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for printing| Evelyn Boyd Granville's family name was Boyd, so
she grew up as Evelyn Boyd. The name Granville, by which she is
now known, is the name she took after her second marriage but,
for the sake of simplicity, we shall refer to her during this
article as Granville even from her childhood days. Evelyn Boyd
Granville's father was William Boyd who had various jobs
including that of a janitor, chauffeur, and a messenger.
Evelyn's mother was Julia Boyd; she had been a secretary before
her marriage but gave up work to bring up her family. The Great
Depression began in 1929 when Granville was five years old, and
by 1932 one quarter of the workers in the United States were
unemployed. Granville's father worked selling vegetables from a
lorry during the Great Depression and, although the family were
poor, they always had food and a home. William and Julia Boyd
separated w