JOYCE, James Stanley 1886-1944

JOYCE, HOPKINS, RICHARDSON, VAIL

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 7/31/2002 at 20:50:08

The Clinton Herald Wednesday January 5, 1944 p.10 Funeral services for James Stanley Joyce, millionaire lumberman, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in the Joyce family home, 1818 North Third street. The Rev. F.G. Williams of Grace Episcopal church will officiate. Interment will be in the family lot in Oakland cemetery. Joyce, Chicago lumberman and president of the Tremont and Gulf Railroad company of Chicago, was the former husband of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, from whom he was divorced in 1921, according to Cushman B. Bissell, attorney for Joyce. Bissell said that Joyce's widow, the former Mrs. Nellie Vail of New York, whom he married in 1926, will receive $250,000 under an agreement, relinquishing all further claim to the estate. Her divorce against Joyce has been pending in Chicago since 1929, the attorney revealed. The remainder of the estate, Bissell said, estimated at $5,000,000, will go to the Joyce's niece, Mrs. Beatrice Clothilde Joyce Richardson, of Coronado Beach, Calif.