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

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