Brief Life History of Rufus Darby
When Rufus Darby Boyd was born on 24 June 1869, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Rufus Franklin Boyd, was 46 and his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Boyd, was 36. He married Annie Izora McKenzie on 25 December 1895, in Pulaski, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Gray Township, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Jacksonville, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States in 1950. He died on 22 March 1957, in Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Bayou Meto Cemetery, Jacksonville, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States.
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- Rufus D Boyd, "United States Census, 1950"
- Rufus D. Boyd, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Rufus Darby Boyd, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1871 · KKK Supression
In March of 1871, in an attempt to supress the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, President Grant sends troops in. Later that year in October, the KKK are told to disarm and break up. They do not do this and later many are arrested by the US marshals.
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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