When Missouri Washington Grantham was born on 28 March 1864, in Grantham, Wayne, North Carolina, United States, her father, Frederick Grantham, was 50 and her mother, Sarah Ann Thornton, was 36. She married James Gaston Keene on 11 February 1885, in Wayne, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Wayne, North Carolina, United States in 1900. She died on 16 December 1943, in Ingram, Richmond, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Grantham, Wayne, North Carolina, United States.
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English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, of uncertain origin. The final element is Old English hām ‘homestead’; the first may be Old English grand ‘gravel’ or perhaps a personal name Granta, which probably originated as a byname meaning ‘snarler’. See also Graham .
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