Born Emma Barrett, Emma is listed as a step daughter living at 1244 El Molino in the 1900 census. In the Los Angeles city directories of 1901 and 1903, she is listed as a laundress living at 1242 El Molino in Los Angeles (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.). She married Robert James Boyd, who owned a barber shop in Los Angeles and they had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward. Her first child, Barrett, was born in 1904 or 1905. By 1917 the family was living in Riverside, and Emma and Robert were still there in 1947. House at 1242 El Molino where Robert James Boyd Emma P. Barrett Boyd lived. Emma may be the woman in the center or on the right. On the left are an older woman, a man and a horse and carriage. A boy who may be Emma's first son, Barrett T. Boyd, stands at the gate of the picket fence. The street was renamed as "Kenmore" and the house is still at that location (3-2018).
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Dwellings Boyd, Emma P. Barrett, 1874-1970 Boyd, Barrett T., b. 1904 or 05
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