Boyles, Henry Stevens (b. 17 JUN 1856, d. 18 JUN 1941)

Note: (This is transcribed from a handwritten copy by Mabel Recca Boyles Mitchell)

Archabald Boyles - Elizabeth Stevens - - Parents of Henry S. Boyles

Henry Stevens Boyles, born June 17, 1856, in Michigan (Lansing) moved to Missouri, Shelby County 1875, had 2 brothers 1 sister, Orville, Arch and Lydia, were twins. Lydia died 1906, she was married to Will Gibson, thay had 3 children. Arch married Susan ? 2 children. Thay was divorced, then he married Oria Pruitt Boyles, thay had 1 son Archie Lee, he lives in Alaska. Orville married Fannie ? thay had 5 children Lee, Nettie, Loyd, Bertie, and Carson.
Henry died and was burried in Shelbyville, MO June 18. 1941. Rebecca Ann Perrigo, born May 6, 1864, in Illonois, died May 23, 1936 burried at Plesant Pairie Bethel, MO. married Henry Boyles Sept. 16, 1883 in Shelby County, MO. Thay had 11 children, Delmar O., born July 4, 1884, Martin P. born April 20, 1886, Charles L. born Mar. 1, 1888, Archie W. born Mar 8, 1890, Lucy May born, January 21, 1892, Alta Myrtle born, Dec. 24, 1893, Teddy Lee born, March 10, 1896, Eula Pearl born April 10, 1898, Mabel Recca born, March 9, 1900, Lydia Elizabeth born, May 4, 1903, and Opel Glen born April 17, 1906.


THE FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF AN ARTICLE WRITTEN FOR THE ELLIS County, OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL RECORD. WRITTEN BY JULIA H. GRACE.

BOYLES, HENRY STEVEN
Arnett

Henry Steven Boyles was born June 17, 1856, in Michigan. His parents, Archibald and Lydia Ann (Stevens) Boyles, are believed to have lived near Arnett, Oklahoma, before Henry moved there. However, the father, Archibald, died in Shelby County, Missouri, in 1873, when Henry was only seventeen years old. The mother, Lydia, survived him many years, and died in Oklahoma. She was buried at Arnett. Henry's brother, Arch, also lived there with their widowed mother at the time Henry moved his family to Ellis county in 1909.
Henry Steven Boyles married Rebecca Ann Perrigo, September 16, 1883, in Shelby County, Missouri. Rebecca was born in Illinois, May 6, 1864. There in a longline of the Perrigo family -- many that lived in Shelby County, Missouri, two ancestors being founders of the Perrigo Pharmaceutical Company.
Henry and Rebecca were blessed with eleven children, all born in Shelby County, Missouri. Delmar, born July 4, 1884, married Minnie Waibel. They had six children. Martin, born April 20, 1886, married Katie Stevenson -- they were parents of three children, Charlie was born in 1888. His wife's name was Katie and they had one child. Arch was born in 1890. He and his wife, Alma, had four children. Lucy, born Janyary 21, 1892, married Tony Willie -- they had ten children. Alta (Polly), b. December 24, 1893, married Hurley Tuggle. They were parents of three children. Teddy Lee was born in 1896. He and his wife Florence, had four children. Pearl, born in 1898. married Newton Curtis and had four children, Mabel, born in 1900, married Willis Mitchell. They had twelve children. Lydia, born in 1903 married a Mr. Mallett, but htere were no children from this marriage. Opel Glen (Punch), born April 17, 1906, married Miidred Irene Bowen and they had seven children.
Henry, wanting to be near his widowed mother, Lydia Boyles, and his brother, Arch, moved to Oklahoma, December 1909. He and his wife Rebecca and the six youngest children traveled by train. They lived east of Arnett with, and then nearby, the rest of the family. Afterward, the mother Lydia, died. Rebecca took sick with pneumonia and almost died. After she recovered, yearning for her oldest children that remained in Missiouri, she and the children returned in 1910 by train. Henry came to Missouri and they returned to Arnett in 1911.
Lucy, daughter of Henry and Rebecca, and her husband, Tony Willie, not yet having any children, moved to Arnett in 1912. Tony was a mail carrier and owned a "hack". It was a wagon with a wooden enclosed cover on it, and was horse drawn. They traveled in this. They lived there five years and had Blanche in 1913, and Edward in 1915. Lucy was expecting their third child when they made the return trip to Missouri, in the same horse drawn "hack". Merrell was born safe and sound in 1917, in Missouri.
Some of the younger children of Henry and Rebecca remained in Arnett, married and raised their families. Ted and Florence bought the farm east of Arnett. Their children were George, Eddie, Bernita and Willie (Bunky).
It was on his brother, Ted's, farm that O. G. (Punch) Boyles met Bill Powers and Roy Lamb. They were hired to work in the fields. Punch was a young boy then, and didn't know that in later years these two men would be his uncles by marriage. During the 1930's, Roy Lamb married Hazel Powers, sister of Bill, and Punch married Mildred Bowen, whose mother Glessie, was the oldest sister of Bill and Hazel Powers. O.G. (Punch) Boyles and Mildred's children wer Donald Ray, Virgil Glen, Jimmy Louis, Carol Ann, Eva Jean, Shirley Kay and Bobby Lee.

Note: Sources of information for Benedict's family are as follows:

1. 1820, 1830, 1840 Census records of Licking County, Ohio
2. 1850 Census, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 5008, pt 10)
3. 1860 Cenus, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 5007, pt 14 #127-130)
4. Marr Rec, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 49516, pt 1, p 9)
5. Vital Records, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 41094, pt 121)
6. Land Records, Licking County, Ohio
7. Probate Records, Licking County, Ohio (GS F# 49520, pt 2)

Note: John PARK was born February 16, 1786 in Hampshire County, Virginia where
he remained with his parents until his twenty third birthday, when he
married Miss Margaret MCBRIDE. John PARK;s mother, Nancy Ann EDWARDS
(married to a Mr. MCKEEVER at the time) was taken by the Wyandot Indians
from Greenbrier County, Virginia to Sandusky in the Northwest Territory.
(At this time Ohio was known as the Northwest Territory).

Note: The parents of Margeret MCBRIDE, Alexander and Jane MCBRIDE, emigrat
America from the county Antrim, Ireland at the close of the Revolution
War in the States.

Note: Story written by Julia H. Grace in the History of Ellis County, Oklahoma indicates that the wife of Archibald Boyles was Lydia Ann Stevens and not Elizabeth as shown on this family page.

Note: LDS Pedigree Chart indicates that Edward's will was dated 25 Dec 1785.

Occupation: Place: Oklahoma Homesteader Farm

Note: Davis County, Kansas also listed as birth place.

Note: Samuel PARK was an Englishman by descent, whose anestors were among the colonists of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607-8. His first wife, who bore him six children, was the sister of his second wife, Nancy Ann Edwards who also bore six children by him.

(LDS CD-ROM indicates that Samuel's name is PARKS.)

Occupation: Place: Farmer

Note: Extracted from History of Licking County:

"In the month of July 1779, a party of Wyandot Indians, from the Sandusky river, made their appearance in Greenbriar County, Virginia, and killed or took prisoners many of the white citizens, burning or destroying such property as they could not carry away with them. Among the sufferers was
a family by the name of McKeever. The husband and father was shot down in his own door-yard, and the mother and three small children, the youngest but an infant of six months, were taken prisoners. Their house was pillaged and burned, and the prisoners hurried away toward the Indian
headquarters on the Sandusky river. The woman could in after years give but little idea of their line of travel, further than this: that the Indians, fearing pursuit, took the most direct route to Upper Sandusky.
But in the year 1815, while moving to this state, when she reached the month of Licking river, she recognized that as the point where they crossed the Muskingum river, and whence they probably took the Indian trail up the valley north of Newark. Soon after reaching Upper Sandusky the youngest child died, and the other two, both girls, were taken from her to some place to her unknown. Here she remained a prisoner and a slave three years and nine months. Though the war had then closed, her
friends did not seek for her as they supposed her dead, and the Indians, her masters, refused to give her up and let her return to her friends.
In the spring of 1783, by the aid of as Indian trader by the name of Isaac Zane, she made her escape and got back to her friends, then in Hampshire county, Virginia. To sucessfully make her escape, she traveled for three sucessive nights on foot and alone, secreting herself in the wildness in the day time. She had previously received instructions from Mr. Zane as to her line of travel, and where she should stop and await his arrival. To avoid any suspicion resting upon him as an accomplice in
effecting her escape, the trader remained in the town the next day, until many of her pursuers had returned. He then started, but again stopped over night before reaching her hiding-place through the day. The Indains not being fully satisfied as to his innocence, secretly pursued him and watched him all night. He again started late in the morning, an traveled a less distance than it was agreed that she should travel the preceding night. One or two Indians again made their appearance, but now abandoned the pursuit, being satisfied of his innocence. The third day he reached the point that had been agreed upon as the place of their meeting. She had reached the place in safety the night before, but for fear the Indians might be still secretly pursuing them, she did not join the wagon of the trader until he was ready to start the next day. Mr. Zane, being on his way to the sea coast with a load of furs, aided her to the circle of her friends. During the whole time she remained a prisoner, she had
received as kind treatment as could have been expected from such an uncultivated race of people. Her mistresss was very fond of "fire water", and when drunk was a bloodthirsty tyrant; but her eldest son was a large and noble young chief, strickly temperate, religiously inclined, a warm and constant friend of the prisoner, whom he called his white mother, and from whom he aften seemed pleased to receive religious instruction. This noble young chief would sometimes aid her to secret herself, and supply her with food for two or three days at a time, during a drunken frolic of the Indians. Of this chief she would often speak in her old age, and would sometimes express a wish to see or know what
became of her big Indian son, as she would sometimes call him. There was another lady, a fellow prisoner with her, who had been a slave in Virginia, but was nearly white, who married an Indian chief by the name of Walker, soon after they were taken to Sandusky, and who became the mother of the learned, wealthy and celebrated Walker family among the WYANDOTS, at the time they left their reserve on the Sandusky, for their new home west of the Mississippi. Mrs. Walker lived to be nearly one hundred years old, and to enjoy the blessing of a Christian civilization, under the missionary instructions of James B. Finley and James Gillruth. Mrs. Walker was a warm friend and intimate associate of Mrs. McKeever as long as she remained a prisoner, and from her the history of the two lost daughters was obtained after the death of their mother. But the mother had passed through life without a knowledge of what had become of them, a and had mourned for them as being numbered with the dead."

"About two years after her return to the association of her friends, she married Samuel Park, the widowed husband of her deceased sister, with whom she lived until the eighteenth of February, 1815, when she was again left a widow. She had raised a family, by this last marriage, of six children of her own, besides six orphan children and one grandchild of her deceased sister. At the death of her husband, her eldest son, who had moved to the Licking valley in the year 1810, and settled on Auter
creek, in Union township, returned to Virginia and brought her to his home in this county, where she continued to live fourteen years, and until her death, on the fourteenth day of September, 1829, aged
seventy-five years, dying within less than one hundred miles of the Indian tribe and the place where she had been a prisoner and a slave fifty years before, and withnin about two hundred miles of the residence of her two lost daughters, then the wives of two civilized Indian chiefs, but both of whom died near Detroit about the time their mother died in Union township.

"This woman of suffering and sorrow was my grandmother, and her son, who provided for he wants the last fourteen years of her life, was my father. She often spent her time in relating her experience among the Indians, and in teaching me the Wyandot dialect. She and David Benjamin would often, though prisoners with different tribes, relate to each other their sufferings while among the Indians.

"Nancy A. Park was a woman of mild temper, and a patient sufferer, but communicative and pleasant. Shev was an ancient Briton descent, but American born. Her maiden name was Edwards. Her husband -my grandfather- was an Englishman by descent, whose ancestors were among the
colonists of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607-8. My maternal grandparents were from the country Antrim, in Ireland, and emigrated to this country at the close of the Revolution. From this you will see that I, in my humble person, represent the blood of different nations, but it will not be supposed that my European predilections are very strong, as I have an American lineage of more than two hundred and fifty years. I was born in Union township, November 21, 1810, and at four weeks old, in mid-winter,
was taken into a green beech cabin, without floor, door, or chimney, which, however, was soon made comfortable by the industry of my, then, young parents. Nor did I enjoy the luxury of a nice baby-crib set on rockers. I was cradled in a suger-trough, and often lulled to sleep by the notes of the owl and the howl of the wolf. But, even then, the sweeter songsters of the forest, such as the mocking bird, the
nightingale and the whip-poor-will, sang just as sweetly from our wild forest surroundings, as they do now from the fancy groves of our finest villas. The attempt to resurrect and place upon record the history of our pioneer fathers and mothers, has caused me to live much of my life over again. The scenes and associations of my youth have many of them been brought vividly before my mind, as in other years. The old-fashioned log cabin with puncheon floor, clapboard door, wooden chimney, warmed by a massive log fire at one end, and lighted by oiled paper windows; the chimney corners hung full of jerk; the rich, juicy, fresh vension, broiled on the end of a sharp stick; the noble wild
turkey, roasted for Thanksgiving and Christmas; the occasional feast upon a fat coon or opossum; the johnny-cake, baked on a board; the rich and healthy coffee and tea, the product of the garden, the field and the forest, and made doubly palatable by rich cream and maple sugar. The pleasant social gathering of our fathers and mothers around the cheerful log fire, relating the incidents and anecdotes of their lives; the hilarity sometimes produced by the exhilerating effects of egg-nog or warm toddy; the happy associations of the young folks; the tippings of the charming notes of the violin; the cabin-raisings, the log-rollings, the corn-huskings, the wood-choppings, flax-pullings, the sentimental
songs, the jumping, hopping, wrestling and foot racing exercises of the young men; the quilting parties of the ladies; the buzz of the spinning wheel in the cabin; the whack, whack of the flaxbreak at the barn; the guns, the dogs and the chase, -all of these have been brought freshly to our mind, and we are in a great degree permitted to live over again the happy days of our youth; and that, too, with the most happy reminiscences of those youthful associations. But amidst these pleasant reflectio
there are some sad thoughts. These revered fathers and mothers have all passed away; more than half of our youthful associations are numbered among the dead, and those that are left have lost the vigor and elasticity of youth and are blossoming for the grave. The school children of to-day greet us as grandparents, and we, too, must soon be numbered with the dead."