AGED VETEREN DIES
AT HOME SUNDAY
Melvin Boice, 86, Passes At Home In
Cheshire Township
Pomeroy, May 18 - Melvin Boice, 86, one of the two Civil War veterans of Cheshire Township, Gallia County, died early Sunday, after an illness of three months. He had been in excellent health more than 85 years.
Boice served in Company H, 53rd O.V.I. and was the last survivor of that organization. His widow survives at the age of 82. They had lived in the same house more than fifty years. Two children survive, Mrs. D. O. Lyle, Philadelphia, Pa., and George Boice, Columbus.
The other Civil War veteran of Cheshire Township if Marcellus Boice, a brother of Melvin Boice. This company was enlisted in Gallia and Meigs Counties. The 53d Ohio Regiment was a famous outfit and Companies H and I were enlisted in this section of Ohio.
The funeral of Mr. Boice will take place Tuesday afternoon at the residence. Rev. Harley Bolton, Rutland, will preach the funeral sermon. The burial will be made in the Gravel Hill Cemetery at Cheshire.
Members of the Boice family state that Mr. Boice remarked to his wife several days ago that he would probably die on her eighty-second birthday, Saturday May 16. He lived that day and two hours and ten minutes longer. His son, George, who is in business in Columbus, has come home each Memorial Day. Last year after the family returned from the services at the Gravel Hill Cemetery the aged father remarked: "George. I will hardly make it to next Decoration Day, but you will come down just the same to go to my grave with your mother." He will have been buried less than two week when Decoration Day comes this year.
Athens Messenger
May 18, 1931.
AGED VETEREN DIES
AT HOME SUNDAY
Melvin Boice, 86, Passes At Home In
Cheshire Township
Pomeroy, May 18 - Melvin Boice, 86, one of the two Civil War veterans of Cheshire Township, Gallia County, died early Sunday, after an illness of three months. He had been in excellent health more than 85 years.
Boice served in Company H, 53rd O.V.I. and was the last survivor of that organization. His widow survives at the age of 82. They had lived in the same house more than fifty years. Two children survive, Mrs. D. O. Lyle, Philadelphia, Pa., and George Boice, Columbus.
The other Civil War veteran of Cheshire Township if Marcellus Boice, a brother of Melvin Boice. This company was enlisted in Gallia and Meigs Counties. The 53d Ohio Regiment was a famous outfit and Companies H and I were enlisted in this section of Ohio.
The funeral of Mr. Boice will take place Tuesday afternoon at the residence. Rev. Harley Bolton, Rutland, will preach the funeral sermon. The burial will be made in the Gravel Hill Cemetery at Cheshire.
Members of the Boice family state that Mr. Boice remarked to his wife several days ago that he would probably die on her eighty-second birthday, Saturday May 16. He lived that day and two hours and ten minutes longer. His son, George, who is in business in Columbus, has come home each Memorial Day. Last year after the family returned from the services at the Gravel Hill Cemetery the aged father remarked: "George. I will hardly make it to next Decoration Day, but you will come down just the same to go to my grave with your mother." He will have been buried less than two week when Decoration Day comes this year.
Athens Messenger
May 18, 1931.
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BOICE
MELVIN BOICE
CO.H.53.REG.O.V.V.I.
1845-1931
MINA MAUCK BOICE
1849-1938
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