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Descendants of Thomas BOYLSTON, Jr.

262. JACOB F.⁸ BOYDSTON (WILLIAM⁷, NATHANIEL⁶, WILLIAM⁵, DAVID⁴, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 11 Oct 1857 in Missouri, and died 28 Aug 1918 in Luther, Oklahoma Co, OK. He married ELIZABETH HENSLEY 30 Oct 1887 in Ridgley, MO, daughter of JONATHAN HENSLEY and MARY ... She was born 29 Aug 1868, and died 10 Aug 1953.

Notes for JACOB F. BOYDSTON:
Jacob Boydston lived at Ridgely, Missouri, in 1887; moved to Luther, Oklahoma in 1903.

Children of JACOB BOYDSTON and ELIZABETH HENSLEY are:

	i.		JONATHAN⁹ BOYDSTON, b. 10 Nov 1888; d. Nov 1972, Oklahoma.
	ii.		WILLIAM BOYDSTON, b. 28 Sep 1890, (or 26th) b. Oklahoma; d. Jun 1979, Oklahoma.
	iii.		LUCY BOYDSTON, b. 13 Sep 1892; d. Unknown; m. CHARLES HRDLICKA, Unknown; b. Abt. 1890; d. Unknown.
	iv.		RUBY BOYDSTON, b. 06 Jan 1895; d. Unknown.
	v.		RUTH BOYDSTON, b. 06 Jan 1895; d. Unknown.
	vi.		JAMES STEPHEN BOYDSTON, b. 08 Aug 1898, Oklahoma; d. May 1984, Oklahoma; m. EMMA WALKER, Unknown; b. Unknown.
	vii.		ALFRED RAY BOYDSTON, b. 20 Mar 1901, Oklahoma; d. Oct 1966, Oklahoma.
	viii.		JACOB CLAY BOYDSTON, b. 14 Aug 1903, Oklahoma; d. Jul 1981, Oklahoma.
	ix.		ELSIE MAY BOYDSTON, b. 06 Jun 1906; m. FRANK DONNELL, Unknown; b. Unknown.
	x.		EUGENE BOYDSTON, b. 05 Aug 1909; m. CARMEL YOUNG, Unknown; b. Abt. 1910.

263. SAMUEL WESLEY⁸ BOYDSTON (WILLIAM⁷, NATHANIEL⁶, WILLIAM⁵, DAVID⁴, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 17 Feb 1859 in (or 18 Jun 1866?), and died 05 Jun 1933. He married (1) LULA EMMA ST. JOHN 05 Jul 1890, daughter of WILLIAM ST. JOHN and HARRIET STOCKTON. She was born 24 Mar 1871, and died Unknown. He married (2) ELLA MAYE HENSLEY Unknown in (SEE NOTES!), daughter of JONATHAN HENSLEY and MARY ... She was born 07 Nov 1864 in (or 7 Jul) b. Platte Co, MO, and died 24 Oct 1940. He married (3) ELIZABETH BENSON Unknown. She was born Unknown, and died Unknown.

Notes for SAMUEL WESLEY BOYDSTON:
Birth and death dates come from Wayne Boydston's records as supplied by Ruth Walton.

Chuck Boydstun has the following dates: 18 Jun 1866 - 1933.

Ruth Walton's notes:

"Wayne Boydston's records give Samuel Boydston's wife's name as Ella May Hensley, b. 7 Nov 1864 and died 24 Oct 1940. Dorothy (Boydston) Naylor's records agree with Wayne's. Ruth's records list her as Elizabeth Henson (from Paxton), and list his children as from a second marriage to Lula Emma St. John. We need more research on these records."

(Note: I had "Elizabeth Benson," source unclear. I now wonder if someone along the line confused "Elizabeth Hensley" who married Samuel's brother, Jacob.))

Chuck Boydstun also has the following 3 wives:
1. Elizabeth Benson
2. Lulu Emma St. John, dau of William Riley St. John
3. Ella May Hensley

Interesting is the information from Chuck Boydstun on the child of Ella and Samuel, Samuel Edward, born July 1891. Then the children of Lula and Samuel are born, ranging from April 1891 to February 1910. Since he also provides decendants for Samuel Edward, I have little choice but to enter these dates as they were given to me.

On 1 Nov 1998, Al Cole, a descendant of Samuel Wesley Boydston and Ella Maye Hensley , sends information regarding this family. His records show a birth date of 18 Jun 1966 for Samuel Wesley. He also states that Samuel Edward, born in 1891, is the son of Ella May Hensley. Additionally, he lists Mary Lucinda b. 1888; Jess Gray b. 1897; Eva May, b. 1902.

While I feel there are some problems here, I have again entered these children as given to me. Ruth Walton is right -- some more research is needed!

Linda Thomas gives more information on the family. Panzie is her grandmother. She says that her grandmother always said her mother's real name was LuLu rather than Lula. She said she believed that the census taker misunderstood her mother, because of her mother's accent, and wrote Lula instead of Lulu. Panzie's middle name is LuLu.

Linda's Aunt Edith remembered that when the children had all outgrown or worn out their clothes, her mother would lay the clothes on the bushes in the evening, and Indians would take them by morning. When Edith and three other brothers and/or sisters would ride one horse to school, they would see the Indian children wearing the clothes.

Panzie said her parents did not get along. Linda Thomas has a large photo of her great grandmother, but Panzie told her there used to be matching photos of her parents, and she thought her mother destroyed the one of her father. Samuel raised milking shorthorns and was proud of them. She believes Edith was already married when their mother died.

Notes for LULA EMMA ST. JOHN:
Linda Thomas said her grandmother, Panzie, was 10 years old when her mother died at home of hemorrhage from a varicose vein in her leg. She put a washtub by the bed to catch the blood, then lay back across the bed and died. Her son, Tom, came in from the fields and found her. Linda has a letter her gradmother wrote to Parvin, who was in the service at the time, telling him about their mother's death.

Notes for ELLA MAYE HENSLEY:
The fact that Ella Maye Hensley was a sister of Elizabeth Hensley who married Jacob Boydston was supplied by Al Cole 1 Nov 1998.

Children of SAMUEL BOYDSTON and LULA ST. JOHN are:

	i.		ARTIE MARY⁹ BOYDSTON, b. 22 Apr 1891; d. Unknown; m. EDWARD TRUMAN MYERS, Unknown, (had at least 1 son); b. Abt. 1888; d. Unknown.
	ii.		THOMAS B. BOYDSTON, b. 20 Dec 1892; d. Unknown, died young.
	iii.		PARVIN WESLEY BOYDSTON, b. 25 Jul 1895; d. Aft. 1961, El Monte, CA; m. MARGARET CLARK, Unknown, (Divorced); b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

Notes for PARVIN WESLEY BOYDSTON:
According to Linda Thomas, Parvin moved to Montana from Oklahoma as a young man, and spent over 40 years herding sheep in the Circle, Montana, area. He did not contact his family in all those years. Panzie knew his signature, and sent him a registered letter each year and would know he was alive, because he had to sign for the letter.

The last few years of his life, beginning around 1960, he moved to El Monte, California and lived with Panzie. Linda traveled to Montana with him in the summer of 1961 and visited family, including Lula St. John's sister, Celia (Hugh), who was in a nursing home at the time.

Parvin married Margaret, who later divorced him, and he did not remarry. He died of a heart attack in El Monte, and Linda belives he is buried in Monrovia, California just north of El Monte. She describes him as "a cantakerous old coot."

iv.

EDITH SARILDA BOYDSTON, b. 18 Apr 1897, Oklahoma; d. Unknown, Prob Fresno, CA; m. JOEL FRANCIS COPPINGER, Unknown; b. Unknown, Oklahoma; d. Unknown, Prob Fresno, CA.

Notes for JOEL FRANCIS COPPINGER:
Linda Thomas says that Edith and Joe Coppinger had two sons -- Terrell and Joe, the latter being the older son. In 2000, Terry was still living.

Joe died some years before Edith, and she is also deceased (2000). They lived most of their lives in the Fresno, Bakersfield area, after leaving Oklahoma. Joe was a preacher for the Church of Christ, as was their son, Joe. Deeply religious people.

THOMAS PERCIVOE BOYDSTON, b. 12 May 1899; d. Unknown; m. GEORGIA COOK, Unknown; b. Abt. 1900; d. Unknown.

Notes for THOMAS PERCIVOE BOYDSTON:
Linda Thomas says that her Uncle Tom's wife lived to be in her 90s and passed away in the last 10 years or so (2000). They had a son named Ned and Linda's sister has his address. Tom made his living as a carpenter and they lived most of their married life in Clovis, California. She was an RN. Very, very nice people.

vi.

PANZIE LULU BOYDSTON, b. 13 Apr 1905; d. 1987, El Monte, CA; m. PEDRO CHAPARRO MARES, Unknown, (Divorced); b. Unknown, San Angelo, TX; d. Unknown.

Notes for PANZIE LULU BOYDSTON:
Linda Thomas of Vernal, UT (RAFTERL@murraygrey.com) write in September 1999 and gives her personal information.

Notes for PEDRO CHAPARRO MARES:
Pedro "Pete" Mares had been married once before he married Panzie and had two girls, Ninfa and Eloisa. They were small girls when Pete and Panzie married, and Panzie loved them dearly.

Pete was a sheepherder born in San Angelo, Texas. His parents were from Chihuahua, Mexico, just across the border. Linda Thomas is not sure where he was raised. She believed he had a twin sister who was close to her Aunt Eloisa. He met Panzie when he was working as an itenerant sheepshearer. They were married and continued as sheepshears and migrant workers until the Dust Bowl era, when they packed all their belongings on the top of a car and headed to California when their daughter was 2 years old.

They worked around Buttonwillow, California, area picking cotton, shearing sheep, etc. Panzie would bake bread and sell it to the other itenerants in camp. She lived in tents and was always in fear as she didn't even have a door to lock.

They eventually settled in what is now called La Puente, California. They bought 10 acres of land on 8th Avenue and raised four children, living in a tent with board sides, and cooked, and washed on a washboard for the extended family -- usually one or more of Pete's brothers lived with them. Linda Thomas also lived with them for a year when she was about 3. Her grandmother, she says, was her anchor, and she misses her terribly still.

Pete and Panzie divorced after 25 years of marriage and Pete remarried, but Linda does not know to whom. She was a Mexican lady and they stayed together about 20 years or more. Pete was in his 80s when he died.

vii.

HUGH SAMUEL BOYDSTON, b. 18 Dec 1906; d. died young??.

Notes for HUGH SAMUEL BOYDSTON:
Linda Thomas says that Hugh did not die young, but may in fact still be living (2000) and promises to check into this.

viii.

OKLAH HELEN BOYDSTON, b. 11 Feb 1910; d. Unknown, died a young woman; m. FORREST DICKSON BIGGS, Unknown; b. Unknown, "Dick"; d. Remarried after Oklah died.

Children of SAMUEL BOYDSTON and ELLA HENSLEY are:

ix.

MARY LUCINDA⁹ BOYDSTON, b. 27 Jun 1888, Platte City, Platte Co, MO; d. 11 Oct 1940; m. JOHN OSCAR COLE, 04 Feb 1906, Arcadia, OK; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

Notes for JOHN OSCAR COLE:
This couple apparently had children, as Al Cole says he is a descendant.

	x.		SAMUEL EDWARD BOYDSTON, b. 11 Jul 1891, Camden Point, Platte Co, MO; d. 12 Jan 1981, Edmond, OK; m. MARY KATHERINE MOYER, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.
	xi.		JESS GRAY BOYDSTON, b. 09 Apr 1897, Platte Co, MO; d. 11 Mar 1989, Houston, Harrison Co, TX.
	xii.		EVA MAE BOYDSTON, b. 21 Jan 1902, Platte Co, MO; d. Unknown; m. CHARLEY ROLLINS, 24 Jul 1919; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

Notes for EVA MAE BOYDSTON:
Al Cole, 1 Nov 1998, states: "I agree much of what I have seen on Samuel Wesley is in error. I know Ella Maye info is correct."

264. BENJAMIN⁸ BOYDSTON (WILLIAM⁷, NATHANIEL⁶, WILLIAM⁵, DAVID⁴, WILLIAM³ BOYLSTON, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) was born 03 Apr 1866 in Prob Platte Co, MO, and died 28 Oct 1945 in Platte Co, MO. He married EMMA MAE FRENCH 11 Oct 1890. She was born 01 May 1872 in "Aunt Mae" b. Prob Platte Co, MO, and died 22 Jun 1961 in Platte Co, MO.

Notes for BENJAMIN BOYDSTON:
Chuck Boydstun has birth year of 1867.

Children of BENJAMIN BOYDSTON and EMMA FRENCH are:

MARY ELIZABETH⁹ BOYDSTON, b. 19 Nov 1891, "Bessie" twin to Mona; b. Platte Co, MO; d. 04 Mar 1917, Platte Co, MO; m. WALTER ANDERSON, 28 Aug 1910, Platte Co, MO; b. Unknown; d. Aft. 1917.

Notes for MARY ELIZABETH BOYDSTON:
Bessie Boydston probably died in childbirth. She was a member of the Little Platte Baptist Church.

	ii.		MONA BOYDSTON, b. 19 Nov 1891, Twin to Bessie; also seen as "Mary E."; d. 18 Jan 1917, Platte Co, MO; m. PORTER WADE, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. 23 Mar 1971.
	iii.		JOHNNY MELVIN BOYDSTON, b. Abt. 1895; d. Unknown; m. PATSY ROBBINS, Unknown, 2 adopted children; b. Abt. 1900; d. Unknown.
	iv.		EARL BOYDSTON, b. 18 Nov 1901, twin to Myrl; b. MO; d. 18 Nov 1901, MO.
	v.		MYRL BOYDSTON, b. 18 Nov 1901, twin to Earl; b. MO; d. 18 Nov 1901, MO.
	vi.		JAMES LEWIS BOYDSTON, b. 05 Feb 1903; d. 27 Nov 1957, Platte Co, MO; m. EVELYN COX, 23 Aug 1923; b. Unknown, 23 Sep ..?; d. 22 Feb 1980.

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