When George Francis Boyd was born on 15 January 1879, in Missouri, United States, his father, Cornelius Carmack Boyd, was 19 and his mother, Mary Mirinda Rogers, was 23. He married Ruby McKellar on 6 November 1924, in Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Rural, South Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1935 and Magna, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 3 August 1951, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72.
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Historical Boundaries: 1880: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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