Brief Life History of Gainer Brown
When Gainer Brown Jones was born on 14 February 1901, in College Station, Brazos, Texas, United States, his father, Columbus Egbert Jones, was 24 and his mother, Myrtie C. Brown, was 20. He married Vivian May Kuntz on 21 December 1940, in Colorado, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1910 and Harris, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 18 December 1981, in Bryan, Brazos, Texas, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Bryan, Brazos, Texas, United States.
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- Gainer B Jones, Sr, "United States 1950 Census"
- Gainer B Jones, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Gainer Brown Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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