When Shade Boice was born on 18 September 1866, in Arapahoe, Colorado, United States, his father, Benjamin Boice, was 26 and his mother, Martha Eliza Philpot, was 21. He married Viola Bell Hawkins on 12 October 1888, in Logan Utah Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Conejos, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Manassa, Conejos, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died on 21 June 1939, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Historical Boundaries: 1879: Conejos, Colorado, United States
In 1890, Robert Miller Womack discovers a rich gold deposit along Cripple Creek, near the western slope of Pikes Peak. This would become the richest gold strike in the Rocky Mountin area.
English and Scottish: variant of Boyce .
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Possible Related NamesIncidents in the Life of Shade Boice As told by himself I first met Viola Bell Hawkins at school in Manassa, Colorado in 1886. Later we met frequently in school, at church, and at social gatherings …
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