Elsie Charlotte Rupard and Granville Archie Boyce

GRANVILLE ARCHIE BOYCE was born January 13, 1896,⁵⁶ and died in January, 1983.⁵⁶ He is buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Denver, Colorado.⁴⁵⁶

He married ELSIE CHARLOTTE RUPARD on November 20, 1916 in Bloomington, Franklin, Nebraska,²²⁸⁴ daughter of ANNIE E. WALLACE and JOHN SHERMAN RUPARD. She was born in 1898 in Nebraska,⁴⁵⁶ and died in 1962.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Denver, Colorado.⁴⁵⁶

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Children of ELSIE CHARLOTTE RUPARD and GRANVILLE ARCHIE BOYCE:

1. ESTHER EVELYN BOYCE, b. October 31, 1917, Colorado;⁴⁵³² d. February 22, 2005.⁴⁵³²
2. MAXINE MERLE BOYCE, b. September 17, 1919, Fort Morgan, Morgan, Colorado;⁴⁵³² d. October 9, 1988.⁴⁵³²
3. ROBERT EDWIN BOYCE, b. May 21, 1921, Fort Morgan, Morgan, Colorado;⁴⁵³² d. May 16, 1997.⁴⁵³²
4. MARJORIE FERN BOYCE, b. September 19, 1923, Denver, Denver, Colorado;¹²²²⁵ m. BERNARD CLARK GREGORY on May 21, 1944 in Raton, Colfax, New Mexico¹⁰⁹⁴⁸; d. May 8, 1966, Denver, Denver, Colorado.¹²²²⁵
5. BARBARA JEAN BOYCE, b. July 21, 1927;⁵⁶ d. November 22, 2010;⁵⁶ bur. Fairview Cemetery, Fountain, El Paso, Colorado.⁴⁵⁶
6. ARCHIE G. BOYCE JR., b. May 4, 1929;⁴⁵⁶ d. September 2, 1935;⁴⁵⁶ bur. Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado.⁴⁵⁶
7. Son
8. Son

Obituaries

Eagle Valley Enterprise, September 6, 1935⁸⁷⁸⁴

CHILD DROWNS IN EAGLE RIVER SUNDAY NIGHT

SIX-YEAR OLD BOY WALKS IN SLEEP FROM PARENT'S CAMP BESIDE RIVER AND LOSES LIFE - PARENTS WERE ON A PLEASURE TRIP TO WESTERN SLOPE FROM HOME IN FOUNTAIN.

A very sad tragedy took place near Wolcott Sunday night when Archie G. Boyce jr., six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie G. Boyce of Fountain, Colo. was drowned in the Eagle river between the John Holland ranch and Wolcott.

Mr. and Mrs. Boyce and their son and a young daughter, had been on a week end pleasure trip to the Western Slope, going to Palisade for peaches. They were returning home and had driven to Wolcott Sunday evening before going into camp for the night. They stopped at the Peate filling station at about 10 o'clock in the evening for oil and gas and then drove up the road, camping opposite Mr. Holland's house. They were all very tired from the day's trip, and went to sleep at once after making camp. Along about three o'clock in the morning Mr. Boyce awoke and looked at the time when his wife missed the baby boy. He and his wife got out of bed and started to search for him. They procured a lantern of John Holland and the latter joined in the search. When he was not found help from the neighborhood joined in the search. It was day light before the body was found some distance below the camp nearly submerged in the water of the river. Fortunately, water in the river is now at low stage and the little body was not washed far. While life was apparently extinct, the body was brought quickly to Eagle and Dr. Belden applied every means known to revive life, but it was too late.

The body was turned over to Mortician Andre of Eagle and cared for, and that evening an undertaker from Colorado Springs arrived and took the child there for burial, the parents having in the meantime returned home to prepare the remainder of the family for the shock of the sad news.

Mr. Boyce has been employed by the municipal light company in Colorado Springs for a number of years, although their home is in Fountain. He and Mrs. Boyce are the parent of seven children of which Archie was the youngest.

It is presumed that the baby was walking in his sleep and found a hole in the fence which was between the camp and the river, and wandered through it. His foot prints were latter found indicating that he had returned from the river bank once to the fence, but not finding the opening through which he had first crawled walked again the river bank and evidently stumbled in while his parent slept, ignorant of the tragedy that was being enacted.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 25, 19008694	McWilliams, Otoe, Nebraska	John Sherman Rupard Annie E. Wallace William Cyrus Rupard Eva Lou Rupard Ora Sherman Rupard Elsie Charlotte Rupard Grant Sidney Rupard
May 11, 19108780	Belle Prairie, Rush, Kansas	John Sherman Rupard William Cyrus Rupard Eva Lou Rupard Ora Sherman Rupard Elsie Charlotte Rupard Grant Sidney Rupard
January 21, 19208783	Weldona, Morgan, Colorado	Granville Archie Boyce Elsie Charlotte Rupard Esther Evelyn Boyce Maxine Merle Boyce
April 12, 1930175	Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado	Granville Archie Boyce Elsie Charlotte Rupard Esther Evelyn Boyce Maxine Merle Boyce Robert Edwin Boyce Marjorie Fern Boyce Barbara Jean Boyce Archie G. Boyce
May 4, 19402756	El Paso County, Colorado	Granville Archie Boyce Elsie Charlotte Rupard Son Esther Evelyn Boyce Robert Edwin Boyce Marjorie Fern Boyce Barbara Jean Boyce Son