When George Washington Grayson III was born on 5 May 1829, in Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, United States, his father, George Washington Grayson Jr., was 25 and his mother, Sarah Ward Ellington, was 26. He married Eliza Jane Baker on 6 June 1857, in Otoe, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Silver City, Owyhee, Idaho, United States in 1870 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 20 April 1912, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Historic Notes: 1847: Name changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. 1856: San Francisco an Independent City.
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Alameda, California, United States
English (northern): variant of Graveson, ‘son of the steward, farm bailiff, or village headman’. From the North Midlands through Yorkshire to the north-west, the source is Middle English grayve, grayve, greve, a borrowing of Old Norse greifi ‘earl, count’ (see Grave ). In Durham and Northumberland the source is Middle English greve, from Old (Northumbrian) English grǣfa with the same meaning (see Grieve ).
English: possibly a habitational name from Greysouthen (Cumbria), recorded as Graysone in 1505.
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