When John A Gray was born on 26 November 1835, in Perry, Alabama, United States, his father, Nelson Gray, was 28 and his mother, Rhoda Darling, was 27. He married Jemima Emiline Crews on 19 January 1860, in Perry Store, Coffee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Brush Creek, Perry, Alabama, United States in 1900. He died on 14 December 1913, at the age of 78, and was buried in Medline Cemetery, Perry, Alabama, United States.
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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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