Brief Life History of Granville
When Granville Jones was born in 1808, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States, his father, William M Jones, was 21 and his mother, Mary Polly Haw, was 16. He had at least 2 sons with Martha C. He lived in Union Township, Dunklin, Missouri, United States in 1860.
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- Granville Jones, "United States Census, 1860"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1845
Historical Boundaries 1845: Dunklin, Missouri, United States
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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