Anna Boyd Ellington

Anna Boyd Ellington

Standing: Mary Comfort Leonard; Sitting: Eva Webb Dodd and Anna Boyd Ellington (ca. 1875)
Born Anna Boyd
(1856-01-22)January 22, 1856
Attala County, Mississippi, U.S.
Died August 13, 1907(1907-08-13) (aged 51)
Attala County, Mississippi, U.S.

Anna Boyd, Mrs. Ellington (January 22, 1856 – August 13, 1907) was born in Attala County, Mississippi. She was one of the three founders of the Delta Gamma Fraternity along with Mary Comfort Leonard and Eva Webb Dodd in 1873 at the Lewis School in Oxford, Mississippi.[1]

The daughter of James M. Caroline A. Boyd, she was a public school teacher until her marriage and the sole caretaker of four small daughters after her husband, Daniel W. Ellington, died in 1890.

References

  1. ↑ Delta Gamma (2012-09-25). "History". Delta Gamma Fraternity. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
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