(1870 U.S. Federal Census, accessed from Ancestry.com)

Josiah Miller Hoyt was born April 26, 1863 in Nephi, Utah to Israel Hoyt and Clarissa Amanda Miller. He was their fifth surviving child. His father, and other relatives, had been called to settle Nephi in the early 1850s. Israel was later called to settle in the Muddy Mission at St. Joseph, Nevada. The Hoyt family was living in St. Joseph when the 1870 census was taken.

This census is a great lesson as to why it is so important to know the siblings of our ancestors and potential spelling variations. Josiah was indexed under the name of Jonah and under Utah (St. Joseph was considered part of the Utah Territory at the time) rather than Josiah and Nevada. Had I not searched for other members of the family I would not have been able to find Josiah and his family.