Brief Life History of Grace Alice
When Grace Alice Burford was born on 15 September 1873, in Belton, Bell, Texas, United States, her father, Robert Philip Burford, was 29 and her mother, Lucy Hopkins Venable, was 27. She married John F. Gunari in 1899. She lived in Georgia Center, Georgia, Franklin, Vermont, United States in 1935 and Justice Precinct 1, Bell, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 9 October 1960, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Belton, Bell, Texas, United States.
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- Gracie Burfor in household of Mrs L J Burfor, "United States Census, 1880"
- Grace Alice Burford, "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
- Grace Alice Gunari, "Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern England and West Midlands): habitational name from Burford in Devon, Oxfordshire and Shropshire, or Burford Bridge in Surrey, so named with Old English burh ‘stronghold, fortified manor’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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