When Sophia Gray was born on 10 March 1771, in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Arthur Gray, was 44 and her mother, Ann Mary "Nancy" Sutton, was 27. She married Samuel Hayden on 3 October 1798, in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 21 March 1841, in Deerfield, Portage, Ohio, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Hayden Cemetery, Deerfield Township, Portage, Ohio, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1773: Westmoreland, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States
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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.
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