This amateur genealogist has spent many frustrating years trying to trace his Boyce line back to Hardy County, West Virginia. This dogged pursuit recently took me to the genealogical society of Logan County, Kentucky, where my third great-grandfather, J.R. Boyce, was born. Unfortunately, all hell broke loose when I showed the eminently helpful staff there […]
J.R. Boyce Tells All in Revealing Graveside Interview
This blogger caught up the other day with his third great-grandfather, J.R. Boyce, for a graveside interview at the Benton Avenue Cemetery in Helena, Montana. Though available for only a few minutes before returning to his rightful place in heaven, James Richard (1817-1898) was characteristically gracious and clear-minded during his first contact with a live […]