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Death of Julia Boice

Benjamin Boice and Martha Eliza Philpot

DEATH OF JULIA BOICE


This life story is located in Leta Boice Boutwell’s Book of Remembrance

(Spelling and punctuation corrections have been made– no changes were made to the sentence structure or voice – other corrections will be shown in parenthesis –Linda Fretwell Duchaine – June 2007)

This story was originally written by Julia’s stepmother Samantha Tryphena Brimhall Boice Foley Daughter of Benjamin Boice and Martha Eliza Philpot, sister of John Edwin Boice. The beautiful young woman of whom I am about to write died at the age of sixteen, about two miles south of the village of Oxford, Idaho 10 June 1876.

Her mother who had passed on about three years before had been a survivor of the Hand Cart Company
(Martin Hand Cart Company not sure she was with the Martin company, but this is a historic reference) of 1856. Julia was the oldest of her mother’s eight children whom she was called to leave at the age of twenty-nine years.

One child had gone before her to the other side, leaving a family of five boys and two girls. The Mother had always been frail on account of helping to draw a Hand Cart across the Continent at the age of 13, and her natural faculties had caused Julia to be burdened with many of her Mother’s cares in the raising of the younger children. Although her mother was frail, she was very exacting as to her own appearance as well as that of her house and children. After the demise of her Mother, Julia allowed her energy to slacken and was not so precise in her dress and housekeeping. Tired and listless, one day she lay down upon a day bed and soon fell asleep, and when she awoke, she said that her Mother had appeared to her and as her wont was dressed very neatly as she had always appeared during lifetime. Julia took this as a gentle rebuke for the listless habits which she had fallen into. She also stated that she felt her mother’s hand upon her head as she said: “Julia, You will live three years to help take care of my children and then you will come to me where I am.”

Many of Julia’s friends tried to persuade her that it was only a dream and best to forget it, but she knew and was not turned aside from her convictions. Strange things happen: and after all the many years of my sojourn on earth I have never found a suitable reason to explain why I have become the stepmother of Julia before her Mother had been gone a year. Perhaps it was because I had been raised in a large family and that the raising of the children was the one and only object in life. She was scarcely past thirteen years of age, and I scarcely past fifteen years of age when our relationship began. We were neighborhood children and had gone to the same school, yet she had learned more of cooking and housekeeping while I could take a bag of wool – card, spin and ye it and then weave it and cut and make me a dress. So while she know some things, I knew others, and we got along with the care of the six children. We worked and we played as other children do. I was clever with a needle and loved to make clothes for the children, especially the younger girl Ellnora, who was about five years old, a very pretty but delicate child.

About one year went by quite smoothly until a mortgage long over due on the home was foreclosed, and we were compelled to go out and live in Stringtown, about two miles from the village, where neighbors lived on farms some distance apart and the main highway ran along the east side of a lofty and verdant mountain chain. Here in a one log house with a bowery over the east door the family were huddled to begin life anew.

Julia’s health was on the decline, and so was that of her little sister. The fraternal grandparents had taken the little one to their home and were caring for her and her younger brother. It was here in this room that Calvin, my own first child was born in the month of Oct, 1875. Julia was there, and with the aid of my own mother, I was soon able to assume the duties of the household. Will say here of Julia, that she was a true and honest friend.

A girl of remarkably good sense. She realized the great responsibility had fallen on me in the care of her mother’s helpless children. She had confidence in me and always treated me with respect. The winter months of 75 & 76 fell hard upon her and a consumptive cough revealed the danger she was in. Yet, she came and went with friends and bravely enjoyed the strength she had which she well knew was on the wane. Her bed and mine were on a line with each other on the same side of the room. This was for her convenience for her voice had failed, and she could only speak in a whisper which she knew always awakened me from my sleep at night. She called me “Smantee” as that was a nickname from my school days, and which I preferred the children to call me.

To the neglect of my own baby girl, a laundry decorated the clothes line each day and Julia was kept neat and clean. Just after midnight on the morning of 10 May, she awoke and called “Smantee”, who in turn called her father who lit a candle and went to her bed. She had been stricken with a pain in her heart and needed attention. We arranged warm applications and with simple remedies, she found relief, but not consent to our remaining up with her or even to leave the candle burning. So according to her directions we lay down again.

When I went to her in the morning, I noticed a great change in her countenance and she said: “Smantee,” I am going to die today. I tried to dissuade her, but her features revealed that she spoke the truth. I asked what it was that we could do to please her, then she began giving orders for the coming event. First, she wanted us to send for her Grandmother to come and help give her a bath, including the washing of her braided hair which was to be put on curlers after her demise. Her Grandmother came and her order as to the bath was filled.  Of course, in that neighborhood the news went from house to house of what was going on. Her many friends were allowed admittance only so far as to take a short look at her from the door. After her bath, she had desire to sit in the rocker for a while. It seemed I see her sitting there, composed with her eyes filled with a bright luster as they had never been before, her only answer to the salute of her friends was the peaceful smile which lit her face. When the noonday had passed she said: “I want to go to bed now and want my Grandfather and Brother Hepworth to come and administer to me.” She was put to bed and a conveyance went to bring the desired visitors. They came and she was anointed by Joseph Hepworth and the anointment confirmed by her grandfather Patriarch John Boice. He simply dedicated her to the Lord, and told her she should not taste of death but be gathered to her mother’s people in Peace. After leaving her with this blessing, they went away and Julia said: “Lay me down now, I want to go to sleep.”

She went to sleep while I, with three others, sat outside under the Bowery. But I felt uneasy and with my babe in my arms, I stole softly into the room time and time again. Finally, at about four in the afternoon, she looked up at me and said, “Smantee, I am dying now.” I hailed her Father and two lady friends who were sitting outside. They went to her, she said, “Raise me up.” She was sitting against the prop of pillows. She seemed to speak in a louder whisper than before and left kind regards to all her friends and appreciation of all they had done for her. She spoke of her five little brothers and told them to be good. She requested that her Temple work be done and that she should be sealed to a worthy young man whom she loved. Finally, she looked at me and said, “Smantee, I will tell Mother that you have been good to me, to which I replied, “Alright Julia.” Then her peaceful head lay back on the pillow, and she went fast asleep to awaken no more in this world where we had, had a rich experience in many arts that few of her tender age will ever know. One month later little Elnora died.

Written by Samantha T. Foley

(Samantha was the 2nd wife of Benjamin Boice and after his death she married Andrew Foley in 1899 – she died in 1948

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Some biographic details about Samantha:

Samantha Tryphena Brimhall Foley was born in Ogden, Utah, on 22 March 1858. She was a member of the "community of saints" who settled the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado, and spent ten years in the villages of Los Cerritos and Manassa. In the Spring of 1888 or 1889, Samantha and her family left Colorado and, traveling in two horse-drawn wagons, followed the Rio Grande to Albuquerque, New Mexico. They arrived in Albuquerque at the time of a diptheria epidemic, and two of her five children died of the disease within a few days of one another. Griefstricken, Samantha prayed, and heard a "sweet small voice," which directed her to study Spanish. She began her study of Spanish while riding on the wagon seat, as she and her family continued on their journey to Mexico. Her knowledge of the language provided purpose and meaning to her life, the remainder of which was spent working with Mexican converts. She helped found the colony of Dublan in the Mexican province of Chihuahua, where she was widowed within the first year. Samantha lived in the colony of Juarez, in Casa Grandes, and in "the city of Mexico" for the next several years, teaching school and acting as an interpreter. She married Andrew L. Foley on 5 January 1899. Their son, Andrew B. Foley, was born two years later. The Foleys returned to Salt Lake City in 1904, where Samantha studied nursing at LDS University. She was certified by the Utah State Medical Board in 1905. As her health was too poor for the practice of nursing, she taught Spanish and worked as a translator. After the death of Andrew L. Foley, Samantha settled in Southern California with her son. While in Southern California, she served as Director of Theology for the Relief Society, did genealogical work, and was active in the movement to include Spanish- taught classes in the local Sunday schools. She died on 5 November 1948, in Rosemead, California.

also written by Samantha:

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Source: http://www.beadmobile.com/family_story_julia_boice.html

Philomelia Smith Lake

Philomelia Smith Lake

Birth: Apr. 13, 1793

Brookfield, Orange County, Vermont, USA
Death: Mar. 29, 1873
Oxford, Franklin County, Idaho, USA


She is the daughter of Parker Smith and Sarah Loomis, She married Ira Smith on 2 Jan 1812 in Ernestown, Lennoxadding, Ontario, Canada. After Ira death in 1820 she married James Lake Jr., on 3 Sep 1823 in Ernestown Twp, Upper Canada. She is the mother to Elizabeth Boardman Smith.


This sketch prepared by Samantha T. Brimhall Foley appeared in the Women's Exponent in 1910.

In among the many noble women who embraced the Gospel in the early days of the Church was Philomelia Smith, daughter of Parker Smith and Sarah (Sally) Loomis, she being their sixth child and born in Brookfield, Prince County, Vermont, 13 April 1794. At the age of twelve she was bereaved of her mother and left to the care of her grandmother, Sarah Huntington Loomis who, although crippled with age, sat in her armchair and gave her daughter's children the benefit of her wise counsel in domestic training, and also her deep religious conviction, which was a natural result of all those who were favored by a rich flow of Puritan blood in their veins. Many of those splendid principles are embodied in the following verses which have been handed down to posterity by the poor lame Grandmother as she addressed herself to Philomelia who was bereaved of a little brother.

Your little brother is dead and gone;
We all must die before 'tis long.
And when you think he young did die
Say, In the grave I soon may lie.

And may you early learn to know
Good children's souls to God do go;
At last their bodies sure will rise
To dwell with him above the skies.


She also wrote the following acrostic for Philomelia:
"Your poor, lame grandmother has made and written this for you, and you must have it rolled on a round stick and keep it a long time to remember me by."

Pretty girls should always mind
How they talk and spend their time,
If they strive with all their might,
Learn to spin, sew, read, and write;
Obey their parents and they'll see
Most glad they surely then will be.
Even brother must be kind,
Love sisters, too, and always mind
And never quarrel, so repine.
Some little girls are so pretty
Many would call them very witty.
If they are proud they soon will know
That shame is lurking there below,
Hence friends will turn, they'll find it so.

Thus trained to love God and home, Philomelia was capable of taking upon herself the duties of a wife and mother. At the age of eighteen years she married Ira Smith, [2 January 1812] and with him become the mother of five children, viz. Lymon, James Harvey, Elizabeth, Boardman, Josiah William, and Esther.

Ira Smith died in the 36th year of his age. Philomelia then became the wife of James Lake [8 September
1823] and with him again the mother of ten children: Sabra, William Bailey, Barnabus, Clara, Jane, Lydia Ann, Moroni, Samantha, George, and Sarah Amanda. She was a wise and loving mother and was noted for the neatness and order of her home. She was adept in all home manufacture. She knew the art of spinning, and of dyeing the most beautiful colors, and in the weaving of many kinds of cloth, she also excelled. Her fame as a maker of the best flavored butter and cheese was known wherever her name was heard.

Her children partook of her meek and docile, yet lofty and noble nature and when the Gospel came to them in Upper Canada, she with her husband and family were some of the first ones to embrace it. Philomelia was baptized 31 December 1832.
Brigham Young took the gospel to them and they were baptized by Eleazer Miller. Their house was always a welcome place for the Elders traveling in Canada. Brigham Young making their home his home for a year or more.

They gathered with the Saints in Kirtland and shared all the hardships of early days. James Lake with an ox team and assisted by his sons, handled the first cornerstone to the Kirtland Temple and helped to lay it in its place, at the beginning of temple-building in this dispensation.

Philomelia Smith Lake received a Patriarchal blessing under the hands of Joseph Smith, Sr. the father of
Prophet Joseph Smith, in which he called her "Beloved of the Lord" which name was most appropriate, for she not only was beloved by the Lord but by all who knew her. She was tall and graceful, with broad forehead and full dark brown eyes, her dark brown hair was silken and luxuriant and the noble name of mother was appropriate to her in its most dignified meaning. Her husband was appointed captain of fifty and was successful in arriving in the Valley in the fall of 1850. They settled four miles north of Ogden City on a farm.

James Lake was ordained a patriarch and many of the saints of Weber County were comforted through the blessing they received at his hands.

He was a member of the high council and with his wife enjoyed the honor and esteem of all who knew them, while almost worshipped by a numerous posterity, members of which can be found in nearly every settlement of the states and from Canada to Mexico. I have often thought of the life career of my Grandmother and have led to exclaim:

"If every soul were of such worth,
Nearer would heaven be to earth."
--Samantha T. Brimhall-Foley

Philomelia Smith Lake died on 20 March 1873 in Oxford, Oneida County, Idaho.
Burial:

Oxford Cemetery
Oxford, Franklin County, Idaho, USA
 Find A Grave Memorial# 12086972

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Source: http://www.beadmobile.com/family_story_julia_boice.html

Sarah M. Marshall Callan



Sarah Marshall Callan

  Birth: Jan. 11, 1855

Herefordshire, England

Death: Jun. 12, 1917

Dayton, Franklin County, Idaho, USA
Born at Lintonsville, Herefordshire, England
Daughter of Thomas George Marshall and Sarah Goode

Married Stephen Callan, 18 Jul 1888, Logan, Cache, Utah
Children: Venna May Callan, Bertha Sylvenia Callan, Ida Marshall Callan

Spouse:
Stephen M Callan (1846 - 1908)

Burial:

Weston City Cemetery
Weston, Franklin County, Idaho, USA
Plot: Section B, Lot 40, Grave 4
Find A Grave Memorial# 14597725

Sarah M. Callan Monument
Weston City Cemetery, Weston, Franklin, Idaho

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Source:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14597725

Stephen M Callan

Stephen M Callan

Birth: May 14, 1846

Pembrokeshire, Wales
Death: Sep. 23, 1908
Dayton, Franklin County, Idaho, USA

Born at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Son of James Callan and Sarah Proutt

Married Mary Boden, 24 Jul 1866, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah.
Children: Sarah Ann Callan, Martha Ellen Callan, John Boden Callan, Alma Callan, Mary Elizabeth Callan, Stephen James Callan.

Married Sarah Marshall, 18 Jul 1888, Logan, Cache, Utah.
Children: Venna May Callan, Bertha Sylvenia Callan, Ida Marshall Callan. (bio by: SMSmith)


Spouses:

Mary Boden Callan (1847 - 1880)
Sarah M Marshall Callan (1855 - 1917)

Children:

Sarah Ann Callan Perkins (1867 - 1934)
Mary Elizabeth Callan Perkins (1869 - 1963)
Stephen James Callan (1871 - 1922)
John Boden Callan (1875 - 1947)
Alma Callan (1879 - 1880)
Martha Ellen Callan Fishburn (1880 - 1956)


Burial:
Weston City Cemetery
Weston, Franklin County, Idaho, USA
Plot: Section B, Lot 49, Grave 2
Find A Grave Memorial# 14597770

 



Stephen M. Callan Monument
Weston City Cemetery, Weston, Franklin, Utah

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Source:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14597770

Lovina Marshall Adams

Lavina Marshall Adams

Lovinia Marshall Adams
Birth: Mar. 12, 1844

Gloucestershire, England
Death: Oct. 12, 1904
Roberts, Jefferson County, Idaho, USA
wife of John Newton Adams

Spouses:
John Newton Adams (1833 - 1885)
John B Cutshaw (1846 - 1897)

Burial:
Adams Cemetery
Jefferson County
Idaho, USA
Find A Grave Memorial# 54456845

John Newton Adams

Birth: Feb. 19, 1833

West Virginia, USA

Death: Nov. 21, 1885

Roberts, Jefferson County, Idaho, USA

John B Cutshaw

Birth: Jan. 25, 1846, USA

Death: Apr. 2, 1897

Roberts, Jefferson County, Idaho, USA

Sheriff Cutshaw married Lavina Marshall Adams(daughter of Sarah Goode Marshall) after the death of John Newton Adams. He was John Adams partner and took over his enterprises and married his wife after his death.

Lavina Marshall Adams Monument
Adams Cemetery in Roberts, Jefferson County, Idaho

History of Lovina Marshall Adams as printed in

Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake

pp. 489

John Balmer.

Among the many nationalities of Europe who have given of their sons and daughters in aid in the work of developing, expanding and extending the domain of civilization in America none has sent better material than the intellectual German fatherland. Her children and their offspring have done a most excellent work in this country, being intelligent, industrious, law-abiding people, by their steady application to labor, their industry and thrift adding materially to the wealth of the country.

In this class of worthy and reliable citizens must be noted John Balmer, of Market Lake, Idaho, who, although born in St. Louis, Mo., and a typical American in thought and action, was the son of upright German parents, whose ancestral lives run back in the old country, farther than memory of man. Mr. Balmer is the son of Charles I. And Mary Balmer, the date of his birth being February 22, 1862. The father enlisted and served with credit in a Missouri regiment of the Union army during the Civil War, dying at the age of seventy-three years, being buried with military honors by his brethren of the Grand Army of the Republic. The mother proceeded him to the Silent Land, dying at the age of fifty-five years.

Passing his early life in his native state and receiving the educational advantages so liberally given in the public schools of St. Louis until he was sixteen years of age, John Balmer then struck out for himself, showing great boldness and self-reliance by plunging at once into the activities of the Far West, locating at Leadville, Colo., where he was at first engaged for a time in railroad construction work, then until he was eighteen years old, being connected with mining operations. Coming to Idaho and to Market Lake in 1880, he soon became the driver of the mail stage running between Market Lake, Rexburg and Egin, continuing to be thus employed for the period of two years. Having by this time, through diligent attention to business and a praiseworthy economy, established a sufficient fund of financial re-enforcement, he used his right of pre-emption, locating on a ranch and engaged in the stock raising industry. A few years later, his labors having met with a due reward, he sold his property and returned to St. Louis, where for nine years he continuously followed teaming operations. The old love of the West and its life of freedom then returned, and again, leaving his native city, he came direct to Market Lake, and at once secured employment as a driver for Mr. Sam Hart, soon however, leaving this service to become connected with the construction department of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, with which he has since been actively in touch, his qualifications for the labor being of a high character, and his work meeting the decided approval of his superiors.

Deeming it the duty as well as privilege of every citizen to establish a permanent home for himself, Mr. Balmer, in fulfillment of this thought, on July 14, 1886, entered int matrimonial relations with Miss Catherine M. Adams, a native of Market Lake, Idaho, where she was born on April 30, 1872, a daughter of John N. and Lovina Adams and to this marriage union have been born these children, pp490 Lavina J., born September 4, 1887; Mary A. born July 22, 1889; John N., born January 24, 1891; Olive L., born May 5, 1893.

As a man and a citizen Mr. Balmer is active in local and public matters of general interest, ever taking willing part in aiding all measures for the good of the public, is a strong Republican in political faith, and in fraternal circles is a valued member of the Modern Woodmen of America, formerly holding also a membership in the Ancient Order of United Workmen at St. Louis.

Aaron A.A. Adams

Among the prominent families of Staunton county, Va., for many years was noted that of Adams. The members were active, stirring, alert members of society, useful and honored by all the people. Here, on February 19, 1833, was born John N. Adams, who attained manhood in his native coutnry and there remained until the closing year of the great Civil War, when, in association with Thomas N. Lauder, he came to Idaho, where they conducted a stage line for a short time. Mr. Adams attending to the station at Pleasant Valley, from which place he later went to Market Lake, took up a ranch, and engaged in the raising of horses and cattle, in which he attained great prominence, before his death, on November 2, 1885, being rated as the heaviest stockraiser of the state. His operations in hay were gigantic, putting up and selling large quantities, being, however, often interrupted by the Indians, who burned his ricks and stacks, twice driving the settlers from their homes. He was one of the very earliest of the resident pioneers of the state, having to encounter to the full the deprivations, privations and hardships incident to existence on the advanced frontier of the country, acting and maintaining his political relations through his entire manhood in full and hearty co-operation with the Democratic party. He had the first survey run where the Butte and Market Lake Canal is now, but died too soon to see its completion.

On May 29, 1866, John N. Adams entered into matrimonial relations with Miss Lovina Marshall, whose birth occurred at Gloucester, England, on March 12, 1845, as a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Good) Marshall, natives of England, and when she was quite young her father departed this life. The widowed mother, espousing the religious belief of the Mormon Church, emigrated, coming to Utah with her six small children, of whom Lovina was the eldest, crossing the plains with a handcart from Omaha to Salt Lake City, for the most of the way subsisting on buffalo meat and an extremely limited amount of other provisions. After arriving in Utah, they settled in Cache Valley, where the mother is still residing, having in the meantime married with Joseph Chadwick.

The children of John N. and Lovina (Marshall) Adams numbered twelve. John W. E born March 14, 1867, died June 17, 1869; George T E.. born July 9, 1868; Joseph N., born December 18, 1869; Melvina C., born April 30, 1870; John Q. F. born August 15, 1872; Elizabeth A., born Decmeber 18, 1873; Sarah L., born March 7, 1875; Aaron A.a. Born September 10, 1876; Charles F J., born September 13, 1878, deceased; Lovina Blanche, born October 13, 1i879; deceased; Robert D.R. Born March 23, 1881; Olive M., born June 6 1883, deceased. Of the living children all but Elizabeth who lives in Montana, are residents of Idaho. The family circle is further enlarged by fifteen living grandchildren.

After the death of Mr. Adams, on September 14, 1886, at Eagle Rock, his widow formed a matrimonial alliance with another of the strong men of the state, being then united with pp 491

John B. Cutshaw, who was born in Marshall county, Ill., on January 25, 1846, and departed this life at Market Lake, Idaho, on April 2, 1897. A man of force and great executive ability, his service as a corporal of Company A. Eleventh Michigan Calvary, in the Civil War, and his years of residence on the plains of the middle West, gave him the needed discipline to ensure his substantial success in the border life of Idaho, whither he came in 1881 from Kansas, locating at Market Lake, and engaging at first in stockraising, later being in business and public life as one of the prime factors in the construction of the Butte and Market Lake Irrigation Canal, which carries 30,000 inches of water, and in which company he was a director for some years, being also a vital force in many other enterprises for the development of the country. He was also the first sheriff to hold office in Fremont county, and a prominent member of the Republican party, his strong personality often wresting victor from defeat in its campaigns. His death resulted from consumption, from which he suffered for many years. The Salt Lake Tribune, in April, 1897., published a very comprehensive memoir of him. His funeral was at Market Lake, conducted under the auspices of the Masonic and Grand Army of the Republic societies, of both of which he was a member.



John B. Cutshaw Pension Document



Aaron Arthur A. Adams, the seventh child of John N. and Lovina (Marshall) Adams, was born at Market Lake, Idaho on September 10, 1876, and enjoyed the educational advantages of the schools of Blackfoot from 1887 to 1891. A man of nearly six feet in height, possessed of a strong and vigorous physique and mentality, from early life he was a man of activity, delighted in the out-of-door life of the valleys and mountains, and it was in full accord with the fitness of things that he should become a stock man, which vocation he has continuously followed from his early manhood, owning and running now, in association with his brothers, Robert and John, about 500 finely bred horses and 125 range cattle.

The brothers stand among the leading real estate owners of their county, and own fully one-half of the townsite of Market Lake. A very large block of the stock of the Butte and Market Lake Irrigation Canal Co., is owned by Mr. Adams, and he was for two years its secretary. Heartily in favor of the policies and principles of the Republican party, attempts have not been lacking to secure his acceptance of official positions in its gifts, but, with the exception of allowing his election to some minor ones, and showing a great interest of the schools of his district, he has manifested no desire to hold public office.

A very felicitous marriage was that which was consummated on February 11, 1902, when Mr. Adams and Miss Josie Ledwina were made man and wife. Mrs. Adams is the daughter of Joseph and Antonia (Wesley) Ledwina, natives of the ancient Europena kingdom of Bohemia and at present residents of Market Lake. Her birth took place on July 21, 1874, at Green Bay, Wis. To this marriage union has come one winsome daughter, Alice Caroline, born on September 2, 1902.

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Source:  Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake pp 489-491 http://books.google.com/books?id=kltAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA490&lpg=PA490&dq=lovina+marshall+adams&source=bl&ots=aPYI_dZ83D&sig=2-8o2VBNK4onmqAFBuQ3_mrXAiE&hl=en&ei=6sJCTo_dMMGksQL3_e3sCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=lovina%20marshall%20adams&f=true

John and Mary Ann Boice Nauvoo Land Records



Land and Records Office identifies a block on the far
north end of Parly Street where John and Mary Ann Boice
lived as "tenants" on block #9 during the Nauvoo period.
Known today as "Inspirition Point" overlooking the Mississippi River



Martin Calvin Boyce

An E-mail was received from a cousin, yesterday.  In it Tony states: "Anyone who's been to Nauvoo lately knows that you can go to the "Land & Record Office" there and discover where your Nauvoo relatives lived when they were here, As you may recall, our common ancestor Martin Calvin Boyce (Grandma Asay's father...) was reportedly born at "Crooked Creek" in Hancock County in 1844, not long before Joseph and Hyrum were killed. Well, the Land & Records office identifies a block on the far north end of Parley Street where John and Mary Ann Boyce lived as "tenants" on block #9 during the Nauvoo period. The site is very near what is today known as "Inspiration Point" (which overlooks the Mississippi on the far north end of the Nauvoo settlement.)

This section of Nauvoo is now overgrown with only a narrow lane running through the woods there. The enclosed photo is, as best as I can tell, on the old Boyce Family block. "



John Boice



Mary Ann Barzee Boice


 "We Must Never Look Back" a song of leaving Nauvoo
Music and Lyrics by Jon Wilson of Cowley, Wyoming

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Source: 
Grateful appreciation to Tony Marostica for sharing the photo of "Inspirition Point" and information obtained from the Land and Record Office of Nauvoo.

Myrtle Boice

Myrtle Boice

Myrtle Boice Birth: Mar. 19, 1893

Oxford, Franklin County Idaho, USA
Death: Sep. 26, 1965
Salmon Lemhi County Idaho, USA


Daughter of Martin Calvin Boice and Louisa Marshall
Married Achillis Brown, 30 Nov 1911, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming
Obituary - Myrtle Brown Dies in Idaho

Mrs. Myrtle Brown, 73, of Salmon, Ida., formerly of Lovell, died Sunday, Sept. 26, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Hicks, in Salmon.

Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Big Horn Stake Center, with Bishop Scott Welch officiating. Burial was in the Lovell cemetery with Haskell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Brown was born Apr. 19, 1893, at Oxford, Ida., a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Voice, She came to the Big Horn Basin in 1910 with her parents, and later moved to Sheridan. She moved to Idaho. 1934.

Achillies Brown

Nov. 30, 1911, she married Archilles Brown. He died in 1940.


Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Silvan Orr of Rexburg, Ida., Mrs. Mary Hicks of Salmon, Mrs. Tram Tracy of Missoula, Mont. and Mrs. Alden Rice of Boise, Ida.; five sons, F. Scott and Dale of Salmon, Achilles and Ferra of Missoula and Larry of Sugar City, Ida.; two sisters, Mrs. Delilah Asay and Mrs. Betty Walker of Lovell; 29 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.


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Obituary - Myrtle Brown Dies in Idaho

Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle B. Brown, 72, were held in the Lovell West Ward in Lovell Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. Mrs. Brown passed away Sept. 26 in Steele Memorial hospital, Salmon, Ida., after a short illness.

Prelude and postlude music was played by Karma Allred. The opening song, "Oh My Father, " was sung by the Singing Mothers, accompanied by Drew Shumway and directed by Sharon Roth, Ray Walker offered the opening prayer and Curtie Orr gave the obituary. Leland Harris gave a talk and Ruth Bischoff, Iris Stringham and Effie Mayes, accompanied by Karma Allred, sang "Whispering Hope." Edd Corbett spoke, followed by a duet, "Beyond the Sunset," by Scott and Arthur Welch. Trand Tracy offered the closing prayer and Elgin Brown, the dedicatoral prayer.

Pall bearers were Scott, Achillies, Larry and Dale and Fera Brown and Harry Hicks. Burial was in the Lovell cemetery under the direction of Haskell Funeral Home.

Myrtle Boice Brown was born in Oxford, Ida. Apr. 19, 1893, a daughter of Martin Calvin and Louisa Marshall Boice. When she was about five years old, the family moved to Lovell. Here she grew up, attended school and was married to Achillies Brown on Nov. 30, 1911.

They made their home in the Lovell area until 1929, when they moved to Sheridan and operated a ranch until 1934. In this year, the family moved to Salmon, and Mr. Brown died in 1940.

Mrs. Brown spent her remaining years with her children, making her home for the most part with Lola Tracy in Missoula, Mont. and Curtie Orr in Rexburg, Ida.

Mrs. Brown was a member of the LDS church.

She is survived by nine children, Curtie Orr of Rexburg, Scott Brown and Doris Hicks, both of Salmon, Chill of Missoula, Larry of Rigby, Ida., Dale of Salmon, Lola Tracy of Missoula, Clara Louise Rice of Boise, Ida. and Fera Chuck Brown of Beaverton, Ore.; 32 grandchildren; 28 great grandchildren and two sisters, Betsey Walker and Delila Asay, both of Lovell.

Parents:
Martin Calvin Boice (1844 - 1907)
Louisa Marshall Boice (1844 - 1926)

Spouse:
Achillies Brown (1891 - 1940)
Burial:
Lovell Cemetery
Lovell, Big Horn County Wyoming, USA

Myrtle Boice and Achillies Brown Monument
Lovell Cemetery Lovell, Wyoming

Record added: Oct 28, 2007

Find A Grave Memorial# 22503232

John Wayne and the Pledge of Allegiance

Dauean Louisa Marshall Boyce/Boice




Louisa Marshall Boyce

Collection of Histories:
Louisa Marshall Boice was born March 12, 1850 in Herefordshire, England to Sarah Goode Marshall and Thomas Marshall. Her father died when she was about three years old. Because Louisa's mother was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she brought her family to Utah in 1856. They suffered many hardships along the way, but according to Louisa, 'Through the faith and prayers of my dear mother we were able to stand it all.'

When they arrived in Salt Lake City, Louisa spun and knit to help her mother support the family. Louisa spent her girlhood in Franklin, Idaho. She first met her husband, Martin Calvin Boice, in Smithfield, Utah in the fall of 1864. Martin later moved with his parents to Oxford, Idaho with the help of Louisa's brother-in-law B. H. Hunt. When B. H. Hunt and Louisa's sister moved to Oxford, Louisa came with them and met Martin again. They were married on May 7, 1865 in Oxford and settled there. They became the parents of 12 children: five boys and seven girls. In 1869, Louisa and Martin made a trip to Salt Lake City to receive their endowments. One summer they stayed in Market Lake, Idaho to help Louisa's older sister and her husband. Their little boy had been killed when a wagon ran over his head. Louisa took her sister's place as cook at the home station stage line that they were running.

When the Oxford Relief Society was organized, Louisa served as a teacher. In 1879, Louisa and Martin sold their home in Oxford and moved to Dayton, Idaho. Louisa was Relief Society President there for 11 years. Then, they moved to Cottonwood Valley, Idaho where they ran a dairy for eight years. Finally, in 1901, they moved to Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming where a group of Saints had been sent to colonize. Martin died there on October 5, 1907, and Louisa passed away on May 5, 1926.

Louisa Marshall Boyce / Boice

This collection contains items relating to Louisa and to her mother, Sarah Goode Marshall. There is some discrepancy between the authors of the collection as to Louisa’s first name. In the autobiography she is identified as Louise, in the ‘Faith Promoting Incident’ one of her children refers to her as Louesa, and in Sarah Goode’s biography a grandchild refers to her as Louisa. Two items in the collection are about her specifically. The first item is a one-page typewritten autobiographical sketch of Louisa’s life written March 12, 1923 when she was 73 years old. In the sketch she recounts the moves that she and her husband made, and focuses on the eternal nature of the family. She notes that all of her children, except two sons who died in infancy, were worthy to go through the temple. She closes the account of her life with this statement: ‘I am looking forward to the time of when we will all be reunited again and have during my life tried to live worthy of the blessings of God on myself and family.’

The second item is entitled ‘A Faith Promoting Incident,’ and was written by one of Louisa’s children. Louisa was living in Dayton, Idaho in 1886 when the incident occurred. The saints were in the midst of persecution because of polygamy, and further, an influenza epidemic was going through the community. Louisa and her mother were both ill. One night, Louisa’s husband went out to check on her mother. While he was gone, Louisa heard someone at the door scraping his shoes. When she opened her eyes she saw a stranger standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by a bright light. She often said later, ‘I have never in my life seen anything to equal the brightness of that light. I could not move or speak a word.’ The Man said, ‘I have come to tell you how things are going with the Saints.’

At this moment she was instantly healed, and she began to pray fervently. Then she started to sing ‘Up Awake Ye Defenders of Zion.’ She was joined by hundreds of voices who she then led in singing ‘Lo the Lion’s Left the Thicket.’ In a vision, ‘the future was opened to me as far as my eyes could see in every direction.’ She saw people walking the highway in a destitute state, and she saw the White House and soldiers marching towards it in defense of the nation. The visitor informed her that ‘in a short time the Saints would be granted their franchise and in time they would hold the reins of government.’ Louisa was filled with happiness and asked the man to come again. He agreed and left the room.


Publisher's Note: Lovinia Marshall Adams lived at Market Lake, son John William Ezekiel Adams [male] 14 Mar 1867 Market Lake, Jefferson, Idaho died 17 Jun 1869 Fort Hall, Bingham, Idaho and Buried: 19 Jun 1869 in Roberts, Jefferson, Idaho.

Louisa Marshall Boyce and Unknown Ladies

I believe this photo may have been taken in the Franklin Idaho area, and certain the woman on the far right is a "Marshall", I'm not positive which one.   Possibly Louisa Marshall Boyce.  This could be an early Relief Society photo as Louisa Boyce was the first RS President in Dayton, Idaho.

Any assistance in identifying the ladies and child in the photo will be greatly appreciated.  Please leave your comments.  Thank you!

Dauean Louisa Marshall Boyce (Boice)



Louisa Marshall Boyce

Louisa Marshall Boyce/Boice
Lovell, Wyoming

Transcription of History

Louesa Marshall Boice was born at Linton Hill Herforeshire England 12 March 1850.   She was the fourth child of Thomas Marshall and Sarah Goode when she was six years of age she came to America with her widowed mother four sisters and a brother.

At that tender age she walked most of the way across the plains, as her mother was a member of the first handcart company to cross the plains.  The last day of the journey a some horseman from Salt Lake met Grandmother with her little group treaking along pulling their handcart which contained all their earthly possessions, they took up the children on their horses and rode back to Salt Lake.

Louesa had a vivid recollection of a woman holding her on her lap and looking at her arms through the rays of the bright sun, the woman sobbed bitterly when she saw the skin hanging loosely oner the bone.

Her first home was in Ogden Utah.  Her youthful days was spent in the fields gleaning the heads of grain after the harvesting was done.  She truly earned her bread by the sweat of her brow.

"The Gleaners"

Early in life she learned how to manipulate the spinning wheel and she gathered the wool from sage brush and wire fences where the sheep had been feeding, she gathered bones and carcasses, soaked ashes in water, and boiled the bones in the water which she poured off the aches and thus she made soap with which to wash the wool, clothing, etc.

After carding the wool she spun it into yarn and knit stockings for herself and other members of the family.  In fact, she became expert in knitting.  During the world war she won a souvenier for badge for knitting 50 pair sox and a certificate from President Wilson.

She was deprived of schooling having to work hard to help support the members of the family.

Her mother married William Chadwick but his presence in the family only heaped greater hardship on the children, as he compelled them to do manual labor with him in the fields during the summer and when winter came he would not allow the children to stay home, but turned them out to ind a home where elsewhere.  When spring came he forced them to come back only to work hard all summer only to be turned away again when winter came.

Later the family moved to Franklin Idaho.  [High Creek-] When Louisa was fourteen years of age she was driving a yoke of Oxen hitched to a wagon and was on her way to the grist mill with several sacks of wheat which was to be groung up into flour.

As the oxen approached a pole bridge, they beame stupid and Louesa had much difficulty trying to get them to cross ; in so doing, two of the wheels missed the bridge and she found herslef stranded in the ditch.

In the distance, not far away, three men had witnessed the scene and one of them came to her resuce.  In a short time he had the wagon out of the ditch and Louesa was on her way rejoicing.   She made her home with T. H. [Tryphena Hunt?] 

Louesa said that he was the finest type of young manhood she had ever met little did she realize at that time hew as to be her companion for life.

The next spring Louisa was on her way to Montana where she expected to make her home with her sister Tryphena Hunt.  Her first night was spent at Oxford Idaho.  Before starting out the next morning, she found it necessary to do some repair work on her clothing.  Being bashful and shy she hid herself in ath rear of the wagon and was busily engaged darning her stockings when a stranger stepped up and found her in this embarrassing position. 

He went to one of his sons and told him that any young woman who could repair her clothing and darn stockings as this one could would make a good companion for a young man.

Martin Calvin took the hint.  Louesa discontinued her journey to Montana Market Lake and they were married 7 May 1865, being the first couple to be married in Oxford.  There were only two log houses in the settlement at that time.  How happy they must have been as they worked together weaving willows into a shanty which served as their first home.  A wagon box turned upside down was used as a bedstead upon which they slept.  I have often wondered how they managed, living in a willow house when the rains descended.

Louisa was in her fifteenth year and weighed ninety pounds at the time of her marriage.

Tryphena Marshall Hunt



Tryphena Marshall

Tryphena was born on the 4th day of  February, 1848 in Linton, Herefordshire England third daughter to Thomas and Sarah Goode Marshall.  Tryphena was 8 years old when she came to the United States with her mother and five siblings.  She was a member of the first handcart company lead by Edmund Ellsworth, walking 1,400 miles from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, Utah. 




Early image of Bethuel Howard and Tryphena Marshall Hunt
Possibly their wedding photo.  He must have loved her long hair.
 

Bethuel Howard and Tryphena Marshall Hunt

 Jefferson Valley News--December 19, 1913

(This article was a special edition put out by the paper with help from the Whitehall Women's club)

B.H. Hunt-- Truly a pioneer is B.H. Hunt of Waterloo, whose advent to this state dates back to the territorial days of 1863, and who, for a half century has lived in this section and knows by experience the vast and remarkable changes that have taken place.

Standing: Selena Marshall Gregory, Tryphena Marshall Hunt,
D. Louisa Marshall Boyce/Boice, Sarah Marshall Poole Callan,
Sitting: George Thomas. Marshall, Sarah Goode Marshall - Chadwick
and Charles Frederick Chadwick
Missing are: Lovina Marshall Adams and William Chadwick

It was in the spring of the gold strike in Alder, 1863, that Mr. Hunt came from Idaho to Montana and at that place mined for about a year. In the fall of '64 took his team of oxen and went to Idaho to marry Miss Tryphena Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt remained in Franklin, Idaho for about one year then returned to Montana. They lived first on the Ike Milliner place near Pleasant Valley near C.W. Winslow's (This was near where Gene Hanson is now) Mr. Hunt freighted that summer, from near Benton to Helena. The following year the Hunts moved near Pipestone Springs where Mr. Hunt mined and put up a quartz mill. (May have been up near the Columbia Mine, north of the Springs) After spending some time in the Pipestone country Mr. Hunt and family in 1867 to what is known as Paul ranch one mile west of Whitehall vicinity and in the early seventies moved to the Silver Star mining camp where they stayed about three years and in 1875 Mr. Hunt again did some mining at Cooke's diggings near Pipestone (possibly above what we know as Cactus Inn) but the following year went to Pleasant Vally and lived on what is now the Wm McGee farm. He peddled vegetables from that place to Highland with oxen. Mr. Hunt decided to take up a homestead so in '77 filed on and near Silver Star where the family lived and followed farming for about 10 years then got a ranch on Spring Creek where for nearly twenty years they toiled and a few years ago Mr. Hunt bought the place where they now reside in the rich Waterloo country.

Mr. Hunt is 78 years old while Mrs. Hunt is 66. They have living the following children: Mrs. Sarah Lorenz of Waterloo, Mrs. Bedford Love, Renova, Alfred Hunt of Butte, Arthur Hunt on a farm adjoining the parents farm, and George Hunt who with his wife live on the old home ranch.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are very active. They are beloved wherever they are known. Representatives of the old band of pioneers, whose ranks are thinning, day by day, they are well deserving of the respect and esteem in which they are universally held, and command a high place in regard of those who are admirers of the people that have helped to build our great state.

Pioneer Ladies: 
Louisa Marshall Boyce/Boice, Sister Lemmon, Tryphena Marshall Hunt

The Beginning of their family...

Buthuel Howard Hunt was born February 28th, 1835,  New York, New York.
Tryphena Marshall was born February 4th, 1848, Linton, Herefordshire, England.
They married in Franklin, Idaho November 9th, 1864.
Together they had 9 children.

Sarah and Inez Hunt

Sarah Ann Hunt: b. September 24th 1865
Edwin B.Hunt: b. July 1st, 1867
Inez Tryphena Hunt: b. December 10th, 1869
John William Hunt: b. April 6th, 1873
Alfred Hunt: b. April 14th, 1875
Arthur Hunt: b. January 25th, 1878
Lenora Hunt: b. February 2nd, 1881



George and Alta Hunt

George Howard Hunt: b. September 12th, 1884
Alta May Hunt: b.August 20th,1888

Birth: 1848

Death: 1922

"Mrs Tryphena Hunt age 74 years, died yesterday at the family home in Whitehall. Surviving relatives are three sons Alfred, Arthur, and George of Waterloo; two daughters Mrs. Inez Love of Whitehall, and Mrs. Sarah Lorenz of Billings. "

Tryphena died the 29th of May 1922 at the age of 74.  She is buried in the Fish Creek Cemetery, Whitehall, Jefferson County, Montana.
 

Bethuel Howard Hunt - Obituary

Bethuel Howard Hunt

Birth: 1895

Death: 1916

Demise of Respected Pioneer of Waterloo (News Article)

Bethuel Howard Hunt a highly esteemed pioneer of this state, passed away on April 7, at his home in Waterloo. Mr. Hunt been a patient sufferer for months before he underwent an operation seven weeks ago. Howard Hunt was widely and favorably known throughout southern Montana, where he lived since his arrival in 1866. Having lived to the ripe age, of 81 years he felt and entered into the movements, ideals and activities of his time.

 It was given to him to live in the greatest epoch of the world's progress. He had seen the dim light of the tallow dip shine out into the kerosene lamp and later break forth into the brilliance of the electric current. In his time the plodding pony post that carried the mails to the great West were changed to the lighting express. The old prairie schooner and stage coach, in his span of life, were changed to Pullman cars and floating palaces and all the modern methods of transportation. Mr. Hunt was a close reader and a deep thinker, and although modest and retiring by nature, could always carry on, with his friends, a spirited conversation on all public questions. He had a jovial disposition and was always ready to see the bright side of everything.

Mr. Hunt was born in New York City, in 1835, was married in Idaho in 1864 to Miss Tryphena Marshall; two years later moved to Montana and celebrated his golden wedding anniversary two years ago, and would have celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in Montana this year, a rare experience in the life of man. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. George D. King of Whitehall. The funeral was the largest seen in this locality in a long time; the floral offering was beautiful and amid these the remains were laid to rest in Creeklyn Cemetery (aka Fish Creek Cemetery). The sympathy of the community goes out to the bereaved wife and children, for he was a devoted husband, an affectionate father and a true friend.

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"Calm in the bosom of thy God,

Departed spirit rest thee now!
E'en while with us thy footsteps trod,
His seal was on thy brow.
Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die."

Inscription: aged 61 yrs 1 mo 10 dys

Burial:  Fish Creek Cemetery Whitehall Jefferson County Montana, USA