He was born on 13 August 1830, in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, to Peter C Boyer and Hannah Shetler. [sources: date: 6, 11, 15; 2 (34 in 1865), 7 (19 in 1850), 8 (30 in 1860), 9 (45 in 1870), 10 (49 in 1880), 11 (69 in 1900), 12 (80 in 1910). place: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15. parents: 6, 15]
In 1850, he was living in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was living with his parents Peter and Hannah Boyer, and sister Catharine Boyer. [source: 7]
In 1852/55, he married Frederica Long. She was born on 27 August 1820, in Pennsylvania. They have five known children:
[sources: 6, 11 (47 years in 1900; 7 children 6 alive), 12 (55 in 1910; 5 children 4 alive), 16]
In 1860, he was living in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was living with his wife Frederica, and children Hannah, Maria, and Daniel. He was a day laborer, and owned $100 in personal property. [source: 8]
He was drafted. He enlisted and was mustered into service on 2 March 1865. He was enlisted at Norristown, Pennsylvania. He was mustered in as a private at Norristown, Pennsylvania. He was a private in company B. [sources: 1, 2, 3 (23 Mar), 17]
He was discharged by general order on 7 July 1865. He was a private, in company B. [sources: 1, 2, 3, 17]
In 1870, he was living in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was living with his wife Frederica, children Daniel, Levi, and Amanda, and with William Eckert. He was a farm laborer, and owned $400 in real estate. [source: 9]
In 1880, he was living in Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was living with his wife Frederica, daughter Amanda, daughter Maria Kulp, and Maria's son Edward. He was a farmer. [source: 10]
In 1890, he was living in Frederick, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (post office Perkiomenville). [source: 3]
On 21 March 1890, he successfully applied from Pennsylvania for a pension. [sources: 4, 5]
In 1900, he was living in Milford, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was living with his wife Frederica, children Levi, Daniel, and Mary, and others. He was a farm laborer. [source: 11]
He again applied for a pension on 28 March 1907. [source: 4]
In 1910, he was living on Ridge Valley Road, in Richland Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was living with his wife Frederica, daughter Mary, and two grandchildren. He was a laborer, and had been out of work for fifteen weeks in the previous year. [source: 12]
On 8 February 1911, his wife, Fredericka Long, died. She was buried in the Ridge Valley Cemetery, Sellersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [source: 16]
At 2 AM on 26 December 1912, he died, at 133 Park Avenue, 2nd ward, Quakertown, [Bucks County,] Pennsylvania. He died of catarrhal pneumonia (8 days duration). He was buried in Ridge Valley Cemetery, Sellersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [sources: 4 (1913), 13 (Almont Cemetery), 14, 15, 16]
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5. Harrisburg: B. Singerly, state printer, 1869-71. 5 volumes. 'Ninety-first regiment', volume 3, pages 186-233. (In the roster) (Levi S Boyer)
2 Civil War Veterans' Card File, available at the Pennsylvania State Archives, searched 27 June 2004 (Levi S Boyer)
3 1890 US census, veterans' schedule, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Frederick, supervisor's district 3, enumeration districtg 195, page 1 (Levi S Boyer [?])
4 pension index, by regiment (Levi Boyer)
5 pension index, by name (Levi Boyer)
6 'Schwenk, Stout, Moyer, Naugle, Goodhart, Latshaw & allied families of PA', a gedcom, available on RootsWeb WorldConnect (accessed 13 August 2010; last revised 13 August 2010, contact Thera) [note: other gedcoms also mention Levi Boyer born ca 1831] (Levi S Boyer)
7 1850 US census, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Frederick Township, microfilm series M432, film 799, page 155] (Levi Boyer)
8 1860 US census, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Frederick Township, microfilm series M653, film 1145, pages 42 = 2 handwritten to 43 = 3 handwritten] (Levi Boyer)
9 1870 US census, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Frederick Township (post office Hopperville), microfilm series M593, film 1377, page 367 = 30 handwritten] (Levi Boyer)
10 1880 US census, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Frederick Township, supervisor's district 4, enumeration district 6, microfilm service T9, film 1157, page 108 = 7 C handwritten] (Levi S Boyer)
11 1900 US census, Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Milford, supervisor's district 2, enumeration district 26, microfilm series T623, film 1385, page 158 = 2 A handwritten] (Levi Boyer)
12 1910 US census, Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Richland Township, supervisor's district 3, enumeration district 44, microfilm series T624, film 1320, page 88 = 19 B handwritten] (Levi Boyer)
13 Pennsylvania veterans burial records, available on Ancestry (transcribed 5 April 2011) (Levi S Boyer)
14 Pennsylvania death indices, 1912 (accessed 28 September 2012) ("Boyer, Levi S.; 115879; Quakertown; Dec. 26.")
15 death certificate, Pennsylvania, Bucks County, file number 115,879, 26 December 1912 (Levi S Boyer)
16 Find a grave, memorial 92,886,397, created by Tom Myers, added 1 July 2012, accessed 10 March 2013 (includes photograph of headstone) (Levi S Boyer)
17 index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Pennsylvania (Levi S Boyer)
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| Dwellings visited | 58 | |||
| Families visited | 68 | |||
| Name | Peter Boyer | Hannah | Levi | Catharine |
| Age | 48 | 47 | 19 | 10 |
| Sex | m | f | m | f |
| Color | ||||
| Occupation of males over 15 years | Weaver | |||
| Real estate owned | ||||
| Birthplace | " [sc. Pennsylvania] | " | " | " |
| Married within year | ||||
| Attended school within year | 1 | |||
| Over 20 & can't read/write | ||||
| Deaf, dumb, blind, etc. |
| line | 39 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Dwelling number | 16 | ||||
| Family number | 17 | ||||
| Name | Levi Boyer | Fredericca Boyer | Hannah Boyer | Maria Boyer | Daniel Boyer |
| Age | 30 | 40 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| Sex | M | F | F | F | M |
| Color | |||||
| Occupation | Day Laborer | ||||
| Value of real estate owned | |||||
| Value of personal estate | 100 | ||||
| Place of birth | Do [sc. Pennsylvania] | Do | Pennsylvania | Do | Do |
| Married within year | |||||
| Attended school within year | |||||
| Cannot read & write | |||||
| Deaf, dumb, blind, etc. |
| line | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Dwelling-house number | 203 | |||||
| Family number | 236 | |||||
| Name | Boyer Levi | Fredericka | Daniel | Levi | Amanda | Eckert William |
| Age | 45 | 50 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 71 |
| Sex | M | F | M | M | F | M |
| Color | W | W | W | W | W | W |
| Occupation | Farm Labor | Keeping House | Potter | |||
| Real estate value | 400 | |||||
| Personal estate value | 200 [?] | |||||
| Birthplace | Pa | Pa | Pa | Pa | Pa | Prussia [??] |
| Father foreign born | 1 | |||||
| Mother foreign born | 1 | |||||
| Birth month if born within year | ||||||
| Marriage month if married within year | ||||||
| Attended school past year | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Can't read | ||||||
| Can't write | ||||||
| Deaf, dumb, blind, etc. | ||||||
| Male US citizen at least 21 years old | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Male US citizen at least 21 years old who can't vote ... |
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| house number | |||||
| dwelling visit # | 50 | ||||
| family visit # | 60 | ||||
| name | Boyer, Levi S. | - Frederica | - Amanda | Kulp Maria | - Edward |
| color | W | W | W | W | W |
| sex | M | F | F | F | M |
| age | 49 | 59 | 15 | 23 | 2 |
| month born if born in year | |||||
| relationship | Wife | Daughter | Daughter | Grandson | |
| single | 1 | 1 | |||
| married | 1 | 1 | |||
| widowed/divorced | D | ||||
| married during year | |||||
| occupation | Farmer | Keeping House | At home | Seamstress | |
| months unemployed | |||||
| currently ill? | |||||
| blind | |||||
| deaf/dumb | |||||
| idiotic | |||||
| insane | |||||
| disabled | |||||
| school this year | |||||
| can't read | |||||
| can't write | |||||
| birthplace | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| father's birthplace | Penna | Penna | Penna | Penna | Penna |
| mother's birthplace | Penna | Penna | Penna | Penna |
| line | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| street | |||||||||||
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| dwelling number | 28 | ||||||||||
| family number | 29 | ||||||||||
| name | Boyer Levi [illegible initial] | Boyer Levi | - Daniel | Kolb Edward | Schwartz Daniel | Boyer Frederice | Boyer Mary | -, Emma E | Schwartz Eva L | Boyer Bertha | Boyer Annie [?] |
| relationship | Head | Father | Brother | Servant | Uncle | Wife [sic] | Daughter [sic] | D in L | Grand child | Grand child | Grand child |
| color | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W |
| sex | M | M | M | M | M | F | F | F | F | F | F |
| birth date | Feb 1863 | Aug 1830 | Mar 1859 | Mar 1878 | Aug 1888 | Aug 1820 | July 1860 | July 1879 | Aug 1888 | June 1892 | Feb 1899 |
| age | 37 | 69 | 41 | 22 | 11 | 79 | 39 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 1 |
| married? | S | M | M | S | S | M | D | M | S | S | S |
| # years married | 47 | 11 | 47 | 11 | |||||||
| mother of how many children? | 7 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| # of children living | 6 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| birthplace | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| father's birthplace | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| mother's birthplace | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
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| occupation | Farmer | Farm Laborer | Farm Laborer | Farm Laborer | Farm Laborer | At school | At school | ||||
| # months not employed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| # months in school | 7 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| can read | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| can write | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| speaks English | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| owned/rented | R | ||||||||||
| free or mortgaged | |||||||||||
| farm/house | F | ||||||||||
| # of farm schedule | 30 |
| line | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 |
| street | Ridge Valley Road | ||||
| house nr | |||||
| dwelling nr | 393 | ||||
| family nr | 434 | ||||
| name | Boyer Levi | - Mary | Schotts Daniel | Kulp Edward | Boyer Fredericka |
| relationship | Head | Daughter | GrandSon | GrandSon | Wife |
| sex | M | F | M | M | F |
| color | W | W | W | W | W |
| age | 80 | 53 | 22 | 30 | 90 |
| marital status | M1 | M1 | S | S | M1 |
| #years present marriage | 55 | 33 | 55 | ||
| mother of # children | 3 | 5 | |||
| mother of # living children | 3 | 4 | |||
| birthplace | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| father's birthplace | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| mother's birthplace | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| immigrated | |||||
| naturalized/alien | |||||
| speaks English | English | English | English | English | English |
| occupation | Laborer | None | Laborer | Laborer | None |
| nature of industry etc. | Odd jobs | None | Rail Road | Rail Road | None |
| employer etc. | W | W | W | ||
| out of work 15 Apr 1910? | No | No | No | ||
| # weeks out of work 1909 | 15 [?] | 0 | 0 | ||
| can read | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| can write | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| school since 1 Sep 09 | |||||
| owned/rented | R | ||||
| owned free or mortagaged | |||||
| farm/house | H | ||||
| nr on farm schedule | |||||
| civil war vet | |||||
| blind | |||||
| deaf & dumb | |||||