MARTS, field evenings, show days and so much more will never be the same again following the passing of Ted Boyce, of Ballytigue, Bruree. He was a dairy farmer,.
William Haywood (aka “Big Bill”) was born in 1867 in Salt Lake City to parents William and Elizabeth. The father, a rider in the legendary but short-lived Pony Express, died when Bill was just 3 years old. Thus, young Bill was required to join the manual labor force at a very early age, working as an indentured farmhand and cowboy. Sadly, a formal education had to be shelved.
Louis Adamic's excellent history of the trial and acquittal of three leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood and George Pettibone, for the murder of ex-Idaho state governor Frank Steunenberg in 1906.