Anna Tillman

Anna BOYD

Son's Chapel Cemetery

Washington County, Arkansas

1869 - June 2, 1939

Second wife of Francis M Boyd

*Obituary

Northwest Arkansas Times

Saturday, June 3, 1939

BOYD, Anna Tillman - Mrs. A.T. Boyd Dies In Tulsa; Funeral Here - Services Sunday At 2:30 For Retired Teacher, Lifelong Resident - Mrs. Anna Tillman Boyd, life-long resident of Fayetteville and sister of the late Congressman John N. Tillman, died Friday morning at 7 o'clock at Morningside Hospital in Tulsa.

Mrs. Boyd had been in Copan, Oklahoma, with her daughter, Mrs. E.L. Hurlock. A son, Drury T. Boyd of Joplin, Missouri, is the only other member of her immediate family who survives. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. John H. Tillman, lives in Fayetteville.

Mrs. Boyd also leaves two nephews, Jophn and Frew Tillman of Pawhuska, Oklahoma and a niece, Mrs. L.B. (Red) Shaver of Dennison, Texas.

Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Moore's chapel here with burial in Son's Chapel cemetery. Mrs. Hurlock and Mr. Boyd will accompany the body here, arriving this afternoon.

Mrs. Boyd was born a few miles north of Fayetteville April 24, 1869. She was married in December 1891 to Francis M. Boyd of Wyman. Mr. Boyd died in 1907. They were the parents of three children, a daughter Edith, having died at the age of 5 in 1899.

A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Mrs. Boyd taught for a time in North school in Fayetteville and later taught in Gallup, New Mexico, returning to Fayetteville for the summers. She was the last surviving member of eight children, best known of whom was the late John N. Tillman, congressman from this district and former president of the University of Arkansas, who died ten years ago.

Several years ago Mrs. Boyd retired from teaching and has since made her home on North College Avenue.

Mrs. Boyd was a member of the Mildred Lee Chapter, U.D.C.