Person:Stephen Joy (1)

Watchers
Stephen Merrit Joy
b.25 Mar 1858 Mahaska, Iowa, USA
d.31 Mar 1947 Stanislaus Co, CA
m. 10 Oct 1849
  1. Sylvia Angeline Joy1851 - Aft 1920
  2. Picton Drayton Joy1853 - 1943
  3. Mary Joy1855 - 1922
  4. Stephen Merrit Joy1858 - 1947
  5. Byron Frank Joy1862 -
m. 1881
  1. Chloe Jerusha Joy1881 -
  2. Sylvia May Joy1883 -
  3. Fanny Delight Joy1885 - 1948
  4. Emily Jane Joy1886 - 1959
  5. Solomon Merritt Joy1889 - 1974
  6. Bessie Edith Joy1891 - 1967
  7. Grace Mabel Joy1893 - 1968
  8. Lorena Joy1895 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Stephen Merrit Joy
Gender Male
Birth? 25 Mar 1858 Mahaska, Iowa, USA
Marriage 1881 to Emily Jane Dubois
Death[3] 31 Mar 1947 Stanislaus Co, CA

1870 Census, Mahaska Co, IA, Prairie Twp. Page 398, House 52, Family 52 Maris, Humphrey, age 41, farmer, b. PA (according to IGI, Humphrey's parents were John Maris and Martha Bonsall.) Maris, Martha, age 39, Keeping house, b. PA Maris, Mary, age 9, b. IA Maris, Annie, age 6, b. IA\ Maris, Emma, age 3, b. IA Joy, Merrit, age 12, Farm labor, b. OH

His name is listed in the 1890 Saline Co, NE business directory in the town of Western.

1900 census in Lexington, NE

1920 Census in California, Stanislaus Co, Oakdale Twp, with his wife Emily, oocupation, Dairy Farmer.

References
  1. 1900 Census, Nebraska, Dawson Co
    T623, roll 922 pg 166, 18 Jun 1900.

    2-WD Lexington

  2. 1880 Census, Nebraska, Saline Co
    South Fork.

    Wm Loy, age 30, b. OH, farmer, parents b. OH
    Mary Loy, wife, age 24, b. IA, parents b. OH
    Picton Loy, age 7, b. IA
    Freeman Loy, age 6, b. NE
    Stephen M. JOY, brother-in-law, age 22, b. IA
    Lydia Loy, age 4, b. NE

  3. California Death Records.