Brief Life History of Lucinda
When Lucinda Gray was born on 7 October 1828, in Patriot, Posey Township, Switzerland, Indiana, United States, her father, Truman Gray, was 33 and her mother, Lavina Bradford, was 31. She married William Waite on 23 March 1854, in Switzerland, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Edgington, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 26 November 1895, in Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Reynolds, Rock Island, Illinois, United States.
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- Lucinda Gray in household of Truman Gray, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucinda Gray, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Lucinda Gray Wait, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1835
In the latter year, this original seat of justice of the county was superseded by the Town of Stephenson, and a village laid out in what is now the lower part of the City of Rock Island. It was laid out by the commissioners authorized by the Legislature to establish the seat of justice for Rock Island County...Stephenson was the cradle of Rock Island, the nursery of much of that intellectual and social life which has since expanded into the larger and intenser life of the city...
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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