Mahala Ann Boyd

Brief Life History of Mahala Ann

When Mahala Ann Boyd was born on 11 December 1812, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas M Boyd, was 22 and her mother, Lucinda Ferguson, was 20. She married George Mills Spegal on 2 May 1831, in Grant, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Crittenden, Kenton, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Kenton, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years. She died on 13 December 1901, in Pendleton, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Gardnersville, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Mills Spegal
1810–1880
Mahala Ann Boyd
1812–1901
Marriage: 2 May 1831
Mary Ann Spegal
1831–1837
Ora E. Spegal
1851–
Minerva Ann Spegal
1858–
Martha Spegal
1862–
Martin Gabriel Spegal
1832–1909
Andrew Shook Spegal
1837–1900
James E. Spegal
1838–
George Washington Spegal
1841–1876
Rachel S. J. Spegal
1845–1872
Calvin Vilott Spegal
1847–1875
Louisa F. Spegal
1847–1859
William D M Spegal
1851–1938
Margaret Spegal
1853–1855
Henry Joseph Spegal
1856–1858
McKenzie J. Spegal
1856–1891
Thomas R. Spegal
1858–1876

Sources (14)

  • Mahala Spegal, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: MAHALA ANN BOYD - birth-name: MAHALA ANN BOYD
  • Mahly Boyd, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"

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World Events (8)

1818 · Jackson Purchase

The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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