Anna Boyd Ellington

Anna Boyd Ellington

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

Anna Boyd 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]

She is 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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