U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Boyers, Cyrus Fletcher (1842-1921) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahale Valley, West Virginia Arthor: James Morton Callahan Volume II, Pages 448-449 Dr. Cyrus Fletcher Boyers, third child of Morgan Lock and Julianna (Bright) Boyers, was born October 22, 1842, at Jimtown (now Randall), West Virginia. He went to the old-fashioned subscription schools, common in his youthful days. Later he attended the academy at Morgantown for two years, and decided to become a physician. He then entered the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, where he studied medicine in 1865-66; the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1867, and graduated from the Baltimore Medical College, Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied in 1881-82. He has been in active medical practice during a period of over forty years, in the following towns: Boothsville, Marion county, West Virginia, 1866-68; Sistersville, 1868-69; Boothsville, again, 1869-73; Palatine (now Fairmont), from 1873 to the present time (1912). Dr. Boyers has been engaged not only in medical work, but has been also a true promoter of local industries in his locality. He has dealt extensively in real estate, engaged in the drug trade, been connected with the hospital work of his city, and assisted in building up the pottery industry in Marion county. Politically Dr. Boyer is a Democrat. He has been identified with that ancient and honorable fraternity, the Masonic order, since 1868, and is now a worthy Shriner, having advanced to that degree in 1900. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, West Virginia State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Since 1866 he has been connected with the Baptist church. He married, at Boothsville, West Virginia, February 12, 1867, Elizabeth Jane Rymer, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, born March 8, 1850, daughter of Henry A. Rymer, born in 1821 or 1822, died 1898, who had been a Methodist minister, school teacher and medical practitioner from 1849 to 1898, in Marion and Taylor counties, Virginia, and had served in the West Virginia legislature for two terms in the seventies. The children of Henry A. Rymer were: Catherine M., married Harter, died 1897; Elizabeth Jane, married Dr. C. F. Boyers, as aforesaid; Jessie E., born December 3, 1852, married Smith; Susana M., born March 3, 1854; Ina B., born September 6, 1856, died December, 1907; Frank S., born September 9, 1859. The children born to Dr. and Mrs. Cyrus F. Boyers are: 1. Lillie Myrtle, born December 2, 1868; educated in public schools and the Fairmont State Normal School; married, June 25, 1888, Virgil Newton Jones, D. D. S.; children: Edna Hazel, born May 27, 1889; Velma Pauline, born June 5, 1893. 2. Henry Morgan, born October 17, 1870, died October 15, 1898; educated in public schools and the Fairmont State Normal School; graduated from the Baltimore Medical College, 1891; practiced at Grafton and Fairmont, West Virginia; married Emma Rector Reynolds, June 12, 1894, and had one child: Lawrence Howard, born December 28, 1896. 3. William Frank, see forward. 4. Cyrus Fletcher Jr., born March 12, 1874; educated in public schools, Fairmont State Normal School, Baltimore Medical College, and graduated from Barnes Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri; married Rosa Katherine Holland, October 26, 1898, and has one child: Frederick Earl, born April 21, 1903. 5. Charles Leslie, born January 10, 1877; educated in public schools and Fairmont State Normal School, and graduated from Maryland Medical College in 1900; married, June 12, 1902, Naomi Bell Riggs, born April, 1880, daughter of Andrew J. and Jeannette (Israels) Riggs; children: Charles Eugene, born August 31, 1903; Paul Elston, born May 12, 1907. 6. Lee Bernard, see forward. 7. Elbatine Beatrice, born August 22, 1882; educated in public schools and Fairmont State Normal School; married James Albert Justis, December 25, 1907; children: Catherine Beatrice, born May 18, 1909; James Albert, born December 6, 1910. 8. James Walter, born October 28, 1884; educated in public schools, Fairmont State Normal School and Maryland Medical College; married Bessie Nelson, October 8, 1909. 9. Lawrence Luther, born October 14, 1886; educated in grammar school, Fairmont State Normal School, Maryland Medical College; married Della M. Jenkins, December 21, 1911. 10. Dark Catherine Matilda, born February 8, 1888; educated in the grammar school and State Normal School in Fairmont. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- from Death Certificate: Date of death: Nov. 19, 1921 Place of Death: Fairmont, Marion County, WV Occupation: Retired Physician Buried in Maple Grove Cemetery. ---------------------------------------------------------------------