Morgan Cindy Louise Boyle [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Address: Address through the c1999; Address:
  1470 Heather Ridge Blvd.
  Dunedin, FL
• SSN issued: Ohio
• Phone: 813-734-0507
• Military Service (Specific): World War II United States Navy
• Residence: 20 Jan 1920, Harrison County, Kentucky; Hinton, Kentucky area.
• Residence: 24 Apr 1930, Kinman, Harrison County, Kentucky; Hinton, Kentucky area.
• Education: 1932, Renaker High School, Harrison County, Kentucky; High School Graduate
• Residence: 1 May 1940, 714 Main St., Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky

Notes:

Below are some brief stories my grandfather told me of growing up around Hinton, Kentucky.

When Howard was growing up, there were no theaters in the area, no radiosand the television had not yet been invented. For entertainment, people would walk to the homes of friends and relatives to play Rook, Checkers, and Dominoes. On Saturdays everyone would go to Hinton, KY to socialize. Some of the boys would connect one end of a wire to the coils of the Ford Automobiles and the other end to any metal part on another car. When someone got into the second car, they would get a shock. His Parents bought thier first car in 1929, a 1925 Model T Ford. They also bought a radio around the same time, an Atwater Kent, in Williamstown, Kentucky. Howard remembers listening to Jack Dempsy fights over the radio. After World War II, some saloons bought TV's and people would come in and watch while they had a drink. Howard graduated from Renaker High School which was located outside of Cynthiana, KY. His High School Prom was held in the Masonic Lodge in Corinth, KY.

Howard and Della where married and divorced twice. The first marriage took place in 1936 and the second in 1949. Some time after the 1949 divorce, Howard and Della's four daughters, who were being cared for in a private home by a third party, were turned over and became Wards of the Court. The private home was in Park Hills which is in Kenton County, Kentucky. The girls were then sent to an orphanage called The Covington Protestant Children's Home for six years. The orphanage was founded in 1882 and still exists today under the name, Children's Home of Northern Kentucky. Howard married Ruby Jean Barkeloo in 1953 and eventually they were able to gain custody of the girls at which time they were adopted by Jean, as everyone called her.

Military Service (Specific):
Name: Howard Boyle
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 16 Jul 1912
Death Date: 1 Feb 2001
Cause of Death: Natural
Branch 1: N
Enlistment Date 1: 25 Mar 1944
Release Date 1: 21 Feb 1945

Howard Ruby Jean Barkeloo 30 Jan 1953Hamilton County, Ohio. Ruby (daughter of Thomas Charles Barkeloo and Bertha Bee Lunsford) 3 Sep 1923 Montgomery County, Ohio; 17 Oct 2008Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; Union Cemetery, 9323 Union Cemetery Rd, Loveland, Hamilton County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Address: Address:
  1470 Heather Ridge Blvd. / , /

Other Events:

• Military Service (Specific): Spanish-American War Company M, 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Volunteer Infantry
• Residence: 22 Jul 1870, Ward 9, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
• Residence: 1 Jun 1875, 60 Clinton Street, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
• Residence: 04 Jun 1880, 60 Clinton Street, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
• Residence: 01 Jun 1885, Ward 9, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
• Residence: 1891, 242 Willard Ave., Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island; City Directory Listing Occupation: Jeweler
• Residence: 4 Feb 1895, Lawrenceville, Mercer County, New Jersey; Stated residence at the time of his first marriage.
• Residence: 17 Aug 1896, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; Employed as a waitor at Stamford Hall Sanitorium
• Military Service: 11 Jun 1898, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina; Enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War.
• Military Service: 29 Aug 1898, St Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia; Discharged from Service
• Known Presence: 06 Feb 1899, Massachusetts; Filed for pension
• Military Pension: 06 Feb 1899; Pension Application File Number: C2541-659 (Spanish American War)
• Military Pension: 06 Feb 1899; Pension Application Number: 1,218,640 (Spanish American War)
• Military Pension: 06 Feb 1899; Pension Certificate Number: 1,039,467 (Spanish American War)
• Residence: 31 Jan 1900, New York, New York; 170 Bleecker Street
• Known Presence: 09 Feb 1900, Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; At Stamford Hall Sanitorium
• Residence: 14 Apr 1900, Westchester County, NY; Globe Avenue
• Residence: 16 Jun 1900, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Central Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Known Presence: 08 Aug 1900, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Residence: 09 Oct 1900, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Residence: 22 May 1901, South Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut
• Residence: 23 Aug 1901, Albany, Greene County, Tennessee
• Residence: 13 Sep 1901, Waynetown, Montgomery County, Indiana
• Known Presence: 31 Oct 1901, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Residence: 09 Dec 1901, Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois; National Home for Disabled Veterans
• Known Presence: 28 Aug 1903, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Known Presence: 28 Mar 1910, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Residence: 26 Apr 1910, Harrison County, Kentucky
• Known Presence: 30 Dec 1913, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Known Presence: 02 Feb 1914, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Known Presence: 18 Aug 1916, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Miscellaneous: 22 Aug 1916, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Letter from the Central Branch National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soliers concerning her husband.
• Known Presence: 13 Dec 1917, Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 4100 West 3rd Street, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio; Dayton National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
• Residence: 20 Jan 1920, Harrison County, Kentucky
• Residence: 24 Apr 1930, Harrison County, Kentucky
• Residence: 1 May 1940, 714 Main St., Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky
• Residence: 07 Oct 1945, 714 Main St., Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky; Residence at the time of his death.

Notes:

John Francis Boyle is buried in the Ravencreek Cemetery, formerly called Kinman Cemetery. Ravencreek Cemetery is located on the Hinton-Webber Road near the small town of Hinton which is located in Harrison County, Kentucky.
John spoke of an uncle living in Baltimore, Maryland who owned an Oldsmobile Dealership. This was around the 1920's or 1930's (Howard Francis Boyle).
Sometime after his son Howard Francis was born, John began his drinking spells and would from time to time, disappear to places unknown. Family speculation is that John would go up around New York. This is interesting since he put down New York City as his place of birth when he signed up for the Spanish War. According to Howard, his father would contact Maude from the Dayton Ohio Soldiers' Home, where he would go to "sober up," and she would send him money to come home.
Further research has proven that John was frequently away from his home, but in many cases he was summoned to appear at soldiers' homes in various places such as Dayton, Ohio and Johnson City, Tennessee. Some of his absences from the family might have been related to these summons orders. The reason for the summons were for follow up examinations during his lengthy battle to approve his pension based upon his service during the 1898 Spanish-American War (War with Spain).

In 2011, fifteen years or so after writing the comments above, I went back to the large pension file of John Francis Boyle to see if I could locate him in the 1900s. Of all the census years available, 1900 was the only year I was never able to locate him. His pension file is rather large, two inches thick of legal size pages and all of them printed on both sides. I began combing through the pension looking for any documents around the 1900 time period that also listed a place. In doing this, I quickly located him in a soldiers home in Jefferson, Ohio both on the 1900 Census and I found some images of a register from the soldier's home as well. John checked into the home multiple times between 1900 and 1917. Every record of him checking in is accompanied with a reason for discharge from the soldier's home. Except for the last entry, discharged at his own request, he is discharged by reason of A.W.O.L. (absent without leave). It would seem that John was something of a free spirit but for someone who was purportedly very secretive, he left behind a huge paper trail. I'm sure there are many documents out there still, waiting to be found.


Residence:
Occupation: Jewler

Residence:
Occupation: Jewler

Military Service:
Occupation: Clerk (at enlistment)

Military Service:
Honorably discharged by Major J. K. Stockard, Chief Surgeon 2nd N.C. Infantry U.S.V. due to Pulmonary Hemorrhage.

From his service record, not yet scanned.

Military Pension:
This pension file is huge; literally hundreds of pages of legal-size documents printed on both sides. It is not feasable to post the entire document. A few of the highly relevant documents will be posted as they are scanned.

Residence:
John definitely spent time in the Soldiers Home in Ohio but he may have spent time in as many as three other Soldiers Homes between the years 1900-1917. I have found records of admission for John in four separate homes but many of the dates overlap exactly and the documents do not differentiate the home for which the admission and discharge dates apply. Without additional information, the exact home he was at during the recorded dates cannot be known with certainty. All of the documents will be attached on this first entry for his admissions to the Soldiers Homes.

Occupation: Inmate (Patient at Soldiers Home)

Residence:
Occupation: Mail Carrier

Residence:
Occupation: Railroad Laborer

Residence:
Occupation: Laborer "Steam Railroad"

Residence:
Occupation: Unable to work

John Maude Belle Thompson 23 Nov 1904Williamstown, Grant County, Kentucky. Maude (daughter of Robert T. Thompson and Nancy Katherine Skinner) 21 Sep 1878 Scott County, Kentucky; 05 Oct 1933Hinton, Harrison County, Kentucky; 8 Oct 1933Raven Creek Cemetery, Harrison County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 11 Jun 1900, Scott County, Kentucky; Big Eagle (Sadieville) District.
• Residence: 26 Apr 1910, Harrison County, Kentucky
• Miscellaneous: 22 Aug 1916, Hinton, Harrison County, Kentucky; Letter from the Central Branch National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soliers concerning her husband.
• Miscellaneous: 23 Apr 1917, Hinton, Harrison County, Kentucky; Maude Belle Thompson-Boyle's second letter to the government pension board.
• Residence: 24 May 1917, Hinton, Harrison County, Kentucky; Maude wrote to the Commissioner of Pensions inquiring after her husband, John Francis Boyle, who had left home again. Maude was trying to get ahead of John and redirect the portion of his pension that was due to her. John abandoned his family on multiple occassions and when he left, would take all their savings as well as change his address for receipt of his pension checks.
• Residence: 20 Jan 1920, Harrison County, Kentucky
• Residence: 24 Apr 1930, Harrison County, Kentucky

Notes:

My grandfather, Howard Francis Boyle, once told me this story:
Maude had a large dark birthmark on her elbow. Maude's mother, Kate Skinner, was pregnant when she saw a drunken black women at a saloon. Kate, would tell Maude that she got the birthmark from the drunk woman.

Miscellaneous:
During another of her husband's absences, Maude wrote to the government pension board explaining that John had left her at home with their five children as he had done on many previous occasions and taken all the money with him. By this time Maude seemed to be quite desperate to provide a means of support for her children and was contemplating divorce. She asked the government about obtaining a portion of John's pension and whether she would still be entitled if they were no longer married.

Notes:

John Francis Boyle was a secretary and treasurer for the Junior Lodge and Maude was a secretary and treasurer for the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was at one of these meetings that John and Maude met (Howard Francis Boyle).
DJS - I have not been able to prove either of these services. I did check with the nearest chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and they were unable to find Maude listed as a DAR member. She could have performed a clerical job and not been a member.
30 July 2011: I have still never proven the services mentioned above however, further research uncovered that Maude was a direct descendant of at least two Revolutionary War soldiers who are recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Their names and DAR Ancestor numbers are:
Francis Robinson: DAR# A097441
John Barnes: DAR# A006344
5 May 2012: Earlier in the year, 2012, I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution based upon the service of John Barnes (DJS).

Married:
Married at the Thompson Hotel in Williamtown, Grant County, Kentucky by Clay Conrad J.G.C.C. (Probably Justice Grant County Court).

Other Events:

• Social Security Number: 301-05-1487
• Residence: 20 Apr 1910, Jackson Township, Greene County, Indiana

Thomas Bertha Bee Lunsford. Bertha (daughter of William Lunsford and Rosie Breadon) 19 Apr 1898 Union, Boone County, Kentucky; 27 Jun 1950Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; 30 Jun 1950Hopewell Cemetery, Montgomery, Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Social Security Number: 300-10-2384
• Residence: 1950, 10115 Grandview Ave, Woodlawn, Hamilton County, Ohio