This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/470.1 Message Board Post: John W. Boie was born in Hawkeye,Fayette Co.,Iowa in 1897 and came to Belgrade when he was nine. His family lived on a farm northwest of Belgrade. He married Eleanor Quisberg. They had eleven children. John passed away at the Belgrade nursing home in 1981. John Sr.and Martha Boie came to Belgrade in 1903. They had ten children. He was born in Germany in 1863 and Martha Weideman Boie was born in Germany in 1868. He died at age 87 and she at age 85. * There is a pic. of John Sr. and Martha in the Belgrade Centennial book.