When Sarah Ann Boyd was born on 7 September 1826, in Christian, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Boyd, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Long, was 30. She married David Monroe Pyle on 6 January 1851, in Crofton, Christian, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Hamby, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 4 December 1881, in Christian, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Boyd Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Christian, Kentucky, United States.
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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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