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Mary Ophelia Stone Boyce

29 Apr 1845 – 25 Mar 1937

Birth	29 Apr 1845
Death	25 Mar 1937
Cemetery	Texas State Cemetery Austin , Travis County , Texas , USA
Added by	Jeni on 31 Jan 2015
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14792624

Bio

Confederate widow Mary Ophelia Boyce was born in April of 1845 at Bastrop, Texas. She was born to Samuel Stone and Mary Ann Chunn both of Hannibal, Missouri. Mary Stone married Confederate veteran William Boyce who served in Darnell's Regiment, 18th Texas Cavalry and was discharged on August 10, 1864. Boyce served in Arkansas with the 18th and eventually at the Confederate defeat at the battle of Arkansas Bend in 1863. He was captured after the battle and interred in Camp Douglas, Illinois. He was paroled in Virginia and spent the rest of the War in a hospital. He was discharged on medical reasons. Mary Boyce stated in her Confederate Woman's Home application that during the Civil War, she "knitted and spun for soldiers."

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Family

Parents

• Samuel Theophilus Stone Sr 1797–1857
• Mary Ann Chunn Stone 1801–1892

Spouse

• William Boyce 1842–1905 FaG

Siblings

• Martha Ann Rebecca Stone Hague 1825–1869
• Thomas H Stone 1833–1911
• Samuel Theophilus Stone Jr 1837–1921
• Chas. W. Stone 1842–1919

Children

• Albert Gallatin Boyce 1874–1938 FaG
• Beatrice Boyce Cowling 1876–1936 FaG

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