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Submitted: 10/23/16 • Approved: 6/5/23 • Last Updated: 6/8/23 • R1158676-G511371-S3
March 12, 1835 - November 12, 1888
Wife of Francis Marion Boyd
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Friday, November 30, 1888
BOYD, Armintie WALKER — Died, at her home, near Wyman, Nov. 12, 1888, Mrs. Armintie Boyd, wife of F.M. Boyd, age 52 years. Mrs. Boyd was a daughter of Tendy W. Walker, a native of Union county, Mo. She came to Washington county, Arkansas, in 1860, and was married to Mr. F.M. Boyd, February 1, 1866. She had no children of her own, but raised three orphan children, two of whom had married, but the third one, a sweet little girl named Bessie, whom she had raised from her infancy was with her when she died and grieved over the death of her dear mamma as though she had been her own natural mother; and well she might, for Mrs. Boyd had been to her all that a living mother could possibly be to her own child. She had watched over her infancy, guided her first tottering footsteps, taught her useful and instructive lessons in childhood and took great pride in the rapid advancement in her studies and in her accomplishments in music. Little Bessie is disconsolate at the loss of such a dear good mother and Mr. Boyd is crushed under the weight of his greatest sorrow that has ever come to his once happy home, and in this most terrible of all afflictions, the disconsolate husband and the mourning child who has thus been deprived of a girl's best friend—the good mother—have the sympathy (not legible) for no one knew the dear good Christian woman but to love her. Mrs. Boyd had been a consistent Christian and member of the Methodist Church for ten or twelve years, and died in the blessed hope of a glorious immortality. It has been remarked since her death by her neighbors against whose good name no word of evil had ever been spoken. She was a truly good woman, a kind–hearted neighbor, a friend to the needy and distressed, and her sudden death brought sorrow into many homes and tears from eyes not accustomed to weep for other's woes. The writer knows whereof he speaks, for he had known her intimately for many years, and had enjoyed her kind hospitality at her own beautiful home, which was always lighted up by her pleasant smiles, and where the friends of herself and her husband were sure of a cordial welcome. J.H.V.H.
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