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Augustus Clingman Boyles, better known as "A. C.", was born near Laurel Hill, Lincoln Co., North Carolina. He was the son of Rev. Marcus Wrightman "M. W." Boyles (1842-1892) and Susan A. (Alice ?) Wood (1846-1895), the 1st of their seven known children.
A.C. was named after his mother's brother, Thomas Clingman "Cling" Wood (1856-1920). The origin of his first given name, Augustus, is unknown. Augustus is a German name, as is Clingman and the middle given name of his paternal grandfather, Josiah Adolphus Boyles. Their ancestors (Boyles, possibly O'Boyles), however, were not of German descent.. but Irish. Apparently, AC's parents just liked these names.
AC's parents were also born and raised in Lincoln Co., NC. They are buried in the Lexington City Cemetery in Lexington, Davidson Co., NC. Their rather impressive burial monument was paid for by the churches that Rev. Boyles had served while a circuit Methodist preacher during his lifetime. AC was relatively young when his parents passed away, only 24 when his father died and 27 when his mother died.
AC's father, Marcus, had fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, eventually becoming a prisoner of war in the Camp Lookout Prison Camp in Maryland. While he personally opposed slavery he felt compelled to fight with the South to defend his family and his North Carolina home which he felt would eventually be attacked by the North.
Following the war, Marcus was released from the Maryland prison camp in 1865 with only the clothes on his back. He then had to walk about 450 miles back to his home in North Carolina, a long and dangerous journey. Once home, he found that his brother and sister had died while he was gone. His 18 year old brother, Franklin J. Boyles (1844-1863), had died from disease while serving in the Confederate army. Marcus' 16 year old sister, Sarah A. Boyles (1842-1864), had died from typhoid pneumonia.
Following his return home from the was Marcus soon married a neighbor's daughter, Susan Wood, in 1866. Marcus was 23. Sarah 19. To make a living for his family, AC's father, Marcus, tried farming for a few years but said he felt God's call to preach during much of that time.
With his wife's encouragement, he eventually attended Rutherford College in Burke Co., NC and became a Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) preacher, following in the footsteps of his father, Rev. Josiah Adolphus Boyles (1816-1894) and grandfather, Rev. John Boyles, II (1770-1843). Both had been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) circuit riding preachers. Marcus' wife, Sarah Wood, proved to be a wonderful minister's wife.
AC's father, Marcus was actively preaching when he became ill with the flu in December of 1891. He died the next month at the age of 49, another victim of the 1888-92 worldwide flu epidemic. The flu that spread though out the world during those years was called the "Russian Flu".
AC's 3G-grandfather, William Boyles (1720-1818), had immigrated to America about 1738/39 from County Donegal, Ulster Province in northwestern Ireland. It is thought that he and his younger brother, Charles Boyles (1722-1813), paid for their passage across the Atlantic Ocean by working as deck hands on the ship, a uncommon practice in days.
Their port of entry was Norfolk, Virginia. William settled in southern Virginia a few miles south of Petersburg. Charles eventually settled in western Virginia in an area that is now part of West Virginia.
The parents of AC's mother, Susan, were John Henry Wood (1810-1891) and Elizabeth Catherine "Katie" Bess (1818-1900). They lived near Vale in Lincoln County and were neighbors to the Boyles family. They were born in that county, lived and died there. They are buried in the Zion Methodist Cemetery located in Lincolnton, Lincoln Co., NC.
It is thought that AC did his undergraduate college training (abt 1885-89) at the University of Maryland. He received his medical training from the the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine (then called Baltimore University School of Medicine (established 1805), receiving his medical degree in 1895. He started his medical practice in Montgomery Co., NC. that same year. He was an old time county doctor who for years made house calls using a horse and buggy.
On Nov. 6, 1889 AC married Anna Elizabeth "Annie" Coggin (1864-1914) in Eldorado, Montgomery Co., NC. Born in Montgomery County, she was the daughter of Burwell Titus "Burrell" Coggin (1814-1885) and Cirona Harris (1836-1873).
AC and Annie had four known children during their 24 year marriage. They were Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), Burrel Clarence "B.C." Boyles (1894-1989), William Marcus "Bill" Boyles (1897-1935) and Augustus Clingman "Gus" Boyles Jr. (1903-1965).
Their first son, Henry Paul Boyles was named after his mother's father, John Henry Wood (1810-1891), and/or AC's younger brother, Joseph Henry Boyles (1873-1939), who also became a medical doctor. Their second son, Clarence Burrel Boyles, was named after his mother's father, Titus "Burrel" Coggin. Their third son was named after AC's father, Rev. Marcus W. Boyles, while their youngest son, Gus, was obviously named after his father.
In 1910, AC and Annie lost their first born son, 19 year old Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), to typhoid near the end of his freshman year at Trinity College (became Duke University in 1924) in Durham, NC. He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, NC. It is thought that Henry wanted to become a doctor like his father.
AC's wife, Annie, never recovered from her son's tragic death and began to suffer from depression. Despite the valiant efforts of a caring husband and her three other children her condition continued to worsen. Eventually, she had to be hospitalized (1913) for severe depression in order to receive 24/7 care. Annie died in the Dorothy Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, Wake Co., NC on July 8, 1914 at the age of 49. It is said that she no longer wished to live and simply refused to eat. Consequently, she literally starved
herself to death.
The four years prior to his wife's death were rough ones for AC, as well as for his three other children. His first born son's unexpected death and his wife's resulting depression took a huge toll on him. In 1916, less than two years after his wife's death, AC (age 49) gave up his 20 year medical practice and moved to Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Florida where he purchased a large grove of citrus trees. His oldest son, BC, was a student in North Carolina State University at the time but eventually withdrew to join the Navy. His two other sons, Bill and Gus, (19 and 16) where away at school.
Tragedy struck AC's life again in 1917 when a "once in a century" freeze (temperatures fell to the teens) killed most of his fruit trees. Unable to wait until new trees matured he sold his land and moved to an area near Arcadia in Desota Co., Florida where he again purchased some land and took up truck farming, growing citrus fruit and vegetables. Farming was something AC knew as he had been raised on a farm.
In the mid-1920s, AC met widower, Mary G. "Mamie" (Tracy) White (1869-1945), while they were staying in the same boarding house near Tampa. She was a GG-GD of Toussaint Dubois (abt 1854-1816) and Ann "Janne" Bonneau (1700-1800).
It is interesting to note that that AC and Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, would meet her future husband while she too was living in a boarding house (1946, after WWII) in Louisville, Kentucky. With the post war housing shortage boarding houses usually consisted of just one rented room. There was no kitchen and boarders had to share bathrooms.
Mary, named after her mother, went by the nickname "Mamie" and was from Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois. She had moved to Florida for health reasons (lungs) a few years after the death of her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918). Their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897), had died just about six weeks after his birth and is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
In Florida, Mamie lived fairly close (25 miles) to her widowed aunt, Sarah Isabella "Sadie" (Mieure) Burnett Parker (1859-1940), who had remarried. There was only ten years difference in their ages. Mamie's mother, Mary Jane (Mieure) Tracy (1850-1872), had been Sadie's older sister. Mamie was just two years of age when her mother died at the age of 21. When Mamie was growing up her young aunts, Sadie and Ada (Ada Mieure, 1858-1926), had been almost like mothers to her.
AC, a widowed truck farmer and ex-physician, and the widowed Mamie were married in Bradenton, Manatee Co., Florida in the parsonage of the Bradenton Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church. Once again, both were again happily married, however, their happiness was short lived. In April of 1929 the mediterranean fruit fly was found in Florida and eventually nearly ruined near all of Florida's farmers, including AC.
With the encouragement of his wife, AC decided to sell his farm land and return to medical practice in North Carolina. He resumed his medical career in Troy, Montgomery Co. and then Lowgap, (Franklin), Surry Co. It was in Surry County that AC became (1931) a contract physician for the North Carolina Granite Corporation (Mt. Airy), also serving the local community as a general practitioner. His office was located in downtown Mt. Airy, over a drug store. He soon purchased a small farm in the little community of Oak Grove just outside Mr. Airy.
His second wife, Mamie, was known as a "wonderful lady" and proved to be "just what the doctor ordered". She loved and admired her husband, AC, greatly. In public, she usually showed her respect for him by calling him "Doctor" or "Dr. Boyles".
The following paragraph was handwritten by Mamie about 1932 in regard to her husband, AC. She describes him in a simple, yet elegant way.
"Doctor is the son of an M. E. preacher, a true southern gentleman, prominent physician of NC., widely known for his kindly disposition, and extensive charitable work, in is practice, beloved by all his patients. And in his home, these same lovable traits are uppermost. His thoughts are for his family, always happy and trying to make others happy. Our home life is ideal, a fine, influential, Christian man."
A few years later tragedy once again struck AC's life. On Sept. 2, 1935 (Labor Day), a massive hurricane hit the lower part of Florida. His 38 year old son, Bill, lost his life in that hurricane when it hit the Florida Keys area where he and 250+ other WWI vets were building roads for the US Government. All of the veterans, as well as several civilians, were killed in that massive storm, still considered the strongest ever to hit the mainland of the United States. Some of the bodies were washed out to sea. Most of the recovered ones had to be burned (by order of the President) and buried in a mass grave to prevent the spread of disease. A memorial was then built over their mass grave. It is unknown as to what happened to Bill's body.
Just five months later (Jan. 28, 1936), at his Oak Grove farm, AC suffered a massive heart attack while tending some stock in his barn. His eight year old daughter, Dorothy, was with him at the time. She ran to get her mother who was in the house but when Mamie got to the barn she found that her husband was already dead. He is thought to have died instantly, before falling to the ground. A copy of the newspaper article about his death is attached to this memorial.
AC, his wife, Mamie and their daughter, Dorothy, attended the little Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in their community. It is now a United Methodist Church (since 1968) and is quite different. As mentioned earlier, AC's father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M. E.) circuit riding preachers. Both also had small farms.
Needing a larger facility, A. C.'s funeral was moved to the Central Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in Mt. Airy, NC. During the memorial service AC was remembered as a kind man who was a good doctor. He was loved dearly by his family and respected by all who knew him. Unfortunately, from 1910, life had shown only a little kindness to A.C.
AC is buried next to his first wife, Annie, in Maplewood Cemetery located in Durham, Durham Co., NC. Their first born son, Henry Paul Boyles, who had died at age 19, is buried next to them. Another son, Gus Boyles, was buried nearby in 1960.
Not long after AC's death his second wife, Mamie, sold her little farm and moved (abt 1836), with her daughter, back to Florida. Again, the move was for health reasons (lung problems) and so that Mamie could once again be relatively close to her Aunt Sadie.Her Aunt Ada (67) had died in 1926 in Vincennes. In 1940, Sadie, passed away at the age of 80. Both of Sadie's husbands, as well as her two children, had preceded her in death. Consequently, in her will she left her Florida home and her belongings to her twice widowed niece, Mamie.
A few years after moving back to Florida, Mamie's health began to worsen. In the early 1940s she returned to her home state of Illinois. However, once again she moved back to Florida but eventually returned to Illinois, to be close to members of her family during her last years. She died on Dec. 22, 1945 (death certificate shows Nov. 22, 1945) in Bridgeport, Lawrence Co., IL, about five miles from her hometown of Lawrenceville. At the time of her death she was a resident in a long term health care facility.
Mamie is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery, next to her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918), and their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897). Her daughter, Dorothy Boyles (my mother)), died in 2020 at the age of 92 and is buried next to her beloved husband (my father), Mitchell R. King (1923-1995) in Louisville, Kentucky.
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The information contained in this memorial for Dr. Augustus Clingman "AC" Boyles, his wives, family members, ancestors and descendants, is thought to be correct. This memorial is revised/corrected , however, as new information becomes available.
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Augustus Clingman Boyles, better known as "A. C.", was born near Laurel Hill, Lincoln Co., North Carolina. He was the son of Rev. Marcus Wrightman "M. W." Boyles (1842-1892) and Susan A. (Alice ?) Wood (1846-1895), the 1st of their seven known children.
A.C. was named after his mother's brother, Thomas Clingman "Cling" Wood (1856-1920). The origin of his first given name, Augustus, is unknown. Augustus is a German name, as is Clingman and the middle given name of his paternal grandfather, Josiah Adolphus Boyles. Their ancestors (Boyles, possibly O'Boyles), however, were not of German descent.. but Irish. Apparently, AC's parents just liked these names.
AC's parents were also born and raised in Lincoln Co., NC. They are buried in the Lexington City Cemetery in Lexington, Davidson Co., NC. Their rather impressive burial monument was paid for by the churches that Rev. Boyles had served while a circuit Methodist preacher during his lifetime. AC was relatively young when his parents passed away, only 24 when his father died and 27 when his mother died.
AC's father, Marcus, had fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, eventually becoming a prisoner of war in the Camp Lookout Prison Camp in Maryland. While he personally opposed slavery he felt compelled to fight with the South to defend his family and his North Carolina home which he felt would eventually be attacked by the North.
Following the war, Marcus was released from the Maryland prison camp in 1865 with only the clothes on his back. He then had to walk about 450 miles back to his home in North Carolina, a long and dangerous journey. Once home, he found that his brother and sister had died while he was gone. His 18 year old brother, Franklin J. Boyles (1844-1863), had died from disease while serving in the Confederate army. Marcus' 16 year old sister, Sarah A. Boyles (1842-1864), had died from typhoid pneumonia.
Following his return home from the was Marcus soon married a neighbor's daughter, Susan Wood, in 1866. Marcus was 23. Sarah 19. To make a living for his family, AC's father, Marcus, tried farming for a few years but said he felt God's call to preach during much of that time.
With his wife's encouragement, he eventually attended Rutherford College in Burke Co., NC and became a Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) preacher, following in the footsteps of his father, Rev. Josiah Adolphus Boyles (1816-1894) and grandfather, Rev. John Boyles, II (1770-1843). Both had been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) circuit riding preachers. Marcus' wife, Sarah Wood, proved to be a wonderful minister's wife.
AC's father, Marcus was actively preaching when he became ill with the flu in December of 1891. He died the next month at the age of 49, another victim of the 1888-92 worldwide flu epidemic. The flu that spread though out the world during those years was called the "Russian Flu".
AC's 3G-grandfather, William Boyles (1720-1818), had immigrated to America about 1738/39 from County Donegal, Ulster Province in northwestern Ireland. It is thought that he and his younger brother, Charles Boyles (1722-1813), paid for their passage across the Atlantic Ocean by working as deck hands on the ship, a uncommon practice in days.
Their port of entry was Norfolk, Virginia. William settled in southern Virginia a few miles south of Petersburg. Charles eventually settled in western Virginia in an area that is now part of West Virginia.
The parents of AC's mother, Susan, were John Henry Wood (1810-1891) and Elizabeth Catherine "Katie" Bess (1818-1900). They lived near Vale in Lincoln County and were neighbors to the Boyles family. They were born in that county, lived and died there. They are buried in the Zion Methodist Cemetery located in Lincolnton, Lincoln Co., NC.
It is thought that AC did his undergraduate college training (abt 1885-89) at the University of Maryland. He received his medical training from the the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine (then called Baltimore University School of Medicine (established 1805), receiving his medical degree in 1895. He started his medical practice in Montgomery Co., NC. that same year. He was an old time county doctor who for years made house calls using a horse and buggy.
On Nov. 6, 1889 AC married Anna Elizabeth "Annie" Coggin (1864-1914) in Eldorado, Montgomery Co., NC. Born in Montgomery County, she was the daughter of Burwell Titus "Burrell" Coggin (1814-1885) and Cirona Harris (1836-1873).
AC and Annie had four known children during their 24 year marriage. They were Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), Burrel Clarence "B.C." Boyles (1894-1989), William Marcus "Bill" Boyles (1897-1935) and Augustus Clingman "Gus" Boyles Jr. (1903-1965).
Their first son, Henry Paul Boyles was named after his mother's father, John Henry Wood (1810-1891), and/or AC's younger brother, Joseph Henry Boyles (1873-1939), who also became a medical doctor. Their second son, Clarence Burrel Boyles, was named after his mother's father, Titus "Burrel" Coggin. Their third son was named after AC's father, Rev. Marcus W. Boyles, while their youngest son, Gus, was obviously named after his father.
In 1910, AC and Annie lost their first born son, 19 year old Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), to typhoid near the end of his freshman year at Trinity College (became Duke University in 1924) in Durham, NC. He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, NC. It is thought that Henry wanted to become a doctor like his father.
AC's wife, Annie, never recovered from her son's tragic death and began to suffer from depression. Despite the valiant efforts of a caring husband and her three other children her condition continued to worsen. Eventually, she had to be hospitalized (1913) for severe depression in order to receive 24/7 care. Annie died in the Dorothy Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, Wake Co., NC on July 8, 1914 at the age of 49. It is said that she no longer wished to live and simply refused to eat. Consequently, she literally starved
herself to death.
The four years prior to his wife's death were rough ones for AC, as well as for his three other children. His first born son's unexpected death and his wife's resulting depression took a huge toll on him. In 1916, less than two years after his wife's death, AC (age 49) gave up his 20 year medical practice and moved to Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Florida where he purchased a large grove of citrus trees. His oldest son, BC, was a student in North Carolina State University at the time but eventually withdrew to join the Navy. His two other sons, Bill and Gus, (19 and 16) where away at school.
Tragedy struck AC's life again in 1917 when a "once in a century" freeze (temperatures fell to the teens) killed most of his fruit trees. Unable to wait until new trees matured he sold his land and moved to an area near Arcadia in Desota Co., Florida where he again purchased some land and took up truck farming, growing citrus fruit and vegetables. Farming was something AC knew as he had been raised on a farm.
In the mid-1920s, AC met widower, Mary G. "Mamie" (Tracy) White (1869-1945), while they were staying in the same boarding house near Tampa. She was a GG-GD of Toussaint Dubois (abt 1854-1816) and Ann "Janne" Bonneau (1700-1800).
It is interesting to note that that AC and Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, would meet her future husband while she too was living in a boarding house (1946, after WWII) in Louisville, Kentucky. With the post war housing shortage boarding houses usually consisted of just one rented room. There was no kitchen and boarders had to share bathrooms.
Mary, named after her mother, went by the nickname "Mamie" and was from Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois. She had moved to Florida for health reasons (lungs) a few years after the death of her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918). Their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897), had died just about six weeks after his birth and is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
In Florida, Mamie lived fairly close (25 miles) to her widowed aunt, Sarah Isabella "Sadie" (Mieure) Burnett Parker (1859-1940), who had remarried. There was only ten years difference in their ages. Mamie's mother, Mary Jane (Mieure) Tracy (1850-1872), had been Sadie's older sister. Mamie was just two years of age when her mother died at the age of 21. When Mamie was growing up her young aunts, Sadie and Ada (Ada Mieure, 1858-1926), had been almost like mothers to her.
AC, a widowed truck farmer and ex-physician, and the widowed Mamie were married in Bradenton, Manatee Co., Florida in the parsonage of the Bradenton Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church. Once again, both were again happily married, however, their happiness was short lived. In April of 1929 the mediterranean fruit fly was found in Florida and eventually nearly ruined near all of Florida's farmers, including AC.
With the encouragement of his wife, AC decided to sell his farm land and return to medical practice in North Carolina. He resumed his medical career in Troy, Montgomery Co. and then Lowgap, (Franklin), Surry Co. It was in Surry County that AC became (1931) a contract physician for the North Carolina Granite Corporation (Mt. Airy), also serving the local community as a general practitioner. His office was located in downtown Mt. Airy, over a drug store. He soon purchased a small farm in the little community of Oak Grove just outside Mr. Airy.
His second wife, Mamie, was known as a "wonderful lady" and proved to be "just what the doctor ordered". She loved and admired her husband, AC, greatly. In public, she usually showed her respect for him by calling him "Doctor" or "Dr. Boyles".
The following paragraph was handwritten by Mamie about 1932 in regard to her husband, AC. She describes him in a simple, yet elegant way.
"Doctor is the son of an M. E. preacher, a true southern gentleman, prominent physician of NC., widely known for his kindly disposition, and extensive charitable work, in is practice, beloved by all his patients. And in his home, these same lovable traits are uppermost. His thoughts are for his family, always happy and trying to make others happy. Our home life is ideal, a fine, influential, Christian man."
A few years later tragedy once again struck AC's life. On Sept. 2, 1935 (Labor Day), a massive hurricane hit the lower part of Florida. His 38 year old son, Bill, lost his life in that hurricane when it hit the Florida Keys area where he and 250+ other WWI vets were building roads for the US Government. All of the veterans, as well as several civilians, were killed in that massive storm, still considered the strongest ever to hit the mainland of the United States. Some of the bodies were washed out to sea. Most of the recovered ones had to be burned (by order of the President) and buried in a mass grave to prevent the spread of disease. A memorial was then built over their mass grave. It is unknown as to what happened to Bill's body.
Just five months later (Jan. 28, 1936), at his Oak Grove farm, AC suffered a massive heart attack while tending some stock in his barn. His eight year old daughter, Dorothy, was with him at the time. She ran to get her mother who was in the house but when Mamie got to the barn she found that her husband was already dead. He is thought to have died instantly, before falling to the ground. A copy of the newspaper article about his death is attached to this memorial.
AC, his wife, Mamie and their daughter, Dorothy, attended the little Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in their community. It is now a United Methodist Church (since 1968) and is quite different. As mentioned earlier, AC's father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M. E.) circuit riding preachers. Both also had small farms.
Needing a larger facility, A. C.'s funeral was moved to the Central Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in Mt. Airy, NC. During the memorial service AC was remembered as a kind man who was a good doctor. He was loved dearly by his family and respected by all who knew him. Unfortunately, from 1910, life had shown only a little kindness to A.C.
AC is buried next to his first wife, Annie, in Maplewood Cemetery located in Durham, Durham Co., NC. Their first born son, Henry Paul Boyles, who had died at age 19, is buried next to them. Another son, Gus Boyles, was buried nearby in 1960.
Not long after AC's death his second wife, Mamie, sold her little farm and moved (abt 1836), with her daughter, back to Florida. Again, the move was for health reasons (lung problems) and so that Mamie could once again be relatively close to her Aunt Sadie.Her Aunt Ada (67) had died in 1926 in Vincennes. In 1940, Sadie, passed away at the age of 80. Both of Sadie's husbands, as well as her two children, had preceded her in death. Consequently, in her will she left her Florida home and her belongings to her twice widowed niece, Mamie.
A few years after moving back to Florida, Mamie's health began to worsen. In the early 1940s she returned to her home state of Illinois. However, once again she moved back to Florida but eventually returned to Illinois, to be close to members of her family during her last years. She died on Dec. 22, 1945 (death certificate shows Nov. 22, 1945) in Bridgeport, Lawrence Co., IL, about five miles from her hometown of Lawrenceville. At the time of her death she was a resident in a long term health care facility.
Mamie is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery, next to her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918), and their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897). Her daughter, Dorothy Boyles (my mother)), died in 2020 at the age of 92 and is buried next to her beloved husband (my father), Mitchell R. King (1923-1995) in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Augustus Clingman Boyles, better known as "A. C.", was born near Laurel Hill, Lincoln Co., North Carolina. He was the son of Rev. Marcus Wrightman "M. W." Boyles (1842-1892) and Susan A. (Alice ?) Wood (1846-1895), the 1st of their seven known children.
A.C. was named after his mother's brother, Thomas Clingman "Cling" Wood (1856-1920). The origin of his first given name, Augustus, is unknown. Augustus is a German name, as is Clingman and the middle given name of his paternal grandfather, Josiah Adolphus Boyles. Their ancestors (Boyles, possibly O'Boyles), however, were not of German descent.. but Irish. Apparently, AC's parents just liked these names.
AC's parents were also born and raised in Lincoln Co., NC. They are buried in the Lexington City Cemetery in Lexington, Davidson Co., NC. Their rather impressive burial monument was paid for by the churches that Rev. Boyles had served while a circuit Methodist preacher during his lifetime. AC was relatively young when his parents passed away, only 24 when his father died and 27 when his mother died.
AC's father, Marcus, had fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, eventually becoming a prisoner of war in the Camp Lookout Prison Camp in Maryland. While he personally opposed slavery he felt compelled to fight with the South to defend his family and his North Carolina home which he felt would eventually be attacked by the North.
Following the war, Marcus was released from the Maryland prison camp in 1865 with only the clothes on his back. He then had to walk about 450 miles back to his home in North Carolina, a long and dangerous journey. Once home, he found that his brother and sister had died while he was gone. His 18 year old brother, Franklin J. Boyles (1844-1863), had died from disease while serving in the Confederate army. Marcus' 16 year old sister, Sarah A. Boyles (1842-1864), had died from typhoid pneumonia.
Following his return home from the was Marcus soon married a neighbor's daughter, Susan Wood, in 1866. Marcus was 23. Sarah 19. To make a living for his family, AC's father, Marcus, tried farming for a few years but said he felt God's call to preach during much of that time.
With his wife's encouragement, he eventually attended Rutherford College in Burke Co., NC and became a Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) preacher, following in the footsteps of his father, Rev. Josiah Adolphus Boyles (1816-1894) and grandfather, Rev. John Boyles, II (1770-1843). Both had been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) circuit riding preachers. Marcus' wife, Sarah Wood, proved to be a wonderful minister's wife.
AC's father, Marcus was actively preaching when he became ill with the flu in December of 1891. He died the next month at the age of 49, another victim of the 1888-92 worldwide flu epidemic. The flu that spread though out the world during those years was called the "Russian Flu".
AC's 3G-grandfather, William Boyles (1720-1818), had immigrated to America about 1738/39 from County Donegal, Ulster Province in northwestern Ireland. It is thought that he and his younger brother, Charles Boyles (1722-1813), paid for their passage across the Atlantic Ocean by working as deck hands on the ship, a uncommon practice in days.
Their port of entry was Norfolk, Virginia. William settled in southern Virginia a few miles south of Petersburg. Charles eventually settled in western Virginia in an area that is now part of West Virginia.
The parents of AC's mother, Susan, were John Henry Wood (1810-1891) and Elizabeth Catherine "Katie" Bess (1818-1900). They lived near Vale in Lincoln County and were neighbors to the Boyles family. They were born in that county, lived and died there. They are buried in the Zion Methodist Cemetery located in Lincolnton, Lincoln Co., NC.
It is thought that AC did his undergraduate college training (abt 1885-89) at the University of Maryland. He received his medical training from the the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine (then called Baltimore University School of Medicine (established 1805), receiving his medical degree in 1895. He started his medical practice in Montgomery Co., NC. that same year. He was an old time county doctor who for years made house calls using a horse and buggy.
On Nov. 6, 1889 AC married Anna Elizabeth "Annie" Coggin (1864-1914) in Eldorado, Montgomery Co., NC. Born in Montgomery County, she was the daughter of Burwell Titus "Burrell" Coggin (1814-1885) and Cirona Harris (1836-1873).
AC and Annie had four known children during their 24 year marriage. They were Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), Burrel Clarence "B.C." Boyles (1894-1989), William Marcus "Bill" Boyles (1897-1935) and Augustus Clingman "Gus" Boyles Jr. (1903-1965).
Their first son, Henry Paul Boyles was named after his mother's father, John Henry Wood (1810-1891), and/or AC's younger brother, Joseph Henry Boyles (1873-1939), who also became a medical doctor. Their second son, Clarence Burrel Boyles, was named after his mother's father, Titus "Burrel" Coggin. Their third son was named after AC's father, Rev. Marcus W. Boyles, while their youngest son, Gus, was obviously named after his father.
In 1910, AC and Annie lost their first born son, 19 year old Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), to typhoid near the end of his freshman year at Trinity College (became Duke University in 1924) in Durham, NC. He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, NC. It is thought that Henry wanted to become a doctor like his father.
AC's wife, Annie, never recovered from her son's tragic death and began to suffer from depression. Despite the valiant efforts of a caring husband and her three other children her condition continued to worsen. Eventually, she had to be hospitalized (1913) for severe depression in order to receive 24/7 care. Annie died in the Dorothy Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, Wake Co., NC on July 8, 1914 at the age of 49. It is said that she no longer wished to live and simply refused to eat. Consequently, she literally starved
herself to death.
The four years prior to his wife's death were rough ones for AC, as well as for his three other children. His first born son's unexpected death and his wife's resulting depression took a huge toll on him. In 1916, less than two years after his wife's death, AC (age 49) gave up his 20 year medical practice and moved to Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Florida where he purchased a large grove of citrus trees. His oldest son, BC, was a student in North Carolina State University at the time but eventually withdrew to join the Navy. His two other sons, Bill and Gus, (19 and 16) where away at school.
Tragedy struck AC's life again in 1917 when a "once in a century" freeze (temperatures fell to the teens) killed most of his fruit trees. Unable to wait until new trees matured he sold his land and moved to an area near Arcadia in Desota Co., Florida where he again purchased some land and took up truck farming, growing citrus fruit and vegetables. Farming was something AC knew as he had been raised on a farm.
In the mid-1920s, AC met widower, Mary G. "Mamie" (Tracy) White (1869-1945), while they were staying in the same boarding house near Tampa. She was a GG-GD of Toussaint Dubois (abt 1854-1816) and Ann "Janne" Bonneau (1700-1800).
It is interesting to note that that AC and Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, would meet her future husband while she too was living in a boarding house (1946, after WWII) in Louisville, Kentucky. With the post war housing shortage boarding houses usually consisted of just one rented room. There was no kitchen and boarders had to share bathrooms.
Mary, named after her mother, went by the nickname "Mamie" and was from Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois. She had moved to Florida for health reasons (lungs) a few years after the death of her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918). Their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897), had died just about six weeks after his birth and is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
In Florida, Mamie lived fairly close (25 miles) to her widowed aunt, Sarah Isabella "Sadie" (Mieure) Burnett Parker (1859-1940), who had remarried. There was only ten years difference in their ages. Mamie's mother, Mary Jane (Mieure) Tracy (1850-1872), had been Sadie's older sister. Mamie was just two years of age when her mother died at the age of 21. When Mamie was growing up her young aunts, Sadie and Ada (Ada Mieure, 1858-1926), had been almost like mothers to her.
AC, a widowed truck farmer and ex-physician, and the widowed Mamie were married in Bradenton, Manatee Co., Florida in the parsonage of the Bradenton Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church. Once again, both were again happily married, however, their happiness was short lived. In April of 1929 the mediterranean fruit fly was found in Florida and eventually nearly ruined near all of Florida's farmers, including AC.
With the encouragement of his wife, AC decided to sell his farm land and return to medical practice in North Carolina. He resumed his medical career in Troy, Montgomery Co. and then Lowgap, (Franklin), Surry Co. It was in Surry County that AC became (1931) a contract physician for the North Carolina Granite Corporation (Mt. Airy), also serving the local community as a general practitioner. His office was located in downtown Mt. Airy, over a drug store. He soon purchased a small farm in the little community of Oak Grove just outside Mr. Airy.
His second wife, Mamie, was known as a "wonderful lady" and proved to be "just what the doctor ordered". She loved and admired her husband, AC, greatly. In public, she usually showed her respect for him by calling him "Doctor" or "Dr. Boyles".
The following paragraph was handwritten by Mamie about 1932 in regard to her husband, AC. She describes him in a simple, yet elegant way.
"Doctor is the son of an M. E. preacher, a true southern gentleman, prominent physician of NC., widely known for his kindly disposition, and extensive charitable work, in is practice, beloved by all his patients. And in his home, these same lovable traits are uppermost. His thoughts are for his family, always happy and trying to make others happy. Our home life is ideal, a fine, influential, Christian man."
A few years later tragedy once again struck AC's life. On Sept. 2, 1935 (Labor Day), a massive hurricane hit the lower part of Florida. His 38 year old son, Bill, lost his life in that hurricane when it hit the Florida Keys area where he and 250+ other WWI vets were building roads for the US Government. All of the veterans, as well as several civilians, were killed in that massive storm, still considered the strongest ever to hit the mainland of the United States. Some of the bodies were washed out to sea. Most of the recovered ones had to be burned (by order of the President) and buried in a mass grave to prevent the spread of disease. A memorial was then built over their mass grave. It is unknown as to what happened to Bill's body.
Just five months later (Jan. 28, 1936), at his Oak Grove farm, AC suffered a massive heart attack while tending some stock in his barn. His eight year old daughter, Dorothy, was with him at the time. She ran to get her mother who was in the house but when Mamie got to the barn she found that her husband was already dead. He is thought to have died instantly, before falling to the ground. A copy of the newspaper article about his death is attached to this memorial.
AC, his wife, Mamie and their daughter, Dorothy, attended the little Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in their community. It is now a United Methodist Church (since 1968) and is quite different. As mentioned earlier, AC's father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M. E.) circuit riding preachers. Both also had small farms.
Needing a larger facility, A. C.'s funeral was moved to the Central Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in Mt. Airy, NC. During the memorial service AC was remembered as a kind man who was a good doctor. He was loved dearly by his family and respected by all who knew him. Unfortunately, from 1910, life had shown only a little kindness to A.C.
AC is buried next to his first wife, Annie, in Maplewood Cemetery located in Durham, Durham Co., NC. Their first born son, Henry Paul Boyles, who had died at age 19, is buried next to them. Another son, Gus Boyles, was buried nearby in 1960.
Not long after AC's death his second wife, Mamie, sold her little farm and moved (abt 1836), with her daughter, back to Florida. Again, the move was for health reasons (lung problems) and so that Mamie could once again be relatively close to her Aunt Sadie.Her Aunt Ada (67) had died in 1926 in Vincennes. In 1940, Sadie, passed away at the age of 80. Both of Sadie's husbands, as well as her two children, had preceded her in death. Consequently, in her will she left her Florida home and her belongings to her twice widowed niece, Mamie.
A few years after moving back to Florida, Mamie's health began to worsen. In the early 1940s she returned to her home state of Illinois. However, once again she moved back to Florida but eventually returned to Illinois, to be close to members of her family during her last years. She died on Dec. 22, 1945 (death certificate shows Nov. 22, 1945) in Bridgeport, Lawrence Co., IL, about five miles from her hometown of Lawrenceville. At the time of her death she was a resident in a long term health care facility.
Mamie is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery, next to her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918), and their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897). Her daughter, Dorothy Boyles (my mother)), died in 2020 at the age of 92 and is buried next to her beloved husband (my father), Mitchell R. King (1923-1995) in Louisville, Kentucky.
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The information contained in this memorial for Dr. Augustus Clingman "AC" Boyles, his wives, family members, ancestors and descendants, is thought to be correct. This memorial is revised/corrected , however, as new information becomes available.
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Augustus Clingman Boyles, better known as "A. C.", was born near Laurel Hill, Lincoln Co., North Carolina. He was the son of Rev. Marcus Wrightman "M. W." Boyles (1842-1892) and Susan A. (Alice ?) Wood (1846-1895), the 1st of their seven known children.
A.C. was named after his mother's brother, Thomas Clingman "Cling" Wood (1856-1920). The origin of his first given name, Augustus, is unknown. Augustus is a German name, as is Clingman and the middle given name of his paternal grandfather, Josiah Adolphus Boyles. Their ancestors (Boyles, possibly O'Boyles), however, were not of German descent.. but Irish. Apparently, AC's parents just liked these names.
AC's parents were also born and raised in Lincoln Co., NC. They are buried in the Lexington City Cemetery in Lexington, Davidson Co., NC. Their rather impressive burial monument was paid for by the churches that Rev. Boyles had served while a circuit Methodist preacher during his lifetime. AC was relatively young when his parents passed away, only 24 when his father died and 27 when his mother died.
AC's father, Marcus, had fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, eventually becoming a prisoner of war in the Camp Lookout Prison Camp in Maryland. While he personally opposed slavery he felt compelled to fight with the South to defend his family and his North Carolina home which he felt would eventually be attacked by the North.
Following the war, Marcus was released from the Maryland prison camp in 1865 with only the clothes on his back. He then had to walk about 450 miles back to his home in North Carolina, a long and dangerous journey. Once home, he found that his brother and sister had died while he was gone. His 18 year old brother, Franklin J. Boyles (1844-1863), had died from disease while serving in the Confederate army. Marcus' 16 year old sister, Sarah A. Boyles (1842-1864), had died from typhoid pneumonia.
Following his return home from the was Marcus soon married a neighbor's daughter, Susan Wood, in 1866. Marcus was 23. Sarah 19. To make a living for his family, AC's father, Marcus, tried farming for a few years but said he felt God's call to preach during much of that time.
With his wife's encouragement, he eventually attended Rutherford College in Burke Co., NC and became a Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) preacher, following in the footsteps of his father, Rev. Josiah Adolphus Boyles (1816-1894) and grandfather, Rev. John Boyles, II (1770-1843). Both had been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) circuit riding preachers. Marcus' wife, Sarah Wood, proved to be a wonderful minister's wife.
AC's father, Marcus was actively preaching when he became ill with the flu in December of 1891. He died the next month at the age of 49, another victim of the 1888-92 worldwide flu epidemic. The flu that spread though out the world during those years was called the "Russian Flu".
AC's 3G-grandfather, William Boyles (1720-1818), had immigrated to America about 1738/39 from County Donegal, Ulster Province in northwestern Ireland. It is thought that he and his younger brother, Charles Boyles (1722-1813), paid for their passage across the Atlantic Ocean by working as deck hands on the ship, a uncommon practice in days.
Their port of entry was Norfolk, Virginia. William settled in southern Virginia a few miles south of Petersburg. Charles eventually settled in western Virginia in an area that is now part of West Virginia.
The parents of AC's mother, Susan, were John Henry Wood (1810-1891) and Elizabeth Catherine "Katie" Bess (1818-1900). They lived near Vale in Lincoln County and were neighbors to the Boyles family. They were born in that county, lived and died there. They are buried in the Zion Methodist Cemetery located in Lincolnton, Lincoln Co., NC.
It is thought that AC did his undergraduate college training (abt 1885-89) at the University of Maryland. He received his medical training from the the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine (then called Baltimore University School of Medicine (established 1805), receiving his medical degree in 1895. He started his medical practice in Montgomery Co., NC. that same year. He was an old time county doctor who for years made house calls using a horse and buggy.
On Nov. 6, 1889 AC married Anna Elizabeth "Annie" Coggin (1864-1914) in Eldorado, Montgomery Co., NC. Born in Montgomery County, she was the daughter of Burwell Titus "Burrell" Coggin (1814-1885) and Cirona Harris (1836-1873).
AC and Annie had four known children during their 24 year marriage. They were Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), Burrel Clarence "B.C." Boyles (1894-1989), William Marcus "Bill" Boyles (1897-1935) and Augustus Clingman "Gus" Boyles Jr. (1903-1965).
Their first son, Henry Paul Boyles was named after his mother's father, John Henry Wood (1810-1891), and/or AC's younger brother, Joseph Henry Boyles (1873-1939), who also became a medical doctor. Their second son, Clarence Burrel Boyles, was named after his mother's father, Titus "Burrel" Coggin. Their third son was named after AC's father, Rev. Marcus W. Boyles, while their youngest son, Gus, was obviously named after his father.
In 1910, AC and Annie lost their first born son, 19 year old Henry Paul Boyles (1891-1910), to typhoid near the end of his freshman year at Trinity College (became Duke University in 1924) in Durham, NC. He is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, NC. It is thought that Henry wanted to become a doctor like his father.
AC's wife, Annie, never recovered from her son's tragic death and began to suffer from depression. Despite the valiant efforts of a caring husband and her three other children her condition continued to worsen. Eventually, she had to be hospitalized (1913) for severe depression in order to receive 24/7 care. Annie died in the Dorothy Dix State Hospital in Raleigh, Wake Co., NC on July 8, 1914 at the age of 49. It is said that she no longer wished to live and simply refused to eat. Consequently, she literally starved
herself to death.
The four years prior to his wife's death were rough ones for AC, as well as for his three other children. His first born son's unexpected death and his wife's resulting depression took a huge toll on him. In 1916, less than two years after his wife's death, AC (age 49) gave up his 20 year medical practice and moved to Kissimmee, Osceola Co., Florida where he purchased a large grove of citrus trees. His oldest son, BC, was a student in North Carolina State University at the time but eventually withdrew to join the Navy. His two other sons, Bill and Gus, (19 and 16) where away at school.
Tragedy struck AC's life again in 1917 when a "once in a century" freeze (temperatures fell to the teens) killed most of his fruit trees. Unable to wait until new trees matured he sold his land and moved to an area near Arcadia in Desota Co., Florida where he again purchased some land and took up truck farming, growing citrus fruit and vegetables. Farming was something AC knew as he had been raised on a farm.
In the mid-1920s, AC met widower, Mary G. "Mamie" (Tracy) White (1869-1945), while they were staying in the same boarding house near Tampa. She was a GG-GD of Toussaint Dubois (abt 1854-1816) and Ann "Janne" Bonneau (1700-1800).
It is interesting to note that that AC and Mamie's daughter, Dorothy, would meet her future husband while she too was living in a boarding house (1946, after WWII) in Louisville, Kentucky. With the post war housing shortage boarding houses usually consisted of just one rented room. There was no kitchen and boarders had to share bathrooms.
Mary, named after her mother, went by the nickname "Mamie" and was from Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Illinois. She had moved to Florida for health reasons (lungs) a few years after the death of her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918). Their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897), had died just about six weeks after his birth and is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery.
In Florida, Mamie lived fairly close (25 miles) to her widowed aunt, Sarah Isabella "Sadie" (Mieure) Burnett Parker (1859-1940), who had remarried. There was only ten years difference in their ages. Mamie's mother, Mary Jane (Mieure) Tracy (1850-1872), had been Sadie's older sister. Mamie was just two years of age when her mother died at the age of 21. When Mamie was growing up her young aunts, Sadie and Ada (Ada Mieure, 1858-1926), had been almost like mothers to her.
AC, a widowed truck farmer and ex-physician, and the widowed Mamie were married in Bradenton, Manatee Co., Florida in the parsonage of the Bradenton Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church. Once again, both were again happily married, however, their happiness was short lived. In April of 1929 the mediterranean fruit fly was found in Florida and eventually nearly ruined near all of Florida's farmers, including AC.
With the encouragement of his wife, AC decided to sell his farm land and return to medical practice in North Carolina. He resumed his medical career in Troy, Montgomery Co. and then Lowgap, (Franklin), Surry Co. It was in Surry County that AC became (1931) a contract physician for the North Carolina Granite Corporation (Mt. Airy), also serving the local community as a general practitioner. His office was located in downtown Mt. Airy, over a drug store. He soon purchased a small farm in the little community of Oak Grove just outside Mr. Airy.
His second wife, Mamie, was known as a "wonderful lady" and proved to be "just what the doctor ordered". She loved and admired her husband, AC, greatly. In public, she usually showed her respect for him by calling him "Doctor" or "Dr. Boyles".
The following paragraph was handwritten by Mamie about 1932 in regard to her husband, AC. She describes him in a simple, yet elegant way.
"Doctor is the son of an M. E. preacher, a true southern gentleman, prominent physician of NC., widely known for his kindly disposition, and extensive charitable work, in is practice, beloved by all his patients. And in his home, these same lovable traits are uppermost. His thoughts are for his family, always happy and trying to make others happy. Our home life is ideal, a fine, influential, Christian man."
A few years later tragedy once again struck AC's life. On Sept. 2, 1935 (Labor Day), a massive hurricane hit the lower part of Florida. His 38 year old son, Bill, lost his life in that hurricane when it hit the Florida Keys area where he and 250+ other WWI vets were building roads for the US Government. All of the veterans, as well as several civilians, were killed in that massive storm, still considered the strongest ever to hit the mainland of the United States. Some of the bodies were washed out to sea. Most of the recovered ones had to be burned (by order of the President) and buried in a mass grave to prevent the spread of disease. A memorial was then built over their mass grave. It is unknown as to what happened to Bill's body.
Just five months later (Jan. 28, 1936), at his Oak Grove farm, AC suffered a massive heart attack while tending some stock in his barn. His eight year old daughter, Dorothy, was with him at the time. She ran to get her mother who was in the house but when Mamie got to the barn she found that her husband was already dead. He is thought to have died instantly, before falling to the ground. A copy of the newspaper article about his death is attached to this memorial.
AC, his wife, Mamie and their daughter, Dorothy, attended the little Oak Grove Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in their community. It is now a United Methodist Church (since 1968) and is quite different. As mentioned earlier, AC's father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been "old-time" Methodist Episcopal (M. E.) circuit riding preachers. Both also had small farms.
Needing a larger facility, A. C.'s funeral was moved to the Central Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) Church in Mt. Airy, NC. During the memorial service AC was remembered as a kind man who was a good doctor. He was loved dearly by his family and respected by all who knew him. Unfortunately, from 1910, life had shown only a little kindness to A.C.
AC is buried next to his first wife, Annie, in Maplewood Cemetery located in Durham, Durham Co., NC. Their first born son, Henry Paul Boyles, who had died at age 19, is buried next to them. Another son, Gus Boyles, was buried nearby in 1960.
Not long after AC's death his second wife, Mamie, sold her little farm and moved (abt 1836), with her daughter, back to Florida. Again, the move was for health reasons (lung problems) and so that Mamie could once again be relatively close to her Aunt Sadie.Her Aunt Ada (67) had died in 1926 in Vincennes. In 1940, Sadie, passed away at the age of 80. Both of Sadie's husbands, as well as her two children, had preceded her in death. Consequently, in her will she left her Florida home and her belongings to her twice widowed niece, Mamie.
A few years after moving back to Florida, Mamie's health began to worsen. In the early 1940s she returned to her home state of Illinois. However, once again she moved back to Florida but eventually returned to Illinois, to be close to members of her family during her last years. She died on Dec. 22, 1945 (death certificate shows Nov. 22, 1945) in Bridgeport, Lawrence Co., IL, about five miles from her hometown of Lawrenceville. At the time of her death she was a resident in a long term health care facility.
Mamie is buried in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery, next to her first husband, Jesse Kilgore White (1857-1918), and their only child, Tracy White (1897-1897). Her daughter, Dorothy Boyles (my mother)), died in 2020 at the age of 92 and is buried next to her beloved husband (my father), Mitchell R. King (1923-1995) in Louisville, Kentucky.
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