Brief Life History of Jesse Bell
When Jesse Bell Gray was born in 1803, in Deep River, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Samuel Gray, was 30 and his mother, Nancy Mary Smith, was 24. He had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters with Nancy Jagoe. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Fulkerson, Scott, Virginia, United States in 1880.
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- Jessee Gray, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jesse B Gray - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Jesse Bell
- Jessee Gray in entry for Jesse V B Gray, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1804 · Walton War
The Walton War was a border dispute between Georgia and North Carolina, when Georgia established Walton County. The main piece of land being fought over was called the Orphan Strip and was located between North Carolina and Georgia. It started in 1804 and became part of the War of 1812 and lasted until 1818.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
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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