Mrs. Anderson Boyd
Woman living near the Shenandoah River in Clarke County, named in November 1923 as the mother of Downey Boyd, who died at fifteen.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923 reports that Downey Boyd, fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Boyd of Clarke County, died after an operation for appendicitis, and that his parents lived near the Shenandoah River.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923 reports that Downey Boyd, fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Boyd of Clarke County, died after an operation for appendicitis, and that his parents lived near the Shenandoah River.
What the source supports
That Mrs. Anderson Boyd was named in 1923 as the mother of Downey Boyd.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her son's obituary, which gives her only by her husband's name. Her son has no record here, so no kinship record is made.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The November 22, 1923 obituary of Downey Boyd.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., November 22, 1923
Clarke Courier · 1923-11-22 (publication)
Locator: Page 3, obituary of Downey Boyd
Relevant passagetowney [Downey] Boyd, fifteen youp [year] old MW [son] of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Boyd, of thla [this] county, died In Memorial hospital last Friday morning, November Id, at live a. m. He was taken 111 [ill] on Wednesday and was rushed to Winchester for an operation for appendicitis. ... Surviving the young man are his parents who reside near the Shenandoah river In this county, one broth, er, Mr. Henry Boyd, of Clarke county, and three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Tomblln, of Jefferson county, W. Va., Mrs. Viola Orndoff, of Clarke county, and Miss Violet Boyd, who reside with her parents.
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