The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-07-26
Funeral Attended by Thousands
Bishop Tyree officiates-"What
is Your Life" Theme-obituary
Read by Bishop Phillips
Many Speakers Pay High
Tributes = Resolutions
Societies and other
Organizations.

y The announcement Of the death OF
Nashvilles oldest Negro physicians
and one of Tennessee's most noted
men in the person of DR.. R. F. Boyd,
cast over the entire city last Satur-
day morning gloom such as
has never been witnessed before
People stood upon the streets looking
and staring at each other in blank
amazement. Telephone wires through
out the city were all busy. Or. Boyd
is dead" was the doleful, heart-rend-
ing statement that was heard on many
lips. None believed the statement
notwithstanding it was true. Men,
women and children who have known
DR.. Boyd all of their lives wept alike.
There were hardly any dry eyes in the
city, One of the most pathetic scenes
was in and around the Boyd In
Urinary. where the aged and Invalid
mother of the deceased has been a
constant sufferer with paralysis for
the past twelve months. Every prac-
ticing physician in the city OF Nash
Vile and every prominent man VINO
could find room in the Boyd's In
Urinary went with bowed heads and
aching hearts to render whatever ser
vice they could to the bereaved
mother. friends and household.
DIR. STEWART CALLED.
DIR. Stewart was called from his
residence at 8 a. m. and reached the
bedside at 500. He found the pa
tent suffering with excruciatlng
pains in the pit and upper part OF the
stomach. He stated to DR.. Stewart
that he had eaten breakfast and had
drunk seven or eight glasses OF ice
water which were very cold. Shortly
after breakfast he began to surfer
pains and vomited some and also hao
some bowel movement. When l nrs'
saw him his pulse was good; he was
uerspiring freely. but was in so much
main that he could not lie still in bed
After about five minutes the pulse
began to disappear from the wrist
and was gone entirely in two minutes
He continued to breathe three or four
minutes. Everything was done To
hiring back heart action. In rev
moments the pulse reappeared at the
wrist and disappeared. The breath
ing then stopped entirely. After two
minutes he breathed once or twice
more. The cycles then dilated and
knew the end was at hand. He died
exactly at $3.50, unconscious. The
last words he said were he felt very
sick. that he had drunk too much ice
tea for breakfast, The nurses, Miss
Bessie Patton and Mrs. Ida Harlan,
we're by his side when the end came
Mrs. Harlan was holding his head
and Miss Patton was assisting DR..
Stewart. DR. II. T. Noel and DR.. j.
A. Mcmillan came Immediately after
ward.
DR.. Raj. Boyd at the time
of his death was the chief Of
fetal of the Independent Order of
Immaculates. He is the Supreme
Grand Master of the organization and
was serving the fourth year of duty.
For many years he was the Supreme
DEPUTY Grand Master under the late
DR.. w. A. Hadley, the founder of the
Order. Dr. Boyd was one of the nine
original members who founded the
Order in 1867.
He was on July II, 1912, reelected
for the eighth consecutive time to the
office of Grand Worthy Counsellor,
which is the head of the Court of
Calanthe, the ladies' department of
the Knights of Pythias in the State
Of Tennessee. He was President Of
the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust
Co., President of Boyd's Infrmary,
President of the Negro Board of
Trade, a leader in all things tending
TO the uplift of his people.
The funeral services will he held
Monday morning at Ryman Auditori-
nm at 10 o'clock, at which time
the citizens will hold a memorial be-
fitting the reputation of the man.
The arrangements are in the hands
Of DR.. F. A. Stewart, Mr.. A, N
Johnson and Dr. J. P. Crawford, by
special request of his mother
Mr.. A. N. Johnson was called
When he arrived Mrs Crawford sent
,s- him to come to her room and
instructed him to take charge of the
remains and carry them to his place
and make all arrangements Gust like
my son would have it done" She
said 81 saw Brother Johnson coming