LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: LIVING

Family 1: LIVING


Family 2: LIVING

  1.  LIVING
  2.  LIVING 
          _Wallace Hyrum DENNIS __
 _LIVING_|
|        |_Gladys Thelma STEWART _
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|_LIVING_|
         |_LIVING_________________
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LIVING

Father: LIVING
Mother: LIVING

          _LIVING______________
 _LIVING_|
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|--LIVING
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|         _LIVING______________
|_LIVING_|
         |_Gloria Ada DENISON _
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Joshua BIRCHELL

Family 1: Millie Jane SMITH

  1. +Nancy Elizabeth BIRCHELL 
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Edna Beryl BOYCE

Father: John Henry BOYCE
Mother: Almira Georgina WALTER

Family 1: William Leith WADE
  1. +LIVING
  2. +LIVING
  3.  LIVING 
                           _Stephen V. BOYCE __________
 _John Henry BOYCE _______|
|                         |_Lucinda Elizabeth STEWART _
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|--Edna Beryl BOYCE 
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|                          _George Hunt WALTER ________
|_Almira Georgina WALTER _|
                          |_Mary Catherine MCRAE ______
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Notes

Information prepared by:
Linda Mae Boyce-Morgan
2936 W. 2150 N.
Arco, ID 83213
USA
(208) 527-8944

The following is from A History of Two Families by Clayton Boyce and Dori s Forbes Boyce, information provided by Linda Mae Boyce-Morgan:

Edna Beryl Boyce was born on Orcas Island on October 11, 1908, during th e time her father was employed as superintendant of the Orcas Lime Compan y. She is the youngest of the children of John and Almira Boyce. One tim e when we were discussing various given names in the Boyce family, she to ld me that her mother named her "Bery1" after a character in a story tha t she liked.
Aunt Beryl and her brothers grew up on the Boyce place on Little Road. Th ey had no electricity and no indoor plumbing (those were the days of outh ouses). They had to pump their water by hand from a well. For light in th e house at night, they used kerosene lamps. Each of the Boyce children ha d their own individual chores to do. At least one of Beryl's tasks was t o clean the glass chimneys on the oil lamps, which did not take long to b ecome blackened with soot.
Beryl attended what was known as No. 1 School. The school building was bu ilt on a hillside called Portland Fair Hill by the early settlers. Everyb ody walked to school, including Beryl, who walked a distance of several m iles. All eight grades were in one room. Since there was no well at the s chool, the children had to carry water a considerable distance from wha t was then known as Jensen's Beach. In order to get a drink, the childre n had to share the same dipper. The room was heated by a big pot-bellie d wood stove. Aunt Beryl attended No. 1 School until the 5th grade, at wh ich time No. 1 district was consolidated with the Friday Harbor school di strict. After that, she rode a school bus to school.
In a video interview with Mona Meeker, made in 1994, Beryl tells how on e time she was caught chewing gum in school. As punishment, she had to st ick the gum on the end of her nose and go up and stand in front of the ot her students. She didn't say how long she had to stand there, but she di d say that she was quite embarrassed!
Beryl says she had a happy, enjoyable childhood. There were not too man y girls around, so she was somewhat of a tomboy, growing up with all he r brothers. It didn't seem difficult to find things to do in those days . While there was work to do, they also enjoyed swimming, picnics and oth er similar things. When World War I came along, things changed somewhat . Her oldest brother joined the Navy before he became eligible for the dr aft. Beryl tells how she experienced sadness for the first time in her li fe the day Leroy left for the service. When he came into her room early t hat morning to tell her goodbye, she said he shed tears that dropped dow n on her face as she lay there in bed. She told the interviewer that sh e could still feel that sadness even after all the passing years.
We have already told how Beryl, along with her mother and two of her brot hers went over and spent some time in Prosser, Washington. At the time th ey went over there, Beryl was about 14 years old. Not too long after sh e came back to San Juan Island, she met the man who was to become her hus band.

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Edward Eugene HOLLAND

Father: John C. HOLLAND
Mother: Sarah Jane STEWART 

                       _John HOLLAND ______
 _John C. HOLLAND ____|
|                     |_Hannah HOLLAND ____
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|--Edward Eugene HOLLAND 
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|                      _Riley STEWART _____
|_Sarah Jane STEWART _|
                      |_Martha Jane BOYCE _
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Catherine KNIGHT

Father: LIVING
Mother: LIVING

          _LIVING_
 _LIVING_|
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|--Catherine KNIGHT 
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|         _LIVING_
|_LIVING_|
         |_LIVING_
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Phebe STEWART

Father: Riley STEWART
Mother: Elizabeth HOWARD 

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 _Riley STEWART ____|
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|--Phebe STEWART 
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|                    _John HOWARD _____
|_Elizabeth HOWARD _|
                    |_Jane VAN HOOSER _
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