When Leona Jeanne Gridley was born on 22 October 1865, in Onslow, Jones, Iowa, United States, her father, Charles B. Gridley, was 23 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Wasson, was 20. She married Robert Milner Elwood on 25 June 1895, in Wyoming, Jones, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Jones, Iowa, United States for about 5 years and Everett Election Precinct 8, Snohomish, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 3 June 1955, in Everett, Snohomish, Washington, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Everett, Snohomish, Washington, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Jones, Iowa, United States
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
variant of Greasley, either a habitational name from Greasley in Nottinghamshire (but possibly also from Gresley in Derbyshire), or a nickname either from Old French greslet ‘marked as by hail’, i.e. pitted or pock-marked, or Old French greslet, gresli, grailet ‘thin, slim’.
perhaps from Middle English greithli, gritheli ‘good, pleasant, noble’ (Old Norse greithligr), the source of modern northern dialect gradely ‘decent, honest, good-looking, kind’. In the absence of medieval surname forms this is conjectural.
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