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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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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