Mooresville, Dec. 2—Rev. Robert Warren Boyd died at the home of his son, Pascal S. Boyd, on Eastern Heights at 9 o’clock tonight, following an attack of pleurisy and complications. The deceased was born in Chester county, South Carolina, December 8, 1839, and had he lived until next Thursday would have attained his 88th year. He was educated at Erskine College, Due West, S.C., and the University of North Carolina. He was a student at the university at the outbreak of the war between the states, and enlisted in Company F, 13th South Carolina regiment. He studied medicine under the late Dr. Wiley of Chester, S.C., after the war, but on account of all the colleges of the south being destroyed during the war and being unwilling to go to a northern school, he gave up his medical course and entered the ministry, having devoted his time to teaching and farming prior to securing his degrees form Columbia Theological Seminary. In 1886, May 24th, he was married to Sarah Jane Backstrom of Chester county, S.C., and to them were born six children, two of whom are dead.
The funeral services will be held at Little Joe’s Church at Barium Springs at 11:30 o’clock Friday morning.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, Dec. 3, 1925
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