Boice Family History

Floyd and Leta Boice Blutwell

BOICE FAMILY HISTORY


This life story is located in my grandmother 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)

The John Boice Family whose residence for many years was Oxford, Idaho, Oneida Co.,
They were of Dutch decent.

The family was prominent in the early settlement of New York State. The name as it came from Holland was
written Buys, about the time of the Revolutionary War, the name or ways of spelling it was changed to Boice.
Among with a great many other Dutch people, certain of the Boices who had become numerous sympathized
with England which caused them to leave the United States or New York State and take up their residence in the Dominion of Canada. Their residence there was at Fredericksburg, Upper Canada. It was in that vicinity where they embraced the gospel and came back to the United States.

They settled in Ohio, then Missouri, then came west with the body of the Church, settled in Salt Lake City, went from there to Spanish Fork in 1858 then went to Smithfield Cash Co. From there to Oxford, Idaho in 1866.

When the Logan Temple was opened, Patriarch John Boice and his wife Mary Ann Barzee Boice were among the first to do work for their dead, according to records which John Boice left in the Logan Temple.

Benjamin Boice was the son of William Boice and Elizabeth Snyder, William was the son of Jacob Boice and
Abigal Horton, he was the great grandfather of John Boice of Oxford, Idaho. Page 56 Vol. 33 N.Y. Genealogy Record.

Jan Cornelius Buys, son of Cornelius Buys and Hendricks Damon, emigrated from Holland in 1648. He was
then adopted by his uncle John or Jan Janson, reside at Flat Bush, New York. Damon of New Amsterdam.

John Boice of Oxford, Idaho was the grandfather of John Edwin Boice who was my father.
-----Leta Boice Boutwell

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