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.
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.
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