| Andrew Jackson Joyce and Keturah Mann Joyce and their son Arch Joyce and Jane Means Joyce Collected by David Clow |
| Martha Jane Means Joyce wife of Arch. Joyce graves Lamar, Missouri |
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| Arch Joyce and Jane Means Joyce and their Children Estell is on the far left... Boston, Missouri |
| Andrew Jackson Joyce his wife Keturah Mann Lamar, Missouri |
| Andrew Jackson Joyce his wife Keturah Mann Lamar, Missouri |
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| The Arch. Joyce Farm 1 mile south of Boston, Missouri a small village south of Lamar, Missouri Photo includes Lea Joyce, Cap Joyce, Clemens, and Martha Jane Joyce |
| Sarah Jane Means Joyce Boston, Missouri |
Andrew Jackson Joyce, son of Alex Joyce was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Patrick Co. Virginia. Moved to Shelby Co. Indiana at a early age where he married Keturah Redding Mann about 1834. There they raised their family of seven boys and seven girls. Five of the boys died young but all the girls lived to raise their own families. Besides their own children they took in the motherless children of an old friend, Zena Sleeth, Alice about two years old and Emma about three months. These they cared for until they married. All the children except Ruth married in Indiana. In late 1860's and early 1870's most of the families moved to Barton County Missouri where they lived as farmers. Grandpa Joyce had five brothers that I knew about. Alex, John, Jim, Pliny, and William Monroe Joyce, and one sister. There may have been another sister. Grandma had four brothers that I new of Jim, Dick, John, and Frank Mann. I don't know about her sisters. Now about these Kin...Grandpa's brother John, went to Indianapolis where he became prominent in the railroad business. Jim moved to southern Indiana. Pliny to Kentucky and William Monroe (Uncle Bill Roe) moved to Independence, Kansas. Alex continued to live on the farm near Brookfield, Ind. The sister married a Mr. Rubush and continued to live in London, Ind. A son became a prominent physician and practiced in London for many years. Grandma's brothers Jim, John, and Dick continued to live in Indiana, Frank moved to Missouri with the Joyces where he had a pottery shop for many years. Uncle Jim and Uncle Frank Mann also the sons-in-laws, Uncle John Hughes, Uncle Fred Boss, and Uncle Add Sleeth wore a long flowing beard and looked very patriotic and dignified. Oh yes, also Uncle Bill Roe Joyce. Most of them shaved them off in later years. Now I will tell you about the JOYCE family. Grandpa and Grandma continued to live on a farm in the Forest Grove neighborhood. In later years they were affectionately called Uncle Jackie and Aunt Kitty. Now the children beginning with the oldest... Mildred Agusta married Oliver Grimes. They settled on a farm about six miles east of Lamar where they lived most of their lives. Later they managed a hotel in Lamar where they died. Their children - boys, Austin died in early life unmarried. Hollis married Birdie Weddle of Lamar. Scott married Zoe Albright of Lamar. Claude, disappeared at the age of sixteen years, none of us ever knew what became of him. Girls, Missouri, married Henry Enlow and moved to Kansas on a wheat farm then later to South Dakota, where they were the last I knew. Blanch who never married. Tess, who married a sort of ne'er-do-well in later years. Later they both died in Kansas City. Shortly after their marriage Rollie and Scott moved to Joplin where they bought a few Jersey cows and sold milk. Scott worked in a meat shop to help pay expenses. In a few years they moved their cows to Phoenix. They sold the first bottle of milk ever sold in Phoenix. They kept adding to their business until they had an enormous business. We learned that they sold a few years later for $250,000 and retired. Rollie never had any children. Scott had three, I think. They are all gone now except one or two of Scott's children that I didn't know about. Mary Sabinah married George Oldham, they settled on a farm at Round Prairie on Horse Creek in the North East corner of Barton County about 25 miles from where we lived in the South part of the County. We never had much chance to visit or get acquainted when we were growing up. Their children, boys, Cal, Wyatt, Mose, Fred, and Elvert. Girls, Keturah, Melvy, and another that I never knew. I don't know what happened to Keturah. Melvy married a man named Davis and died here in K.C. a few years ago leaving one daughter who still lives here. After Aunt Mary's death the boys rather scattered out working on farms here and there. Cal worked mostly in our neighborhood making his home at Uncle Fred Boss's between jobs. Later he married Mary Day from near Lockwood and bought a farm where he lived till he died. They had two girls and one boy. Lithie, who married Lester Clements, a farmer. Gertie married Hollis Stockdale (Uncle Homer's son) and Win, who has always been manager of dairy farms. He is on a large farm now south of Kansas City. Gertie and Hollis had 6 girls, Sue, Marybelle, Daisy, Deane, Joan, Gay, and Dixie. One boy Carl who lives on a farm near Uncle Homer. The girls are all married and scattered about. Gertie lives in Springfield and keeps a rooming house near the college there. Hollis died several years ago. Sue lives in Joplin, Marybelle in Los Angeles, Daisy Deane in Tulsa, Joan in Independence Mo. and Gay in Seattle. Dixie just married a few months ago. The other boys were Wyatt, who went to Nebraska while young and I think is still there. Mose, who moved around here and there and died here in K.C. a few years ago. Fred lived around Barton County for a long time, I don't know where he is now. Elbert the youngest I never knew much about. Uncle George married again in later life and lived somewhere in south Missouri. Thomas Smith died of disease in the Union Army, was married but no children. Lucinda Frances married John Hughes. They too settled on a farm in the Horse Creek area. I suspect you know more about them than I do. Their children that I know about, girls Jessie, Ida, Maude, and Cilia. Boys, Alf, Sam, Zeno, Frank, Will, and I think another whose name I don't know. They moved to a farm near Kenoma, southeast of Lamar about 1896. There Jessie, who was married died leaving two little boys. Ida took over most of their care and later married their father. Later the family moved to Pittsburg, Kansas area and they are still around there. I never knew much about them after that. My brother Floyd says they have a Hughes family reunion at Pittsburg every year. He has attended some of them and his wife told me that she has never seen in one family so many big, fine younger men and their families in all her life. Elizabeth Rubush married George Ensminger who also settled on a farm in the Horse Creek area in Barton County. After the children grew up they moved to K.C. in the Argentine District where Uncle George worked with his team and the girls worked in the mills and offices there. Their children Girls, Ollie, Eve, Ona, Dolly, Kitty, and Georgia. Boys, Arthur and Ed. In K.C. Ollie married Price Gaddy and died there. Eva married and moved to a farm in Kansas. Ona married Floyd Piburn and died leaving him with two little boys, I think they are still in this area. Dolly married but soon separated. Kitty married and she and her husband, for a time conducted the music for an Evangelistic group. They were in K.C. once and we visited them. Later they went west and we heard her husband fell over a cliff and was killed. I think Kitty is now in California. Georgia was married and living in East St.Louis a few years ago. Our son Creed and wife visited with them while they lived there. Arthur and Ed are both gone as you know. Telitha Ann was married to Fred Boss. They settled on a farm in the Forest Grove neighborhood. Their children, boys, George, Frank, Wallace, Oscar, Charles, Harry, and Bud. One girl who died at twelve years, the same day Grandma Joyce died. We had the double funeral at the Forest Grove Church. George and Frank never married. Wallace married Emma McInterfer, a neighbor girl. They had three boys, two of them are still living somewhere. Oscar married Effie Steelman. They had two boys, Fred and Gail, and one girl, Marjorie. Fred is married and lives in Chicago. Gail lives in California, and Marjorie married Fred Swenson. They have a boy, Dick and a girl, Joy. They live here in Kansas City, and Effie lives with them. Oscar died several years ago. The Boss boys are all dead except Charlie who lives in Carthage and Harry lives in Lamar. Archibald Howard Joyce (my father) married Sarah Jane Means in Indiana and came at once to Barton Co. Missouri where he lived on a small farm and taught school for two or three years. He then bought 40 acres where he lived for 2 or 3 years. Then he bought 80 acres where he lived for five or six years. Then he bought 320 acres where we all grew up, across the road from the Stockdale farm. The children, boys, Carroll, Ollie, Add, Estell, and Floyd. Girls, Gertie, Ocie, and Ivy. Three children died in infancy. Carroll married Nellie Weddle of Lamar, sister to Rollie Grimes wife. Their children, girls, Gladys who married Milton Miller and died young. Estalla, who married but separated and is now in a State Hospital. Ruth, who married Lee Clements and lives on a farm East of Lamar. May married John Still and now lives in Carthage. Dorothy married a farmer near Jasper. He soon died and left her with a baby girl. She is now in California I think and is married again. Mary Gayle is also married but I don't know where she is. Their two boys Archie and Glen live in Carthage Missouri. Carroll and Nellie are both dead. Archie manages a flour and feed mill there and Glenn is an executive in the Bed Apring Factory. He has been on the city council several years, and served one term as mayor of Carthage. Oliver Preston, myself, married Jennie Deane Stockdale, a neighbor girl. I taught school four years then begin the ministry in 1896. Graduated from Williams Jewell College in1902 and we have lived in Kansas City area ever since. Our children, boys, Winfred Bryan Joyce is married to Maude Arner, a Barton County girl. They now live, and operate a motel in Mountain Home Arkansas. They have three sons, Brian Arner, who lives in Mountain Home, George Oliver, who is a jet pilot with a rank of Lieutenant Colonel and is stationed in Massachusetts. Richard who lives and long Beach California. Basil Eli, who married Dulcena Scobee of Paris, Missouri. He died in 1944 leaving an adopted daughter Betty who is married to W. H. Hudson and lives near us. Her mother is with her. Betty has one daughter, Dulcie. Arch Creed who married Marian Wright died early leaving him with two little boys, Tom and Paul. Tom is married and lives in Globe, Arizona. Paul is married and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Creed is now married again and lives in Evanston, Illinois. He is the general sales manager of Wilson Sporting Goods Co. and supervises all their outlet stores, about 15 in all, located all the way from Salt Lake City to Boston and from Detroit to Charlotte N.C. Our girls, Maple who married W. H. Allison now lives in Olathe, Kansas where he has a small factory. They have one daughter Mary Joyce who is married to Robert Longstaff. They live in Flint, Michigan where he is a reporter on the daily newspaper. Geneva, who is married Jimmy Jones, a salesman who is assigned to Oklahoma for his work. They live in Norman, Oklahoma and while Jimmy was on the road, Geneva attended the University. She graduated with Phi Beta Kappa rank and then took advanced business courses and became an expert teletypist. She now lives in Fresno California and is in the office of the Hertz Rental Company. She and Jimmy are separate. Nora Thomas married or Matthew Lynn now pastor of the first Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. They have to girls, Nora Edith and Mary Deane. Nora teaches in the Midland school. Mary Deane is in a college at Memphis. Their boys Robert, Larry, Ross and Waren. Robert is married and teaches in Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Larry is a Texas University in Austin. Ross and Warren are in high school. Jane, our youngest, is home with us and teaches in the Southwest High School here. Add married Mary Muck of Lamar. They had no children and he died of flu in 1920. Estell Joyce married Ethel Selvey daughter of Robert and Mattie Selvey a farmer in Lamar. Estell and Ethel farm near Lamar and have two children, the girl Lucille Joyce married Harold Clow a salesman, they live in Joplin. A son Wilbur Joyce who married Fern Schwartz, they farm near Lamar. Floyd married Leah Arner, a sister of Winfred�s wife. He is in real estate and insurance in Lamar. Their children, girls Irma Lee, Jean, Jewell, Anetta, and a boy Floyd Allen. Irmalea is a missionary in Africa. Jewell is married and lives in Lamar. The other girls live at home. Floyd Allen is employed in the Ford plant here in Kansas City. Father and mother had three girls. Gertie married Frank Lee, a neighbor boy. They farmed for several years then moved to Lamar where he was bank clerk, county treasurer, then chairman of the county court. They had two boys, Howard and Francis. Howard worked for the post office for many years and Francis works for an electric company. They have several hundred acres of land that there father left them. Howard�s wife is Lottie Stockdale, uncle Homer�s daughter. Ocie married Alex Hill and moved to Rialto, California where he tends oranges and lemon groves. They had two girls, Beulah and Genevieve. They were both married and live in San Bernardino, California. Mrs. E. L. Franz (Beulah) and Mrs. H. W. Dexter. Ocie died about two years ago and Alex still lives Rialto. Ivy married Harry Gleason a Barton County farmer. They too moved to California where they farmed. Ivy died a few years ago, and we hear Harry has married again. Margaret Jane married Add Sleeth, a teacher in Indiana. She died young and left two little ones. Grace and John. His maiden sisters cared for them until they were grown. Uncle Add moved to Humbolt, Kansas where he taught school, bought a tract of land which had some oil wells that brought him a nice income. Then he married and sent for his Children. John became a telegrapher and when a group of men there organized the Prairie Pipeline Company they employed him to do their telegraph work. Later they moved their headquarters to Kansas City and took John along. When Uncle Add died John moved his step mother to Kansas City. Grace never married and died a few months ago at 84 years. John married late in life and lives here with his wife. The step mother died several years ago. Alfred Jackson died in infancy. Alexander Franklin married Elizabeth Ann Means, a cousin of my Mother. Came to Missouri and settled in the Forest Grove neighborhood south of Lamar. He did some farming but spent most of his life as well driller, first in Arkansas, then in Oklahoma. Later when the family was pretty well grown up they moved to Birmingham Alabama where he continued his well drilling operations while Aunt Bet and the girls established a high class boarding house where they continued for many years. Their children, boys, Alvn and Gail. The girls, Pearl, Loula, May, Georgia, Ruth, Pearl, who married Carter Stockdale, brother to my wife. They continued to live in Missouri. They had one girl named Veta. Carter was killed by bandits on Christmas Eve 1918. Later Pearl moved to Birmingham and Veta married there to Walter Ernst, a cement chemist. He did much work on government projects in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. He was working in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck there in 1941. They escaped uninjured and now live in Knoxville Tenn. Alva died unmarried, Gail married and had three children but was killed in an accident while quite young. His oldest daughter studied medicine and is now Dr. Margaret Joyce an Obstetrician in Knoxville. Pearl died a few years ago in Knoxville. The other girls all married and are all gone except Georgia. Rufus Judson died young. Charles Sumner Morton died young. Ruth Annis married Seymour Brown, a school teacher and a farmer in Missouri. Their children, boys, Guy, Carl, Glenn, Paul, Floyd. Girls, Essie, Sibbie. One girl died in infancy. They farmed around Barton Co. for several years then moved to California where they operated a dairy farm. After several years they moved back to Barton Co. where they both died. Guy was married and remained in California as a teacher. Carl came back to Missouri, was married to Ruth Thompson a niece of Effie Boss, then moved back to California. Tess remained in California and for many years was Post Master in LaMoore. Glen remained in Missouri and married a neighbor girl and has been a mail carrier in Lamar for many years. Paul and Floyd both married in Missouri then moved back to California. The girls, Essie married Will Tyler a farmer here in Missouri who lived only a few months. She also went back to California where she died a few months ago. Sibbie married Clarence Means a cousin of mine, they now live in Union Missouri. Guy and Carl also died in California. Horace died young. Thus ends the story of the Joyce Family. You can fallow down the list that contains their birth dates, following them one at a time. Written by Oliver Preston Joyce, 1873 � 1962. For more of the Joyce Stories Contact David Clow 417-540-1206 |
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| Barton County, Missouri Biographies-A. J. JOYCE History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889. Published by Goodspeed. Page 913 A. J. Joyce is of Irish descent, and was born in Patrick County, Va., in 1815, being one of nine children born to the marriage of Alexander Joyce and Mary Coffee, natives, respectively, of Virginia and North Carolina. The father was reared in Stokes County, N. C., and, after his marriage, returned to his native State, and, in 1829, located in Indiana, taking up his abode in Johnson County of that State, where he was engaged in farming until his death, in 1872, his wife's death having occurred in 1847, and her birth February 29, 1782. The paternal grandfather, who also bore the name of Alexander, was a citizen of North Carolina from Virginia, the latter being probably his native State. A. J. Joyce was reared in his native State, and, at the age of sixteen years, removed with his parents to Indiana, and was there married, in 1838, to Miss Keturah R. Mann, who was born in Kentucky on the 11th of January, 1817, and removed to Indiana in 1835. Seven of the fourteen children born to their union are yet living: Mildred, Mary F. (deceased), Thomas S., who died while serving in the Union army; Lucinda F., wife of John W. Hughes; Elizabeth, Tiltha B., Arch. H., Margaret L. (deceased), Frank A., Judson (deceased), Charles F. (deceased), Ruth A., Horace and A. J. (deceased). Mr. Joyce was engaged in farming while in Indiana, but also gave some attention to merchandising, and, previous to coming to Barton County. From that time up to three years since he dealt in stock, but afterward gave his entire attention to farming his land (130 acres), at which he did well financially. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church for fifty years, and in favor of Prohibition. |