Daughter of Lewis Miller Boyer and Lillie Belle Zora Rossiter
Never married and died way too young at 19.
Althea was the seventh of ten siblings and was born on the family homestead in Blaine County, Oklahoma, ten miles west of Watonga and four miles east of Fay, in Dewey County. She was undoubtedly named after a beloved first cousin, Althea Luetta, daughter of her paternal aunt, Sarah Miranda Boyer.
She moved with her family to Oregon in 1908, Canada in 1909 and back to Oregon in 1915 in her relatively short life. She was living with her parents and brothers and sisters in West Luckiamute Precinct, Polk County, Oregon, where her parents were a farm family - she a school girl.
Brother Stephen did not remember much about his younger sister as "I was always away from the family most of the time she was growing to womanhood. As I saw her, she was a timid child, was not quarrelsome, I do not believe she would harm any one, in my heart I know she lived a good Christian life. ... I was working in a sawmill at Toledo, Oregon, one morning on the job I was handed a telegram telling of her death, February 23, 1923, which was hard to hear, she was the first of the family to pass away. She is buried at Providence Cemetery at Crabtree, Oregon."
References:
1982 Memoir of brother, Stephen Abijah Boyer
Never married and died way too young at 19.
Althea was the seventh of ten siblings and was born on the family homestead in Blaine County, Oklahoma, ten miles west of Watonga and four miles east of Fay, in Dewey County. She was undoubtedly named after a beloved first cousin, Althea Luetta, daughter of her paternal aunt, Sarah Miranda Boyer.
She moved with her family to Oregon in 1908, Canada in 1909 and back to Oregon in 1915 in her relatively short life. She was living with her parents and brothers and sisters in West Luckiamute Precinct, Polk County, Oregon, where her parents were a farm family - she a school girl.
Brother Stephen did not remember much about his younger sister as "I was always away from the family most of the time she was growing to womanhood. As I saw her, she was a timid child, was not quarrelsome, I do not believe she would harm any one, in my heart I know she lived a good Christian life. ... I was working in a sawmill at Toledo, Oregon, one morning on the job I was handed a telegram telling of her death, February 23, 1923, which was hard to hear, she was the first of the family to pass away. She is buried at Providence Cemetery at Crabtree, Oregon."
References:
1982 Memoir of brother, Stephen Abijah Boyer
Daughter of Lewis Miller Boyer and Lillie Belle Zora Rossiter
Never married and died way too young at 19.
Althea was the seventh of ten siblings and was born on the family homestead in Blaine County, Oklahoma, ten miles west of Watonga and four miles east of Fay, in Dewey County. She was undoubtedly named after a beloved first cousin, Althea Luetta, daughter of her paternal aunt, Sarah Miranda Boyer.
She moved with her family to Oregon in 1908, Canada in 1909 and back to Oregon in 1915 in her relatively short life. She was living with her parents and brothers and sisters in West Luckiamute Precinct, Polk County, Oregon, where her parents were a farm family - she a school girl.
Brother Stephen did not remember much about his younger sister as "I was always away from the family most of the time she was growing to womanhood. As I saw her, she was a timid child, was not quarrelsome, I do not believe she would harm any one, in my heart I know she lived a good Christian life. ... I was working in a sawmill at Toledo, Oregon, one morning on the job I was handed a telegram telling of her death, February 23, 1923, which was hard to hear, she was the first of the family to pass away. She is buried at Providence Cemetery at Crabtree, Oregon."
References:
1982 Memoir of brother, Stephen Abijah Boyer
Never married and died way too young at 19.
Althea was the seventh of ten siblings and was born on the family homestead in Blaine County, Oklahoma, ten miles west of Watonga and four miles east of Fay, in Dewey County. She was undoubtedly named after a beloved first cousin, Althea Luetta, daughter of her paternal aunt, Sarah Miranda Boyer.
She moved with her family to Oregon in 1908, Canada in 1909 and back to Oregon in 1915 in her relatively short life. She was living with her parents and brothers and sisters in West Luckiamute Precinct, Polk County, Oregon, where her parents were a farm family - she a school girl.
Brother Stephen did not remember much about his younger sister as "I was always away from the family most of the time she was growing to womanhood. As I saw her, she was a timid child, was not quarrelsome, I do not believe she would harm any one, in my heart I know she lived a good Christian life. ... I was working in a sawmill at Toledo, Oregon, one morning on the job I was handed a telegram telling of her death, February 23, 1923, which was hard to hear, she was the first of the family to pass away. She is buried at Providence Cemetery at Crabtree, Oregon."
References:
1982 Memoir of brother, Stephen Abijah Boyer
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