When George M Gregory was born on 21 April 1848, in Lewis, Kentucky, United States, his father, Rufus King Gregory Sr., was 33 and his mother, Mary Crawford, was 20. He married Martha Elizabeth Gilliam on 13 March 1873, in Andrew, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Benton Township, Andrew, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Blue Grass Township, Beaver, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died on 11 September 1925, in New Cordell, Washita, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in New Cordell, Washita, Oklahoma, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1868: Andrew, Missouri, United States
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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 .
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