Alice Matilda Tice

Brief Life History of Alice Matilda

When Alice Matilda Tice was born in 1907, in Arkansas, United States, her father, James Genen Tice, was 49 and her mother, Caroline Gambill Doty, was 35. She married Frank Gregson on 8 August 1924, in Craighead, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Jonesboro Township, Craighead, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States in 1950. She died in 1993, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

Frank Gregson
1903–1982
Alice Matilda Tice
1907–1993
Marriage: 8 August 1924
Ollie Gregson
1926–
Gordon Gregson
Garland Gregson
1932–
Franklin Gregson
1933–2006
Thelma L. Gregson
1935–
Gerald Gregson
1941–2003

Sources (12)

  • Alice M Gregson, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Alice Pice in entry for Frank Gregson, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
  • Alice Greyson, "United States Census, 1930"

World Events (8)

1907 · Not for profit elections

The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Teece , Tye , or Tyas. The latter is an ethnic name from Anglo-Norman French t(i)eis, tiais ‘Teuton, German’, denoting someone from Germany or the Low Countries, or occasionally a habitational name from Thiais in Val-de-Marne, France.

Americanized form of German Theiss or possibly Theus .

Americanized form of Dutch and Flemish Thys or of its variants Thijs (Dutch and Flemish) and Tijs (Dutch).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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