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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- 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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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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