Brief Life History of Grace R.
When Grace R. Ellsworth was born on 13 December 1895, in Hyde Park, Lamoille, Vermont, United States, her father, George Allen Ellsworth, was 20 and her mother, Amanda De Merritt, was 19. She married Charles Luther Parkhurst on 20 June 1921, in Hyde Park, Lamoille, Vermont, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States in 1950. She died on 3 June 1979, at the age of 83, and was buried in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States.
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- Grace E Parkhurst, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grace R Ellsworth Parkhurst, "Find A Grave Index"
- Grace E Parkhurst, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Elsworth, a lost place in Norwood near Fewston (Yorkshire), from the Old English personal name El(l)i (see Ellington ) + Old English worth ‘enclosure’ (see Worth ).
English: habitational name from Elworth in Abbotsbury (Dorset) with instrusive -s-, from the Old English personal name Ella + Old English worth.
English: rare variant of Elsworthy, a habitational name from Elworthy (Somerset), with the same origin as the placename in 2 above (with Old English worth later replaced by worthig) ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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