Brief Life History of Laura Alfretta
When Laura Alfretta Gregory was born on 28 April 1908, in Blaine, Mineral, West Virginia, United States, her father, Jacob Gregory, was 37 and her mother, Josephine Mullenax, was 30. She married James McCloud on 4 November 1924, in Mineral, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Elk District, Mineral, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 29 April 1993, in McDonald, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Laura McCloud, "United States 1950 Census"
- Laura Mccloud, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Laura Elfreda Gregory, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be awake, to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis ‘flock, herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, Saint Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Gregorio , German, Slovak, and Slovenian Gregor , Polish Grzegorz, Czech Řehoř (see Rehor ), and French Gregoire , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Polish Grzegorczyk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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