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

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

Autobiography of John Boice [Boyce]

John Boice [Boyce]

Source:  Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum, Biographies, LDS Church Archives, Pg. 29. Grammar has been standardized.

John Boice [Boyce], the son of Margaret and Benjamin Boice, born 10 February 1810 [Alternate date in records: 20 Feb 1814], Fredrisburg, Upper Canada, was baptized in the Church [Jesus Christ] of Latter-day Saints, 1833, having been married two years to Jane, the daughter of Thomas and Martha Horne she became a member of the Church at the same time.  A miracle was wrought there, which I would like to mention concerning an aged lady, who had been troubled with the salt rheum[?] about twenty years, she standing by the water's edge.  Brother ... said to her, "If you will believe in the Lord Jesus and be baptized for the remission of your sins and have hands, then I will promise you you shall be healed."  She at once consented and was immediately healed.  This circumstance I witnessed.  I then came to Kirtland, was ordained a priest, remained there a while and then started for Far West.  But on meeting the Saints in Missouri, I returned with them and came to Quincy.  At the close of one year I lost my wife and one child, besides suffering with sickness myself.  I married again, Mary Ann, the daughter of James and Betsy Barizee. 

Mary Ann Barzee

Prophet Joseph Smith
Prophet of the Last Dispensation
and Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ

I have been personally acquainted with Joseph and Hyrum and many of the Twelve, and remain a firm believer of all these persons as far as I am acquainted.  Nauvoo, November 3, 1845.



John Boice [Boyce]

Mary Ann Barzee

Mary Ann Barzee and John Boice
Oxford Cemetery, Franklin, Idaho

Biography of John Boice 1814-1886

John Boice

Written by his granddaughter, Rachel Boice Olson,
at the request of her brother, John. 

To be read at the family reunion on the
seventh day of April, 1931, at Lovell, Wyoming.

John Boice was a man of great honor and integrity.  He was a perfect specimen of physical manhood which enabled him to stand great hardships encountered in his strenuous work of pioneering.

He was born February 20th, 1814, at Fredricksburg, Upper Canada.  He was the son of Benjamin Boice and Margaret Hartly and was the youngest of a family of six.  He married Jane Hearms June 7th, 1835, and this same year he and his wife were led into the waters of baptism.  Through this ordinance they were ushered into the rays of living light and their descendants were made heirs to great blessings.

Shortly after he embraced the gospel he had a dream.  He dreamed he saw the temple in place and Joseph Smith, the Prophet, dressed in a long white robe standing with bowed head by the temple, his hands and feet were clear as glass.  Looking up and gazing at the temple, he said, "Bretheren, the set time has come to favor Zion, and Jackson County is ours; I will take with me fifteen hundred men, and there will not be a man to make afraid nor a dog to bark."

Prophet Joseph Smith

He then awoke because of the dream.  In the year 1837 he with his family migrated to Kirtland, Ohio, and the following year they started for Missouri, but were driven back by a mob and stopped at Barry Pike County, Illinois.  Two years later they went back to Ohio on business.  After their interest had been transacted they started for Kirtland.  While on the journey, his wife was taken very ill in the town of Hudson.  During her illness she was permitted to see beyond the veil and for 24 hours appeared as dead, after which she regained consciousness.  She related the following story, that angelic spirits had declared to her that Joseph Smith was the great prophet raised up to open this last dispensation, and she bore a strong testimony of this latter-day work.  She said she had only come back to stay four days as she had promised a certain woman that she was willing she should rear her three little children, but now she desired that her husband should rear two of them, as she was going to take one of them with her.

In the evening of the fourth day at eight o'clock, at the same hour that she became unconscious, she passed peacefully away on February 14th, 1840.  After the service and the body had been laid to rest, Grandfather, returning home found his healthiest son, Thomas, in a dying condition, not from any perceivable sickness, and soon passed away.  Thus her words were fulfilled.

He resumed his journey and met the Saints at Quincy, Illinois, who were gathering to hold their first conference after being driven from Missouri.

While in company with Brother Haddock, Grandfather related his dream while in Canada.  Brother Haddock answered, "Well, you can test the truth of that dream today, for if it was Brother Joseph, you will know him when you see him."  Soon after, Grandfather looked up and saw a group of men conversing among themselves.  As he beheld the sight of one of the man's faces he said, pointing, "There is the man I saw."  "Yes," said Brother Haddock, "that is Joseph Smith."

After arriving in Kirtland he met Mary Ann Barzee, and they were married May 7th, 1840.  In June, 1841, they sailed by boat to Nauvoo.  Here they were being mobbed and driven from place to place. 

Mary Ann Barzee

Their first son, Chester, was born at Chester, Ohio, April 12th, 1842, and died at Crooked Creek, Illinois.  Martin Calvin [was] born at Crooked Creek, April 7th, 1844, on Sunday at dusk.  John, Junior, was born at McDonough County, Illinois, May 24th, 1846.  David was born February 18, 1848, Jo Daviess County, Illinois.  Elizabeth Ann was born November 27th at Jo Daviess County, Sand Prairie, Illinois.

At the time of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph and Hyrum, Grandfather's family was living a few miles from Carthage.  He, with others, were called in haste to Nauvoo by the Prophet as he was going to prison and he desired to talk to them.  They heard his instructions to the people from time to time.  "Bretheren, I have great sorrow in my heart for fear that I may be taken away from the earth with the keys of the kingdom of God upon me, without sealing them upon the heads of men.  God has sealed upon my head all the keys of the kingdom of God necessary to the organizing and building up of the Church of Zion and the kingdom of God upon the earth, and to prepare the Saints for the coming of man.  Now, brethern, I thank God that I have lived to see the day that I have been enabled to give you your endowments, and that I have sealed upon your heads all the powers of the priesthood and apostleship with all the keys and powers of which God has sealed upon me.  And I now roll all of the labor, burden, and care of this Church and kingdom of God upon your shoulders.  I now command you in the name of the Lord Jesus to round up your shoulders and care of this Church and kingdom of God before heaven and earth, and before God and angels and man, and if you do not do it you will be damned."

After the Prophet and Patriarch were slain, most of the Apostles were on missions.  Sidney Rigdon seemed much concerned and expressed the idea that a guardian must be appointed to lead the Church on.  When the Apostles came home, the people met in a large gathering in the forenoon to consider who should be the president of the Church.  It was not decided and another gathering was called in the afternoon.  In this gathering Brigham Young rose to speak, and by the spirit of the Holy Ghost which brings things past, things present, and things to come, fell with such power upon the people that Brigham Young was transfigured before them in the likeness of Joseph in looks and speech; the vote was unanimous in favor of Brigham Young.

President Brigham Young

In the spring of 1852, Grandfather with his family left Nauvoo, Illinois, with others and started across the plains by ox team, arriving in Salt Lake.

They were called to Spanish Fork to assist in building a fort.  While there they met a friendly band of Indians.  The chief asked if they would build him a house inside the fort, which was also done.  Donations were given to the Indians and Grandfather was chosen to deliver these donations to the chief who in turn distributed them among his tribe.

Grandmother succeeded in learning the Indian language and was appointed Indian interpreter.  One day a young Indian came to her home with his three-month old baby saying he would give it to her and never take it away as his squaw had died.  She answered him saying she would let him know in a little while.  After talking the matter over with Grandfather, he advised her to go to their bishop for counsel.  She related the circumstances to the bishop, telling him she had a family of five children and could not see her way through, but he said "By all means, Sister Boice, take the baby, for you don't know what good it will bring."  So she took the baby and when it was about a year old it took seriously ill.  All was done for its recovery, taking it to a doctor in Provo, but finally the baby died and was buried as if it was their own.  The father of the baby was a frequent visitor during its sickness and death.  This was in the year 1855.

Alpharetta Boice buried in Pioneer Heritage Cemetery
Spanish Fork, Utah

Like all colonizers in a new country, their time was devoted to building and farming while the women provided clothing by spinning wool and weaving cloth.  He remained in Spanish Fork until the year 1857 when he was called with others to make a settlement 40 miles southeast of Salt Lake.  When they arrived there, they were met by a bunch of hostile Indians, about 40 in number, on horseback forming a line before their wagons.  Grandfather offered to shake hands with them, but they refused, waiting for the word of command.  When one of the Indians jumped from his horse and went to the chief telling him how Grandmother cared for his baby during its sickness and death, the chief listened to the story, then began to talk telling the Indians that it was their best hunting grounds and when the whites came their game and fish disappeared.  Grandmother understood their conversations, telling Grandfather what they said.  He told her to tell the chief they would not hunt or fish.  The chief replied that they will scare them all away.  However, through the pleading of the young Indian, his heart was softened and the chief said [that] if they would make a treaty to give them a beef they would not molest them, which was agreed upon.  Grandmother said, "Oh how glad I am that we listened to our bishop and took his counsel."  Grandfather immediately rode to Salt Lake on horseback and reported to President Young and he advised them to move out.

They then went to Parley's Park and remained there that winter, being shut in with the depth of snow.  This was the winter of 1858 and has been recorded as the hardest winter in the history of Utah.  When spring came they were destitute, broken up in body and mind, for they were nearly famished from hunger and cold, being deprived of the comforts of life.  From here they migrated north as far as Farmington where another son, Elijah, was born.  Here they remained until 1861, at which time they moved to Smithfield, living there a few years.  Another son, Lorenzo, was born.

George Barzee and John Boice
Smithfield, Utah Cemetery

In the year 1865 they went north as far as Oxford, Idaho, where his son, John, age 19, and his brother-in-law, George Barzee, age 23, were frozen to death one mile from Franklin, Idaho.  Here his health began to fail him and he devoted his time to church work.  He, with Grandmother, were called to work in the Logan Temple.  After spending two months there they were called to the deathbed of their son, David.  They returned to the temple, but he continued to fail in heath.  President John Taylor called him to the office of patriarch and advised him to travel and bless the people.  Many of the sacred prophecies and promises which he made the people are recorded in Grandmother's diary.


John and Mary Ann Barzee Boice home in Oxford, Idaho

Possibly John Boice plowing

John and Mary Ann Boice home today Oxford, Idaho

He led a life of prayer and honesty.  He governed his family according to the requirements of the priesthood.  While on his deathbed, his tribute to Grandmother, "Ma, you have been faithful with me in rearing our large family and you have done well; may you always keep the presence of mind and God will bless you forever."
They reared a large family who are co-workers in the great cause of Zion.

Mary Ann Barzee and John Boice
Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Franklin, Idaho

His mortal activities have been recorded in the annals of Church history.  Surly the rewards for faithfulness is [are] realized in the numerous posterity which carry on the good teachings and example given them by such a worth progenitor.  He passed peacefully away on March thirty-first, 1886, and his mortal remains were laid to rest in the Oxford Cemetery.
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Source: Biography of John Boice, typescript, LDS Church Archives.  Grammar has been standardized.

Israel Dodge Allphin



Israel Dodge Allphin

 Birth: Dec. 3, 1814
Verona, Boone County, Kentucky, USA
Death: Apr. 25, 1903
Elba, Cassia County, Idaho, USA

Son of Shelton Allphin and Martha Taylor

Married Burnetta Collins, 5 Sep 1833, Payson, Adams, Illinois.

Children - Benjamin Sheldon Allphin, Emily Mary Allphin, Joshua Horton Allphin, John Henry Allphin, Jasper Allphin, Burnetta Allphin, Martha Jane Allphin, Ransom William Allphin, Sarah Eliza Allphin, Israel Dodge Allphin.

Married Susan Emeline Dameron, 28 Feb 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

Children - Joseph Warren Allphin, Hyrum Allphin, David Comfort Allphin, Melissa Jane Allphin, Catherine Leanor Allphin, Rebecca Priscilla Allphin, Emma May Allphin, Samuel Taylor Allphin, Susan Emeline Allphin.

Married Christiana Dolbel Riding, 22 Apr 1885, St. George, Washington, Utah.

Children - George Kerry Allphin, Reuben Lister Allphin, Owen Lee Allphin, Donoven J. Allphin.

History - Shelton Allphin, Israel's father, was a Baptist minister and he and his family traveled quite a bit. They lived in Kentucky, Wisconsin and Illinois. In 1834 Shelton and Martha Allphin and family, except Israel Dodge Allphin, traveled by ox wagon from Illinois to Texas to apply for a land grant from the Mexican government in 1834. His oldest son, Ransom, also applied and the two settled in Montgomery County on the far eastern border near the well-traveled Old San Antonio Road. The land is now in Madison County near the modern day towns of Elwood (pop. 28), Midway (pop. 200) and Madisonville (pop. 4,000). Unfortunately, Shelton Allphin died about a year after arriving in Texas in 1835. The children divided up his land and most of them raised their families there. Martha remarried about 20 years later.

Bible of Shelton Allphin had been donated to the Sam Houston Memorial Museum in 1955. The bible is now in the Huntsville Public Library (20090. The Huntsville library has a collection of files on the early settlers of the county. Shelton's file which had copies of the pages in the Bible with the handwritten names of his children and their birth dates.

In 1854 Ransom, the oldest son, donated 5 acres of his own land for the first cemetery in the area. Ironically, he was the first one buried there as he died the following year. The cemetery is now called the Allphin Cemetery. Israel's mother is buried there and his brother Ransom and his wife and some other relatives. This Ransom fellow was quite prominent in the area. He and a brother-in-law fought in several battles with Sam Houston against the Mexican government to set up the Republic of Texas. He was also quite active in the local Baptist Church serving as an Elder.

Israel Dodge Allphin, didn't go to Texas with the rest of the family. He married Burnetta Collins in 1833 in Illinois and started a family. He settled in Payson, Adams County, Illinois. In 1840 he joined the LDS church. Adams County is just south of Hancock County whish is where Nauvoo is located where the Mormons were centered at the time. He went to Texas about 1847 after the Saints left Nauvoo. He stayed for about 10 years and some of his children were born there.

In 1857 Israel, Burnetta and their 10 children started for Salt Lake City in company with John Henry Moody, a Brother Collins, a Brother Dameron and others.

After many trials and hardships they reached Salt Lake Valley in 1858. The same year he married Susan E. Dameron Coldiron as a plural wife whose husband, William Coldiron, had died crossing the plains. She had two children by her first marriage.

Israel and his two families lived for several years in Salt Lake, but was later called to settle the Dixie Country, as it was called. He moved his families to Pine Valley, Utah in 1862. A saw mill was built on the Santa Clara creek where he was employed and to which place he moved his families.

One night after all the camp had retired, a cloud burst caused a flood in the narrow valley. Hearing the terrible roar of the coming flood Israel helped his first family to safety, then rushed to the rescue of his other family. He was carrying a small child and his wife was carrying the baby. The other children were following when the flood overtook them. Israel, making the child safe, rushed back to save the others.

In the meantime a loose log from the floating house had knocked the baby from Susan's arms. It floated down the stream as did the other children and were drowned. Israel rescued his wife, Susan, from the floating log. The next day two children were found and several days later the other two were found hanging from the tops of some tall trees. All were buried in the same grave in Pine Valley.

Following this incident Burnetta, Israel's first wife, moved to Salt Lake City and lived a time with a married son. When Israel had built two good homes in Pine Valley, Burnetta returned. The two families lived for several years in Pine Valley until Burnetta's death in 1871. In 1875 Israel's son, Ransom, was murdered.

This same year President Brigham Young called Israel to serve a mission in Texas. He was ordained a member of the Quorum of Seventy and set apart by Orson Pratt. He labored in Madisonville, Texas where he taught the gospel to his mother, his son, Benjamin, his brothers, and sisters.

On December 5, 1875, in Madisonville, Lorenzo Snow Jr. was attempting to remove a handkerchief from his pocket when he accidentally discharged a small handgun, also in his pocket. The bullet passed through his leg, and lodged in Israel's leg, where it remained for the rest of Israel's life. However, Israel had great faith and was healed without the aid of a doctor.

After two years, Israel was released from his mission and moved to St. George, Utah. Here he completed the temple work for many of his ancestors, and was sealed to his wife Susan. Israel and Susan had ten children. Seven of these children died in infancy.

In 1878 Israel and his family moved to Panguitch, Utah. Susan rode horseback during the move, driving the cattle. She accidentally fell from the horse receiving internal injuries. She died January 10, 1879.


Israel D and Christianna D Asay Allphin
and child (unknown)

In the spring of 1885 Israel married Christiana Riding Asay, a widow with five children. To this union were born four sons. Israel Dodge Allphin was the father of 24 children and raised children of his wives by other husbands.


Israel Dodge Allphin Monument in Elba, Cassia Idaho

In 1902 Israel's family moved to Lovell, Wyoming. Shortly thereafter Israel moved to Elba, Idaho, where three of his married children lived. He was set apart as a patriarch in 1903. He was stricken, soon after, with a paralytic stroke and died April 25, 1903.

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Source:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17815448

Christianna Dolbell Riding Asay Allphin



Christianna Dolbell Riding

Christiana Dolbell Riding was the daughter of Christopher Lister Riding and Eliza Adelaide Dolbell. She was born on December 8, 1857, in Provo, Utah. She died on April 18, 1925, in Lovell, Wyoming in the home of Adelbert Asay, her son.


Christopher Lister Riding

Eliza Adelaide Dolbell

 Christiana was born in one of the first two-story buildings in Provo. When she was three days old, the building caught fire and her mother carried her out of the building.

Her father was called to Dixie and he took his two families there while Christiana was still a baby. When she was 16 months old, her mother gave birth to another baby and Christiana was set out in the yard to play. An Indian took her and headed for his tepee, however, her father rescued her before she entered the tepee with the Indian.

She was very fond of her father and as she was able to walk, she followed him to and from his tin shop. When she was two years old, she was following him and he and he went further than his shop, across a swift canal, crossing only on a pole. When she tried to cross, she fell in and was carried down stream. Her father’s first wife saw her fall in and rescued her.

She loved nature. She never was known to lie in bed after the sun came up. When she was too young to work, she would rise early and pick flowers until her mother got up. She was part of a large family and her mother had a card and spin wool to make clothing for all the family. Her mother didn’t have time to teach Christy to cook and sew, but she wanted her daughter to learn some of the finer skills. So Christy went to work in some of the wealthier homes and learned many of these finer skills. She pleased many of her employers. She worked for one of Brigham Young’s daughters, Susa Young Gates. She learned how to polish silver and wait on tables properly.

She had olive skin; an abundance of black hair, brown eyes, was a medium height, and was always pleasant. When she was 16 or 17 she met a young farmer, Edwin Asay, and fell in love with him. They married in her father’s home. Her brother Taylor married at the same time.


Edwin Asay Born 31 Mar 1846

 Edwin and Christiana moved to Arizona, but soon returned to live with Edwin’s mother. Shortly thereafter their first child, Frank, was born. As soon as Frank was old enough the couple, the young family went to the St. George [Temple] to be sealed. Their 2nd child was born and died in St. George. They moved to Long Valley, but eventually settled in Mount Carmel, where they built a log cabin and planted apple trees. Here their first girl, Eliza Adelaide, was born. When Addie was nine days old a heavy rainfall came down the valley. The men tried to turn the stream that was threatening their grain. Christiana was alone with two little ones as the flood came down past the house and washed away the corral, the chickens and pigs. Inside the house the young mother found only one spot where she could keep her baby dry.

In the summer of 1884 Christiana was expecting another baby. In May of that year Edwin took sick. He tried to help his wife as much as he could, as she wasn’t feeling well either. On June 5, 1884 Edwin died of appendicitis. Just 10 days later Christiana delivered a baby girl and named her Ruth. Christy’s confided to her brother George, who was living with them, that she needed medical care. So she sold her farm to Bishop John Eager, traded a yoke of oxen for a span of horses, and on 15 July 1884 she loaded up her wagon and left Arizona with her young family. They arrived in St. George four weeks later.

Israel D. and Christianna D. Riding Asay Allphin
and child (unknown)

In the autumn of 1884, Christy was ill, newly widowed, with six children to care for. She was only 28 years old. An elderly gentleman named Israel Dodge Allphin came calling. Christy opened her door to him. Israel was older than her father and was twice a widower. All of his children were grown. He promised Christy that he would “put shoes on her children’s feet” and “give them an education.” She accepted his proposal and they were married April 22, 1885. If his young wife thought of him as only a provider, she was surprised to have her virile old husband father four more boys; George, Reuben, Owen, and Donovan.


Christianna Dolbell Riding Asay Allphin

In the summer of 1902, Delbert Asay and George Allphin, prevailed on Christy to leave Panguitch, UT and moved to the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming, where Delbert and George were currently living. In May of that year Christy with her remaining boys and daughter Addie Asay, in company with Mr. John C. Houston, began the 750-mile trip to Lovell, Wyoming, a trip that took eight long hard weeks to complete.

On April 18, 1925 Christiana died at the home of her son Adelbert Asay. The following is a quote from her obituary.

Christianna Dolbell Riding Asay Allphin
 Monument, Lovell  Cemetery Lovell, Wyoming

“Grandma” Allphin was known to all as a patient, uncomplaining devoted mother. She had striven through continued trials and hardships rearing two worthy families, to be stricken seven months before her death with paralysis, which affliction rendered her entirely speechless and helpless yet conscious to the last, and showing appreciation, no matter how much pain she was enduring, by a smile.”

Note: Israel Dodge Allphin died 25 April 1903 in Elba, Cassia, Idaho. He was buried 26 April 1903 in Elba, Cassia, Idaho.

Publisher's Note:  Over many years, my mother and I visited the gravesites of family members, in Lovell, Cowley and Penrose Wyoming.  When visiting G-grandmother's gravesite in the Lovell cemetery which is situated in the shade of a large tree, mother told me about a controversary that developed between the Allphin and Asay families.  Unfortunate "feelings" occurred over the Monument for Christianna.  Her full name is lengthy, and challenged the size of the stone and possible financial concerns entered in to the final product.  "Christianna Asay Dec 8, 1857 - Apr 18, 1925"   Understandibly the Allphin family was disturbed their family name was not included, and someone had the Allphin name chiseled in later. It saddened my mother that this had happened, and I hope those feelings have long since healed.  But it influenced the way my mother looked at her own situation.  My mother who also has a long name, was determined that her full name would appear on her monument to avoid a similiar situation.  Her wishes were followed, and if you visit the Cowley Cemetery, you will see the monument for Walter Simmons and Deliliah Mae Asay Wasden Robb.

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Source:

(An Extract from “The Hearts of the Children - The Story of Reuben Lister & Ella Elvina Allphin”, by Joyce Kay Allphin Goodrich)

 http://www.allphin.org/ChristianaDR.htm