Hoyt Family

Bessie B. Baker was the last representative of the Hoyt family left in Wayland.

The original [Isaac] Hoyt family of New York State consisted of eleven children, five of whom located in Wayland in the 1850's and early 1860's. Later they were joined by a sister, Anna Smith and family. William and Edwin Hoyt established a foundry on the site now occupied by the F.D. Hilbert's home.

[Isaac] Newton Hoyt began a shingle business in Wayland before the war, then enlisted. [Isaac] Newton Hoyt started in the shingle business with his brother-in-law, Marvin Burnett in Dorr, after coming home from the Civil War.

They carried on the business for three years, then Newton came back to Wayland to engage in the lumber business until 1893 when he retired. Bessie Baker was his granddaughter. At the age of 85 Charles Edgar Hoyt of Oak Park, Ill., and son of William V. and Addie Hoyt, is the oldest living member of the second generation of this large Hoyt family.

In the early days there were 35 members of this family in our village 12 of the older generation and 23 grandchildren.

Etta Hoyt Van Valkenburg and her husband, Theodore, had three children: Etta Dunwell, Frank Van and Imogene Rogers Quinlan; Minot Hoyt had six children: Bert, Frank, Edith Hoyt Whitney, Luzern, Mable Hoyt Schuyler and Alton; Ervin and Carrie Hoyt had four: Stella Mausly, Frank, Fred and Mildred Hoyt Kavin: William V. and Addie Hoyt had three children: Jessie, Charles Edgar and Mary Jane McLeod; Isaac Newton and Ellen Hoyt had three children: Lillian Buskirk, Elmer T. who died in infancy and Fannie. The I.N. Hoyts lived in one house for 36 years, now occupied by Harold Weaver.

Anna Hoyt Biggs Smith had four children: Nellie Briggs Dunn, Roland, Katherine and Estelle Smith. Kate as we knew her was brought up by William Hoyt while Estelle was adopted by William Oliver of Allegan.

The William Hoyt house is now owned and occupied by the Ernest Martins; the Minot Hoyt home is owned by D. Taylor and J. Vollink; the Edwin Hoyt home is across Cedar street north of Ernest Martins' and now owned by St. Therese Church.

Transcribed from: Wayland Globe July 1953

Submitted by Nancy Morefield, g-g-granddaughter of Minot & Augusta Keziah [Harrison] Hoyt, through Isabel "Mable" Hoyt & Earl Lester Schuyler.