When Lydia Ellen Grizzle was born on 22 February 1858, in Castlewood, Russell, Virginia, United States, her father, Jesse Grizzle, was 42 and her mother, Nancy Franklin, was 42. She married Isaac B. McReynolds on 23 November 1880, in Russell, Virginia, United States. She lived in Castlewood District, Russell, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Civil District 19, Blount, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. She died on 10 July 1932, in Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Armona Baptist Church Cemetery, Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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.
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