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Johnny Carson

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Jessie Elton Boyd

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• • Grandmother of Johnny Carson — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • John Saylor Boyd 
  • Mother:
  • Simildie Elton Raynolds   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jul 1876 
  • Birth Location:
  • Iowa 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Jun 1911 
  • Death Location:
  • Bedford, Taylor, Iowa 
  • Burial Date:
  • 22 Jun 1911 
  • Burial Location:
  • Fairview Cemetery, Bedford, Taylor, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • George William Hook
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Sep 1900 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bedford, Taylor, Iowa 
  • Child:

  Ruth E. Hook (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Jessie Elton Boyd

  • ¹ Federal Census, IA, Taylor County, 1880, Marshall, E.D. 215, p. 46, Image 18 of 19.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/20/2018).
  • ³ Iowa, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1999, Birth record for daughter Ruth Hook.
  • ⁴ Iowa, U.S., Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990, Death record for Jessie B Hook.
  • ⁵ Iowa, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1758-1996, Marriage record for George William Hook and Jessie E Boyd.
  • ⁶ Hook, James William, James Hook and Virginia Eller: A Family History and Genealogy, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1925), 90.
  • ⁷ Nourse, Eva Miller, The Millar-du Bois Family: Its History and Genealogy, n. p.: n. p. (1928), 82.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 625.