EVERS HARPER BOAZ (19081983)

He worked for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, paint and glass manufacturer (192767), mainly in sales. He managed the branch store in Salina, Kansas, for a time.

Evers Harper married Alice Josephine Miller (1914-1996) in Oklahoma City on November 2, 1935. They moved to Enid, Oklahoma, where John Knox was born on June 7, 1938. The family moved back to Oklahoma City for six months before Evers was transferred to Salina, Kansas. The family lived in Salina for nine years where twins, David Evers and Robert Howard were born on December 5, 1943. Evers was active in community affairs there, a member of the Optimist Club and the Mariners Club of the First Presbyterian Church.

The family moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, in January of 1951 and lived there for two years before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they lived between 1954 and 1980. Evers and Alice were members of John Knox Presbyterian Church where Evers was a Ruling Elder for four years and an adult Sunday School teacher. Evers was CoChair of the Commercial Division of the United Way, and in retirement from Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company he worked as a safety instructor for the Tulsa Area Safety Council and as a bailiff for the County Court.

Evers and Alice moved to Port Saint Lucie, Florida, in July of 1980. They were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Stuart, Florida. Evers had an outgoing personality. He never met a stranger. He was a kind and caring person who loved his family and friends. He was an amateur photographer, and he enjoyed listening to classical music on his high fidelity, and later, stereo equipment.

Evers Harper died on March 8, 1983, and he is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, along with Alice Josephine Miller Boaz who died April 20, 1996.

John married Mildred Ellen Meyer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 19, 1961. They met as students at Northwestern University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English (1960). Mildred completed a Master's degree in English at the University of Michigan while teaching English at Birmingham High School in suburban Detroit. Julia Ruth Boaz, the first of their two children, was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on April 12, 1963.

In the fall of 1965 the family moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where John was employed at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, as an Assistant Professor of Speech. In Bloomington Andrew John was born on April 14, 1966. Mildred completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Illinois, taught at Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, and at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.

John has served variously at Illinois State University as Director of Forensics, Director of the Speech Communication Area of the Department of Speech, Director of the International Studies Program in Grenoble, France, Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Speech Communication, and Assistant and then Associate Vice President for Administrative Services. He retired in June, 1994.

He served as President of the Midwest and American Forensic Associations, and he Chaired the Forensics Division of the Speech Communication Association.

John served the community as a board member, including a term as President of the BloomingtonNormal Symphony Society (and later both as Trustee and Governing Board member of its successor, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra) and of the United Campus Christian Foundation. He served on both the Board and the Campaign Cabinet of the United Way of McLean County. He was President of the BloomingtonNormal Tennis Association for over fifteen years (1980-97) and President of the Middle Illinois Tennis Association for five years (1988-92). He served two terms as President of the Normal Chamber of Commerce (1987-89) and several as President of the BloomingtonNormal Humanities Council. During his several years as a board member of the Illinois Council of Orchestras he serve both as President and Secretary.

The following genealogy traces family relationships from Christopher Wayne Miller (17991886) through the male line to Alice Josephine Miller Boaz (19141996). The information included here is largely drawn from written records handed down within the family.

Mary was born April 13, 1807 in Virginia, the daughter of James Quisenberry and Mildred Moorman who were married in 1790 and came to Kentucky in 1814. She died August 12, 1875.

Susan Malvinia Cash was the daughter of Warren Cash (17601849) of Albermarle County, Virginia, one of Kentucky's earliest Baptist preachers who was ordained in the ministry in Shelby County, and Susanna Baskett who came to Kentucky in 1883 from Fluvanna County, Virginia, and was the first woman ever known to profess religion in Kentucky. She and her husband were baptized in Clear Creek, Madison County, Kentucky, by John Taylor, a regular Baptist preacher. The Cash family came from Ireland. The Baskett family came from Pennsylvania.

She attended Oklahoma College for Women at Chickasha, Oklahoma, for one year. She took a comptometer course, worked for the Magnolia Petroleum Company in Oklahoma City and in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and worked for the government on the Bankhead Bill.

She married Evers Harper Boaz on November 2, 1935, in Oklahoma City. They had three sons, John Knox (born June 7, 1938, in Enid, Oklahoma), and twins, David Evers and Robert Howard (born December 5, 1943, in Salina, Kansas).

Alice enjoyed her family, home, gardening, and cooking. She was active in her children's activities, serving as a Cub Scout Den Mother and attending their various baseball games. She was active in Wishful Diggers Garden Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Women's Association of John Knox Presbyterian Church.

She and Evers moved to Port Saint Lucie, Florida, in July of 1980 and lived in Spanish Lakes Golf Village. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Port St. Lucie. She moved to Slidell, Louisiana, in June of 1993. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Slidell. Alice died on April 20, 1996, and she is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with her husband, Evers Boaz, who died March 8, 1983.

THE JAMES CLOYD FAMILY IN AMERICA

The following genealogy traces family relationships from James Cloyd (16801769) through the male line to Lucy Colston Cloyd Miller (18831960). The information included here is largely drawn from Genealogy of the Cloyd, Basye and Tapp Families in America with information collected and prepared by A. D. Cloyd, M. D. and published by The Champlin Press, Columbus, Ohio, in 1912.

In 1745 he bought 400 acres from John Buchannan in Orange County, Virginia, in what was afterwards set off to form Augusta County, later in 1770 to form Montgomery, and in 1776 to form Rockbridge County.

It is not known when he came to America, nor when he married. One report states that he married in New Jersey and another that his oldest son, James, was born in Ireland.

The following facts gleaned from "Green's Historic Families of Kentucky" bear closely on the time of his coming and the ancestry of his wife:

"The Journal of Charles Clinton, the founder of the historic family of that name in New York gives an account of some of the families that sailed from Ireland on the 'George and Ann' and the 'John of Dublin' on May 9th, 1729, and landed in Pennsylvania, September 4, 1729. In the company were McDowells, Campbells and many other families which settled first in Pennsylvania and later in Virginia.

"Of this number, Ephraim McDowell and his sons, John and James, arranged in the spring of 1737 to settle on the famous 'Beverly Manor' tract in Augusta County, Va., when they met with Benjamin Borden, the holder of the famous 'Borden Grant.'

"Borden was required by the conditions of his grant to locate not less than 100 families on his land and he made the McDowells a tempting offer which they accepted. Complying with their agreement with Borden, they immediately entered into communication with their kindred, friends and coreligionists in Pennsylvania, Ireland and Scotland, soon drawing around them other Scotch and ScotchIrish families among whom were the Cloyds and Campbells.

"John McDowell married Magdelena Wood, whose mother was a Campbell, and, as tradition has it, of the noble family of Argyle. Mary, daughter of Ephraim married James Greenlee and James McDowell married Mary Greenlee, said to have been remotely descended from the Argyle Campbells.

"James McDowell left no male issue; John McDowell has two sons, Samuel and James; and the latter married Elizabeth Cloyd, daughter of David Cloyd of 'Beverly Manor', whose wife was Margaret Campbell."

In 1764 a party of Indians raided the house of David Cloyd near Amsterdam in Botetourt County, killing his wife, Margaret Cloyd, and son, John. An account of this massacre is given in Waddel's "Annals of Augusta County," written in 1843 by Mrs. Letitia Floyd, wife of Gov. Floyd and daughter of Col. Wm. Preston:

"One day in March 1764 when Col. Wm. Preston had gone to Staunton, Mrs. Preston early in the morning heard two gun shots in quick succession in the direction of David Cloyd's house half a mile distant. Presently Joseph Cloyd rode up on a plow horse and related that the Indians had killed his brother John, had shot at him (the powder burning his shirt) and having gone to the house had probably killed his mother. Mrs. Preston immediately sent a young man to notify the garrison of a small fort on Craig's Creek and then dispatched a white man and two Negroes to Mr. Cloyd's. They found Mrs. Cloyd tomahawked in three places but still alive, and conscious. She told of the assault by the Indians, of their getting drunk, ripping up the feather beds and carrying off the money. One of the Indians wiped the blood from her temples with a corn cob saying, 'Poor old woman.' She died the next morning."

The papers in a law suit in Augusta County in 1766 throw some light on the Indian invasion and the robbery of David Cloyd's house. The Indians carried away over 200 pounds English money. They were pursued by a party of militia, one of them killed on John's Creek, 30 miles or more from the scene of the massacre and robbery. One hundred and thirtyseven pounds were found on the body of the dead Indian. A dispute arose among the militia as to whether the money belonged to them or to Cloyd. The money was finally distributed among them, all of whom except one James Montgomery returned their share to David Cloyd who thereupon paid each of the men five pounds, the reward he had offered, and sued Montgomery for the balance, thirtyone pounds and ten pence. The suit was decided in Cloyd's favor but Montgomery took an appeal to the General Court and the final result is not known.

A Negro woman named "Dolly" survived the Massacre at Amsterdam and lived to an old age. Many have been the stories handed down about this old Negro, her scalped head and indented skull. The "History of Southwest Virginia" by Thomas Bruce, published in 1891 gives an incorrect account of the massacre, stating that the woman killed was a widow. John who was killed then was married and reference is probably made to his widow.

David Cloyd and Margaret Campbell had the following children: James (1731), David, Michael (1735), John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary (1741), and Joseph (1742).

"Few men in Decatur had a more extensive acquaintance than J. G. Cloyd both in the city and county and throughout Central Illinois. He had been traveling for the American Hominy Company for the last eight years, and previous to that he was in the wholesale and retail grocery business for himself."

Their children were Mary Thomas (18671938), David Joshua (18681933), Anne Roberts (18761931), Howard Gates (18791952), and Lucy Colston (18831960).

John G. Cloyd died March 4, 1909, and Alice H. Thomas Cloyd died August 2, 1923. All save Lucy Colston Cloyd Miller are buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Decatur, Illinois.