1st MARRIAGE John Boyce, over 21 & Mrs Emma Benson, over 18, md 10 Oct 1893 at house of Emma Benson by Rev I.M. Shulse. Aff: J.E. Howard. Wit: Mary E. Holcomb & Bessie F. Page

NOTE Emma was widow of Asbury A. Benson of Turner who died 20 June 1889 and was buried in lot 951. Emma & John were divorced in 1896 [Marion co divorce case 6321, Oregon State Archives]. She appears as Emma Boyce, widowed, in 1900 census of Turner, Marion co [ED 141, sheet 3B] along with 4 children, George B., Arthur & Addie by first husband and Clyde by second husband, although all are listed under the Boyce name. She remarried to Oren Savage and died 17 Sept 1921 in Salem [OSBH DC 1921 Marion co #565]. She is buried in City View cemetery.

1910 OR CENSUS John Boyce (63y, b England, immigrated 1866, naturalized, divorced, gardener); also with him was a boarder Walter Lukins.

2nd MARRIAGE John Boyce (65y, of Grand River, Iowa, b England, son of John Boyce & Mary Card) and Mary A. Baker (54y, of Grand River, Iowa, b Dunbar co, Iowa, dau of Joseph Baker & Sarah Binning) md 25 Oct 1910, Leon, Decatur co, Iowa

1920 OR CENSUS John Boyce (73y, b England, immigrated 1866, naturalized 1874, gardener) enumerated with wife Mary Ann (60y, b Iowa)

1930 OR CENSUS John Boyce (83y, b England, immigrated 1866, naturalized, first married at age 22y) enumerated with wife Mary A. (71y, b Iowa, first married at age 23y)

1940 OR CENSUS John Boyce (93y, b England, widowed); with him was housekeeper Lavila E. Dorsee (70y, b Oregon, widowed); both were living in same house in 1935

[Died} At the residence, 1019 Mill street, March 17, John Boyce, at the age of 99 years. Survived by a son, Clyde J. Boyce of Salem; two grandchildren, Arthur C. Boyce with the US Army in Europe, and Louise B. Boyce of Portland. Member of First Christian church. Services will be held Tuesday, March 19, at 3:30 PM at the W.T. Rigdon chapel with concluding services in the IOOF cemetery. Rev Dudley Strain will officiate.

Oregon Statesman, Tuesday, March 19, 1946, 5:1

Last rites were conducted at W.T. Rigdon chapel Tuesday for John Boyce, who died at the age of 99 in his home, 1019 Mill st, Sunday. He had resided in the Willamette valley for 76 years, most of that time in Salem. A native of Somersetshire, England, he came to this country in 1866 and three years later arrived at Turner, Ore, to work in the laying of Southern Pacific rail lines. His wife, Mary Ann Boyce, whom he married in Iowa, died in 1931.

Oregon Statesman, Wednesday, March 20, 1946, 7:2

John Boyce
1846 - 1946

LD
OSBH DC (Marion County 1946) #1937

Marion Co, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1891-1894 (Vol 7, page 34)

1910 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 224, sheet 22B)

Iowa Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 345, sheet 6B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 61, sheet 6B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Marion Co, Salem, ED 24-59, sheet 4B)

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