Abraham Lincoln Boyer (1868 - 1940)

Born 4 Jan 1868 in Butler, DeKalb, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 Oct 1940 at age 72 in Ponoka, Ponoka County, Alberta, Canada

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Biography

Abraham was born in Butler, DeKalb County, Indiana, on January 4, 1868.^[1] He was the son of Eli Boyer and Kathryn Firestone. He passed away in Lacombe, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada, on October 27, 1940, and he was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Rimbey, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada.^[2][3]

Abraham L. Boyer was living under the head of household Catharine Boyer in Butler, De Kalb County, Indiana, in the 1880 census.^[4] A. Lincoln Boyer was head of household in Red Deer Sudivision, Alberta, Canada, in the 1911 Canada Census,^[5] as Abrin L. Boyer in the 1916 Canada census,^[6] and as Alvin Boyer in Wetaskiwin County, Alberta, Canada, in the 1926 Canada census,^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Abraham Lincoln Boyer, Lacombe, registration number 405-449 (1940) in "Deaths 1925-1971," (https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/sites/default/files/2018-11/deaths-b-1940-1944.pdf), page 8, row 17, Provincial Archives of Alberta, Canada, Death Indexes (registrations from 1870-1972); copy supplied by the Archives (2021), held by James Blodgett.
2. ↑ Abraham Lincoln Boyer, Lacombe, registration number 405-449 (1940) in "Deaths 1925-1971," (https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/sites/default/files/2018-11/deaths-b-1940-1944.pdf), page 8, row 17, Provincial Archives of Alberta, Canada, Death Indexes (registrations from 1870-1972); copy supplied by the Archives (2021), held by James Blodgett.
3. ↑ FindAGrave. Memorial maintained and gravestone photo added by Linda Doran.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch, Abraham L. Boyer in household of Catharine Boyer, Butler, DeKalb, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.
5. ↑ "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch, A Lincoln Boyer, 1911; citing Census, Red Deer Sub-Districts 1-78, Alberta, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,417,655.
6. ↑ "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916", database with images, FamilySearch, Abrin L Boyer, 1916
7. ↑ "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926," database with images, FamilySearch, Alvin Boyer, Wetaskiwin County No. 10, Alberta, Canada; citing Census, Wetaskiwin County No. 10, Alberta, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.