Solomon W. Joy Jr. (1828 - 1868)

Born 7 Nov 1828 in Delaware County, Ohio

Ancestors

Died 26 Mar 1868 at age 39 in Black Oak Township, Mahaska, Iowa, United States

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Biography

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Birth

ID: 84AB3266-2AE8-493A-8C46-F8C8C8CAEC4C

ID Number: MH:IF14

7 NOV 1828

Delaware County, Ohio

Death

ID: 7A630029-C3FD-436D-B543-01557F3EA99E

ID Number: MH:IF15

26 MAR 1868

Black Oak, Mahaska Co., Iowa -Peoria Cemetery-

Record ID Number

ID Number: MH:I7

User ID

ID: E2EFEEC68E3E4AE5B899B604656CC855797A

Note

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Sources

• Source: S45 Record ID Number: MH:S45 User ID: 8319AB05-68ED-4A1E-BDA3-3F5CC0A389D2 Author: Matthew Mactyre Title: Mactyre/Chrystal/Butler Family Heritage Text: MyHeritage.com family tree CONT Family site: Mactyre/Chrystal/Butler Family Heritage CONT Family tree: Mactyre Media: 1512681-5 Type: Smart Matching Page: Solomon W. Joy Event: Smart Matching Role: 5099902 Data: Date: 27 DEC 2011 Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

Notes

N6Military: Co C 33rd IA Infantry. Private under Captain Joshua Wells. Enrolled Aug 10, 1862, discharged July 17, 1865 at New Orleans, Louisiana.

Discharge note indicates he was 5' 3 and 1/2", with fair complexion, blue eyes and light hair.

1860 Census, Mahaska Co., page 41, Black Wak Township was Solomon and family. Solomon and Jerusha and Picton were not in the 1870 census of Nebraska. Probably in Iowa.

Estate of Solomon Joy Jr. , Mahaska Co. Iowa Pg. 38 Book 1867-1874

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Subject:

Re: Solomon and Jerusha Joy

Date:

Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:32:08 -0700

From:

"Ellen Wagstaff" <wagstaff@@deseretonline.com>

To:

<baumbach@@swnebr.net>

Bill,

I'm so glad to hear from someone who is actually related to Solomon and

Jerusha. I have been trying to find the parents of my great grandfather,

William Wallace Joy. The genealogy work my father did before his death

indicated that Solomon Joy was the father but I can't find anything to

substantiate that. Does that obituary you were talking about mention

siblings? I suspect that Solomon may have had more than one wife or that

there is another generation in between that I'm missing. Is there a

Christopher anywhere? Dad had that name with a question mark next to it.

Does that match with anything your wife has in her records? Anyway, I have

done some research on Solomon and Jerusha and here is what I have found. I

have copies of some of my resources and would be happy to send them if need

be.

1st Generation

Solomon W. Joy - son of Solomon Joy and Eliza Sweetser

Born: 7 Nov 1828 Delaware County, Ohio

Married: 10 Oct 1849 Delaware, Ohio to Jerusha Prouty

Died: 26 Mar 1868 Richland, Mahaska, Iowa

Sources: 1. Census record of Iowa, Mahaska County, Richmond Township and

Peoria, 20 Jul 1860.

2. Death information from cemetery listings in Peoria Cemetery, Mahaska

County, Iowa. Indicates he was a member of the 33rd Iowa Infantry Co. C. (I

have sent for his Civil War Records but haven't received them yet.)

3. 1850 Census, Troy Township, Delaware County, Ohio, pg. 283. Lists Solomon

Joy Jr, wife Jerusha from New York. Also living in the same household were

Solomon Joy age 62 and Eliza age 49, both from Vermont, Eliza A. age 17 and

Sarah A. age 0. (See note below under Eliza Sweetser.)

Jerusha Prouty

Born: 6 Jan 1828 New York to Abel Prouty and Polly Dudley

Died: 6 Jan 1966 Richland, Mahaska, Iowa

Sources: 1. "History of Delaware County and Ohio", O.L. Baskin & Co.,

Historical Publishers, 1800, pgs. 777 - 778.

2. Cemetery listings in Peoria Cemetery, Mahaska County, Iowa (found on

GenForum under Solomon Joy and families - IA, OH, VT dated 30 Apr 1999)

3. 1850 Census, Troy Township, Delaware County, Ohio, pg. 283. (Also a page

or 2 before this, Abel Prouty's family is listed. Jerusha is listed there

also as age 24. Since Solomon and Jerusha were married in Oct, I think

Jerusha was listed in both households. The mother listed (Jerusha's

stepmother), Cintha age 51, and the younger children listed are the same as

mentioned in "The History of Delaware County and Ohio", pg. 777 - 778.

Jerusha's older brother, Steven M., is also listed as age 25. Steven was a

lawyer and became senator later on. I found stuff on him on the internet.

2nd Generation:

Solomon Joy - son of Obadiah Jr. Joy (Ensign) and Content Hovey

Born: 17 Aug 1799 Putney, Windham, Vermont

Married: Don't have date or place - Eliza Sweetser

Died: 28 Feb 1872 - Peoria, Mahaska, Iowa

Sources: 1. Death information from Cemetery listings in Peoria Cemetery,

Mahaska County, Iowa.

2. 1850 Census, Troy Township, Delware County, Ohio, pg. 283. Listed under

Solomon Jr. as living with him. Age is unreadable but looks like 62. Was a

farmer from Vermont.

3. "History of Delaware County and Ohio", O.J. Baskin, Historical

Publishers, 1800, pgs. 318 - 319 - gives an account of the Sweetser family

coming to Delaware Township from Dummerston, Vermont. Specifically mentions

the family was accompanied by Solomon and Wilder Joy.

4. "Seth Sweetser And His Descendants", Philip Starr Sweetser, Integrity

Press, pg. 266, lists information about William Sweetser and his family.

Talks about them moving to Delaware Ohio. Eliza is listed as the oldest

child. It says she married a Joy and settled in Iowa. It then goes on to

give William Sweetser's genealogy back to 1588.

5. "Thomas Joy and His Descendants In The Lines of His Sons Samuel of

Boston, Joseph of Hingham, Ephriam of Berwick: A Porfolio of Family Paper",

compiled by James Richard Joy, New York, 1900, pg. 83 lists Solomon as the

son of Obadiah and Content Hovey. It indicates that Solomon removed with

Wilder Joy to Ohio in 1815. This book takes the Joy line back from Obadiah to

Thomas Joy and Joan Gallup to 1599. We follow the line of the son, Joseph.

Eliza Sweetser - daughter of William Sweetser and Delight Pierce

Born: 15 Jan 1801 - Dummerston, Vermont

Died: 10 Sept 1965 Peoria, Mahaska, Ohio

They had two children, Solomon W. Joy and Eliza Angelina Joy. Eliza

Angelina was born 12 Dec 1833 in Ohio and died May 1909 in Halsey, Linn,

Oregon. She married Marion Dekalb Smith 17 Dec 1851 in Delaware County,

Ohio. I am thinking that since she was only 17 in the 1850 census and was

living with Solomon and Jerusa, that Sara A. is her child. There was a Smith

family listed right after the Joy's but I didn't pay much attention at the

time. Now I wonder if it wasn't Marion's family but I don't know that for

sure. Just a hunch.

3rd Generation:

Obadiah Jr. Ensign Joy - son of Obadiah Joy and Elizabeth Doyle

Born: 1767 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Married: 21 Sept 1788 Putney, Vermont

Died: 21 Sept 1788 Putney, Vermont

Sources: 1. "Vital Records of Putney, Vermont to the Year 1900", by Ken

Stevens, Genealogical Society of Vermont, 1992, pgs. 190, 308. Gives his

marriage, deaths of both Obadiah and Content.

2. "The History of Putney Vermont 1753 - 1953", pg. 171 - Obadiah served in

the War of 1812 - 1814 as an Ensign.

Content Hovey - daughter of Daniel Hovey and Content Ramsdell

Born: 10 Mar 1772 Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts

Died: 15 Jan 1841 Putney Vermont

Their children, dates and spouses are listed in "Thomas Joy and His

Descendants."

Sources: Birth date and parents of Content found in "The Descendants of

Joseph Ramsdell". Found on the internet under Ramsdell families. Death date

also found in Putney, Vermont Town Records, PTR2:156.

4th Generation:

Obadiah Joy - son of David Joy and Ruth Ford

Born: 18 Jan 1726 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Married: 26 Mar 1749 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts - Elizabeth Doyle

Died: 1816 - Portland, Chautauqua, New York

Sources: Information from "Thomas Joy and His Descendants".

Elizabeth Doyle - daughter of Bartholomew Doyle and Elizabeth Sprague

Born: 1728 Rehoboth, Massachusetts

Died: 6 Sept 1730 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

A good history of the descendants of Obadiah and Elizabeth Doyle Joy was

sent to me by Colleen J. Nielson, 54 East 200 South, PO Box 516, Ephriam,

Utah 84627. She has good footnotes and has done extensive research on this

line. I got a lot of information from her.

Also, on the Joy family GenForum page under Mayflower Lineage through

Obadiah Joy dated 3 March 1999, it indicates that we are eligible for

membership in the Descendants of the Mayflower through Elizabeth Doyle Joy.

A follow-up message on 23 Mar 1999 gives Elizabeth Doyle's genealogy path.

Her mother was a Sprague which falls under Richard Warren who was on the

Mayflower.

Once I got this far back, there was tons of information on these families on

the internet. They are all prominent families in Massachusetts. "The

Descendants of Thomas Joy" has a lot of footnotes and research on the

families. I also have a copy of "The Joy Family" by Caroline Dyer. It has

more errors as her research isn't as well done.

Anyway, I hope this helps. I hope you can put this all together. It is

almost 11:00 pm here and I still haven't got all my kids to bed yet. We just

got home from looking at Christmas lights and my five year old is asleep on

the couch. Needless to say, I'm hoping this all makes sense since I had a

lot of distractions while writing. If you have any questions, feel free to

ask. I'm just beginning to do genealogy. I've only been working on my

father's line seriously for about a year. I basically tried to document what

he had written down. The only problem I've run into is documenting William

Wallace's parentage.

You mentioned that your wife is related to the Joy's in Nebraska. Perhaps

she has information that would help me. My father was Charles William Joy.

He was born 9 Jan 1900 in Thornburg , Smith County, Kansas to Alfred Roscoe

and Mira Ellen Davis Joy. They moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska where my father

grew up. He graduated from Red Cloud High in 1917. Alfred's parents were

William Wallace Joy and Sarah Isabelle Koontz. They lived in Smith Center,

Smith County, Kansas and are buried there. I know dad had an Aunt Carrie

Baumann (Frances Ivy Caroline Joy) whose husband, Michael Baumann was a

minister in the area.

Mira Ellen Davis was the daughter of Charles Davis and Ruth Mallonee Davis.

They lived in Mt. Hope, Smith Center, Kansas and are buried in the Mt. Hope

Cemetery. Mira married a Gus Nyberg after Alfred died. They lived in Red

Cloud, Nebraska. I'm having trouble taking that line back any further too.

If you have any information on this line of the family, I would appreciate

the help. I've got Charles Davis' Civil War records but they don't mention

parents or siblings.

Your cousin somehow, somewhere

Ellen

ID Number: MH:N6

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Acknowledgments

Thank you to DavaLynn Joy for creating WikiTree profile Joy-487 through the import of Joy1.ged on Apr 4, 2013.

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