Person

Violet Boyd

Clarke County woman named in November 1923 as a sister of Downey Boyd, living with her parents near the Shenandoah River.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923, in the obituary of Downey Boyd, names Miss Violet Boyd, who lived with her parents, among his three sisters.

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The Clarke Courier of November 22, 1923, in the obituary of Downey Boyd, names Miss Violet Boyd, who lived with her parents, among his three sisters.

What the source supports

That Violet Boyd was named in 1923 as a sister of Downey Boyd, living with her parents.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. She is known here only from her brother's obituary, which gives no age for her. Her brother has no record here, so no kinship record is made.

Source

Reporting

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 passage

towney [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.

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-16. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: Miss Violet Boyd. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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