Brief Life History of John Chickering
When John Chickering Gray was born on 22 October 1890, in Shepherd, Calhoun, Mississippi, United States, his father, John Allen Gray, was 35 and his mother, Jennie Dean Chickering, was 17. He married Mattie Beatrice Davis on 17 March 1912, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Moorhead, Sunflower, Mississippi, United States in 1900 and Walker, Alabama, United States in 1910. He died in 1918, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 28.
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- John S Gray in household of John A Gray, "United States Census, 1900"
- John C Gray, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- John Chickering Gray, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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