Brief Life History of Jennie Susan
When Jennie Susan Boyd was born on 27 June 1872, in Mount Olive Township, Macoupin, Illinois, United States, her father, Henderson Boyd, was 33 and her mother, Hester Mariah Voyles, was 27. She married Anthony Doyle Uhlry on 24 July 1889, in Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Mount Olive, Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1920 and White City, Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1944. She died on 15 May 1944, in Hillsboro, Montgomery, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mount Olive, Macoupin, Illinois, United States.
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- Jennie Uhlry, Wife in household of Antony Uhlry, Head, "United States Census, 1920"
- Jennie Susie Uhlry, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Jennie Boyd, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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