Boyd Zeis

1909 - 1932  (23 years)

• Name	Boyd Zeis
  Birth	1909
  Gender	Male
  Anecdote	According to the recollection of Kathryn Tadsen Sharp, Boyd attended Ohio University. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. He was a very talented artist. During the summer he had a job decorating windows for a store in Port Clinton. He and a friend, Art Miller, who attended Miami University, were going to Toledo to get art supplies for the window decor when they lost control of the car and were both killed. Kathryn has a picture of a 'Flapper' painted by Boyd and Aunt Dorrey had many of his paintings in her home. Robert Tadsen Sharp who visited her house as a child, remembered that he particularly liked a painting of a yacht that Boyd had done. He was also supposed to have painted a portrait of one of the Beta founders which hung in the Beta house at Ohio University.
  Death	1932
  Burial	Port Clinton, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I4691	Hillbillies & Vikings
  Last Modified	5 May 2023

  
  

  Father	Frederick G. Zeis,   b. 1883   d. 1943 (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Dora E. Tadsen,   b. 28 Apr 1880, Port Clinton, Ottawa, Ohio, USA d. 1962 (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F1858	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Reference

  Your Name Here. "Boyd Zeis". Our Family History. https://jonandjohn.org/getperson.php?personID=I4691&tree=tree1 (accessed March 14, 2025).