Posted on: Callahan County, Tx Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Callahan/442 Surname: Joyce, Posey, Maxwell, Strain ------------------------- John Dell Joyce was born 12 July 1844 in Birmingham, AL and died in Clyde, Callahan County, TX on 27 May 1929. He married Sarah Abigale Strain (14 April 1848-6 February 1934), the daughter of James Benjamin Henry and Elizabeth Dee Maxwell Strain. John D. Joyce was one of eight children born to Henry Joyce of GA, who married Sarah Posey of SC. He moved with his parents to McKinney, Collin County, TX in 1849, joining the Confederate army in 1862. After the war, he moved to Parker County, TX where he married Sarah Abigail Strain in November, 1867. This family moved to Comanche County, TX in 1882 until 1900, when he moved to Brown County until 1906. They moved to Tom Green County, TX where they lived until 1912. The Joyce family moved to Sayre, OK where he had traded for 320A farm. They "got the Texas fever" and moved back in 1923 to Cross Plains until the oil boom. It was then that they moved to Clyde, TX. Their children are: Ernest Joyce (1873), John Lawoon (1875), Emily (1878), Annie (1881), Worth (1883), Alto Margaret (1885), Alva Mae (1888) and Mary (1890).