When John Benjamin Grim was born on 20 March 1855, in Johnson, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Franklin Grim, was 27 and his mother, Frances Brown, was 20. He married Mary Angeline Borders on 12 October 1876, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Louisa, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 5, Johnson, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 20 May 1906, in Johnson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Johnson, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Dutch and German variant of Grimm .
English: from the Middle English personal name Grim (Old Norse Grímr, originally an epithet of the god Óthinn with the meaning ‘masked person’ or ‘shape-changer’). The name may have been bestowed on male children in an attempt to secure the protection of the god.
English: alternatively, a nickname from Middle English grim ‘fierce, grim’ (compare Grimm ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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