Brief Life History of Eleanor
When Eleanor Gray was born on 4 February 1817, in Indiana, United States, her father, Samuel Gray, was 28 and her mother, Catharine McKinley, was 32. She married Samuel Goss on 3 December 1835. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Polk Township, Washington, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 7 November 1884, in Martinsburg, Jackson Township, Washington, Indiana, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Martinsburg, Jackson Township, Washington, Indiana, United States.
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- Elinor Goss, "United States Census, 1870"
- Eleanor Gray, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Eleanor Goss, "Find A Grave Index"
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1818
Historical Boundaries: 1818: Washington, Indiana, United States
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
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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