Genealogy of the

THOMAS BOAZ,

CHRISTOPHER WAYNE MILLER,

JAMES CLOYD,

JOHANN MEYER,

HUBERT HEINEN, AND

LORENZ GRAFF

FAMILIES

Relating to Trevor John Boaz and

Allison June Boaz

Compiled by

John Knox and Mildred Ellen Meyer Boaz

November, 1991

Updated most recently: November, 2011

THE THOMAS BOAZ FAMILY IN AMERICA The following genealogy traces family relationships from Thomas Boaz (1714-1780) through the male line to Trevor John Boaz (2001- ) and Allison June Boaz (2001- ). The information included here is largely drawn from The Thomas Boaz Family in America [See http://www.boazhistory.com, Sources, S1, The Thomas Boaz Family in America, Hiram A. Boaz] with information collected and prepared by Bishop Hiram Abiff Boaz, second president of Southern Methodist University, and published by the Parthenon Press, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1949. As Bishop Boaz acknowledges in the preface to this volume, John D. E. Boaz, great-great-grandfather of Trevor and Allison Boaz, began gathering information about the Boaz family. He traveled extensively and collected considerable data from government records, wills, land grants, and family Bibles. He intended to publish a Boaz family genealogy but became discouraged and gave up on the idea. Instead, he paid Bishop Boaz a visit and offered the material he had compiled. Bishop Boaz later extended upon that research and published the volume. Robert V. Boaz compiled over forty years a volume completed in 1999, The Boaz Family: Ancestors and Descendants [See http://www.boazhistory.com, Sources, S2, The Boaz Family: Ancestors and Descendants, Robert Boaz]. He used Bishop Boaz’s book as a point of departure in seeking to piece together his own forebears. He states, “My original intent was to verify the work of the Bishop, not to differ with him. However, when I have found differences, I have tried to document those differences and my conclusions with reference to the many other published works, census records, tax records, Bible records, vital records, etc. that I have searched…”.

Most notably Bishop Boaz and Robert V. Boaz differ on where and when Thomas was born, where and when he died, and to whom he was married. With compelling evidence and argument he disputes Bishop Boaz’s claim that Thomas Boaz was born September 27, 1721, in Scotland, died September 13, 1791, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and was married in Ireland to Agnes and had four children before coming to America.

THOMAS BOAZ (1714-1780) Robert V. Boaz concludes “Thomas Boaz Sr. was born ca. 1714 probably in Virginia and died August 15, 1780 probably in Buckingham County, Virginia. He had married Elenor Archdeacon ca. 1736. She was born ca. 1718 in County Kilkenny, Ireland, came to Virginia with her parents and siblings about 1730/5 and died September 25, 1787, probably in Buckingham County, Virginia.” Their children and probable birth dates and places (all in Virginia counties) are as follows: Thomas, Jr. (II), ca. 1737, Goochland; Archibald, ca. 1739, Goochland; Edmond, ca. 1741, Goochland; Daniel, ca. 1743, Goochland; Gemima, ca. 1745, Albemarle; Polly, ca. 1747, Albemarle; James, May 20, 1749, Albemarle; Shadrach, ca. 1751, Albemarle; Meshack, ca. 1753, Albemarle; Agnes, ca. 1755, Albemarle; Eleanor “Nellie,” ca. 1757, Albemarle; and Abednego, February 6, 1760. James Boaz, in his Revolutionary War pension application stated that he was born in Buckingham County in 1749. At the time of the application he was using the then current name of the county of his birth.

On September 12, 1738, he received a land grant for 400 acres located in Goochland County, Virginia on the north side of the Appomattox River and below Fish Pond Creek. A second patent was granted on July 10, 1745 for 600 acres that included the original patent of 400 acres granted in 1738 plus an additional 200 acres never before granted. On November 9, 1758, Thomas Boaz Sr. deeded to his oldest son, Thomas Boaz, Jr., 100 acres of his land, it being in Albemarle County at the time and retained 500 acres for his own use. Three years later in 1761 the land became part of Buckingham County and in 1764 Buckingham County made a List of Tithes, that is, property owners and all males residing there above the age of twenty-one. Included in the list was Thomas Boaz who owned 500 acres and had three tithes, one for himself, one for his son Edmond and one for his son Daniel. Also in the tithe list was Thomas Boaz, Jr. who owned 100 acres of land

but without a tithe, because he had vacated his property in Buckingham County and patented 1577 acres of land in Halifax County on May 23, 1763 where he established his residence. Although Thomas was too old to fight in the Revolutionary War, his descendants are entitled to membership in Sons of the American Revolution or Daughters of the American Revolution. In the courthouse records at Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, may be found in Order Book No. 4, July Court, 1777, and March Court, 1783, that Thomas Boaz was appointed surveyor of roads in place of James Fulton and took the oath of allegiance. The D. A. R. Magazine of March, 1930, lists Thomas Boaz as a Pittsylvania County patriot. The inventory of his possessions found in the Chatham court records includes the following: eleven Negroes, sixty hogs, nine horses, twenty-seven sheep, thirty-nine geese, forty-four head of cattle, ox-carts, powder tubes, desks, chairs, money scales, books, flesh forks, quilts, and many kinds of tools and all the accessories needed on a farm at that time.

SHADRACH BOAZ (1751-1817)

Shadrach Boaz, the sixth son and eighth child of Thomas and Elenor Boaz, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1751, married Isabel Rutherford in 1777, and died in 1817. It has been impossible to prove from court or federal government records that Shadrach was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Four of his brothers, Edmond, James, Meshack, and Abednego, left such records. Family tradition says that he was a soldier, and it may be that he enlisted from Buckingham, or some other county, where the records have been burned in courthouse fires. The children of Shadrach and Isabel were William (June 27, 1778-October 27, 1852), Thomas (November 17, 1780-1833), Nancy (March 6, 1782-n.d.), Phoebe (June 10, 1785-n.d.), Rosana (December 3, 1787-n.d.), David Rutherford (April 24, 1790-January 19, 1862), Ellinor (November 13, 1792), Lydia (May 19, 1795-1863), Rebecca (December 17, 1797-n.d.), and Mary Anthony (Polly) (June 3, 1800-June 28, 1880). Court records show that Shadrach owned considerable lands. The will of Shadrach is recorded in Will Book 1 A, page 2, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and dated January 2, 1817. It was probated on April 30, 1817, indicating he died at some time between those two dates. A brief excerpt of the certified will follows: "IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Shadrach Boaz of Pittsylvania County and State of Virginia being low in body but of sound mind and memory do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following to wit: It is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid by my executors herein after mentioned. "Item: I lend my beloved wife, Isabel, during her natural life all my lands whereon I now live together with all my goods and chattels, occupy during her natural life or widowhood in lieu of her dower. And I do further give to my beloved wife Negroes Isaac and Betty during her natural life or widowhood." He then mentions his sons, William and Thomas, and declares that he had already given them their part of his estate in certain tracts of land that had been deeded to them in former years. To each of his daughters he wills lands and Negroes. To some of them other properties are given in addition to the lands and servants. To his son, David, he wills the home place on which he was then living. At the death of his wife all chattels and moneys were to be equally divided among his seven daughters. The inventory of Isabel, the widow of Shadrach Boaz, may be found in Book of Accounts Current 11, page 140, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The inventory was dated January 29, 1835, showing that she lived about eighteen years after the death of her husband. Her personal property, not counting lands, was estimated at $3,330.20, a sizable sum for that early day. For information on Isabel's family, see: Rutherford, William K. and Anna C. Rutherford. Genealogical History of the Rutherford Family. Rev. ed., 2 vols.) Lexington, Missouri: 1979. (Note especially in Volume 2, pages 177, 180, 188, and 973-75).

THOMAS BOAZ (1780-1838) Thomas Boaz, the second child of Shadrach and Isabel Rutherford Boaz, was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, November 17, 1780. The marriage records of Pittsylvania County show that he married Lucinda Davis, the daughter of George and Sarah Davis, August 27, 1804. This Lucinda Davis was the sister of Daniel Davis who married Lydia Boaz, the daughter of Shadrach and Isabel Boaz. Thomas died in 1838. Thomas was licensed to preach by the Strawberry (Primitive) Baptist Church in Pittsylvania County (eleven miles out from Chatham) during August, 1806, and he was ordained to preach August 7, 1808. It appears that he became quite active in the Baptist Church and was one of its most distinguished ministers. One of his sons, Elihu, became a preacher and an authority on Baptist doctrines and practice. A grandson, R. H. Boaz, was also a Baptist preacher. Some of his descendants were still members of the Strawberry Baptist Church and living in the same community in 1947. During the year 1816, soon after he and his wife were dismissed by certificate from the Strawberry Baptist Church (August 14, 1816), they and seven children emigrated to Middle Tennessee and settled on a farm sixteen miles southeast from Nashville, the famous "Hermitage" of Andrew Jackson being only nine miles north of the Boaz farm. There they lived and prospered for many years. There were fourteen children in the family, eight boys and six girls. Eleven of them reach maturity and had families of their own. The Davidson County records show that Thomas Boaz, the minister, became a man of considerable wealth and for a time owned quite a few slaves. These records also show that long before the Civil War, 1827, he sold to one, Benejah Gray, a number of slaves "for $1.00 and love considerations." He educated his children in the schools of the district and in Nashville. Lucinda Davis Boaz died December 31, 1821, when she was only forty-three years of age. Bishop Hiram A. Boaz visited the Thomas Boaz III farm during the summer of 1923 and found the old Boaz cemetery and the place where the old house stood in Thomas's day. It was marked by the remains of the chimney and good-sized trees were growing up through the old hearthstones. On a sandstone marking one of the graves in the cemetery he found the words, "Lucinda Boaz died Dec. 31, 1821, age 43. She bore 16 [14] children in 18 years. A loving wife, a pious Baptist." In due time after the death of Lucinda, Thomas married Mollie Tait of Tennessee and to this union two children were born: Zephaniah Henry Tait (August 20, 1825-November 1889) and a daughter who died in infancy. The children of Rev. Thomas and Lucinda Davis Boaz were Shadrach (November 9, 1804-September 4, 1860), William (October 29, 1805-1870), David (November 9, 1806-February 2, 1876), Sally D. (January 2, 1808-n.d.), Samuel (March 9, 1809-June 28, 1894), Joshua (May 18, 1810-March 7, 1890), Elihu (September 1, 1811-September 16, 1880), Nancy R. (January 30, 1813-n.d.), Lydia R. September 30, 1814-n.d.), Thomas (December 20, 1815-August 20, 1892), Lucinda (May 7, 1817-November 1, 1820), Josiah (August 5, 1818-January 24, 1852), Annie Lewis (March 22, 1820-1868), and Polly J. (November 12, 1821-December 25, 1821).

DAVID BOAZ (1806-1876)

David, the third child of Thomas and Lucinda Davis Boaz, was born November 9, 1806, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He married Lucinda Whitis (1808-1876) in 1827 and died February 2, 1876. When David was ten years old his father, with his family, emigrated to Middle Tennessee (Davidson County), where he settled on a Revolutionary grant of land inherited from his father, Shadrach. Here David grew to manhood, attending the schools of the community and at Nashville, sixteen miles away, where he secured a thorough education. At the age of twenty-one David Boaz was married to Lucinda Whitis of Tennessee. At the time of her marriage she was nineteen, having been born April 2, 1808, the daughter of William Nelson and Nancy Jane Whitis. To this union ten children were born: James Nelson (January 1, 1829-March 12, 1875), Lucinda Jane (1831-1835), Sally Ann (June 30, 1833-1855), William Thomas (February 10, 1835-February 28, 1876), Samuel Shadrach (March 24, 1837- January 14, 1901), Mary Elizabeth (October 28, 1839-n.d.), David Franklin (October 28, 1841-1876), Nancy Rutherford (November 10, 1843-July 25, 1924), Martha Isabelle (February 18, 1846-June 8, 1923), and

George Pierce (January 10, 1850-March 28, 1922). All of them reached their majority, married, and established homes of their own, except one girl who died in infancy and one son who never married. For ten years after their marriage, David and Lucinda lived in Davidson County, Tennessee, near his father's home. In 1837 he, with several of his brothers and sisters, emigrated to "Jackson's Purchase," Kentucky, and entered a section of land in the northern part of what is now Graves County. He was a Captain of a company of Kentucky Militia in 1849. Joshua, a younger brother, who had married Polly Whitis, sister of Lucinda, entered a section adjoining, and to the south, while Shadrach, William, and others of the family settled near where Fulton, Kentucky, now stands. David Boaz became a man of means, owning a number of slaves. Some of these he had inherited from his father. Land was cleared and put in cultivation, corn, wheat, oats, and tobacco being the principal crops. Orchards, too, were planted. David Boaz early donated land for the establishment of a public school, which was largely maintained by him and his brother, Joshua, during that time when the state gave little assistance. This school for many years, and in fact to this day, is one of the leading schools of the county. It is known as "Boaz School, District Number 72." In this school as well as in other schools of the county two of his sons, two nephews, and a number of grandsons have been prominent teachers. David Boaz was a Democrat of the Jackson type. He had been reared only a short distance from the "Hermitage." He inherited slavery from his father but early decided to dispose of his slaves gradually, which he did by selling a number and freeing others before the Civil War broke out. He remained loyal to his state and was neutral throughout the war. David and his brother, Joshua, who was living on an adjoining section south, were on different grounds: Joshua joined with the South and gave one son to the Confederate Army. David's son, Samuel Shadrach, ". .

. had a crippled arm that prevented him from serving. [H]e was examined for Union service and rejected, but the truth of the matter is that if he had been able to serve, he would already have been gone as a member of the Orphan Brigade of the Confederate forces. David, although sympathetic to his friends, was very pro-Union and took the oath of allegiance to the Union, for which his son, Sam, never forgave him." (Statement from a letter of Malcolm R. Boaz, a grandson of David, dated February 1, 1982, and quoted in T. D. Boaz, Jr., and Ann Riley Heath. David Boaz (1806-1876) and His Descendants. McLean, Virginia: 1982.) David's two Negro servants, the only ones kept by him at the time he disposed of his slaves, remained in his home until his death in 1876. David Boaz was a most popular man in his community, and his home was an open house to friends from everywhere, in the old Kentucky style of hospitality. He and his wife, Lucinda, were consistent members of the Primitive Baptist Church, and for a number of years he was an officer in the Mount Pleasant Church, which was located only a short distance from his home. He was often called upon to administer estates, until he had more of that kind of work than he could well attend to and at the same time look after his own estate. Believing it the best way to start his children right in the world, he began to deed to them land for a home as they married and established homes of their own; and as a result most of them established homes near him. To this day many of his descendants live in that part of the county. David Boaz was a man of medium build, square shoulders, rather heavy set, weighing about 165 pounds, and had a fair complexion and blue eyes. He had a broad forehead, open, frank, and pleasant address, and a kind disposition. He and his wife, Lucinda, were known and loved by many far and near. He was a man who practiced his religion, and those who needed assistance found him a friend indeed. Many years before their death, David and Lucinda Boaz expressed the desire that they be taken at the same time. They died two hours apart, February, 1876, and were buried in the same grave, but in separate coffins, in the family graveyard near their home The family graveyards may be located as follows: From Paducah, KY take US45 south of I24 for 5 or 6 miles, turn left (east) on 1241, go 1 mile east on 1241 to 348 (large cemetery on the left at this intersection), turn right (south) on 348 and go 3.6 miles to the intersection with 994 (The Old Mayfield Road), proceed south on 348 for 2.6 miles following 1684 as it forks with 348 a couple of tenths of a mile before the Hardmoney Missionary Baptist Church (on the right), proceed south on 1684 for 1.6 miles beyond the Hardmoney Missionary Baptist Church (HMBC is just south of the county line between Crack and Graves counties on 1684) to Boaz Cemetery Road (on the right), take Boaz Cemetery Road west 0.4 mile to the cemetery on the right. David and Lucinda are buried here along with their son, James Nelson, and his wife, Martha Evers. Proceed around looping road, turning right at the intersection with its self back to 1684. One may then turn right (south) on 1684 and go 1.2 miles to the Joshua Boaz Cemetery which is on the left (east) side of the road.

JAMES NELSON BOAZ (1829-1875)

James Nelson Boaz was born on January 1, 1829, in Davidson County, Tennessee. He was the first born child of David and Lucinda Whitis Boaz. He was a farmer and schoolteacher in Graves County, Kentucky. He was of medium build, had dark hair and gray eyes and weighed about 165 pounds. He reared a large family. In addition to his duties as a farmer and teacher he built a small schoolroom in his yard where he spent two hours each day in teaching his children. He was not a slave owner, and his sympathies lay with the North during the Civil War. He died on March 12, 1875, and he is buried in the David Boaz Cemetery, south of Hardmoney, Kentucky. In 1849 he married Martha Evers, daughter of John Alexander Evers and Cynthia Brookshire. She was born January 22, 1831 and died in February of 1899. To this union ten children were born, three of whom died in early manhood: Alice Rosalie (May 6, 1853-March 25, 1899), George Washington (September 18, 1854-April 21, 1877), Benjamin Franklin (April 13, 1856-October 31, 1948), Linn Boyd (February 7, 1858-May 13, 1903), Mark Wilton (April 11, 1859-April 6, 1884), Thomas Dick (May 25, 1861-November 8, 1919), Lorenzo Dowell (July 14,

1863-n.d.), Abraham Sherman Grant (1865-1866), John David Evers (January 26, 1867-December 23, 1943), and William Penn (December 11, 1868-July 31, 1887).

JOHN DAVID EVERS BOAZ (1867-1943)

John David Evers Boaz, the ninth child of James Nelson and Martha Evers Boaz, was born in Graves County, Kentucky, on January 26, 1867. He became the principal of the school of that district and earned a teaching certificate from the University of Kentucky. He soon became the principal of the school at Union City, Tennessee. Here he met and married Annette Jane Gardner (March 12, 1877, Obion County, Tennessee-August 21, 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), the second daughter of Southerland Mayfield Gardner (December 18, 1833, South Carolina) and Nancy Katherine Harper (July 28, 1845, Obion County, Tennessee—May 15, 1921, Union City, Tennessee) Gardner, December 21,1899. Nancy Katherine Knox Gardner (1845-1888), mother of Annette Jane Gardner Boaz, was the daughter of Benjamin Knox and Margaret Elizabeth Harper who were married September 1, 1838 at the home of Angus Polk in Obion County, Tennessee. Benjamin Knox was the seventh child of

John Knox (1708-1758) and Jean Gracey (1708-1772) who came to the colonies about 1740. John Knox was great-great-great-great grandson of John Knox, the famous Scottish Reformer, and was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, around 1708. They came to the colonies by way of Northern Ireland. (Jane Knox, daughter of Captain James and Lydia Gillespie Knox, married Major Samuel Polk. They were the parents of James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States. James Knox was the brother of Benjamin Knox. Later John D. E. Boaz was Assistant Post Master at Union City. He was a Republican and all the Harpers were Democrats, and politics was taken very seriously in Tennessee. He took employment with the Oliver Typewriting Company. Working for this and other typewriting companies, he and his family moved from Union City to Knoxville and from there to Nashville and to Memphis and to Chicago and finally to Oklahoma City, where they settled in 1911. Here, after operating for a short time as an insurance agent, he returned to the typewriter business in which he remained for most of his later life. While engaged in this work he undertook the collection of information concerning the Boaz family in America. In this task he traveled extensively and collected many very valuable facts. Much of the information found in the volume published by Bishop Hiram A. Boaz was collected by him and from members of his family whom he visited in person. John D. E. Boaz was divorced from Annette Gardner Boaz in 1922. He was married twice after that, but each marriage was short lived and to him no children were born of either of those marriages. His first wife, Annette Gardner Boaz, died in Oklahoma City, August 21, 1942. He was struck by a truck or automobile in Salem, Illinois, and died of compound skull fractures on December 23, 1943. He lived the last ten years of his life in Salem, and was married to Mary at the time of his death. He is buried in Eastview Cemetery, Salem, IL.

To him and Annette Gardner Boaz five children were born, the first of which died in infancy: David Franklin (November 30,1900, Union City, Tennessee—February 7, 1901), Knox Gardner (January 6, 1902, Union City, Tennessee-May 3, 1977, Sun City, Arizona), Evers Harper (August 10, 1908, Union City, Tennessee-March 8, 1983, Ft. Pierce, Florida), Ruth Baird (August 22, 1912, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-February 1, 1976, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), and Joseph Nowlin (July 20, 1917, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma- ).

Knox married Felma Louise Carden (daughter of Mrs. W. W. Cochran Butler) in 1935. Their children were Knox Gardner Boaz, Jr. (1938-died in infancy), Nancy Annette Boaz Morrison (1939- ), and James Knox (1945- ). He attended Central High School, Oklahoma City, and the University of Oklahoma. He was employed by Security National Bank and in 1925 became a paint sales manager for the Oklahoma City office of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. In 1949 he was transferred as branch manager of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company office in Joplin, Missouri. Next he was made branch manager of the Springfield, Missouri, office. In 1963 he became District Manager of PPG in Kansas City, a post he held until he was 67, two years beyond the company’s normal retirement age. Then, for several years he managed a suburban Kansas City country club, finally retiring with Felma to Sun City, Arizona. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

Ruth married Frank Duane Wood (September 11, 1911-March 13, 1955) in 1935, and they were divorced in 1942 without having any children. With truly remarkable secretarial abilities, she possessed a typing skill by which she could reach a speed that produced a virtual hum on a manual typewriter. She first worked as secretary to the manager of the Oklahoma City branch of International Harvester Company. For 15 years, she was the Secretary of Oklahoma City’s Downtown Kiwanis Club, where with an outgoing personality she took special pleasure in working with “her” members and producing their weekly newsletter. She went into business operating a secretarial service and finally worked as a legal secretary. She attended Oklahoma City schools and the Draughon School of Business, and enjoyed many years of dedicated membership in Sigma Sigma Chi and The Sorority Council, women’s business clubs. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

Joseph ("Joe") was five in 1922, the year his parents divorced. Knox was 20, Evers 14, and Ruth was 10. For many years the constant interstate traveling of John D.E. had left the home and child rearing to the warm heart and capable hands of their mother. Subsequent to the divorce, Knox who had worked part time since an early age left the University of Oklahoma (O.U.), immediately assumed financial responsibility for the family, and began sharing many other home responsibilities with Annette. He was an instant father figure for Joe and continued to be a caring older brother for the younger Boazes. Evers began part time work that year, and three years later became Knox's partner in home finances, to be joined by Ruth three years later. Joe started work at nine, attended public schools in Oklahoma City, was graduated by the University of Oklahoma, B. Architecture and B.S. Architectural Engineering, 1940 and by Columbia University in New York City, M.S. Architecture, 1941. He interned in Washington, D.C., and New York where, in 1944, he became a registered architect and was certified by the National Council of Registration Boards. He was licensed for practice in New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut, North Carolina and Georgia. In 1955 in Oklahoma City, after a two year courtship, Joe married Helen Fast Byrd (1917-1998), and that year with her two children, John H. Byrd, Jr., 8, and Jane Marie Byrd (now Melton), almost 6, the new family moved to Raleigh, NC. At this 2006 writing the children, some of the grandchildren and a great-grandson live in North Carolina, a few hours from Joe/Dad/Pop in Clemson, SC. Joe's professional pursuits included several intervals away from practice, including four months of travel and study in Europe in 1948; Teaching Assistant, Columbia University Extension (evenings), 1944-45; Assistant Professor of Architecture, Yale University, 1950-51; six five-week terms as Visiting Critic for 4th year classes, twice each in the 40s and 50s, at Cornell University, Syracuse University and Virginia Tech (then "V.P.I."). In 1962 he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University, where in 1969 he resigned as a full professor to return to private practice. In 1970 a total revision (6th edition) of the standard drafting room reference Architectural Graphic Standards was published. The project required six years to complete with Joe serving as the

Editor under a contract with the American Institute of Architects. During those years he made over 100 trips to the project offices in NYC at John Wiley and Sons, publishers.

EVERS HARPER BOAZ (1908-1983)

Evers Harper Boaz was born on August 10, 1908, in Union City, Tennessee. He grew up in

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he was a Boy Scout, attended Oklahoma City schools, and graduated from Central High School in 1927. He was President of the Booster Club in 1927 and a member of the Ciceronian Debating Society, a social club. He was Master Councilor of the Order of DeMolay. He worked for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, paint and glass manufacturer (1927-67), mainly in sales. He managed the branch store in Salina, Kansas, for a time. Evers Harper married Alice Josephine Miller (1914-1996) in Oklahoma City on November 2, 1935. They moved to Enid, Oklahoma, where John

Knox was born on June 7, 1938. The family moved back to Oklahoma City for six months before Evers was transferred to Salina, Kansas. The family lived in Salina for nine years where twins, David Evers and Robert Howard were born on December 5, 1943. Evers was active in community affairs there, a member of the Optimist Club and the Mariners Club of the First Presbyterian Church. The family moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, in January of 1951 and lived there for two years before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they lived between 1954 and 1980. Evers and Alice were members of John Knox Presbyterian Church where Evers was a Ruling Elder for four years and an adult Sunday School teacher. Evers was Co-Chair of the Commercial Division of the United Way, and in retirement from Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company he worked as a safety instructor for the Tulsa Area Safety Council and as a bailiff for the County Court. Evers and Alice moved to Port Saint Lucie, Florida, in July of 1980. They were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Stuart, Florida. Evers had an outgoing personality. He never met a stranger. He was a kind and caring person who loved his family and friends. He was an amateur photographer, and he enjoyed listening to classical music on his high fidelity, and later, stereo equipment. Evers Harper died on March 8, 1983, and he is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, along with Alice Josephine Miller Boaz who died April 20, 1996.

JOHN KNOX BOAZ (1938- )

John Knox Boaz was born on June 7, 1938, in Enid, Oklahoma. He grew up there and in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Salina, Kansas; Hutchinson, Kansas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he graduated from Will Rogers High School. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Education at

Northwestern University (1960), Evanston, Illinois, and a Master of Arts (1961) and a Ph.D. (1969) degree in Rhetoric and Public Address at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. John married Mildred Ellen Meyer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 19, 1961. They met as students at Northwestern University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English (1960). Mildred completed a Master's degree in English at the University of Michigan while teaching English at Birmingham High School in suburban Detroit. Julia Ruth Boaz, the first of their two children, was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on April 12, 1963. In the fall of 1965 the family moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where John was employed at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, as an Assistant Professor of Speech. In Bloomington Andrew John was born on April 14, 1966. Mildred completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois, taught at Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, and at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. John has served variously at Illinois State University as Director of Forensics, Director of the Speech Communication Area of the Department of Speech, Director of the International Studies Program in Grenoble, France, Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Speech Communication, and Assistant and then Associate Vice President for Administrative Services. He retired in June, 1994. He served as President of the Midwest and American Forensic Associations, and he chaired

the Forensics Division of the Speech Communication Association. John served the community as a board member, including a term as President of the Bloomington-Normal Symphony Society (and later both as Trustee and Governing Board member of its successor, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra) and of the United Campus Christian Foundation. He served on both the Board and the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of McLean County. He was President of the Bloomington-Normal Tennis Association for over fifteen years (1980-97) and President of the Middle Illinois Tennis Association for five years (1988-92). He served two terms as President of the Normal Chamber of Commerce (1987-89) and several as President of the Bloomington-Normal Humanities Council. During his several years as a board member of the Illinois Council of Orchestras he served both as President and Secretary. John and Mildred moved to Chicago, Illinois, in retirement, and after ten years there moved to San Diego. John pursues volunteer work in music and tennis. He has

worked with the Illinois Council of Orchestras, the Symphony Orchestra Institute, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago Opera Theater. And, he has recently resumed playing the clarinet after a fifty year hiatus. John has served on the boards of the Chicago Tennis Patrons, including a term as President, and the Chicago Tennis Umpires Council, and he has umpired many tennis matches in the Chicago area. He continued his committee service with the USTA/Midwest Section as chair of its Awards Committee, and he is currently a member of the Awards Committee of the USTA. Mildred pursues music through her cello, playing in the Bloomington-Normal Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest, the Poway Community Symphony Orchestra, and various small ensembles. Both attend various cultural events, play tennis, and enjoy traveling.

JULIA RUTH BOAZ CHASE (1963- )

Julia Ruth Boaz was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on April 12, 1963. She moved with the family in 1965 to Bloomington, Illinois. She graduated from the University High School of Illinois State University in the spring of 1981. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, in the spring of 1985. She began work as a social worker and trained to become a paralegal in Dallas, Texas. She worked for TechLaw, first in Dallas and later in Denver, Colorado. She married John Chase on August 29, 1998. She is presently employed by the City of Boulder, Colorado, in the City Attorney’s office.

ANDREW JOHN BOAZ (1966- ) Andrew John Boaz was born on April 14, 1966 in Bloomington, Illinois. He graduated from the University High School of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, in the spring of 1984. He

completed a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, in the spring of 1988. He began work as an engineer with the McDonnell Douglas Corporation in Long Beach, California. He moved into the quality assurance area at this plant which was subsequently acquired by Boeing. He completed a Master’s degree in Business Administration at the University of Southern California, in the spring of 1999. In March of 2000, he began work as a financial analyst with United Airlines in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He is currently employed by the Northrup Grumman Corporation as Project Manager, Global Hawk. On May 26, 2000, he married Jennifer Rae Lee (October 10, 1964, Weisbaden, Germany), a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, and a fellow McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing employee. They became parents of twins, Trevor John and Allison June on March 8, 2001, and the family currently resides in the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego, California.

THE CHRISTOPHER WAYNE MILLER FAMILY IN AMERICA The following genealogy traces family relationships from Christopher Wayne Miller (1799-1886) through the male line to Alice Josephine Miller Boaz (1914-1996). The information included here is largely drawn from written records handed down within the family.

CHRISTOPHER WAYNE MILLER (1799-1886) Christopher Wayne (Christy) Miller was born February 11, 1797 and died in 1886. His father was another Christopher Miller, son of Joseph who was born in 1768. He married Mary Quisenberry (1807 in Virginia-1875 in Kentucky). He was the father of James Moorman Miller (1824-1910).

Mary was born April 13, 1807 in Virginia, the daughter of James Quisenberry and Mildred Moorman who were married in 1790 and came to Kentucky in 1814. She died August 12, 1875.

JAMES MOORMAN MILLER (1824-1910) James Moorman Miller was born March 2, 1824, on a farm near Nolin in Hardin County, Kentucky. He married Susan Malvinia Cash (December 15, 1831-January 25, 1875). Their children were Mary Catherine (Mollie) (1850-1917), Isham (Bud) (1851-1929), Annie (1853, who died in infancy), Josephine (1855-1937), Gabriel Thompson (1857-1925), Christopher Moorman (Christy) (1858-1942), Louise Etta (1860-87), Cathleen (Lena) (1862-1917), Rosa Belle (1866-1942), Martha Ellen (1868), John Durall (1871-1916), and Henry Edgar (1873-1961) who changed his middle name from Edgar to Cooper after his father's second wife, Josephine Carson Cooper (December 9, 1835-April 18, 1902). James died near Glendale in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 10, 1910. Susan Malvinia Cash was the daughter of Warren Cash (1760-1849) of Albermarle County, Virginia, one of Kentucky's earliest Baptist preachers who was ordained in the ministry in Shelby County, and Susanna Baskett who came to Kentucky in 1883 from Fluvanna County, Virginia, and was the first woman ever known to profess religion in Kentucky. She and her husband were baptized in Clear Creek, Madison County, Kentucky, by John Taylor, a regular Baptist preacher. The Cash family came from Ireland. The Baskett family came from Pennsylvania.

HENRY COOPER (nee HENRY EDGAR) MILLER (1873-1961)

Henry Cooper Miller was born on October 28, 1873, in Hardin County, Kentucky. Reared on a farm four miles southwest of Glendale, he was christened in the Gilead Baptist Church near Glendale, Kentucky. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Kenyon College, Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1898. After serving a term as County School Superintendent he represented Hardin County in the 1902 General Assembly. He was a member of the Board of Regents of the Bowling Green State Normal School and owned an insurance agency in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He married Lucy Colston Cloyd on October 27, 1908. They lived in Enid, Oklahoma, commencing in 1906, before moving to Huron, South Dakota, where he

managed a hotel and their daughter, Alice Josephine, was born on August 5, 1914. The family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where their son, John Howard, was born on October 13, 1916. (John Howard who died in 2004 married Nancy Poindexter, 1922-2011). Henry worked in the insurance business until his retirement. Henry

died on July 28, 1961, and he is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City along with his wife, Lucy Cloyd Miller who died December 4, 1960.

ALICE JOSEPHINE MILLER BOAZ (1914-1996) Alice Josephine Miller was born August 5, 1914, in Huron, South Dakota, the eldest child of Henry Cooper Miller and Lucy Colston Cloyd Miller. Alice came to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her parents where she attended Jefferson Grade School, Harding

Junior High School, and graduated from Classen High School in 1932. During her school days she was a member of National Honor Society in junior high school and Comes Pep Club and the Dramatic Club in high school. She attended Oklahoma College for Women at Chickasha, Oklahoma, for one year. She took a comptometer course, worked for the Magnolia Petroleum Company in Oklahoma City and in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and worked for the government on the Bankhead Bill. She married Evers Harper Boaz on November 2, 1935, in Oklahoma City. They had three sons, John Knox (born June 7, 1938, in Enid, Oklahoma), and twins, David Evers and Robert Howard (born December 5, 1943, in Salina, Kansas). Alice enjoyed her family, home, gardening, and cooking. She was active in her children's activities, serving as a Cub Scout Den Mother and attending their various baseball games. She was active in Wishful Diggers Garden Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Women's Association of John Knox Presbyterian Church. She and Evers moved to Port Saint Lucie, Florida, in July of 1980 and lived in Spanish Lakes Golf Village. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Port St. Lucie. She moved to Slidell, Louisiana, in June of 1993. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Slidell. Alice died on April 20, 1996, and she is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with her husband, Evers Boaz, who died March 8, 1983.

THE JAMES CLOYD FAMILY IN AMERICA

The following genealogy traces family relationships from James Cloyd (1680-1769) through the male line to Lucy Colston Cloyd Miller (1883-1960). The information included here is largely drawn from Genealogy of the Cloyd, Basye and Tapp Families in America with information collected and prepared by A. D. Cloyd, M. D. and published by The Champlin Press, Columbus, Ohio, in 1912.

JAMES CLOYD (1680-1769) James Cloyd, a Scotsman, born in Ireland in 1680 and said to have been in the Siege of Derry when nine years old, died in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1769. It is said he would often lecture the young folks, his grandchildren, on wastefulness and tell them of the privations endured by the besieged in 1689. Nothing definite is known about him, but he is supposed to have been the father of the following: James (1707), David (1710), Joseph, John, Thomas, and Jane.

DAVID CLOYD (1710-n.d.)

David Cloyd, supposed to have been the son of James of Chester County, Pennsylvania, married Margaret Campbell. The first legal record of his residence in America is found in the purchase of a tract of land in New Castle County, Pennsylvania, now a part of Delaware, from Letitia Aubrey, a daughter of William Penn, which he and his wife, Margaret, sold in 1733. It is not known where he lived for the next twelve years, but one report has it that he moved to Vermont where he lived for some time. This same tradition also states that there were three immigrant brothers who landed in New England. That he had brothers in America who did not live in Virginia is shown by the fact that one of his sons at a later date visited his cousins in the north. It is probable that he remained in Delaware in accordance with a more authentic tradition as he sold his New Castle County home in 1749. In 1745 he bought 400 acres from John Buchannan in Orange County, Virginia, in what was afterwards set off to form Augusta County, later in 1770 to form Montgomery, and in 1776 to form Rockbridge County. It is not known when he came to America or when he married. One report states that he married in New Jersey and another that his oldest son, James, was born in Ireland. The following facts gleaned from "Green's Historic Families of Kentucky" bear closely on the time of his coming and the ancestry of his wife: "The Journal of Charles Clinton, the founder of the historic family of that name in New York gives an account of some of the families that sailed from Ireland on the 'George and Ann' and the 'John of Dublin' on May 9th, 1729, and landed in Pennsylvania, September 4, 1729. In the company were McDowells, Campbells and many other families which settled first in Pennsylvania and later in Virginia. "Of this number, Ephraim McDowell and his sons, John and James, arranged in the spring of 1737 to settle on the famous 'Beverly Manor' tract in Augusta County, Va., when they met with Benjamin Borden, the holder of the famous 'Borden Grant.' "Borden was required by the conditions of his grant to locate not less than 100 families on his land and he made the McDowells a tempting offer which they accepted. Complying with their agreement with Borden, they immediately entered into communication with their kindred, friends and co-religionists in Pennsylvania, Ireland and Scotland, soon drawing around them other Scotch and Scotch-Irish families among whom were the Cloyds and Campbells. "John McDowell married Magdelena Wood, whose mother was a Campbell, and, as tradition has it, of the noble family of Argyle. Mary, daughter of Ephraim married James Greenlee and James McDowell married Mary Greenlee, said to have been remotely descended from the Argyle Campbells. "James McDowell left no male issue; John McDowell has two sons, Samuel and James; and the latter married Elizabeth Cloyd, daughter of David Cloyd of 'Beverly Manor', whose wife was Margaret Campbell." In 1764 a party of Indians raided the house of David Cloyd near Amsterdam in Botetourt County, killing his wife, Margaret Cloyd, and son, John. An account of this massacre is given in Waddel's "Annals of Augusta County," written in 1843 by Mrs. Letitia Floyd, wife of Gov. Floyd and daughter of Col. Wm. Preston: "One day in March 1764 when Col. Wm. Preston had gone to Staunton, Mrs. Preston early in the morning heard two gun shots in quick succession in the direction of David Cloyd's house half a mile distant. Presently Joseph Cloyd rode up on a plow horse and related that the Indians had killed his brother John, had shot at him (the powder burning his shirt) and having gone to the house had probably killed his mother. Mrs. Preston immediately sent a young man to notify the garrison of a small fort on Craig's Creek and then dispatched a white man and two Negroes to Mr. Cloyd's. They found Mrs. Cloyd tomahawked in three places but still alive, and conscious. She told of the assault by the Indians, of their getting drunk, ripping up the feather beds and carrying off the money. One of the Indians wiped the blood from her temples with a corn cob saying, 'Poor old woman.' She died the next morning." The papers in a law suit in Augusta County in 1766 throw some light on the Indian invasion and the robbery of David Cloyd's house. The Indians carried away over 200 pounds English

money. They were pursued by a party of militia, one of them killed on John's Creek, 30 miles or more from the scene of the massacre and robbery. One hundred and thirty-seven pounds were found on the body of the dead Indian. A dispute arose among the militia as to whether the money belonged to them or to Cloyd. The money was finally distributed among them, all of whom except one James Montgomery returned their share to David Cloyd who thereupon paid each of the men five pounds, the reward he had offered, and sued Montgomery for the balance, thirty-one pounds and ten pence. The suit was decided in Cloyd's favor but Montgomery took an appeal to the General Court and the final result is not known. A Negro woman named "Dolly" survived the Massacre at Amsterdam and lived to an old age. Many have been the stories handed down about this old Negro, her scalped head and indented skull. The "History of Southwest Virginia" by Thomas Bruce, published in 1891 gives an incorrect account of the massacre, stating that the woman killed was a widow. John who was killed then was married and reference is probably made to his widow. David Cloyd and Margaret Campbell had the following children: James (1731), David, Michael (1735), John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary (1741), and Joseph (1742).

JAMES CLOYD (1731-n.d.) James Cloyd was born on October 29, 1731. He married Jean Lapsley on February 16, 1764. He received from Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, in 1783 a grant to 881 acres of land in Jefferson County, Virginia, lying on Cloyd's Creek. (See Grant Book, O. P. 517, Richmond Land Office.) James and Michael Cloyd were privates in the Augusta County Militia in 1758. (See Hennings Statutes at Large, Vol. 7) James Cloyd and wife Jean, supposedly Jean Lapsley, had the following children: Sarah (1765), David (1766), Joseph (1768), Margaret (1771), Mary (1773), Jean (1776), Margaret (1779), and James L. (1782).

JAMES L. CLOYD (1782-1874)

James L. Cloyd, the youngest child of James and Jean Cloyd was born on January 9, 1782, probably in Virginia. When quite young, he went to Indiana and from there to Kentucky. He resided in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1817, and later removed to Kenton County, remaining there until 1852. From that date to 1865, he lived in Pike County, Missouri, and moved to Decatur, Illinois, where he died on April 1, 1874. He married Mrs. Sally Gates Lillard on July 29, 1811. He was a farmer, a Whig and a member of the Christian Church. Their children were Joseph (1812), Nancy (1815), David Jamison (1817), Mary Jane (1820), Sarah Woods (1822), James Crow (1825), and James Preston (1827).

DAVID JAMISON CLOYD (1817-1886) David Jamison Cloyd was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, on August 15, 1817, the third child of James and Sally Gates Lillard Cloyd. He married in 1839 Mary Ann Roberts, daughter of William Roberts of Walton, Boone County, Kentucky, who was born November 28, 1817, and who died August 12, 1895 in Decatur, Illinois. David died March 20, 1886 in Decatur, Illinois. Their children were Sarah Elizabeth (1840-1922), James William (1842), John Gates (1844-1909), Thomas Joseph (1847), William Gordon (1848-1932), David Holmes (1851-1939), Mary Candace (1853-1859), Walter Clay (1855-1866), and Margaret Roberts (1859-1942).

JOHN GATES CLOYD (1844-1909)

John Gates Cloyd was born August 6, 1844, in Kenton County, Kentucky, third child of David J. and Mary Ann (Roberts) Cloyd. He lived for a while in Pike County, Missouri, and with his father and grandfather moved to Decatur, Illinois, in 1865. He returned to Kentucky for his wife, Miss Alice Henrietta Thomas (1844-1923) whom he married January 16, 1867 at Hodgenville, Kentucky. She was a daughter of Joshua H. Thomas and born in Breckinridge County, November 26, 1844. In politics John was a Democrat. The Decatur, Illinois, Review, March 5, 1909, has this to say: "Few men in Decatur had a more extensive acquaintance than J. G. Cloyd both in the city and county and throughout Central Illinois. He had been traveling

for the American Hominy Company for the last eight years, and previous to that he was in the wholesale and retail grocery business for himself." Their children were Mary Thomas (1867-1938), David Joshua (1868-1933), Anne Roberts (1876-1931), Howard Gates (1879-1952), and Lucy Colston (1883-1960). John G. Cloyd died March 4, 1909, and Alice H. Thomas Cloyd died August 2, 1923. All save Lucy Colston Cloyd Miller are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Decatur, Illinois.

LUCY COLSTON CLOYD MILLER (1883-1960)

Lucy Colston Cloyd was born May 17, 1883, in Decatur, Illinois, the fifth and youngest child of John Gates Cloyd and Alice Henrietta Thomas Cloyd. She graduated from Decatur High School and attended Millikin University, Decatur, for one year. She married Henry Cooper Miller on October 27, 1908. They lived in Enid, Oklahoma, before moving to Huron, South Dakota, where their daughter, Alice Josephine, was born on August 5, 1914. The family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where their son, John Howard, was born on October 13, 1916.Lucy enjoyed her home and family, and she had many friends. She was a wonderful cook and enjoyed having friends in to share holidays and special days. She took an active part in her children's school activities and her church. She died December 4, 1960, and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with her husband, Henry C. Miller who died July 28, 1961. Lucy Colston Cloyd's mother, Alice Henrietta (1844-1923), was the daughter of Joshua Howard Thomas (1804-September 10, 1886) and Lucy Landon Carter Colston (1803-July 5, 1850) who were married April 10, 1826, in Winchester, Virginia. Lucy Landon Carter Colston was the daughter of William Traverse Colston (1776-1815) and Elizabeth Burgess Armistead (1777-1834) who were married July 10, 1802. Elizabeth Burgess Armistead was the daughter of Henry Armistead (1750-1787) and Winifred Peachy (1752-n.d.) who were married in 1774. Winifred Peachy was the daughter of Col. William Peachy 1729-1802) and his first wife Million Glasscock (1735-1748). William Peachy assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the

capacity of Col. in 5th Va. Regiment from February 13, 1776 to May 7, 1776 (War Dept.). The source for this is William & Mary's Quarterly, Williamsburg, Va. Vol. 3-Nov. 2-p. 114 and Vol. 1-p. 31. Hintman's Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army, p. 322. William Traverse Colston was the son of Captain William Colston (1744-1777) and his wife, Lucy Landon Carter who were married in 1775. Lucy Landon Carter was the daughter of Colonel Landon Carter (1710-1778) and his wife, Elizabeth Beal. Colonel Landon Carter assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of enrolling the militia to defend the colony. The source for this is Schraaf’s History and Archives of Maryland, note no. 86727. Joshua Howard Thomas was born March 10, 1804, the son of Samuel Thomas (1776-n.d.) and Mary Howard. He was a doctor, practicing from 1825 to 1839 in Frederick County, Virginia, near Winchester, and then in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. In 1851 Dr. Thomas represented Breckinridge County in the Kentucky legislature. He took the side of the Union in the Civil War. In 1873 he moved to Elizabethtown and joined his brother, Samuel B. Thomas, in private banking. He died September 10, 1886 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Samuel Thomas was born November 13, 1776, the son of Samuel Thomas (1753-n.d.) who settled in Montgomery County, Maryland, and who married Mary Cowman, daughter of John Cowman, on October 31, 1775. Samuel Thomas was born December 2, 1753, the son of Richard Thomas (1728-n.d.) and Sarah, daughter of Skipwith and Margaret Holland Coale. Richard Thomas was born about 1728, the son of John Thomas (1697-1749 or 50) and Elizabeth Snowden, daughter of Richard and Mary Snowden. John Thomas was born April 15, 1697, the son of Samuel Thomas and Mary Hutchins, and married Elizabeth in April of 1727. He died in February of 1749 or 50. Samuel Thomas was born in about 1655, the son of Philip and Sarah Harrison. He was probably a minister of the Society of Friends as early as August 4, 1686, when Herring Creek quarterly meeting approved of his proposal to attend the yearly meeting at Philadelphia. On April 13, 1688, he was appointed to a Committee on "drowsiness" by the West River meeting. He held 72 acres of Talbot's ridge, north side of West River, surveyed in 1674, and after 1698, at a rental of 6s.8d., 200 acres of Lordship's manor on the Ridge. He married on May 15, 1688, at his own house in Anne Arundel County, Mary, daughter of Francis Hutchins of Calvert County.

Philip Thomas was born in England before 1651 and there married Sarah Harrison who survived him, dying early in 1687. Philip Thomas, of the mercantile house of Thomas &

Devonshire, at Bristol, England, son of Evan Thomas of Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, who died in 1650, is the earliest ancestor of this family of whom we have legal and documentary proof, although I have little doubt that the descent given in this genealogy is accurately taken from Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., and will be confirmed by further investigations. The earliest land patent in his name, dated February 19, 1651-2, conveys to him 500 acres of land called "Beakely" or "Beckley" on the west side of Chesapeake Bay, "in consideration that he hath in the year 1651 transported himself, Sarah, his wife, Philip, Sarah, and Elizabeth his children, into this our province." He would appear to have come directly from Bristol to Maryland. The source for this is The Thomas Book, by Lawrence Buckley Thomas, D.D., published in New York City by The Henry T. Thomas Company, 1896, pp. 27-55. Mary Howard was the daughter of Joshua Howard and Rebecca Owings. Joshua Howard was the son of Sir Henry Howard, born in England and came to the Province of Maryland in 1706, and married to Sarah Dorsey, daughter of John and Honor Elder. The Howards, Dukes of Norfolk, stand next to the blood royal at the head of the peerage of England, and are undoubtedly of Saxon origin. Howard, or Hereward, was living in the reign of King Edgar (957-973) and was a kinsman of Duke Oslac. His son, Leofric, was the father of Hereward, who was banished by William the Conqueror. Hereward's grandson, Hereward, or Howard, was granted land in Norfolk by Henry II. Sir William Howard (1297-1308) was Chief Justice of Common Pleas. It would be useless, however, to follow the intricate genealogy of the Howards. John Howard was created Duke of Norfolk in 1483, and his direct descendants have retained that honor until the present day. Catherine, the niece of the second Duke, was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. The son of the third Duke, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was a famous poet. The house of Howard is divided into numerous branches, the Earls of Suffolk and Berkshire, of Carlisle, of Effingham, of Wicklow, Barons of Lanerton and many others. The third son of Sir Henry Howard married a Miss Rebecca Owings, immigrated to America and became the progenitor of the Howards of Maryland and Washington. To this family belongs Colonel John Eager Howard, who rose to distinction in the Revolutionary War, was Governor of Maryland for three terms and member of the first Senate of the United States. His son, George, was also Governor of Maryland and a friend of Henry Clay. (The source of this is The Thomas Book, by Lawrence Buckley Thomas, D.D., published in New York City by The Henry T. Thomas Company, 1896, p. 367 and a newspaper clipping contained therein regarding the Howards of England.) William Traverse Colston was the son of Capt. William Colston (1744-1777) and Lucy Landon Carter who were married in 1775. Lucy Landon Carter was the daughter of Col. Landon Carter (1710-1778) and his wife, Elizabeth Beal. Col. Landon Carter assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of Enrolling the Militia to defend the colony. (The source for this is Schraaf's History & Archives of Maryland. See Nat. Nv. 8 to 727.

THE JOHANN MEYER FAMILY IN GERMANY AND AMERICA The following genealogy traces family relationships from Johann Meyer (1785-n.d.) through the male line to Marion Agnes Meyer Thompson (1930- ), Marjorie Evelyn Meyer Halvorson (1933- ), and Mildred Ellen Meyer Boaz (1938- ). The information included here is largely drawn from written records handed down within the family.

JOHANN MEYER (1785-n.d.) Johann Meyer, a worker, was born in Höchstädt, Bavaria, Germany, on December 10, 1785, son of Johann Meyer and Barbara Huttel. He married Eva Barbara Russ on April 3, 1808. Their son was Johann Christoph Meyer (1809-n.d.).

JOHANN CHRISTOPH MEYER (1809-n.d.)

Johann Christoph Meyer, a weaver, was born in Höchstädt, Germany, on June 21, 1809. He married Margareta Kunigunda Hautmann (June 15, 1806-n.d.) on December 22, 1833. Their son was Johann Christian Friedrich Karl Meyer (1839-n.d.).

JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH KARL MEYER (1839-n.d.)

Johann Christian Friedrich Karl Meyer, a weaver, was born in Höchstädt, Germany, on August 28, 1839. He married Katharina Barbara Thüring (June 21, 1839-n.d.) on November 14, 1863. Katharina Barbara Thüring was the daughter of Adam Thüring (1811-1882) and Barbara Döbereiner (1812-1890). Their son was Adam Meyer (1869-1959). Other children were Heinrich (1860-1948), Anna Margaretta (Jette) (April 30, 1878-April 1, 1933), and Margarete (1883-1943). Heinrich (Henry) came with Adam to the United States and settled in New England. The girls remained in Bavaria, Germany, and the descendants of Anna Margaretta (Jette) Meyer continue to live in an around Höchstädt and Wundsiedel. The descendants of Margaretta Meyer live in an area, once part of East Germany, around Breitenfeld, Germany.

ADAM MEYER (1869-1959)

Adam Meyer was born in Höchstädt, Germany, on April 9, 1869. He left Germany at age 17, April 9, 1886, for the United States, arriving April 17. He worked as a weaver in cotton mills in Baltic, Connecticut, and New Bedford and Natick, Massachusetts, for a short time. He came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in April of 1889.

Having learned the barber trade, he opened a shop at what is now South 5th Street, near West Walker Street. He continued in business until about 1902, when he joined the sales force of the Schlitz brewery. He recalled driving teams of mules to nearby lakes and summer resorts. With the help of other men from the South Side office, he built a summer cottage at Bass' Bay. He worked for Schlitz until his retirement in 1943. Adam met Agnes Boehm (June 15, 1870-December 1, 1915) at singverein and married her on October 16, 1895. To this union were born Edna (October 12, 1896-December 13, 1959), who married Ted Last (June 12, 1923), Eugene Paul (1899-1980), and Helen (1905-1996). Agnes was the daughter of Joseph (1834-1915) and Mary Westmeyer (January 1, 1843-1931) Boehm. Joseph

was born in Poland, reared in Germany, came from Germany in 1855 to St. Louis and then to Milwaukee. He was a gardener and then a masonry contractor. Mary was born in Mexico, reared in New Orleans, and came to Milwaukee. Joseph and Mary were married June 14, 1861. Agnes Boehm Meyer died December 1, 1915. Adam next married Emma Zuleger (July 20, 1886-February 3, 1957), daughter of Anton Zuleger and Anna Haberling, on July 5, 1923. Emma had been married to Adolf Zuleger who died December 21, 1914. Adam’s activities in civic work on the South Side were numerous. He served as a charter member and was one of the organizers of the Mitchell Park July 4th Association, and he served it until health forced his retirement from active participation. He was president of the group from 1911 to 1951 and then was succeeded by his son, Eugene Paul, also a staunch south side civic leader. Adam Meyer was a member of the Milwaukee July 4th Association from 1920 to 1927. He was popularly referred to as "Mr. Mitchell Park July 4th Association." A charter member of the South Division Civic Association he served on its board of directors for many years. His activity in south side activities was spurred by his friendship for the late Mayor John L. Bohn and County Judge Michael Sheridan. He died on May 1, 1959, and is buried in Lincoln Memorial (formerly Wanderer’s Rest) Cemetery, Milwaukee, Section 10, Block 17, Lot 19.

EUGENE PAUL MEYER (1899-1980)

Eugene Paul Meyer was born February 12, 1899 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He married Evelyn Heinen on October 9, 1926. Children born to them were Marion Agnes (March 6, 1930- ), Marjorie Evelyn (July 5, 1933- ), and Mildred Ellen (July 2, 1938- ). He graduated from South Division High School in June, 1916, and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1924. He practiced law for 54 years. He began in private practice (1924-46), then served for 16 years as corporate attorney for George J. Meyer Manufacturing, a Cudahy packaging machinery firm (1946-59), and returned for 20 years to private practice with the law firm of John & Meyer, 324 East Wisconsin Ave. He is a past president of the Milwaukee Land Commission, the South Division Civic Association, the Mitchell Park July 4th Association, the Rotary Club of Mitchell Field, and the South Side Old Timers Club. He was awarded a citation by the City of Milwaukee for his work with the Milwaukee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. He was a member for fifty years of the American Legion, Post #1, Milwaukee. He was a member of Faith Lutheran Church and had been president of the congregation. He also was active in Lutheran groups, serving 12 years on the

Mission Board of the English District of the Missouri Synod. In 1977, he was named Lutheran Layman of the Year by Lutheran Men in America of Wisconsin. He died on December 26, 1980, and is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Milwaukee.

MARION AGNES MEYER THOMPSON (1930- ) MARJORIE EVELYN MEYER HALVORSON (1933- )

MILDRED ELLEN MEYER BOAZ (1938- )

Marion Agnes Meyer was born on March 6, 1930, in Milwaukee. She attended Anna Doerfler Grade School, Walker Junior High School, and South Division High School, graduating in January of 1948. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduated with a degree in Sociology in June, 1952. She married John Seymour Thompson (May 30, 1927-September 12, 1992, son of Harry and Floris Thompson) of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on June 28, 1952. Children born to them were Susan Ellen (August 14, 1958), David John (July 25, 1960), and Anne (June 11, 1964). Marion earned a Master's degree in Psychiatric Social Work from Columbia University, New York City, and has been a practicing social worker, recently a partner in Intervention Associates, Wayne, Pennsylvania. She lives in retirement in (town), New Jersey. John Thompson was employed as a chemist by FMC Corporation. He died September 12, 1992.

Marjorie Evelyn Meyer was born on July 5, 1933, in Milwaukee. She also attended Anna Doerfler, Walker, and South Division, graduating in January of 1951. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, graduating in 1955 with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education. She taught for a while in schools of both Milwaukee and Madison. She married Curtis Halvorson (July 26, 1930- ) of Milwaukee on December 29, 1956. The following children were born to them: Christine Ann (April 2, 1961) who married Donovan Thomas Walsh on December 27, 1986, Judith Ellen (March 2, 1964), and Amy Viola (May 30, 1967) who married Brian Ward Holzworth on March 19, 1994. The Halvorsons lived in Missoula, Montana, before moving to their current residence in Fort Collins, Colorado. Marjorie also holds a M.A. degree in Education (1959) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has endorsements as a specialist in early childhood

education from the University of Montana, in media from the University of Colorado, and in reading from Colorado State University. She taught in the public schools of Fort Collins. Curtis was employed by the Fish and Wildlife Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Mildred Ellen Meyer was born on July 2, 1938, in Milwaukee. She, too, attended Anna Doerfler, Walker, and South Division, graduating in June of 1956. She attended Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating in 1960 with a degree in English. As a freshman she was president of Alpha Lambda Delta, and as a senior she was president of Mortar Board. She taught high school English one year in Westfield, New Jersey, and several more in Birmingham, Michigan. She married John Knox Boaz of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on August 19, 1961. They met as students at Northwestern where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Education in 1960. They

had two children, Julia Ruth (April 12, 1963) born in Pontiac, Michigan, and Andrew John (April 14, 1966) born in Bloomington, Illinois. Mildred completed a Master's degree in English from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1964, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1977. She has taught English at Illinois State (Normal), Illinois Wesleyan (Bloomington), and Millikin (Decatur, Illinois) Universities. Mildred served Millikin as Chair of the Department of English, Director of the James Millikin Scholars (Honors) Program, and as Warren F. Hardy Distinguished Professor of English. She plays cello and a mean game of tennis.

THE HUBERT HEINEN FAMILY IN AMERICA

The following genealogy traces family relationships from Hubert Heinen (1839-1936) through the male line to Evelyn Gertrude Heinen Meyer (1902-1995). The information included here is largely drawn from written records handed down within the family.

HUBERT HEINEN (1839-1936)

Hubert Heinen was born September 10, 1839 in Düeren, Germany. He married Gertrude Gnadenthur (May 31, 1838-November 7, 1879) from Düeren, Germany, on July 19, 1866, and from that marriage there were six children: Anna Celia (June 1, 1867, Düeren Germany-February 25, 1932); Lillian Elizabeth (September 17, 1869-May 27, 1946) who married James Elsby; Josephine (October 9, 1871-September 2, 1872); Herman (1874-1960) who married Amalia Graf (1876-1966); William Peter (September 25, 1877-November 25, 1947); and Helen Mary (December 15, 1872-April 23, 1957). Hubert was a cabinetmaker by trade, who made fireplace mantels and door moldings in Milwaukee homes. He also made furniture, including a black walnut dining room table and chairs now owned by Jim and Sherry Lee. He also made a black walnut table in the Queen Anne style now in the home of Marion Meyer Thompson. Gertrude died November 7, 1879, and Hubert died January 27, 1936. He died January 27, 1936, aged 96 years and 5

months. All of the above are buried in Calvary Cemetery, except Lillian who is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Milwaukee.

HERMAN ANTHONY HEINEN (1874-1960)

Herman Heinen was born October 27, 1874. He was a Spencerian College graduate and a student at the old Marquette University. He married Amalia Margaretha Louise Graf (May 1, 1876, Milwaukee, Wisconson-May 31, 1966, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) on June 14, 1900. He worked as a glove maker and bookkeeper for Ziegler Candy Company and as an accountant and office manager for more than fifty years at Fred Oestermann's business in Milwaukee. Herman was a civic-minded person. He was a notary public. He served as treasurer of the Mitchell Park July 4th Association for several years. He and Amalia had five daughters: Gertrude (1901-died in the same year), Evelyn Gertrude (December 24, 1902-February 5,

1995) who married Eugene Paul Meyer (1899-1980), Mildred Alice (January 2, 1904-February 18, 1998), Lorraine Claire (May 1, 1907-August 13, 1968), and Anne Ethel (April 22, 1909-May 7, 2005) who married Irve Zink (September 12, 1908-July 9, 1985) on August 1, 1936. Five grandchildren were also born in Milwaukee: to Evelyn--Marion Agnes, Marjorie Evelyn, and Mildred Ellen Meyer; to Anne--Jeffrey (January 8, 1945- May 5, 2005) and Meredith Zink (June 7, 1947- ). Herman died December 5, 1960 in Milwaukee and is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Milwaukee.

EVELYN GERTRUDE HEINEN MEYER (1902-1995)

Evelyn was born on December 24, 1902, and she attended schools in Milwaukee, graduating from South Division High School and the Milwaukee Normal School. She also held certificates in

music, in particular a master's degree in music theory from the Wisconsin College of Music with a study on Cesar Franck under the instruction of Karl Eppert. She played the piano and organ at Faith Lutheran Church for many years. She taught private piano lessons and worked in a music store playing sheet music for prospective buyers. Before her marriage, Evelyn taught kindergarten at 27th Street School, Milwaukee. On October 9, 1926, she married Eugene Paul Meyer, and they had three children: Marion Agnes Meyer Thompson (March 6, 1930), Marjorie Evelyn Meyer Halvorson (July 5, 1933), and Mildred Ellen Meyer Boaz (July 2, 1938). She lived on the South Side of Milwaukee in the family home at 1033 South 29th Street until her death February 5, 1995. She is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Milwaukee.

THE LORENZ GRAF FAMILY IN AMERICA

The following genealogy traces family relationships from Lorenz Graf (1824-1911) through the male line to Amalia Graf Heinen (1876-1966). The information included here is largely drawn from written records handed down within the family.

LORENZ GRAF (1824-1911) Lorenz Graf was born on February 14, 1824, in Germany. He died on February 11, 1911. He is buried along with his wife, Elizabeth Thuering Graf (August 3, 1827-September 9, 1911), in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee. They were parents of eleven children, among them a son, John. Another, Bertha, married Fred Rheins.

JOHN W. GRAF (1853-1930)

John Graf was born February 27, 1853, in the dwelling at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Chestnut streets. John was one of 11 children of Bavarian German immigrants, Loranz and Elizabeth (Thuering) Graf who came to the United States in 1846, arriving in Milwaukee on April 6, 1846. At the age of twelve, in 1865, he started working as a bottle washer for Hickey and Sons, a Milwaukee soda water manufacturer. Even at the time, Milwaukee was a beverage center, with many breweries and soda water factories in existence. In 1873, when he was 20, he started a soda water and Weiss beer business. John soon found a partner in Philip Madlener. Their plant was located at 330 Grove (later 800 South 5th Street). The plant originally employed but four people. Four years later, the business amounted to $15,000 a year and employed twelve men. Graf and Madlener made their own malt extracts and the extracts used for their white, cherry, and raspberry sodas and their root beer, sarsaparilla, and lemon-lime soda. In 1881 John purchased the interest of his partner and owned the greater part of the stock in the enterprise until his death. By 1909 the plant employed sixty employees, and its product was

valued at $120,000 per year. It required fourteen teams and wagons in constant use to transport the product to their customers. The business eventually outgrew its location. In the 1920s he selected the site at South 40th Street and West Greenfield Avenue. In 1968 Laurie O. Graf, President and third generation member of the family to head the firm, led Graf Beverages, Inc. to become a wholly owned subsidiary of P & V Atlas Industrial Center, Inc. At that time in addition to its line of soft drinks including root beer and 50/50, Graf's produced Dr. Pepper, Squirt, Royal Crown Cola, Diet Rite Cola, and Schweppes tonics under franchise arrangements. Graf’s was among the pioneers in a number of developments in the soft-drink industry, including the introduction of quart-size containers, the production of flat top rather than cone top cans, the creation of sugar-free sodas, and the development of twist-off resealable caps on non-returnable bottles. In the 1980s the property was sold and is now occupied by a modern Sentry Super Market Store and parking lot. Canfield, an Illinois firm, in 1985 purchased the John Graf soft-drink recipes, and by popular demand the public is able to purchase their favorite (labeled) John Graf soda water.

He was married in 1873 to Anna Bertha Gleisberg (born February 24, 1851, Mequon, Wisconsin), daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Gleisberg; Mr. Gleisberg, born Kulenberg, Saxony, Germany, was a pioneer of Ozaukee county Wisconsin, settling there in 1848). There were six children from this marriage: Edward J. (November 2, 1872-March, 1948) who married Bertha Reinhardt, Amalia Margaretha Louise (1876-May 31, 1966) who married Herman Heinen (October 27, 1874-December 5, 1960), Amanda (December 28, 1879-1935) who married Alfred Pellman, Anna (March 24, 1882-September 11, 1976) who married John Murphy, Clara (March 20, 1886-February 12, 1960) who married Clifford Loew (1879-1927) and later Bo Carter, and John II (May 31, 1886-May 30, 1929) who married Bertha Boerner and later Sylvia Schaeffer. Mr. Graf belonged to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the E.S.O.S. Club, the Knights of Pythias, the South Side Turners, and the Calumet Club. He was independent in political views, voting for the candidates who seemed to him best fitted for the office. John Graf died May 16, 1930. His wife, Anna, died on November 5, 1913. They are buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee. Clara (1885-1960) married Clifford Loew (1879-1927), and they had three children: Clifford, Jr.; Florence Anderson, and Marjorie Merideth Tans. Lyle and Marjorie Tans had three children: James, John, and William. Clara, Clifford, Sr., and Clifford, Jr., are buried in Arlington Cemetery, Milwaukee. John II married Sylvia Schaeffer. He worked in the Graf soda company and enjoyed singing. He is also buried in the John Graf plot in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee. Sylvia Graf, who died January 2, 1963, aged 71 years, and her son, John Graf III who married Pearl Braun, are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery. The other son of John II and Sylvia, Lawrence O. who married Elaine Jeffers, is still living. Two other cousins are buried in the Forest Home Graf plot: John G. Pellman, Jr. (1897-1911) and Alfred Pellman, Jr. (September 6, 1900-October 8, 1926). It was days after her wedding that Evelyn Gertrude Heinen Meyer played for her cousin Alfred's funeral.

AMALIA GRAF HEINEN (1876-1966)

Amalia Margaretha Louise was the eldest daughter of John W. and Anna Gleisberg Graf. She was born on May 1, 1876. She married Herman Heinen (1874-1960) on June 14, 1900, and they had five daughters: Gertrude (March 2, 1901-August 5, 1902), Evelyn Gertrude (December 24,

1902-February 5, 1995), Mildred Alice (January 2, 1904-February 18, 1998), Lorraine (Lolly) Claire (May 1, 1907-August 15, 1968), and Anne Ethel (April 22, 1909- ). Each daughter was musically inclined. At an early age, each daughter took piano lessons, individually, from a professional piano teacher, Ms. Clara Boase, who resided in the neighborhood. By ten years of age each had a sufficient background of music to choose an instrument. Evelyn continued piano; Mildred chose violin; Lorraine, saxophone; and Anne, violin. Soon, they formed the Heinen quartet, and entertained upon request at various local functions. Mildred also played with the South Division High School orchestra (1920-22). Later, Evelyn continued with piano and organ lessons. Mildred took violin lessons at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music with Ms. Roberta Bost and voice lessons with Ms. Elsa Bloedel. She sang with the Milwaukee Opera Company, the Lutheran A Cappella Chorus, and the Faith Lutheran Church Choir, many times as soloist. Each daughter graduated from the Milwaukee Normal School Kindergarten-Primary Department and

taught in the Milwaukee public and suburban schools. Each also continued to study in her field, attaining advanced degrees: Evelyn, a Master's degree in music; Mildred, a B.A. from Mount Mary College and an M.E. from Marquette; Lorraine, a B.A. from Mount Mary College; and Anne, a Bachelor's degree in Education and the Master's equivalent from Milwaukee State Teacher's College. All had teaching careers: Evelyn (1923-30), kindergarten teacher in Milwaukee; Mildred (1924-69), primary department in Milwaukee; Lorraine (1928-68), a kindergarten teacher in Wauwatosa; and Anne (1930-77), kindergarten in Milwaukee. Amalia (Molly), enjoyed music and could play the piano by ear. She attended the American-German Academy in her late teens. She died on May 31, 1966, and is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Milwaukee. Anne married Irve Zink (September 12, 1908-July 9, 1985) and had two children: Jeffrey and Meredith.