Paralee Permelia Boyer

Brief Life History of Paralee Permelia

When Paralee Permelia Boyer was born in December 1868, in Barren Township, Independence, Arkansas, United States, her father, James Wesley Boyer Sr, was 46 and her mother, Sara Ellen Cocke, was 21. She married Andrew Benjamin Sanders on 7 November 1886, in Poughkeepsie, Sharp, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Lebanon Township, Sharp, Arkansas, United States for about 30 years. She died on 6 April 1941, in Poughkeepsie, Sharp, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 72.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Benjamin Sanders
1864–1942
Paralee Permelia Boyer
1868–1941
Marriage: 7 November 1886
Octra Naoma Sanders
1888–
Maude Sanders
1888–1976
Grover Sanders
1890–1950
Virgil Low Sanders
1892–1893
Virginia May Sanders
1892–1976
Earl Benjamin Sanders
1895–1951
Lucian Curtis Sanders
1898–1961
Audie Hubern Sanders
1903–1987
Claude Raymond Sanders
1905–1969
Ruth Lena Sanders
1908–1990
Eulman Waymon Sanders
1911–1994

Sources (14)

  • Pairlee P Sanders in household of Andrew B Sanders, "United States Census, 1930"
  • P. P. Boyer, "Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944"
  • Paralee Sanders, "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

1888 · Bauxite Mining Began

Bauxite a rock with relatively high aluminum content, is the main source of aluminum for the world. When it was discovered in Arkansas it changed the state. The city of Bauxite, Arkansas was the site of the discovery.

Name Meaning

French: regional variant of Bouvier ‘herdsman’. This surname is also found in Haiti. Compare Bouyea and Boyea .

Altered form of German Bayer or Beyer .

German: habitational name for someone from Boye (near Celle-Hanover).

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

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