Alexis B. Boyle |
| Posted 2014-07-28 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, November 26, 1929, page 3, col. 2 Alexis 'Sport' Boyle Is Dead Alexis B. Boyle, identified with Prescott's business and official life for more than 50 years, died quietly at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon in his 117 East Aubrey street home in his 84th year. For several years before his death he had been in feeble health although occasionally friends could take him out riding and bring him downtown so he could attend to private business matters. He had been unable to get out of the house, though, for several weeks and the end came as the result of old age and general debility. Funeral services will be conducted Friday morning at 9 o'clock in South Marina street Catholic church ground for which was donated by Mr. Boyle, and burial will take place in the Citizens' cemetery near Whipple. 'Sport' Boyle, as he has been known in Prescott for years and years, or since the early days, was a Pittsburgh man and right after the Santa Fe had extended its rails to the Pacific coast he was conductor on the main line for a long time. Then he settled here, married a Spanish woman, Mrs. Lucy Boyle, who still survives him, and became engaged in private pursuits that included those of bartender, saloon proprietor on Whisky Row, and later Yavapai county deputy sheriff. Old timers today couldn't recall just exactly how the moniker 'Sport' became part of his name, although in Prescott's early days Boyle was very popular, handsome, and well dressed; in short, a 'jolly good fellow' but he never was less than a gentleman in all his dealings and conduct. He was one of the first members of the Toughs Hose company, No. 1, of Prescott volunteer fire department that Morris Goldwater spoke of on Sunday at the annual fire department banquet in the Owl Drug & Candy company. The Toughs were organized in 1885. There were no children born to Mr. and Mrs. Boyle. He has a nephew, W. H. Tinker, who was a printer on the old Prescott Courier many years ago, now residing in San Diego. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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