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R. Fisher Boyce

Short Name: R. Fisher Boyce
Full Name: Boyce, R. Fisher, 1887-1968
Birth Year: 1887
Death Year: 1968

R. Fisher Boyce was born in the tiny community of Link, located in southern Rutherford County, in November 1887. The third of six children, Boyce loved music and was singing solo and in quartets by the early 1900s. In the spring of 1910, he married Cora Carlton from the Rockvale community. He later traveled to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, where he attended one of the annual music normal schools conducted by the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company, a publisher of shape note hymnals. After completing his studies, Boyce went on to teach shape note "singing schools" through-out the area.

From http://www.notsba.org/Newsletters/December2004Newsletter.htm


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