Brief Life History of Tivis
When Tivis Grizzle was born on 8 August 1915, in Russell, Virginia, United States, his father, James David Breckenridge Grizzle, was 38 and his mother, Martha Florence Smith, was 33. He had at least 1 daughter with Beulah Couch. He lived in Rural, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1935 and Cleveland District, Russell, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 28 May 2001, in Cleveland, Russell, Virginia, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Tivis Grizzle, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Tivis Grizzle - Government record: birth: 8 August 1915; Russell, Virginia, United States
- Tivis Grizzle, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of French or Swiss French Grisel ‘gray’ or of its rare variant Grizel.
English (Hertfordshire): nickname from Middle English (Old French) grisel ‘gray(-haired)’, also used as a term for an old man.
English: occasionally perhaps from the Middle English female personal name Grisil(d) (perhaps of ancient Germanic origin), but it is attested very rarely in medieval England and probably too late to be the source of a surname in the English Midlands. It was made familiar through the heroine of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, a re-writing of an Italian folk tale in versions by Boccaccio and Petrarch, but the personal name is earlier than the publication of Chaucer's work.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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