James Wells Grizzle

Male8 January 1935–19 January 1971

Brief Life History of James Wells

When James Wells Grizzle was born on 8 January 1935, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, his father, Marion Morgan Grizzle, was 32 and his mother, Mary Sue Harmon, was 26. He died on 19 January 1971, in Garland, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Lancaster, Dallas, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Marion Morgan Grizzle
1902–1968
Mary Sue Harmon
1908–1996
James Wells Grizzle
1935–1971

Sources (8)

  • Grizzle, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • James Wells Grizzle, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
  • James Wells Grizzle in entry for Tila Rene Grizzle, "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997"

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Siblings (1)

World Events (8)

1937 · The Neutrality Act

Age 2

The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

1941

Age 6

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

1945 · Peace in a Post War World

Age 10

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of French or Swiss French Grisel ‘gray’ or of its rare variant Grizel.

English (Hertfordshire): nickname from Middle English (Old French) grisel ‘gray(-haired)’, also used as a term for an old man.

English: occasionally perhaps from the Middle English female personal name Grisil(d) (perhaps of ancient Germanic origin), but it is attested very rarely in medieval England and probably too late to be the source of a surname in the English Midlands. It was made familiar through the heroine of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, a re-writing of an Italian folk tale in versions by Boccaccio and Petrarch, but the personal name is earlier than the publication of Chaucer's work.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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