Brief Life History of Jettie Andrew
When Jettie Andrew Boyd was born on 18 May 1902, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Mack Lewis Boyd, was 31 and his mother, Mary Alice Davis, was 20. He married Helen Odelle Wallace on 20 December 1925, in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rural, Clarke, Alabama, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 9 St. Florian, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 4 October 1959, in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Stoney Point Cemetery, Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States.
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- Jasper Boyd in household of Mack Boyd, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jetti Andrew Boyd - Published information: birth-name: Jetti Andrew Boyd
- Jettie Andrew Boyd, "Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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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