When Virginia 'Jennie' Grass was born in 1864, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, her father, George Washington Grass, was 34 and her mother, Sarah A. 'Sally' Kidd, was 33. She married James Monroe Supple about 1882. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Jefferson District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Baden, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died on 31 May 1952, in Beaver Falls, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Beaver Falls Cemetery and Mausoleum, Beaver Falls, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States.
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German: topographic name for someone who owned or lived by a meadow, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold hay, from Middle High German gras ‘grass, pasture, grazing’. It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
South German: nickname for an irascible man, from Middle High German graz ‘intense, angry’.
English: variant of Grace .
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