The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-02-20
A CORRECTION

This is to correct a mistake made
by a kind friend in writing the obit-
uary of my father, M. Boord, who died
suddenly while feeding his stock on
January 27, 1920.
He enlisted after the battle of Get
tysburg, hence could not have re-
ceived his wound there. He received
it in a small skirmish at Gravelly
Run in Pennsylvania, | think, He vol
unteered when his Colonel called for
a man to reconnoiter a dangerous
formation of the enemy troops and
bring back information, if possible.
When the roll was called after the
skirmish the Colonel said to report
him dead for no man could go where
Boord went and live. have the bull
let and the coat sleeve stained with
his blood where it went through.
The Boord family is one of the old
est of Fayette county, Pa. They come
first of the name emigrated to America
some years before the Revolution and
NJ. Boord's great-grandfather was a
shoemaker for the Continental Army.
His son, Thomas, was also a shoe
maker and died between 1870 and
1850 near st. Johns Lutheran church
beyond Morris Cross Roads. His son,
Thomas, Jr., bought farm in Greene
county, Pa, and M. Boord and three
brothers end six sisters were reared.
Two of the brothers and three of the
sisters are living, as also is a half
brother by his fathers second mar
riage.
M. Boord's great-grandfather on his
mothers side was Louis Frankenbul-
CHER, who came with his wife from
Saxony, Germany, previous to the
Revolution and located at Trenton, N.
j. He served in the Revolution and
was with General Washington when
Re crossed the Delaware and captured
the Hessians.
My fathers religious and political
views were not narrow. will quote
an extract from a letter which he die
tated to me to be sent to his Con-
gresham, M. E. Rhodes, just the night
before his death.
"First see that that Treaty Of
Peace is ratified Immediately, with or
without reservation, ninety mine out
of every one hundred of the people be-
lieve that the Senate has used it as
cloud to turn US back to old condi-
tions. We remember that without any
suspicion of Taft that we were very
particular about our platform and de-
clared that it should be executed ac-
cording to the plain English thereof.
Roosevelt, after the Minneapolis
speech, put every bit of his personal
power in his square deal for the COM
mon people. We then had here and
there an l. W. w. Taft put every par
ticle of his personality to the advan-
tage of the money power and the l.
w. WIS lave swarmed ever since like
flies in midsummer, very natural re-
suit. No relief from that source can
be expected until Congress can be
made to do what it promises to do.
"There is no thought of singing
you out personally, but Congress must
reform or ends our national progress
in utter destruction.
GAS to the high cost of living, let
me remark that no one is justly en-
titled to more than a fair profit in
whatever vocation he is engaged
When Congress has solved this it has
finished the job of reconstruction and
not before"
Nothing that any one can say will
express my fathers ideals of life more
clearly than this extract from his let
ter, and SO | give it.
My father also served his county as
teacher in the public schools of three
States for nineteen years, holding spe-
cial, second, and frst-grade certifi-
Gates.
He left a widow, one daughter, a
daughter-in-law and two grandchil-
dren, all of Pennington, and nephew
he reared from infancy, A. J. Nash,
of Springfield, Mo.