ANNA married FROST CLEON. [Group Sheet]

1. FROST VERON
2. FROST CLAIR
3. FROST CLEONA
4. FROST JACK
5. FROST DEE
6. FROST MARGERY

WILLIAM married PARKS MARGARET(MAGGIE). MARGARET(MAGGIE) (daughter of PARKS JAMES and LEEMON JANE) was born in in Ireland. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Presumably in the early 1850's, Adam Boyle (1793), son of John and Jennie (Templeton) Boyle, and his wife Margaret (1795), daughter of William and Nancy Wallace, came to America from northern Ireland with their six sons, James, John, Thomas, Thompson, Adam, and William. They settled in Randolph County, and the parents were dead by late 1855 and are buried in the Hill Prairie Cemetery. James, Jon, Thomas, and Adam Boyle moved to Washington County, south of Oakdale by about 1861.

Thomas born in 1831 in Ireland, returned to marry in 1856, Margaret Boyd (1833), dughter of William and Elizabeth (Chestnut) Boyd. Their wedding trip was to Illinois, Randolph County, where they lived until 1861. Their children were Margaret Isabell (1857), married to William Fulton; William John (1859), married in 1883 to Margaret Parks, born in Ireland, daughter of James and Jane (Leemon) Parks; Elizabeth (1861); Thompson (1863), married to Rena Green; Anna Boyd (1865); Jane Stelle (1867); Hester (Hessie) (1870), married to William Ardrey, and Matilda (1873).

Anna and Matilda (Tillie) were Washington County school teachers for many years. Margaret Boyle Fulton and William John lived and reared their families around Oakdale. Ann, Tillie, and Jane lived with the parents until their deaths and then in Oakdale. Thompson moved to northern Illinois, while Hessie boyle Ardrey went to Denver, Colorado.

William (Billy) and Margaret (Maggie) Boyle reared five out of six children. The eledest, Anna Pearl (1884-1963), married (Cleon) Frost. Into this home were born Veron, Clair,Cleona, Jack, Dee, and Margery. Jack is a doctor and surgeon, practicing in Centralia. Veron, retired, formerly operated Travel Electric, also in Centralia.

Thomas Parks Boyle (1886) married Vivian Gohmer. They had one son, Duane. Tom, Vivian, and their family live in Iowa's cornbelt.

Rae James and Ruby were born twins (1890), but Ruby died that same summer. Rae married, in 1916, Florence Blanch Boner (1890), daughter of John Smith and Lucy Williams Boner. Rae spent his working years farming the property which had once been his grandfather's. Their children were Nelda and Pearl. Nelda married Warren Robb and lives in Perry County. She was for 30 years an elementary school teacher. Pearl married Charles Auld, and they live near Pearl's birthplace, farming the acreage which once belonged to her great-grandfather. Here in Oakdale Township they reared their family.

William Pressley Boyle (1892) married Lola Chenowith. To this union were born Robert, John, Bruce, and Phillip Boyle. Willard Boyle was an educator, and at the time of his death, was Superintendent of Schools in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.

Clifford Leslie Boyle married Mildred Fenon. Most of his adult life he lived in the Chicago and northern Indiana area. His hobby was gardening, and he produced several new strains of dahlias, naming one for his mother. Their two children were William, deceased, and Edna Lea.

By Nelda E. Robb

From1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY

THOMAS married BOYD MARGARET in 1856. MARGARET (daughter of BOYD WILLIAM and CHESTNUT ELIZABETH) was born in 1833. [Group Sheet]

JAMES married LEEMON JANE. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Adam John Boyle was born in County Antrim, Ireland in 1793, died in Ill. 4/30/1853. He married Margaret Wallace who was born in County Derry, Ireland 1/15/1795, died in Ill. 9/22/1855.

They were married in Ireland, were well-to-do Irish -- frugal and economical. They came to America in the early 1840's. They had 6 sons which came along. John Boyle, William Boyle, James Boyle, Thomas Boyle, Thompson Boyle, Adam Boyle. Adam Boyle and Margaret Wallace Boyle are buried in Hill Prairie Cemetery N. W. of Sparta.

John Boyle, born County Antrim, Ireland in 1823, died 3/17/1911 at his farm home near Oakdale, Ill. He married 3/1/1855 Nancy Elizabeth Walker, born 6/20/1833, died 3/16/1919. She was born in S. Carolina. She was daughter of William and Sarah Marshall Walker. Nancy Elizabeth came with her parents at the age of 3 to Illinois. There were 3 sisters and 2 brothers who came along. After John Boyle and Nancy E. Walker were married they settled on a farm 1 mile south of Oakdale, Illinois.

Their 9 children were born there, 4 of them dying in infancy.

John Boyle had learned the shoemaker trade in Ireland and worked some at it as well as farming.

The family moved to Clay Center, kansas in 1885, where they lived for 12 years, then returned to their farm near Oakdale.

Margaret Wallace Boyle, oldest child, was born 4/20/1857, died 11/4/1914, married 3/6/1895 to Robert Piper II born 2/15/1847, died 6/27/1927. They had 1 daughter.

Elisabeth Jane Piper, born 1/30/1896, married 3/21/1917 Ward James Auld, born 12/21/1894, died 9/1/1955. Their families names were in Robert Piper history. It was through Sarah Marshall Walker family line that there was Revolutionary War service.

By Mrs. Jane Auld

From 1979 WASHINGTON COUNTY ILLINOIS HISTORY

ADAM married WALLACE MARGARET in Ireland. MARGARET (daughter of WALLACE WILLIAM and UNKNOWN NANCY) was born on 15 Jan 1795 in County Derry, Ireland; died on 22 Sep 1855 in Illinois; was buried in Hill Prairie Cemetery, N.W. of Sparta, Illinois. [Group Sheet]

WILLIAM married CHESTNUT ELIZABETH. [Group Sheet]