Brief Life History of Grace
When Grace Griffin was born in August 1877, in Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States, her father, Charles Truman Griffin, was 28 and her mother, Agnes Caroline Eiler, was 31. She married Arran Sibley Everest in 1906, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. She died on 2 April 1961, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (7)
- Grace Griffin in household of Addie Griffin, "United States Census, 1900"
- Grace Griffin, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Grace Griffin Everest, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1881 · Kansas Prohibits Alcoholic Beverages
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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