Brief Life History of Augusta Persia
When Augusta Persia Gray was born on 23 August 1833, in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, George Fitts Gray, was 26 and her mother, Mary "Polly" Brown Wetherell, was 24. She married Pembroke Johnson on 22 March 1852, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 20 April 1907, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Augusta Gray in household of George F Gray, "United States Census, 1850"
- Persis Auquita Gray, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Augusta P. Gray, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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