Sundays Obituary; Albert H. Boyd

Obituary of Albert H. Boyd

Albert H. Boyd, 63, Kelly Station carpenter, died at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Citizens General  hospital, New Kensington.

Death resulted from a complication of diseases. He had been in the hospital one week.

Mr. Boyd lived all his life in Kelly Station, Within a half-mile of where he was born.

Surviving are his wife, five children: Mrs. Floyd Conner, Warren, Ohio; Harry, Kittanning: Mrs. Audrey Bennett, Kittanning: Mrs. Geo. Nicholson, New Florence: Ernest, at home: four brothers: Eli, Ford City: Samuel, John and Frank, Kelly Station: three sisters, Mrs Jane Hawk, New Castle: Mrs. John Thompson, Kelly Station and Mrs. Sarah Hartman, Logansport, and 10 grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Bethel Lutheran church in charge of Rev. Walter Kennedy, pastor of the Tidal and Templeton Presbyterian churches, with burial in the adjoining cemetery.

Simpsons' Daily Leader-Times, Saturday, October 17, 1931, Page 5, Col. 5

Albert was my great-grandfather and his daughter, listed here as Mrs. Geo. Nicholson, my grandmother.

Sadly Alberts wife Catherine died just 6 weeks later on Dec.3, 1931

Albert's tombstone has his name as Alvin H. Boyd and on his obit it is Albert. Possibly he was known by different names by different family members.

Albert and Catherine are both buried in the Bethel Lutheran Church Cemetery in Ford City, Pa.

How often do you see a Presby minister doing services at another denominations church? Everyone working together back in the early-mid 1900's? Don't you love history?