Family History: Marriage of John Johnson Thayne and Sidney Boyer 1848

To continue the life story of John Johnson Thayne I wanted to share a resource I found about this family. It is a book written by Kathy Thayne Rasmussen which I discovered at the FHL in Salt Lake City. This book is a gold mine of information about the Ebenezer Thayne family, it's entitled, "Following the fading footprints of the Thayne, Thain or Thayn family : an account of a family from Scotland who migrated to the Canadian frontier, then on to Iowa, across the plains to Utah, up to Thayne, Wyoming and on to Snowflake, Arizona"
This is the story contained in Kathy Rasmussen's book about how John and his wife Sidney Boyer meet and married.

John made a very strong glue and went house to house selling it. He felt it might help his sale if he dressed in Scottish clothes, probably his fathers. While selling the glue he met Sidney Boyer. As a young girl Sidney dreamed of a man dressed in kilts, knee pants, long heavy stockings, and high topped shoes or boots. She saw his face so plainly that she felt she would know him anywhere. She was told in her dream that this was the man she was to marry. The dream was given to her three times, so it was impressed forcibly on her mind.
In September 1848, John knocked at the door of Abraham Boyer and stood there in his Scottish clothes. When Sidney saw him she knew this was the face and clothing she had seen in her dream. In a short time he and Sidney were making plans to be married. They were married, in Canada, on the 23 of October 1848.

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Murphy's Laws of Family History
The keeper of the vital records you need will just have been insulted by another genealogist.
Your great-grandfather's obituary states that he died, leaving no issue of record.
The town clerk you wrote to in desperation, and finally convinced to give you the information you need, can't write legibly, and doesn't have a copying machine.
That ancient photograph of four relatives, one of whom is your progenitor,carries the names of the other three.
Copies of old newspapers have holes which occur only on maiden names.
No one in your family tree ever did anything noteworthy, always rented property, was never sued, and was never named in wills.
You learned that Great aunt Matilda's executor just sold her life's collection of family genealogical materials to a flea market dealer"somewhere in New York City."
Yours is the ONLY last name not found among the three billion in the world famous Mormon archives in Salt Lake City.
Ink fades and paper deteriorates at a rate inversely proportional to the value of the data recorded.
The critical link in your family tree is named "Smith."

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN ADDICTED GENEALOGIST

...when you brake for libraries.
...if you get locked in a library overnight and you never even notice.
...when you hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery.
...if you'd rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping mall.
...when you think every home should have a microfilm reader.
...if you'd rather read census schedules than a good book.
...when you know every town clerk in your state by name.
...if town clerks lock the doors when they see you coming.
...when you're more interested in what happened in 1697 than 1997.
...if you store your clothes under the bed and your closet is carefully stacked with notebooks and journals.
...if you can pinpoint Harrietsham, Hawkhurst, and Kent on a map of England, but can't locate Topeka, Kansas.
...when all your correspondence begins, "Dear Cousin,"
...if you've traced every one of your ancestral lines back to Adam and Eve, have it all fully documented, and still don't want to quit.

Try Genealogy - You can't get fired and you can't quit.

Genealogy - where you confuse the dead and irritate the living.

Whoever said "Seek and ye shall find" was not a genealogist

3 comments:

Chloe Bailey February 6, 2012 at 10:50 AM: That is a really interesting story! How interesting would it be to see someone from your dreams!
Brittany Bingham February 17, 2012 at 2:19 PM: I agree that is a really great story. It's also awesome that you found a book written about your family! Lucky!
Ruth n Mike July 11, 2019 at 5:57 PM: Can you check this book out of FHL? or How do you read it? send reply to ruthbradshaw@email.com Thanks you!

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