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
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"
Parents and Siblings
1902–1968 Male
1908–1996 Female
Siblings (1)
1935–1971 Male
World Events (8)
1937 · The Neutrality Act
Age 2
1941
Age 6
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
Age 10
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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