Harriett Jane Boyd

Brief Life History of Harriett Jane

When Harriett Jane Boyd was born on 16 August 1842, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, James Robinson Boyd, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Boyd, was 26. She married John W Henricks on 18 March 1861, in Jasper, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Sherman Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States for about 5 years and Jasper, Iowa, United States in 1905. She died on 16 October 1932, in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery, Newton Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Holden Collins Gist
1828–1870
Harriett Jane Boyd
1842–1932
Marriage: 5 March 1865
George William Gist
1866–1942
Charles Ewing Gist
1868–1950
Francis E. Gist
1869–

Sources (29)

  • Harriett Boyd in household of John Jaco, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Harriet J. Boyd - Government record: Census record: birth: about 1843; Carter, Tennessee, United States
  • Harriett Hinricks, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1846

Historical Boundaries: 1846: Jasper, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Jasper, Iowa, United States

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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