Brief Life History of Flavilla
When Flavilla Gray was born on 8 February 1808, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Eli Gray, was 23 and her mother, Lydia Sears, was 24. She married Luther Ward on 30 April 1828, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 8 April 1878, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Plain Cemetery, Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Flavilla Ward, "United States Census, 1850"
- Flavilla Gray, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Flavilla Gray Ward, "Find a Grave Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.
English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.
French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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