Pearl Boyd

Brief Life History of Pearl

When Pearl Boyd was born on 25 October 1886, in Canaan Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States, her father, Robert Grover Boyd, was 28 and her mother, Eliza Carolina Burkholder, was 21. She married George Washington Caskey on 26 October 1905, in Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Orrville, Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States in 1930. She died on 3 November 1957, in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Green Township, Wayne, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Caskey
1882–1933
Pearl Boyd
1886–1957
Marriage: 26 October 1905
Nettie Mae Caskey
1906–1988
Helen Alverta Caskey
1907–1994
Dorothy Lenore Caskey
1909–1981

Sources (18)

  • Perlie Boyd in household of Robert Boyd, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Pearl Boyd, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
  • Pearl Boyd Caskey, "Find a Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1890 · Woman's Suffrage

An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

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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