Brief Life History of William Marion
William Marion Gregory was born on 15 June 1877, in Cades Cove, Blount, Tennessee, United States as the son of John Henderson Gregory and Elizabeth Catherine Myers Gregory. He married Elizabeth Catharine Tipton on 20 September 1905. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 8, Blount, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and United States in 1964. He died on 29 March 1964, in Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Piney Level Cemetery, Maryville, Blount, Tennessee, United States.
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- William M Gregory in household of John Myers, "United States Census, 1900"
- William M Gregory, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William Merron Gregory, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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World Events (8)
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be awake, to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis ‘flock, herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, Saint Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Gregorio , German, Slovak, and Slovenian Gregor , Polish Grzegorz, Czech Řehoř (see Rehor ), and French Gregoire , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Polish Grzegorczyk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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