Edith Lavada Boyd

A little over a year after Lizzie died, Land married 2) Eduth Lavada Boyd the 24th of June, 1909 in Cove City, Crawford County, Arkansas. She was born the 5th of March 1881 in Lees Creek, Crawford County, Arkansas to Robert W. Boyd and Sarah Haseltine Andrews. She was their fourth child and known as Vady.

Land and Vady had seven children. Their first three, Newman (born in 1910), Venice (born in 1912), and Leander, Jr. (born in 1914), were born near Chester in Crawford County, Arkansas. Venice died at the age of three of a ruptured appendix and Leander, Jr. died just two months later from a severe case of dysentery. Virginia continues,

Lavada Boyd, my mother, was a small woman, 5 ft. 3 at her tallest. A picture of her taken when she was about seventeen years old, shows a very pretty young woman. She was strong for her size. She had auburn wavy hair and brown eyes. She was Scot-Irish on her father's side. Her mother's folks came from England. As a young adult, Mama belonged to the Rebecca Lodge. Her folks were members of the Baptist Church. After she married Dad, she joined the Methodist Church.

Mama was outgoing and talkative. She made friends easily. Everyone liked her. Her name was Eduth Lavada, but her family always called her "Dade." After she married Dad, my youngest half-brother, Theodore was only two years old at that time. He called Mama "Bady." The other children called her Vady. She usually signed her name "Vady."