Roll of Honor
Incident
Sheriff Buck Boston was killed in a vehicle crash on Route 66, west of Sayre, Oklahoma, while extraditing a prisoner from Arizona back to Illinois.
The man, a former Litchfield city clerk, wanted for embezzlement, had turned himself into police in Douglas, Arizona. Sheriff Boston and a deputy had driven to Arizona and picked the man up. They were driving back to Illinois when their car collided head-on with a tractor-trailer. Sheriff Boston and the prisoner were both killed. The deputy and driver of the truck were not injured.
Sheriff Boston had served as Sheriff with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office for at least nine years.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and four sons.
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Tributes
I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Sheriff Boston gave the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the Hillsboro community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sheriff Boston.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Sheriff Raymond Thomas Boston is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In IL, 354 of 1,318 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 26.9% of this state's fallen. That is 26.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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