Brief Life History of Andrew Matthias
When Andrew Matthias Boyd was born on 3 April 1912, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States, his father, Q Dallas Boyd, was 37 and his mother, Laura Glaser Larson, was 31. He married Christina Ann Anderson on 16 June 1935, in Winnemucca, Humboldt, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Township 5, Elko, Nevada, United States in 1940 and Halleck, Elko, Nevada, United States in 2003. He died on 24 March 2008, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Elko City Cemetery, Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States.
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- Andrew M Boyd, "United States 1950 Census"
- Andrew M Boyd, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
- Andrew Matthias Boyd, "Nevada, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1913 · The Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment allows the people of each state to elect their own Senators instead of having the state legislature assign them.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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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Grandma Boyd Takes Us Out to Dinner, "Little But Loud" Series, Book Two 'Ranch Life' - ch. 12
"We didn't go to Grandma (Glaser Larson) Boyd's much after we moved to Starr Valley, Nevada. I knew her well, because we used to lived in Elko, NV, about 20 miles from her ranch. Grandpa Q Dallas Boy …
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