Sarah Jane Boyd

Brief Life History of Sarah Jane

When Sarah Jane Boyd was born in May 1850, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, her father, James Edmondson Boyd, was 23 and her mother, Mary A Hurt, was 25. She married James Carter Friend on 5 December 1869, in Wythe, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Blacklick, Wythe, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 15 October 1910, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Sharrett Cemetery, Bristol, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Carter Friend
1847–1924
Sarah Jane Boyd
1850–1910
Marriage: 5 December 1869
Augustus Fosburg Friend
1871–1913
Joseph Edmondson Friend
1874–1888
Mary Maxie Friend
1875–1942
Bailey Friend
1877–1880
Ollie Grace Friend
1878–1951
Sarah Jane Friend
1880–1960
Friend
1881–
Nora Wood Friend
1883–1954
Rosa Bell Friend
1888–1924
Morris Friend
1892–1910

Sources (52)

  • Mrs. Sarah J Friend, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Sarah, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
  • Sarah J Boyd, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"

World Events (8)

1861 · The Battle of Manassas

The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run. 

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from the island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, from Bòid (genitive case of Bòd, the Gaelic name of the island of Bute) or Bòideach, denoting a person from Bute. Alternatively, the name may denote descendants of a Gilla filius Boed, who appears in reference to Glasgow Cathedral in the early 12th century, perhaps from the Gaelic personal name Boite, of uncertain origin.

Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic epithet buidhe ‘yellow(-haired)’. Compare Bowie .

Manx: from Mac Gille Buidhe ‘son of the yellow-haired lad’ (compare 2 above).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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