When Nora C Green was born in August 1869, in Colorado, United States, her father, Joseph Washington Green, was 24 and her mother, Rachael Whitehead, was 31. She married Black about 1888, in North Carolina, United States. She lived in Civil District 1, Carter, Tennessee, United States in 1880.
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On Aug 1, 1876, The United States Congress passed an act making the Territory of Colorado the 38th state.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: either a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing in this color (Old English grēne) or was young or immature, or who had played the part of the ‘Green Man’ in the May Day celebrations, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green (Middle English grene, a transferred use of the color term). This is one of the most common and widespread of English surnames. In North America it has assimilated cognates from other languages, notably German Grün (see Gruen ) and Dutch Groen ; compare 7 below. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: alternatively, from a Middle English personal name Grene.
Irish: adopted for Ó hUainín ‘descendant of Uainín’, a personal name from a pet form of uaine ‘green’, see Honan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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