Page 186 - Foy

The June 1, 1880 U.S. Census of Kosse, Limestone County, Texas has the
following listing for the B.F. FOY family:

B.F. FOY, W, M, 53, husband, farmer
M.E. , W, F, 40, wife, keeping house
JIM , W, M, 23, son,asst farming
W. F. , W, M, 17, son, asst farming
LEWIS , W, M, 15, son, asst farming
MARION,W, F, 13, daugh, at home
HENRY , W, M, 10, son, at home
FRANCIS, W, F, 8, daugh, at home
ELLA , W, F, 6, daugh, st home
MAGGIE, (Margaret) W, F, 3, daugh, at home
BARNETT , W.H., W, M, 24, none, Farmer

At the beginning of this book, you will recall, there is a dedication to ELOUISE
BEARD SMITH. ELOUISE is a descendant of JOHN ELON FOY’s brother
ROBERT HENRY FOY and has done extensive research regarding the FOY
family. Over the years ELOUISE has collected several stories about some of our
FOY ancestors, including BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOY. The following is an
example of such family stories passed down through the family:

This story was told by ROBERT HENRY FOY, ELOUISE’s grandfather on her
mother’s side. ROBERT HENRY, you’ll recall, was BENJAMIN’s brother.
Sometime before 1886 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOY took his wife, MARY
ELIZABETH PAYNE JACKS FOY, and their children to Indian Territory,
Oklahoma to live. They moved into a house which had already been built. Each

night one of the family would close and lock the front door and go to bed. The
story goes that during the night each would hear strange noises like someone
dragging a chain on the stairs and in the morning the front door would be wide
open. They finally abandoned the house and went back to Limestone County.
They claimed they found out there had been a massacre of the family who had
lived in that house before.

BENJAMIN and his family were not the first or the last of the FOYs in the
CISCO CLAN ancestry to move to Oklahoma. You will recall JOHN ELON
th
FOY moved his family to Oklahoma just before the turn of the 20 century and

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