Lamar-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Boyd, Mary Guerry May 21, 1962
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Mrs. Boyd, 103, Was Buried in Americus
     Mrs. Mary Guerry Boyd, 103, widow of the late Mr. John Robert Boyd, died 
late Monday afternoon at a nursing home in Tucker, Ga., where she had been 
just a few weeks.
     Mrs. Boyd was born in Americus, Ga., but had made her home in Lamar 
County since 1912.  She was the daughter of the late William Barnett Guerry 
and Mrs. Sarah Amanda Dixon Guerry, one of the pioneer citizens of Sumter 
County, member of the French Huguenot Society and a graduate of Furlow Masonic 
College in Americus.
     Mrs. Boyd was a member of Prospect Methodist Church, the Woman's Society 
of Christian Service and the Redbone Woman's Club.  She was one of Redbone's 
most beloved and refined women for many years.
     She was a sister of the late Dupont Guerry, who was a former president of 
Wesleyan College, and also the late LeGrand Guerry, who was killed in the 
Battle of Gettysburg.
     Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning at 10:00 o'clock from 
the First Methodist Church of Barnesville.  Elder David Payne, the Rev. Ellis 
Holden, Jr., and the Rev. Sam Coker officiated.
     Interment services were at 2:00 p.m. at the Oak Grove Cemetery at 
Americus.
     The survivors include, Mrs. Edna Boyd Barwick, of Barnesville, where she 
had been making her home; two sons, Robert Montgomery Boyd of Amorilla, Texas 
and Will Guerry Boyd of Gastonia, N.C.; 13 grandchildren, 25 great-
grandchildren and 10 [great-great-grandchildren].  
     The grandsons were the [pallbearers].
     [The lines about the GG-grandchildren and the grandsons were reversed in 
publication, but what was intended to be written was clear so submitter has 
taken the liberty to correct them for ease of reading.]
     Haisten Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.



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