J.M. Hoyt's first shingle mill at Prairie, 1899
The copy of this old Courier Times was pretty fun to come by when I first got it, the Joe & Annie Hoyt family were important to Prairie history as the Hoyt Shingle Co. was the biggest employer there in its heyday. The picture not only shows Annie Boyds husband Joe and son Earl Hoyt, but her brothers Norman & Tom Boyd as it verified they stayed with the Hoyt family after the death of their mother Olive Clara, Sept. 1897 (Also frustrating because you can't make out the faces).
The other younger siblings put out to family and friends were Mabel, who shows up in the 1900 Skagit Co. census in Sedro-Woolley with the John & Maud Johnson family, another older sister, Mabel stayed with father Alex and his new wife for three years in Tacoma, Wa. before returning to live with the Johnsons again in 1905, currently it appears John Boyd was with the W.L. Savage family, until W.L. Savage died in 1902, his wife Mary remarried a gentlemen named John D. Bannon, John stayed until he went out on his own in his teens. Nelli Boyd was put up with a Mrs. Stephenson according to a story by Mabel.