Samuel F. Boyer
Samuel F. Boyer, deceased, was born in Pennsylvania, February 12, 1815. He was a son of Samuel and Christina Boyer, who came to Ohio and located in Fairfield County, remained until in 1833, when they came to Shelby County and settled on the farm now owned by J.J. Schilling in Franklin Township, on which they remained until 1847, when they moved to Dinsmore Township, and located on the farm now owned by George Fogt, Sr., one mile south of Botkins, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mr. Boyer died in 1861. His companion departed this life November 20, 1867. They reared a family of ten children, viz., Elizabeth, Daniel, Lucinda, Samuel F., Joseph, Mary, George, Christina, William, and Savina. Only four of the above named children are now living, viz., Elizabeth, Mary, William, and Savina.
Samuel F. Boyer, subject of this sketch, came to Shelby County with his parents as above stated. He made farming his principal avocation through life, which he conducted with success, and was considered one among the leading farmers of Dinsmore Township. At the time of his death he owned five farms in Dinsmore Township; in all there were three hundred and ninety acres of good land. On the 14th of September, 1842, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse W. and Sarah Veach. Miss Veach was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, July 15, 1822. She came to Shelby County with her parents in 1832, and settled on the farm now owned by Christian Simmers, three-quarters of a mile south of Anna, in Franklin Township, where Mr. Veach died January 22, 1853. Mrs. Veach is still living at the advanced age of eighty-four years, and is now making her home with her daughter, Elizabeth Boyer, in Dinsmore Township. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer settled on the farm now owned and occupied by his widow, which is the west half of the north east quarter of section 9, Dinsmore Township, on which Mr. Boyer died May 14, 1878, leaving a wife and ten children, viz., Sarah J., George W., Harriett E., Christina, Samuel F., William H., Joseph H., Mary F., James E., and Anna D., and many friends to mourn the loss of a kind husband, an indulgent parent, and a good citizen.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883