When Isaac Gore Grimes was born in January 1786, in Washington, Virginia, United States, his father, Henry Grimes, was 31 and his mother, Catherine Gore, was 36. He married Charlotte Latane Montague in 1813, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 15 December 1838, in Somerville, Fayette, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Somerville, Fayette, Tennessee, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English: variant of Grim , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted occasionally in Ireland for Gormley and even Houlihan .
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