfield, all of St. Augustine; a son, Robert, of Oakland, Cal., five 
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Transcribed 9/25/04 Lynn Cunningham

Additional Comments:
From copy obtained at Old Jail Museum and Archives, Barnesville, Georgia. 
Compiled by Shanna English.

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