Brief Life History of Ora Anne
When Ora Anne Boyd was born on 18 March 1898, in Carroll, Georgia, United States, her father, Zachariah R. Boyd, was 29 and her mother, Ettie Lenore Luther, was 21. She married Marvin Bernard Cobb on 10 June 1922, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 10 July 1979, in Conyers, Rockdale, Georgia, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Ora A Cobb in household of Marvin B Cobb, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ora A Boyd in household of Jachariah Boyd, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ora A Boyd in household of Zancareah R Boyd, "United States Census, 1900"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
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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