Another Lincoln Romance?

[Steve Whitlock]

(02-11-2021 03:46 AM)Steve Wrote:  Mr. Fraker is wrong about William P. Boyce and Lincoln serving together during the Black Hawk War (besides the fact they were both veterans of the war). According to the Widow's Pension index card, Boyce was a sergeant in Capt. Gideon Simpson's company:



Simpson's company was in the 1st Regiment of Illinois volunteers. Capt Abraham Lincoln's company was in the 4th Regiment. During his second enlistment during the war Lincoln was a private in Elijah Iles company, which if I understand the book in the link below, was in the 2nd Regiment (but for some reason isn't explicitly state in the list of regiment captains)

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49402/49...htm#i174_2

Here is William P. Boyce's Find A Grave page:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9512...tman-boyce

Here is the attached W.P. Boyce obit 18 Sep 1885, Fri, Pg3, Napa County Reporter, CA.

Susan A. Boyce's Find A Grave and gravestone shows a 1907 death; however, there was a 1900 probate for her estate. I don't know which is correct.

Susan A Reid Boyce
Birth 1813
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, USA
Death 1907 (aged 93–94)
Calistoga, Napa County, California, USA
Burial
Calistoga Pioneer Cemetery
Calistoga, Napa County, California, USA
Plot Benedict family plot
Memorial ID 23328908 · View Source
Daughter of Lewis C. Reid

Wife of:
William Putman Boyce, married 1839 in St Clair Co, IL

News article published in "The San Francisco Call" dated May 23 1897, entitled: "Abraham Lincoln's Lost Love" A Story of the Woman who was his first sweetheart. Mrs. Susan Reid Boyce of Calistoga tells of the courtship of 1836. Susan Reid lived in New Salem, Illinois on the Sangamon River and was courted by Abraham Lincoln. She later meets Mr. William P. Boyce and marries him March 14, 1839 in Petersburgh, Illinois. They move to Shullsburg, Wisconsin and then to Calistoga, Calif.
She is also mentioned in regard to their relationship in a book entitled, "The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln" (on pg 124).

Napa Valley register, page C5- Marriage was in the town of Petersburgh
Family Members
Spouse

Photo
William Putman Boyce

1804–1885

Children

Frances Virginia Boyce Cameron

1841 – unknown
William Edwin Boyce

1841 – unknown
Photo
Mary Louisa Boyce McCready

1847–1928

Flowers • 3

Plant Memorial Trees

Left by Anonymous on 24 Jun 2020

Left by Diane McBain on 17 Aug 2013
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Susan A H Reid
in the Illinois, U.S., Marriage Index, 1860-1920
Name: Susan A H Reid
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 15 Mar 1837
Marriage Place: Sangamon, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name: William T Boyce
Spouse Gender: Male