Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Joy, John, 1921
Tuesday, July 11, 2000

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                    KIMBLE COUNTY'S FIRST SETTLER DIES          
                     The Junction Eagle, July 7, 1921
                                 
                    
                                  JOHN JOY
                             Died July 2, 1921

    Mr. John Joy departed this life at the home of his son, Dock Joy of Cedar Hill, 
when he had almost completed his 89th year.
    A long line of automobiles passed many comfortable homes as they followed the
old settler's body to the grave.  This was in marked contrast to the conditions of 1856,
when he and his father with their families settled on the James River.  Then there was
never a house nor a road, not a neighbor, not a church, nor school in all of what is now
Kimble County.  They were our first settlers.
    As an illustration of their frontier experiences it may be recalled that Mr. Joy's
mother and sister were killed by Indians on Banta Creek in Gillespie County.
    Mr. Joy was born in Sebastian County, Arkansas, in 1832.  In 1854 he was married
to Miss Nancy Ward, who continued with him sixty years.  She died in El Paso.
    There were eleven children, sixty grandchildren, and forty-five great grandchildren.
Nine children survive him:  Dock Joy of Cedar Hill, Lewis of Roosevelt, Mrs. Effie
Mogford of Kerr Coutny, Emery, Eli Joy and Mrs. Helen Boatwright of Alamagordo,
N. M., Joe of Washington, D. C., Levi of Bremington, Washington, and Mrs. Ellen Lyles
of Los Angeles, California.

(Note:  Nancy Ward Joy died in 1915 and was buried in Concordia Cemetery, El Paso,
 Texas.  The two children preceding Mr. Joy in death were Will Joy, who died in
 Junction in 1894; and Amanda Joy Pearl, who died at Cedar Hill in 1902.)

   (John Joy was son of Wiley & Elizabeth Frazier Joy)
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