Brief Life History of Bessie May
When Bessie May Gray was born on 16 December 1886, in Stanton, Kansas, United States, her father, Harvey C. Gray, was 42 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Giddens, was 38. She had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with William Henry Barry. She lived in Mitchell, Kansas, United States for about 10 years and Election Precinct 12 Webb, Prowers, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 21 April 1960, in Holly, Prowers, Colorado, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Johnson, Stanton, Kansas, United States.
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- Bessie Barry in household of William Barry, "United States Census, 1940"
- Bessie May Gray Barry, "Find A Grave Index"
- Bessie Gray in entry for Alva Barry and Georgia Smith, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1889
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Prowers, Colorado, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.
English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.
French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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