Just found this post. William Marshall Boyst was my great-uncle, brother of my grandfather J. Raymond Boyst (Rebecca Ogilvie Fortson). Their siblings were Oscar (Myrtle) Boyst and Elizabeth (Frank) Chedester. They were the children of my great-grandparents, Lizzie Vance Monroe and William Henry Boyst, and lived in Greensboro, NC on North Greene Street, in a house beside Lizzie's sister, Florence Monroe. My father, James Ogilvie Boyst, was born on the kitchen table in Lizzie's house on December 31, 1925. That house no longer exists, but Aunt Florence's house is still there.
I have more information on the Boysts and the Monroes...I know the Boysts were originally in New Jersey but came to Greensboro from Missouri. The Monroe sisters (there was also one named Emma, who lived with Florence---they ran a boarding house in the 1910s and 20s, and that's how Rebecca Forston met the family and eventually married Raymond) came to Greensboro from Elizabeth City, NC.
You may already have this info as your post is several years old...
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