Our Family History
BLOYD, Cyrus Judson
1884 - 1972 (88 years)-
Name BLOYD, Cyrus Judson - Jud Bloyd and his team of horses worked around the state where there were jobs. Daughter Arthola, was born in Olathe, Colorado when Jud was hauling coal for the dredge boat working on building a canal. The family lived in a tent house there and the four older kids slept in one room. One night they argued about who was bothering the others' feet. It turned out there was a little mouse nibbling around their toes. Jud came home from the mountains one day with a columbine flower in his lunch bucket.
The family then lived in Rocky Ford, Colorado, where Jud again worked on a canal dredge boat. Ione was 4 years old when they moved from Rocky Ford back to Lamar on a horse drawn hay rack and camped along the way. It is a distance of about 67 miles. Helen had her dishes packed in a wash boiler that got lost on the trip.
they went to live on the Jones place north of Lamar. The house wasn't finished so they stayed in a corn crib at Jud's brother Roy Bloyd's place near Wiley until fall when they could get into the house.
A tar paper shack in Jud and Helen's field as the school for a while when Reva was in the 8th grade. They got the two-room Channing School build about Christmas time.
Source: Dee Ann Harman Bishipp
Information learned at the Bloyd reunion in 2003.
Born 4 Aug 1884 Jewel City, KS 
Gender Male Died 30 Sep 1972 Denver, CO Person ID I242 Family Tree Last Modified 16 Jan 2011
Father BLOYD, Ruben Elliot, b. 19 Jan 1860, Wheeling, Wetzel County, WV , d. Sept 1935, Lamar, CO (Age 75 years) Mother FARNSWORTH, Emma Ophelia, b. 14 Nov 1861, Buchanan County, IA , d. 31 Dec 1912, Lamar, CO (Age 51 years) Married 12 Jul 1979 Family ID F103 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family STOUT, Helen, b. 1 Nov 1887, Lincoln County, KS , d. 20 Apr 1974, Rocky Ford, CO (Age 86 years) Married 31 Mar 1907 Beverly, KS Children + 1. BLOYD, Helen Reva, b. 14 Jan 1908, Granada, Prowers County, CO + 2. BLOYD, Nellie Agnes, b. 24 Sept 1909, Lamar, Prowers County, CO + 3. BLOYD, Judson Evan, b. 13 Sep 1911, Beverly, Lincoln County, KS + 4. BLOYD, Ione Marcella + 5. BLOYD, Ruth Arthola, b. 25 Aug 1916, Olath, Montrose County, CO , d. 17 May 1951, Las Animas, Bent County, CO (Age 34 years)+ 6. BLOYD, Caroline Elizabeth, b. 3 Dec 1922, Lamar, Prowers County, CO + 7. BLOYD, Robert Owen, b. 11 Dec 1924, Lamar, Prowers County, CO + 8. BLOYD, Donald Earl Last Modified 12 Jan 2011 Family ID F102 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Jud Bloyd and his team of horses worked around the state where there were jobs. Daughter Arthola, was born in Olathe, Colorado when Jud was hauling coal for the dredge boat working on building a canal. The family lived in a tent house there and the four older kids slept in one room. One night they argued about who was bothering the others' feet. It turned out there was a little mouse nibbling around their toes. Jud came home from the mountains one day with a columbine flower in his lunch bucket.