Timothy Boyer's obituary, Eaton County, Michigan

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Here is an obituary of my grandmother's grandfather dated I believe
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, on 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 Il., and was with that crack regiment to the
end.  When the was 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.