Church members from Erie County, New York. Mary Boyer became a Sabbathkeeper about 1851, followed within a year or two by Elijah. The Boyers were farmers and attended the church in Mill Grove/Alden, Erie County, for the remainder of their lives. There is no mention of the Boyers in Ellen White's writings outside of a letter to “Sister Below” on January 1, 1856, in which she sent her greetings to the Boyers and acknowledged a donation they had made. 1EGWLM 796.6
See: Ellen G. White, Lt 9, 1856 (Jan. 1); M. Boyer, “From Sister Boyer,” Review, Sept. 13, 1853, p. 79; obituary, “Elijah Boyer,” Review, Jan. 14, 1904, p. 23; 1850 U.S. Federal Census, “Elijah Boyers” [sic], New York, Erie County, Alden, p. 161; H. Perry Smith, ed., History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1884), vol. 1, p. 717; Louise G. Walker, William Gallop, Revolutionary Soldier (Chicago: n.p., 1973), p. 19. 1EGWLM 797.1