OBIT: Anna Elizabeth (DEAL) BOYLES, 1942, native of Somerset County, PA

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ANNA ELIZABETH BOYLES

  Anna Elizabeth Boyles, wife of Elmer J. Boyles, died at the family home, 117 
Olinger Street, Sunday evening at 8:30 o'clock, following an illness of several 
months resulting from a nervous condition.  Mrs. Boyles, the tenth of a family 
of 16 children, was a daughter of Edwin and Nancy (Lepley) Deal, and was born in 
Greenville Township, June 6, 1863, being at the time of her death aged 78 years, 
11 months and 3 days.
  On June 6, 1889, which was the twenty-sixth anniversary of her birth, Anna 
Elizabeth Deal was united in marriage to Elmer J. Boyles, a native of 
Rimersburg, Clarion County, who located in Meyersdale on April 27, 1887 having 
assumed charge of one of the "tricks" in the local telegraph office of the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.  The couple went to housekeeping immediately and 
continued to reside in Meyersdale for approximately eight years when Mr. Boyles 
accepted a position as agent and telegraph operator on the line of the Lake Erie 
Railway at Homewood, Beaver County.  Before returning to Meyersdale, ten years 
ago, they lived at various places in the Pittsburgh district, the last place 
having been Braddock, where Mr. Boyles was engaged in Mercantile pursuits.  For 
a short time following his residence in Braddock the family returned to 
Meyersdale for a brief period when Mr. Boyles became financially interested in 
the Meyersdale Manufacturing Company, more familiarly known as the "lock 
factory".  Following this experience Mr. and Mrs. Boyles again located in the 
Pittsburgh district during which time Mr. Boyles inspected shells for the 
British government in the Westinghouse works in East Pittsburgh, engaged in the 
real estate business and other pursuits until their final return to Meyersdale 
in 1932.
  Mrs. Boyles, beloved by all who knew her, was an active, faithful and 
consistent member of the Lutheran faith, and held membership in the local church 
during the time that she resided here.  She was a woman supreme in the home, a 
true wife, a model mother, and one esteemed and honored by all with whom she 
came in contact.
  Surviving besides her husband are two daughters, Mrs. R. K. Richards of 
Wilkinsburg, and Miss Marie Boyles, at home.  The following six of the sixteen 
brothers and sisters also survive: Simon Deal, Elkins, W.Va.; Mrs. Matilda Cook 
and Miss Agnes Deal, Meyersdale; Mrs. George Caler, Larimer Township, and Mrs. 
Clara Ford and Calvin E. Deal, Cumberland, Md.
  Brief funeral services were conducted at the Boyles home, 117 Olinger Street, 
at 2:30 p.m. with a more extended service in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 
3:00 p.m., Thursday by the Rev. S. N. Carpenter, of McClure, Pa., who served as 
pastor for Mr. and Mrs. Boyles for 22 years during their residence in the 
Pittsburgh district, and with whom both had been intimately acquainted for a 
period of 40 years.  Interment in Union Cemetery under the direction of H. R. 
Konhaus, Meyersdale mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, May 14, 1942