Anna Boyd Ellington | |
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Standing: Mary Comfort Leonard; Sitting: Eva Webb Dodd and Anna Boyd Ellington (ca. 1875)
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Born |
Anna Boyd November 26, 1856 Attala County, Mississippi, U.S. |
Died | August 13, 1907 Attala County, Mississippi, U.S. |
(aged 51)
Anna Boyd, Mrs. Ellington (November 26, 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.
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.