Henry Boyer, aged one hundred and three years, died at the home of his son, Henry Boyer Jr., on South Kansas Street, yesterday morning at ten o'clock. Henry Boyer was born in Hancock county, Georgia on October 29th 1822 on the plantation of Elias Boyer. His mother was Aggie Boyer, she being a slave who was born in Africa and brought to America by the early slaveholders. He was married to Hester Hill and from this union there are surviving four sons, John, Henry Jr., Robert S, and Frank. Also one daughter Mrs. M. V. Johnson. He also leaves thirty-eight grandchildren. He was a member of the African Baptist Church, having joined them in 1876. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, afternoon at two thirty o’clock from the Colored Baptist Church with Rev. Wm. Profitt in charge of same and burial will be at Sout Park.
Timothy E. Nelson, Ph.D., Historian
