This amateur genealogist has spent many frustrating years trying to trace his Boyce line back to Hardy County, West Virginia, and its beginnings in North America. This dogged pursuit took me to the home of the genealogical society in Logan County, Kentucky, where my third great-grandfather, J.R. Boyce, was born. When I showed the eminently […]
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 he had to return to his rightful place in heaven, James Richard (1817-1898) was characteristically gracious and clear-minded during his first contact […]