Person:Harry Joy (1)

According to his son, Vernon L. Joy, Harry was a tiny man due to scarlet fever when he was a child. Cousin Charles Joy joked that "his legs were so bowed, a cat could walk through them." He was tough, though, and helped move pianos during the Depression. They had a dairy and sold milk at one point. They also farmed vegetables, apples (when in Washington state), and other things.

According to Jessica Joy Frost: Everybody called him Hap. He had an eighth grade education and worked as a mechanic, and then as a farmer. He and his wife and sister-in-law Stella raised cows and sold milk-- I have a picture of the "Joy's Dairy" truck. They also had chickens and a regular vegetable garden.

1. ↑ Birth registration
   Register of Births, number 6706, 14 Aug 2007.
2. ↑ 1900 Census, Iowa, Mahaska Co
   Series: T623 Roll: 446 Page: 277-278, 30 Dec 2005.

   New Sharon, Prairie twp.
   (Obliterated).... Dec 1875, age 24, married 1 year, father b. OH, mother b. IA
   (Oblitereated)....age 21, married 1 year, 1 child, 1 living
   .....age 16, b. IA, parents b. WI (Charlotte Robinson's sibling)
   ----, Charles A, bro-in-law, b. May 1891, age 9, b. IA, parents b. WI
   Joy, Harry V. son, b. Sep 1899, age 1, b. IA

   Living with them was Lottie's 16-yr. old sister Nellie, her 12-yr. old sister Bertha, her 9-yr. old brother, Charles, as well as their own 1-yr. old Harry.

3. ↑ 1910 Census, South Dakota, Perkins Co
   Series: T624 Roll: 1487 Page: 65, 30 Dec 2005.

   Joy, Ira, age 24, married 4 yrs, b. Nebraska parents b. IA, farm operator
   Cora, wife, age 22, b. IA, father b. Neb, mother b. M, 1 child 1 living
   Margeurite, daughter, age 3, b. IA
   
   4 families later:
   Joy, Benjamin F, age 57, b. OH, parents b. OH, farm operator
   Sarah E, age 5?, 7 children, 5 living, b. IA, parents b. OH
   Next:
   Joy, Chester C, age 32, widowed(??), b. Nebraska, farm operator
   Next:
   Joy, Lester, age 34, married once, 12 yrs married, b. IA, farm operator
   Lottie, age 32, married once, 12 yrs. married, b IA, 1 child 1 living
   Harry, son, age 10, b. IA

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} World War I Draft Registration Card.
5. ↑ 1920 Census, Iowa, Woodbury Co
   Series: T625 Roll: 520 Page: 182, 30 Dec 2005.

   Address: 1203 West First St,
   Joy, Lester D, head, renting, age 44, b IA, parents b IA, harness maker
   Charlotte, wife, age 44, b. IA, parents b. WI
   Harry V., son, age 20, b. IA, mechanic at a garage
   Next door was Charles A. Robinson and his family (Charlotte's brother)

6. ↑ 1930 Census, Iowa, Woodbury Co
   Roll: 690; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 64; Image: 890.0, 12 Aug 2007.

   Reynolds, Stella, head, owns home worth $5000, owns radio set, female, white, single, age 36, did not attend school last year, able to read and write, b. South Dakota, father b. Ohio, mother b. England, occupation linetype for a circulation industry
   Joy, Harry, brother-in-law, age 30, first married at age 25, did not attend school last year, can read and write, b. Iowa, parents b. Iowa, occupation mechanic for an auto garage, not a veteran
   Joy, Helen, sister, age 30, married at 25, did not attend school last year, can read and write, b. Iowa, father b. Ohio, mother b. England, no occupation
   Reynold, Bernice, sister, age 22, single, attended school in last year, can read and write, b. Minnesota, father b. Ohio, mother b. England, occupation student at college.

7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} Vernon L. Joy. Autobiography of Vernon L. Joy. (Macomb, Illinois, August 2000.).