Beaver County PA Archives Obituaries.....Boyd, Harry J.  February 28, 1939
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Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph Tue, Feb 28, 1939
BEAVER FALLS. Pa., Feb. 28.
Harry J. Boyd, 92, one of two remaining Civil War veterans in Beaver County,
died today in his 445 College Avenue home. He was injured in a fall several days
ago. He was the last surviving member of the Beaver post of the G. A. R. He was
born in Philadelphia, July, 1847, son of a printer, and moved to Hookstown,
Beaver County, when a youth. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted, when 17, in
the Eighth Company of the 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Following the war he
opened a store in Smith's Ferry, Pa., which was washed away in the flood of
1884. For 13 years he was index clerk in the Prothonotary's office. His son,
Daniel J., who died several years ago, was a former prothonotary. Mr. Boyd was
prominent in real estate work and secretary of the Dollar Building and Loan, the
Beaver County Building and Loan, and the Mutual Fire Insurance organizations.
Mr. Boyd was a Mason and a member of the Beaver First Presbyterian Church.
Funeral services Thursday, March 2, from his late home at 2:30. Interment Beaver
Cemetery.

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