Newhanover County NcArchives Obituaries.....Boyd, Lt. Col. Henry Estil 1953
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 01-30-1953, P. 1
LT. COL. HENRY ESTIL BOYD

RIFLE EXPERT DIES IN RICHMOND AND IS BURIED IN BOYKINS

   Lt. Col. Henry Estil Boyd, 67, husband of Mrs. Ethel Bryant Boyd of 
Wilmington, N.C., with relatives in Boykins, died in a Richmond hospital on 
Sunday, January 25, at 3 a.m. after in illness of four weeks.

   Besides his wife, he survived by a daughter, Mrs. B.W. White of Norfolk; a 
son, Henry E. Boyd, Jr., of Schenectady, N.Y.; three sisters, Mrs. A.H. Tibbitts 
and Mrs. Emma Gordon of Detroit and Mrs. C.A. Marynus of Grosse Pointe Farms, 
Mich.; two brothers, A.L. Boyd of Detroit and W.W. Boyd of Washington, D.C.; a 
grandson, William Boyd White of Norfolk; and two granddaughters, Misses Janet 
and Nancy Boyd of Schenectady, N.Y.

   Col. Boyd was a native of Buchanan, a son of the late Henry Erskine and Emma 
Staton Boyd. For the past 22 years he had resided in Wilmington, N.C.  At the 
time of his death he was traffic manager for the Bureau of Rates and Industries 
in Wilmington. He was a member of the Trinity Methodist Church in Wilmington; 
Orient Lodge No. 395, A.F. & A.M.; Wilmington Executives Club; American Legion 
Post No. 10; Reserve Officers Association of the United States; Southern Traffic 
League; Association of Interstate Commerce Practitioners; American Society of 
Traffic and Transportation Executives, Inc.; Wilmington Rifle and Pistol Club; 
North Carolina Traffic League; South Atlantic Ports Association; etc.

   Col. Byrd was educated in the public schools of Roanoke and in Roanoke 
Business College. He was engaged in traffic work some 45 years, during which 
time he was active in many organizations. At various times he was employed in 
Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, and in this country. For 10 years he was executive 
freight agent of the Seaboard  Air Line Railway at Littleton, N.C.; and for 
three years, beginning in 1921, he was assistant traffic manager of the Norfolk 
–Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce under the late W.A. Cox, then executive 
secretary-traffic manager.

   In 1924 the traffic department of the Chamber of Commerce was absorbed by the 
newly created Norfolk Port Traffic Commission; and Col. Boyd became affiliated 
with the new body in the capacity of chief rate statistician under H.J. Wagner, 
then director. He remained in this position until 1931, when be became 
associated with the Wilmington, N.C., Port Traffic Association as traffic 
manager, a position  he held until his death, except while with the Army in 
World War II.

   In the Army Col. Boyd was stationed first in Atlanta, Ga., and then served 
with the Louisville Ordinance and Medical Depot for three years. In January 
1942, he was appointed to the specialist corps of the Ordnance Department and 
commissioned a major; later he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the 
Officers Reserve Corps.

   During World War I Col. Boyd served with the United States Railroad 
Administration.

   Long known for his unusual knowledge of and skill with firearms, Col. Boyd 
was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross from the office of the Adjutant 
General of North Carolina on November 8, 1941, the presentation being made at 
Camp Davis by Col. F.F. Galagher of the 95th C.A. Col. Boyd was the first 
civilian ever to be paid honor by a full military revue at Camp Davis.

   Col. Boyd was instrumental in organizing the Wilmington Rifle & Pistol Club, 
which grew to a membership of 65 persons ages 18 to 67. He served as president 
of the club and as instructor in marksmanship; and under his leadership the club 
organized and conducted annual “junior shoots,” with as many as 300 boys 
participating. He was described by those in authority as an expert in knowledge 
and performance, averaging above 95% in his shooting.

   Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. 
Lynn Larkin of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and Rev. Marshall W. Anderson. The choir 
sang “Abide with Me,” and Mrs. H.M. Purviance sang “No Night there,” with Mrs. 
Virginia Daniels at the organ. At the graveside in Beechwood Cemetery Masonic 
services were held by the Boykins Lodge, with F.W. Crowder acting as Worshipful 
Master, Hunter Ford and William Dalton of the American Legion made the flag 
presentation.

   Active pallbearers were C.B. Rock, Jr., and J.C. Blowe of Boykins, and John 
R. Baucom, henry Habenicht, David M. Holmes, H.W. Larcomb, B.W. Sams and William 
Tomz of Wilmington. 

   Honorary pallbearers were Dr. J.M. Bland, W. Herbert Britt, H.O. Carlton, 
L.F. Draper, J.W. Holland, A.L. Knight, Sr., J.Y. Mason and W.W. White, all of 
Boykins; Herbert V.C. Wade and H.J. Wagner of Norfolk; and W.S.R. Beane, J.R. 
Benson, John Farrell, Herman Hayden, E.I. Herring, Jr., Charles F. Jones, Peter 
Brown Ruffin, Bill Stewart, Dr. Samuel Warshaner and E.L. White of Wilmington.


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