Myrtle Elizabeth Gray

Brief Life History of Myrtle Elizabeth

When Myrtle Elizabeth Gray was born on 10 May 1899, in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Samuel Clinton Gray, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Frances Pruitt, was 22. She married Charles Wilson Stanley on 30 August 1915, in Forsyth, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Mount Airy Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years and High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1930. She died on 19 May 1976, in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Skyline Memory Gardens, Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Wilson Stanley
1895–1964
Myrtle Elizabeth Gray
1899–1976
Marriage: 30 August 1915
Julia Alfrieda Stanley
1916–1974
Stanley
1920–1920
Stanley
1922–1922
Stanley
1923–1923
Mack Bertron Stanley
1924–1978
Kenneth Stanley
1926–
Frances L Stanley
1928–2012
Lula Runell Stanley
1931–1990

Sources (42)

  • Myrtle Stanley in household of C W Stanley, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Myrtle Elizabeth Gray, "North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000"
  • Myritle Gody, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1918

Oldest grave seen in the memorial list

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

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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