Brief Life History of Grace Elizabeth
When Grace Elizabeth Pack was born on 11 October 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Ward Eaton Pack Sr., was 39 and her mother, Laura Cravath, was 33. She married Charles Albert Callis on 3 September 1902, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1930. She died on 12 October 1946, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Grace Callis in household of Charles A Callis, "United States Census, 1940"
- Grace E Pack, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Grace Elizabeth Pack Callis, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Kent and Devon): variant of Pask , derived from Middle English Pake ‘Easter, Passover’.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a wholesale trader, from Middle Low German packe, German Pack ‘bundle, package’ (see Packer ). Compare Pak .
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Pak , a cognate of 2 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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