W. W. Joyce came to Missouri from Ohio in 1856, but returned to Ohio and lived there until 1865, when he again came to Harrison County and settled in Cypress Township, where Mr. Joyce did general farming and dealt extensively in stock and at the time of his death in 1894, owned 500 acres of land. Mrs. Joyce died in 1891 and both she and her husband are buried in Burris Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Joyce were the parents of the following children: Cornelia J. Barlow, of Springfield, Colorado; R. J., of Bridgeport, Missouri; James H., the subject of this sketch; George K., of Bethany, Missouri ; and Mary Maude Abbott, of Kansas.
"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQN-3PW : accessed 25 April 2015), Washington W Joyce in household of William Joyce, Bloomfield, Jackson, Ohio, United States; citing family 128, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M467-VTR : accessed 25 April 2015), Washington Joyce, Missouri, United States; citing p. 5, family 30, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,277.
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6X7-453 : accessed 25 April 2015), Wash W Joyce, Cypress, Harrison, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district 303, sheet 208D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0689; FHL microfilm 1,254,689.
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